Eat The Love

Recipes, Photographs and Stories about Desserts, Baked Goods and Food in general, with a healthy dose of humor and happiness for the food obsessed

Cranberry Spiral Bread with Ginger and Pecans [Sponsored Post]

This stunning holiday cranberry spiral bread is inspired by a Swedish tea ring but has a cranberry, ginger, and pecan fruit filling that will make your holiday table look spectacular.

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A large cranberry spiral bread on a red plate with two small desserts plates and two mugs of hot tea next to it.

This post was sponsored by Bi-Rite Market. I was compensated for this post and developing this recipe. However, all opinions below are my own.

I’ve been making this cranberry spiral fruit bread ring for years now in one version or another. It’s inspired by a traditional Swedish tea ring, a yeasted coffee cake that is often served during the winter months. Yet somehow, I have never actually gotten to share the recipe on my blog. So when I was approached to partner with my favorite local San Francisco grocer, Bi-Rite Market, I knew it was the recipe I wanted to share! I’ve been shopping at Bi-Rite Market for the past 15 years, ever since I moved two blocks away from them, and they always have the best seasonal and local produce available.

This cranberry spiral bread is one of those stunning desserts that uses seasonal fresh cranberries in the filling along with crystallized ginger and chopped pecans. Rolled into a log, made into a ring, then cut partially into spiral disks, the sweet yeasted bread looks like a beautiful holiday wreath that you can eat!

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Cinnamon Rolls

These fluffy cinnamon rolls are easy-to-make from scratch and have an extra amount of cinnamon in the filling make to give them zip and pop! Make them the night before if you want a special breakfast with minimal morning effort.

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Cinnamon rolls in a pan, with one individual cinnamon roll on a plate next to a small bowl of cream cheese frosting.

My obsession with cinnamon rolls is a little over the top. This is clearly evident in my archives, as I have recipes for pumpkin cinnamon rolls, sweet potato cinnamons, rosemary pistachio cinnamon rolls, red velvet cinnamon rolls, eggnog cinnamon rolls, and quick and easy cinnamon rolls. Heck I even have a cinnamon bun cookie on this blog! WHAT. IS. WRONG. WITH. ME. (some would argue SO MUCH, but that’s probably a blog post for another day). YET…somehow I have never shared a recipe for my basic classic cinnamon rolls. Partly it is because I keep on tinkering with the recipe, trying over and over to find that center of the Venn diagram of easy-to-make, super fluffy, and extra tasty without being too sweet. Finally, here’s my favorite homemade cinnamon roll recipe.

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Pumpkin Cheesecake with Pecan Graham Cracker Crust

This smooth and creamy pumpkin cheesecake has pumpkin pie spice blend in the pecan and graham cracker crust a well as the filling.

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A slice of pumpkin cheesecake with whipped cream on it and the remaining cheesecake in the back.

Lately I’ve been serving up pumpkin cheesecake annually for Thanksgiving. It’s not that I don’t love pumpkin pie. It’s that after serving various different pumpkin pies, including my pumpkin tart, my chocolate pumpkin pie, and my caramel pumpkin pie for 20+ years after our annual Thanksgiving dinner, it’s nice to make a change! This pumpkin cheese is rich and creamy, without being overly heavy. It has a generous amount of wintry pumpkin pie spice and is a family favorite even for folks who skip the classic pumpkin pie.

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Oatmeal Raisin Cookies with Brown Butter

These classic all-American oatmeal raisin cookies have nutty and fragrant brown butter in it to make it the best version possible!

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Oatmeal raisin cookies stacked on a plate, with a pile of cookies and a glass of milk in the background.

In the holy trinity of classic all-American cookies, you have the sexy leading chocolate chip cookie, the down-home pure comfort snickerdoodle, and then you have the oatmeal raisin cookie. It’s overlooked, often dismissed, and even relegated as an afterthought in the back of the cookie jar or cookie box.

But the comfort and warmth of a classic oatmeal raisin cookie can’t be beat. It’s chewy subtle spice and pop of fruit sweetness make it a classic in the pantheon of American cookies. And though I’ve made variations over the years for the blog, like my blueberry and ginger oatmeal cooki, my vanilla white chocolate oatmeal cookie, and my oatmeal chocolate chip cookie this oatmeal raisin cookie recipe made with nutty and fragrant brown butter, is my go-to version of the classic cookie recipe and should be reconsidered.

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Pumpkin Coffee Cake with Pecan Streusel Topping

This moist pumpkin coffee cake is packed with autumnal flavor. It has a pecan streusel crumb topping and a pumpkin spice ribbon in the middle.

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a slice of pumpkin coffee cake on a plate, with the remaining cake behind it.

I often joke that the world IGNORES pumpkin until September/October, when it is EVERYWHERE. Which I get, because I love my seasonal food. But not a lot of folks actually go through the effort of roasting and using an ACTUAL pumpkin when they make something with pumpkin. They use canned pumpkin, which is available all year long.

I, of course, realize it’s an uphill battle and have just resigned myself to using pumpkin mostly in the fall and winter, making pumpkin spice muffins or pumpkin spice latte bread. Which is fine. Other times of the year I’m making a peach and blueberry coffee cake, an Earl Grey infused blueberry coffee cake or a Mexican chocolate and corn coffee cake. But once fall and winter are here, I’ve got an excuse to make this pumpkin coffee cake with pecan streusel topping!

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Garlic Knots

These classic buttery garlic knots are a pizzeria treat, made from pizza dough and tossed in parmesan, oregano and lots of butter and garlic!

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Fresh baked garlic knots sitting on a wire rack with a hand reaching out and grabbing one of them.

The first time I saw garlic knots were on a trip to New York City at a corner pizza-by-the-slice shop. Though my friends all ordered slices of pepperoni, sausage, and olive pizza, I gravitated toward the glass counter and stared at those glistening garlic bombs stacked high. I asked for a bag of them, and happily munched on them as my friend attacked their slices. I had no regrets with my choice! Since then, I’ve been making garlic knots with my homemade easy pizza dough to go with my dinner when I want to change it up from my parker house rolls or potato rolls.

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