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This weekend, I decided to  bake a sweet bread to serve as dessert for our father's day family gathering.  I ho and hummed for a few days over what to bake and finally decided on Reinhart's Chocolate Cinnamon Babka bread from ABED.  What's not to love about sweet dough, chocolate, and cinnamon, right?  Then I thought, "Wouldn't chocolate, cinnamon, AND hazelnuts be even more to love?"  So, that's what I did...  After rolling out the dough, I spread a thin layer of Nutella, sprinkled with the chocolate cinnamon paste, and then sprinkled again with chopped hazeln

I have always loved Pretzels.  Nothing brought more joy to me than walking through the mall and stopping off at Wetzels Pretzels or Auntie Anne's and grabbing a fresh, warm, soft, and chewy pretzel to devour.  The scent wafting from Cinnabon could never win me over the smells of a freshly baked pretzel.

Every weekend I try to bake something.  I did Relay For Life last weekend so I didn't get a chance to get my hands on dough.  I made up for it this weekend though...  This weekend's bakes:

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