Happy 2025!

Happy 2025! I hope your holiday season has been so lovely and spent with loved ones with delicious food and wonderful memories made.

Many people do decide to cut sweets and baked goods from their diets at the start of the year. Personally I believe in keeping them in our diets year round as everything is perfectly fine to eat in moderation. Keeping carbs/sweets in your diet year round (if you enjoy eating them) helps prevent you from bingeing when you deprive yourself. Most of my recipes CAN be frozen so you can also store and savor them for a prolonged period of time.

I wanted to start off the year with some favorite recipes in new flavors. Last year in January I debuted my first scone loaf: my Blueberry Scone Loaf which if you follow me or my recipes you know I love scones and the loaf is just a big version that is easily sliced and shared. So I have a new scone loaf, a new milk bread, a new biscuit recipe and a copycat coffeeshop favorite. I hope you enjoy everything, plus scroll to the bottom for this month’s bonus recipe - something I worked on this holiday season but didn’t get finished soon enough so it won’t be on the blog until December, so you’re getting it about 11 months early!

Here’s what’s coming this month:

1.  Sugared Milk Buns - Super pillowy soft milk buns, in a sweet version. A dessert bread that is light and delicious.

2. Lemon Scone Loaf - Lemon is one of my most favorite flavors, and I almost always eat my regular scones with lemon curd. So what better flavor than a lemon scone loaf, drizzled with a lemon vanilla icing.

3. Copycat Cranberry Bliss Bars- A white chocolate cranberry blondie, with a citrus cream cheese frosting and white chocolate glaze. Just like the Starbucks baked good, however a little more fresh.

4. Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits- I already have a recipe for fluffy buttermilk biscuits but I wanted one that truly had lots of flaky layers. This one is a little more time consuming, and the ingredients are slightly modified, but they are also super delectable.

Is there a recipe you’d love to see on the blog or something you can’t work out on an existing recipe? Let me know! Until next month, happy baking!