Easy Irish Soda Bread with Raisins - The Woks of Life

This easy Irish soda bread recipe (from a beloved neighbor) yields a delightfully soft and rich texture, delicious toasted and smeared with lots of butter.

Irish-American Soda Bread Recipe - Striped Spatula

Irish-American Soda Bread is a dense-textured and lightly-sweet loaf, studded with raisins and/or caraway seeds. We like to eat it slightly warm or at room temperature with softened Irish butter.

Caraway Raisin Shortbread

These shortbread are like Irish soda bread in cookie form.

Sticky Malt Loaf

For those unacquainted with the classic snack, malt loaf is a sweet loaf that normally contains some sort of dried fruit. Dense and small, this loaf is served as a snack between meals spread with lots of soft butter beside a strong cup of tea. This particular version has a lighter texture than many malt loaves found across the pond, but has all the sweet malty flavor that is a unique, even craveable, part of this quickbread.

Irish Guinness Brown Bread

The only thing better than drinking a foamy pint of Guinness is eating a slice of Irish Guinness brown bread! Slather it with salted Irish butter.

Raisin Bran Muffins

I love the hearty taste and texture of whole grain flour plus an extra dose of bran, which makes these muffins as cozy as a cable knit sweater. Don't be alarmed by the seemingly outrageous quantity of cinnamon: Its flavor is diluted to a gentle back note by the sheer volume of the muffin batter. I like to finish these muffins with a sprinkling of flax for crunch, but a sprinkling of bran flakes will crisp up nicely as well. Bran muffins bake best in a nonstick pan, which gives them a beautifully...

Scottish Oatmeal Bread

Some recipes for oatmeal bread call for simply tossing some uncooked rolled oats in with the flour; this one uses prepared oatmeal.

Rye Raisin Muffins

With a little tinkering, these muffins can go from a healthy, lightly sweet way to start your morning to a savory accompaniment for dinner.

Real Irish Soda Bread

Once upon a time, soda bread was baked over hot coals in a covered skillet, trapping steam from the dough to produce a wonderfully crusty loaf of bread—a setup anyone can re-create in a Dutch oven. Teaming up all-purpose flour, baking soda, and buttermilk creates a moist and fluffy soda bread that's chewy and crusty all at once.

Cinnamon Apple Teacake

This cinnamon Apple Teacake is completely delightful. Buttery cinnamon apples inside AND on top, the cake batter is dead easy - just mixed by hand.