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Sour Cream & Potato Sweet Dough

This recipe makes enough dough for one Russian Chocolate Braid, one German Butter Cake, or ten Cinnamon Chrysanthemums; it can be doubled. Be sure to use a food processsor that holds…
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Romanian Easter Bread with Chocolate and Nuts

This is my spin on cozonac de nuca, a Romanian bread. My version adds chopped chocolate to the traditional cocoa powder for depth of flavor and richness. Walnuts are abundant…
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Russian Chocolate Braid

This braided sweet bread is based on a soft potato-and-sour-cream dough, filled with a thick pastry cream and flecked with mini chocolate chips. The pastry cream should be quite stiff…
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German Butter Cake

一个完美的一部分ner for a cup of coffee, German Butter Cake gets its character from sour cream, butter, and sliced almonds.
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Goat Cheese Blintzes

This recipe is excerpted from Goat: Milk, Meat, Cheese. Read our review.
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Croatian Easter Bread with Citrus and Raisins

In this version of pinca, a Croatian bread, amaretto joins the traditional rum for soaking the raisins, adding a mellow sweetness to the fruit. The icing isn’t traditional but it’s…
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Chocolate-Cinnamon Babka

While a cinnamon sugar filling is traditional for babka, I like to add a little chocolate because, well, chocolate. It makes this babka perfect for brunch, where dessert is always…
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Halva-Chocolate Chunk Babka

Is it bread? Is it dessert? The heavenly combination of chocolate and tahini makes this babka skew more to the dessert side (and it's downright perfect for brunch). Make the…
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Citrus-Almond Babka

An orange- and lemon-zest filling and almond streusel topping gives this babka knockout flavor. Make the filling while the dough is rising, and store at cool room temperature until needed.…
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German Pear Pancake

This light and airy German-style pancake is traditionally made with apples, but Bosc pears are a delicious variation. Puffy right out of the oven, the pancake will deflate a bit…