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Persimmon Spice Amish Friendship Bread Cupcakes

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We've just taken Amish Friendship Bread to the next level with these Persimmon Spice Amish Friendship Bread cupcakes, frosted with a vanilla ginger buttercream frosting and topped with candied ginger. We got some big time ♥ going on over here. This recipe almost didn't happen, because I'm not a persimmon fan. Maybe it's because I grew up in communities where persimmon trees were everywhere (as in EVERYWHERE), and people were eating them all the time and trying to pass off … [Read more...]

Pumpkin Spice Amish Friendship Bread

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In the early days of the Friendship Bread Kitchen, the only recipes I had were ones with super easy swaps. Every recipe worked off the main Amish Friendship Bread recipe with a simple addition or deletion--use chocolate instant pudding instead of vanilla, add 1 cup chocolate chips, substitute brown sugar for granulated sugar, and so on. None of it was rocket science, of course, but it was great to be able to glance at a recipe and know immediately if it was something you wanted to … [Read more...]

Tutorial – Separated Amish Friendship Bread Starter

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Picture this: you wake up one morning and go to check your Amish Friendship Bread starter. And you see ... THIS: Okay, maybe that doesn't look so bad. Let's try another angle. Ew, right? Have no fear, it only means that your starter has separated, and it's your job to bring it back together. What IS that?! Looking at a separated starter for the first time, your brain may cease to function. It just doesn't look right, does it? You're convinced something is wrong and … [Read more...]

Tutorial – What Should Your Starter Smell Like?

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What's that smell? Oh, it's your starter. People making Amish Friendship Bread for the first time often ask what their starter should smell like. Your starter should have a lovely, yeasty smell, like getting a whiff of bread rising in a bakery, times five. If you stick your nose into your bag of starter, you'll get a pretty heady hit of yeast. However, if you're noticing a smell that reminds you of nail polish remover or paint thinner, especially if your starter is looking a bit runny and … [Read more...]

Friendship Bread Kitchen is in Saveur!

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Who says Amish Friendship Bread can't hang with the best of them? This month, we're in Saveur, a gourmet, food, wine, and travel magazine that focuses on great food and enduring culinary traditions. Special thanks to Saveur writer, Brooke Porter Katz, for her article, The Cake You Bake Every 10 Days: Making Amish Friendship Bread Isn't Just a Recipe—It's a Way of Life which gives a shout-out to our awesome community at the Friendship Bread Kitchen: Darien Gee, a writer who … [Read more...]

Berry Cheesecake Amish Friendship Bread

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Serve up this recipe for Berry Cheesecake Amish Friendship Bread at your next potluck and get ready for rave reviews. Serve up this recipe for Berry Cheesecake Amish Friendship Bread at your next potluck and get ready for rave reviews. For a bigger strawberry flavor punch, try making a homemade strawberry sauce using real strawberries. A quick note: I only share links that I love and personally use. This post contains affiliate or commission links which support the Friendship … [Read more...]

Tutorial – Reviving Frozen Amish Friendship Bread Starter

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If you've baked Amish Friendship Bread before, you know that it doesn't take long before you have Amish Friendship Bread starter coming out of your ears. You've run out of friends to give baggies to and you're all baked out. Plus the ongoing care and feeding of Amish Friendship Bread...yes, you need an AFB vacation. So you visit our FAQs and see that you can freeze the starter. What?! And once you freeze it, you can fuhgettaboutit. Seriously?! Yes, seriously. Not only that, the … [Read more...]