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Recipes for Bakehouse Essentials Box - The Only Baking Advantage You Need: Six Spices and a Hot Oven
There are plenty of fancy baking tools you can buy, but none of them can rescue a dessert that tastes like sweetened cardboard. The Bakehouse Essentials Box from Tradition Spice Company puts six of the warmest, hardest-working baking spices in one place: Allspice, Ginger, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Cloves, and Nutmeg. These are the jars that make pumpkin bread smell like fall before it leaves the oven, turn apples into the reason everybody saved room for dessert, and give cookies enough character that nobody politely leaves them on the plate. This refreshed collection of recipes uses the box the way it ought to be used: sometimes one spice leads, sometimes several pile in together, and every recipe earns its keep.
What's Inside the Bakehouse Essentials Box
6 Small Bottles
- Ground Allspice — 1.2 oz
- Ground Ginger — 1.1 oz
- Ground Cardamom — 1.0 oz
- Ground Cinnamon — 1.1 oz
- Ground Cloves — 1.2 oz
- Ground Nutmeg — 1.5 oz
First comes fall. Pumpkin, apples, and gingerbread have earned their place in American kitchens for a reason. After that, we loosen the apron strings a little with cookies and cinnamon rolls that make these six jars work year-round.
Pumpkin Spice Streusel Bread
This loaf uses all six spices, because if there was ever a time to let the whole crew out of the barn, pumpkin season is it. Cinnamon leads, ginger brings warmth, nutmeg and allspice deepen the middle, cloves keep things honest, and cardamom adds a little something folks may not be able to name but will absolutely notice.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon Ground Ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Cardamom
- 1/8 teaspoon Ground Cloves
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup pumpkin purée
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup neutral oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Streusel: 1/3 cup flour, 1/3 cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 3 tablespoons melted butter
Directions
Heat the oven. Set the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan and line it with parchment if you like easy exits.
Mix the dry ingredients. Whisk flour, baking soda, salt, and all six spices together.
Mix the wet ingredients. In a larger bowl, whisk pumpkin, both sugars, eggs, oil, and vanilla until smooth.
Bring it together. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet just until no dry flour remains.
Add the streusel. Pour batter into the pan. Stir the streusel ingredients together with a fork and scatter the mixture over the top.
Bake. Bake 55 to 65 minutes, until a tester in the center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool 15 minutes before lifting from the pan.
Apple Cardamom Crisp
Apple crisp already knows how to make a room smell good. Adding Cardamom gives the familiar cinnamon-and-apple combination a little more depth without turning Grandma's dessert into a culinary identity crisis.
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon Ground Cardamom
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Ginger
- 3 pounds apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- Topping: 1 cup rolled oats, 3/4 cup flour, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup melted butter, pinch of salt
- Vanilla ice cream, optional but sensible
Directions
Heat the oven. Set the oven to 375°F and butter a 9-inch square or similar baking dish.
Season the apples. Toss apples with brown sugar, lemon juice, flour, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, and ginger.
Make the topping. Stir oats, flour, brown sugar, salt, and melted butter until crumbly.
Assemble. Spread apples in the dish and scatter the oat mixture evenly over them.
Bake until bubbling. Bake 40 to 50 minutes, until the apples are tender and the topping is deep golden brown.
Wait just long enough. Let the crisp sit 10 minutes before serving so you don't remove the roof of your mouth in the name of dessert.
Molasses Gingerbread Loaf with Orange Glaze
Good gingerbread ought to smell like somebody finally turned the calendar toward cold weather. Ginger, Cinnamon, Cloves, Allspice, and Nutmeg pile into this dark molasses loaf, while a simple orange glaze keeps the whole thing from getting too serious.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Ground Ginger
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup dark or unsulphured molasses
- 3/4 cup hot water
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/3 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Glaze: 1 cup confectioners' sugar plus 2 to 3 tablespoons orange juice
Directions
Heat the oven. Set the oven to 350°F and grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
Mix the dry side. Whisk flour, baking soda, salt, and spices together.
Thin the molasses. Whisk molasses with hot water until smooth.
Cream the butter. Beat butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
Build the batter. Alternate adding the dry mixture and molasses mixture to the butter, mixing just until combined.
Bake. Pour into the pan and bake 50 to 60 minutes. Cool completely before whisking together the glaze and drizzling it over the top.
Cardamom Cinnamon Snickerdoodles
Snickerdoodles are already good country. Cardamom just gives them a clean shirt and somewhere nicer to go. Cinnamon keeps the flavor familiar, while a pinch of nutmeg rounds out the butter and sugar.
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon Ground Cardamom
- 1/8 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar, plus 1/4 cup for rolling
- 1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
Heat the oven. Set the oven to 375°F and line two baking sheets with parchment.
Cream the butter and sugar. Beat butter and 1 1/3 cups sugar until light. Beat in egg, yolk, and vanilla.
Add the dry ingredients. Mix flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, salt, 1/4 teaspoon cardamom, and nutmeg, then stir into the butter mixture.
Make the coating. Mix the remaining 1/4 cup sugar with cinnamon and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon cardamom.
Roll and bake. Form 1 1/2 tablespoon balls, coat them generously in the spice sugar, and bake 9 to 11 minutes until the edges are set and the centers still look soft.
Cool. Leave them on the sheet for 5 minutes before moving to a rack.
Spiced Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Oatmeal raisin cookies have spent years defending themselves against chocolate chip cookies with louder marketing departments. Give them Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and Allspice, bake them soft in the middle, and they won't need to explain themselves to anybody.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Allspice
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup raisins
Directions
Heat the oven. Set the oven to 350°F and line baking sheets with parchment.
Cream the base. Beat butter and both sugars until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, then vanilla.
Mix the dry ingredients. Whisk flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice.
Finish the dough. Stir dry ingredients into the butter mixture, then fold in oats and raisins.
Scoop and bake. Drop rounded 2-tablespoon portions on the pans. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until the edges are golden but the centers remain soft.
Let them settle. Cool on the pan 5 minutes before moving to a rack.
Chai-Spiced Cinnamon Rolls
Here the box gets to show off again. The filling uses all six Bakehouse spices, but cinnamon and cardamom stay out front while ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice fill in the corners. The result still tastes like a cinnamon roll, just one with better stories.
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon Ground Cardamom
- 1/2 teaspoon Ground Ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon Ground Cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon Ground Allspice
- 1 cup whole milk, warmed to about 100°F
- 2 1/4 teaspoons instant or active dry yeast
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more as needed
- Filling: 5 tablespoons softened butter and 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- Frosting: 4 ounces cream cheese, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup confectioners' sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 to 2 tablespoons milk
Directions
Start the dough. Stir warm milk, yeast, and a pinch of the sugar together. Let stand 5 minutes, then whisk in remaining sugar, melted butter, eggs, and salt.
Knead. Add flour gradually and knead 6 to 8 minutes until smooth and slightly tacky. Place in a greased bowl, cover, and let rise until doubled, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
Make the filling. Combine brown sugar with all six spices.
Roll and fill. Roll the dough into roughly a 12x18-inch rectangle. Spread with softened butter and cover evenly with the spiced brown sugar.
Shape and rise again. Roll up from a long side, cut into 12 rolls, place in a greased 9x13-inch pan, cover, and let rise 30 to 45 minutes.
Bake and frost. Bake at 350°F for 24 to 30 minutes until golden. Beat the frosting ingredients together and spread over the warm rolls.
Six Jars That Know Their Way Around an Oven
The Bakehouse Essentials Box is not just a pumpkin-pie emergency kit, although it would do that job just fine. These six spices move easily from fall baking into Christmas cookies, weekend cinnamon rolls, coffee-break loaves, fruit desserts, and whatever else ends up dusting flour across your counter.
That versatility also makes the box an easy gift for the baker in your life. Think fall birthdays, Thanksgiving hosts, Christmas baking season, Mother's Day, housewarmings, or the friend who insists they're “not hard to shop for” while providing absolutely no useful clues. Give them good spice, and there is at least a decent chance some of it comes back to you disguised as cookies.
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FAQs
Why is allspice so conceited?
While Allspice seems to think highly of itself, its name came about due to its flavor hints of Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Cloves. And in the 17th century this seemed like it contained 'all' of the spices of the time in one.
What in the world is cardamom?
Funny you say 'what in the world' as Cardamom is part of the Ginger family and used throughout the world. From Indian curries, to chai drinks, baked goods and worldly coffees.
Can you smoke cloves?
Well, yes you can. But in our context we're using Cloves as an all-purpose spice. From baking goods, to curries, to sauces and ciders. But don't over use as it's flavor can overpower!
