This recipe may be the easiest sweet bread you can make. No kneading, no rising. Just mix and bake. It’s perfect for a quick breakfast. This bread is moist like a cake, with a delicious apple scent and flavor.

Swedish Tea Rings are often described as a cross between a coffee cake and a bread. This version has a Maine twist, filled with fresh blueberries and iced with cream cheese. It is easy to make and goes great as breakfast, brunch, or afternoon tea.

There are many different traditional Easter Breads from around the world. One of our favorites is Polish placek, a sweet bread with a soft texture, mildly citrus flavor, and crunchy crumble top. It’s almost like a sweet bread mixed with a coffee cake. The bread is perfect slathered in butter and served with tea or coffee. The recipe makes 5 9×5” loaves but can also be made in mini loaves or cake pans. It makes a wonderful gift as well.

Irish soda bread is a traditional loaf made with baking soda and buttermilk for leavening instead of yeast. It’s a much quicker way of making bread than the kneading, rising, punching, etc. method of yeasted bread. Though soda bread is usually attributed to Ireland, Native Americans were the first to document using pearl ash, an early form of potassium bicarbonate made from wood ash, as a leavening agent. It wasn’t until the 1830s that the bread gained popularity in Ireland, where the low-quality wheat flour available was better suited to baking soda than yeast. It is better to use flour with less gluten than all-purpose or bread flour when making soda bread. Pastry flour works well, but we like to use spelt, an ancient grain closely related to wheat.