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Today I want to share a delicious spice blend that I have developed for sweet baking. I have created “Holiday Hearth”, my traditional fruit cake and Chai tea recipes provided my inspiration for this offering. Think warm, vanilla and cinnamon with a hint of lemony goodness. Perfect for holiday baking and beyond. Add this to a plain yellow cake for a delicious twist on the norm. Use this to bake an amazing Twelfth Night cake like the English did during the Victorian era. Dense butter cake with molasses, and dried fruits highly spiced with many of the seasonings I have incorporated here. This would also be great added to your ginger bread cakes and cookies!
As I said, my fruit cake was the main inspiration for creating this blend. I have a lovely recipe for fruit cake that even the fruit cake haters among us will enjoy! It is not rife with citron or candied peel. Which can be bitter and off putting for many people. In my opinion that is what gives fruit cake a bad wrap. However this spice blend is just as at home in a fruit cake as it is in a warm oatmeal cookie, or cup of spiced tea or even a delicious spiced cider or cocoa maybe with a little nip of rum for good measure!
Add this spice to your favorite shortbread or butter cookie recipe. Sprinkle over a pork roast or whole chicken for a delightful holiday spin on what would otherwise be the norm. I could think of many places in which to use this delicious blend of warm spices.
Cinnamon rules the show, once again, but is backed up by her friends nutmeg, allspice cloves, ginger, mace and two unexpected visitors, ground vanilla powder, which is nothing more than a dehydrated and ground vanilla bean as well as white pepper. The addition of the pepper will add a nice warmth to whatever you add this spice to. I think it would also be nice in pfeffernusse or pepperkakor cookies. Tradition has never tasted so good!
I love making my own spice blends all year round, but especially during the holiday time. Purchasing them can be very expensive and I know many of you have most of these spices on hand but being able to have a blend, at the ready, to assist you in whipping up quick and delicious holiday treats is a real time saver no to mention the realm of possibility it can open for you to explore at this time of year.
I hope you will give my Holiday Hearth baking spice blend a try and I hope you love it!
On a note, this recipe is featured in the Winter 2016 issue of Molly Greene Magazine along with five other blends to make your holidays even brighter!
Happy Eating!
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