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Traditional Puff Pastry Apple Turnovers

Breakfast, Cakes and Baking, Combination Steam, Dessert

These turnovers, baked in a combi steam oven, are the very best version of a bakery classic, with flaky pastry and chunky apple filling. Bet you can’t stop at one!

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Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Cakes and Baking, Combination Steam, Dessert

Cream Cheese Pound Cake is the perfect pound cake – flavorsome, pillowy soft and moist. Baked in a decorative pan, it’s an elegant afternoon tea cake that needs little decoration.

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Twisted Cinnamon Bread (Babka) with Honey Syrup

Breads, Breakfast, Cakes and Baking, Combination Steam, Dessert, Easter

Twisted Cinnamon Bread nods to traditional European babka, but here it comes in the form of a giant cinnamon-roll-inspired loaf with honey syrup brushed over the top.

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Soft potato rolls arranged on a striped tea towel.

How to Make Easy Potato Rolls

Appetizers, Breads, Breakfast, Christmas and Thanksgiving, Combination Steam, How To, Sides

If you need a simple recipe for the best bread rolls, easy potato rolls are a dream. They’re soft, tender and the mashed potato means they keep well for several days.

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Healthy Fruit Crumble (Conventional and Steam Oven Methods)

Breakfast, Cakes and Baking, Combination Steam, Dessert

If you’re a crumble, crisp or cobbler fan, you’ll love my healthier, lower sugar version of this classic baked fruit dish with crispy, crunchy topping.

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Overnight Cinnamon Rolls (Conventional and Steam Oven Methods)

Breads, Breakfast, Cakes and Baking, Christmas and Thanksgiving, Combination Steam, Dessert

Sticky and soft, these cinnamon rolls can be prepared ahead to bake the next morning. Brilliant for low stress entertaining, they’re a favourite indulgent breakfast.

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Best Ever Gingerbread Cookies

Cakes and Baking, Christmas and Thanksgiving, Dessert

I’ve baked tens of thousands of cookies using this recipe – it’s easily the best gingerbread I know of. It’s spicy, chewy and sturdy enough to decorate in any way you like.

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Panforte di Siena (Siena Cake) with Ginger, Apricots and Macadamias

Cakes and Baking, Chocolate, Christmas and Thanksgiving, Dessert

Panforte is a stunning, luxurious gift, and this ginger, apricot and macadamia version is as special as they come. It always tops the list for my most-requested Christmas baking.

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Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes on a cooling rack

Spiced Pumpkin Cupcakes with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

Cakes and Baking, Christmas and Thanksgiving, Combination Steam, Dessert

These cakes are perfect for fall baking, especially all the pumpkin-related holidays coming up. I’ve baked them in both conventional and steam ovens. Whichever you use they’re gorgeous.

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Steam Oven Raspberry and Dark Chocolate Cake

Cakes and Baking, Chocolate, Combination Steam, Dessert, Easter

A tender loaf cake perfect for lunchboxes. Simple to mix and bake in your steam oven and studded with generous handfuls of raspberries and chunks of chocolate.

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