Chef Thomas
Chelsea Buns
Soft, spiralled buns full of spiced sugar and currants, glazed sticky while still warm from the oven. The kind of baking that turns a wet Sunday into something worth getting out of bed for.
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Breads
Bread recipes are about fermentation, heat, and patience. This category covers daily loaves, enriched doughs, flatbreads, rolls, and quick breads.
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Chef Lupita
Chiapas Painted Bread of the Dead (Pan Pintado)
Chiapa de Corzo's painted bread of the dead is a soft enriched pan dulce, brushed with lard, egg, and bright altar colors before it is offered to the departed.
Chef Takumi
Chigiri-pan (ちぎりパン, pull-apart bread)
Chigiri-pan is bread made small on purpose: soft enriched dough portioned into neat balls, crowded in a square tin, and baked until every tender roll tears away with its own golden edge.
Chef Takumi
Choco Cornet (チョココロネ, Choco Korone)
Choco cornet looks clever, which is how bakery bread frightens sensible people. Wrap a soft rope around a cone, bake it golden, then pipe in chocolate cream only after the shell is cool.
Chef Dean
Chocolate Babka
A magnificent swirl of buttery brioche dough and bittersweet chocolate, twisted into dramatic layers that tear apart in soft, cocoa-ribboned sheets. Eastern European tradition meets American abundance.
Chef Juliana
Chocotone Caseiro
You don't need bakery magic. You need warm milk, patience, and dough that tells you when it's ready. Make this once and December starts smelling like your own kitchen.
Chef Dean
Cinnamon Swirl Bread
A tender, golden loaf hiding rivers of cinnamon sugar within its soft crumb. Each slice reveals the spiral you created with your own hands, toasting to caramelized perfection.
Chef Dean
Cinnamon Swirl Bread
Tender, pillowy sandwich bread with spiraling veins of cinnamon and brown sugar running through each slice, the kind of loaf that makes your kitchen smell like love and turns ordinary toast into an occasion.
Chef Graziella
Civraxiu
The great round loaf of Sardinia, built from golden semolina and baked until the crust turns nearly black. Shepherds carried this bread into the hills because it kept for weeks without staling.
Chef Dean
Classic Banana Bread
A golden-crusted loaf with a tender, banana-rich crumb that transforms overripe fruit into something magnificent. This is the quick bread that built generations of confident bakers.
Chef Dean
Classic Banana Nut Bread
A tender, fragrant loaf studded with toasted walnuts and sweetened by bananas so ripe they've turned nearly black, baked until the crust cracks golden and the kitchen smells like Sunday morning.
Chef Dean
Classic Cinnamon Rolls
Pillowy yeasted buns swirled with butter and cinnamon sugar, baked until golden and gooey, then crowned with tangy cream cheese frosting. This is weekend baking at its most satisfying.
Chef Dean
Classic French Baguette
Four humble ingredients transformed through time and technique into shattering-crusted, airy-crumbed bread that rivals any Parisian bakery. This is bread worth the effort.
Chef Dean
Classic French Brioche
The crown jewel of enriched breads, brioche walks the line between bread and pastry with shameless amounts of butter and eggs folded into a tender, golden crumb that tears like clouds.
Chef Ally
Classic French Brioche Loaf
A golden loaf of butter-rich French bread with a mahogany crust and a crumb so tender it tears like cotton. This is bread meant for holiday mornings, French toast that matters, and the simple pleasure of something made with your own hands.
Chef Dean
Classic Italian Focaccia
Golden-crusted Ligurian flatbread, generous with olive oil, dimpled by eager fingers, and scattered with rosemary and flaky salt. The bread that proves simplicity requires no apology.
Chef Ally
Classic Sourdough Boule
Four ingredients, two hands, and one day of unhurried attention. This is the loaf that connects you to ten thousand years of bread-making, and it starts with flour you can trust.
Chef Dean
Classic White Sandwich Bread
A tender, golden-crusted loaf with the fine, even crumb that makes perfect sandwiches and superior toast. This is the bread your grandmother baked, and the first recipe every home baker should commit to memory.
Chef Lupita
Cocol de Anís Hidalguense
Atotonilco el Grande's dark rhomboid roll, sweetened with piloncillo and loud with anise, baked until the sesame catches color and eaten with café de olla, atole, or thick nata.
Chef Lupita
Cocol de Anís de Tlaxcala e Hidalgo
Tlaxcala and Hidalgo's sturdy rhomboid pan dulce, sweetened with piloncillo and perfumed with anise seed, baked dense enough to last the week.
Chef Lupita
Cocoles de Anís y Piloncillo Veracruzanos
Central Veracruz's rhombus-shaped pan dulce, sweetened with piloncillo from the cañaverales, scented with anise and clove, and baked the way old panaderías kept port wheat traditions alive.
Chef Lupita
Cocoles Bajío Seculares
Guanajuato's secular Bajío cocoles are diamond breads of piloncillo, anís, manteca de cerdo, and ajonjolí, built with living pata and baked dark enough for the cane sugar to bite back.
Chef Lupita
Cocoles Oaxaqueños
Oaxaca's rhomboid yeasted rolls, perfumed with toasted anise and softened with manteca, brushed shiny with egg and crowned with ajonjolí. The merienda bread that meets a jícara of chocolate de agua at the end of every Oaxaqueño day.
Chef Lupita
Cocotazo Yucateco
Yucatán's round salty merienda roll, enriched with egg yolk, butter, and manteca, crowned with four chuchulucos in a tight square. Mérida's chopping bread, the one you tear into beside a café de olla.
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