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Recipes for the Advanced Home Cook and Baker

These are the main-dish, breakfast, and baking recipes designed for the advanced home cook and baker.

Up your kitchen game with baking and pastry recipes, like these Linzer Cookies with Raspberry Jam, perfect for any holiday baking

Or, try this popular and traditional Czech recipe that uses brioche dough: Kolache.

Another recipe that also makes a fantastic on-the-go breakfast or snack, whip up a batch of buttery Walnut Cranberry Scones.

However you slice it, these are the best dishes to challenge yourself in the kitchen. 

 

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Filed Under: Advanced, Beginner, Breakfast, Czech, Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Intermediate, Main Course, Over 1 hour, Paleo, Raw, Sweet, Under 30 min, Under 60 min, Vegan

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Authentic Czech Kolache (Koláče) With Fruit Filling

Koláč (pronounced “co-latch”), a common and popular Czech pastry item, is made from a yeasted brioche dough, filled with a variety of fresh seasonal fruit and topped with crumbly streusel. Kolache, kolatche, kolachky or koláče in Czech (plural, pronounced “co-la-tchay”) typically come in circular shapes (yes, they do look like pizza!). From the silver dollar-size […]

Filed Under: Advanced, Czech, Featured, Over 1 hour, Popular, Sweet

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Walnut Cranberry Scones

These homemade Walnut Cranberry Scones are buttery, dense, and packed with walnuts and dried cranberries. You’ll love these scones for breakfast or with coffee in the afternoon. In the past I made them for office meetings, my friend’s baby shower, and a beach picnic in Malibu. I took two on an L.A. – N.Y. flight […]

Filed Under: Advanced, Breakfast, Sweet, Under 60 min

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linzer cookies with raspberry jam

Linzer Cookies With Raspberry Jam

Tender, buttery cookie with a hint of lemon zest, and filled with raspberry jam. Classic Christmas cookie but tastes as good all year round.

Filed Under: Advanced, Czech, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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