Rejoice! The snow is melting and daffodils are beginning to creep out of the damp, dark earth. Trees are starting to bud, giving the branches a faint green hue, while Morning Doves coo, welcoming in warmer air and a gentle breeze. I’m happy to announce that Spring is on its way.
While nature is beginning to wake up from its long winter nap, our kitchens are also welcoming a seasonal change. Windows are opened letting in the sweet, fresh air. Tulips are placed in vases on counter tops and kitchen tables, giving life and a pop of color to our dreary, winter-worn kitchens. Even our menus are starting to shed their winter weight, ushering in bright, crisp flavors, leaving heavy winter comforts behind.
But despite lighter recipes making appearances in weeknight meals, our ovens and mixers continue to work overtime. Instead of earthy pumpkin bread and spicy molasses cookies, home cooks are turning to tangy lemon bars, sky-high coconut cakes and classic clover rolls just begging for a pad of butter.
Join me in celebrating the newness of the season with tender breads, beautiful cakes, and vibrant iced cookies. Let’s bring back the sunshine with a little Spring baking.
Here are a few of our favorite baking recipes, perfect for Spring:
Get this recipe: Citrus Pound Cake
Get this recipe: Incredible Coconut Cake
Get this recipe: Tender Lemon Rolls
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Giveaway
I want to help inspire you to get in the kitchen and bake this Spring. One lucky Love & Homemade Recipes winner will receive a copy of Taste of Home Baking Favorites, Taste of Home Cake Mix Treats, Taste of Home Cookies & Bars and Taste of Home Grand Prize Winners.
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Entries only accepted on this page. Facebook and Twitter entries do not count.
Giveaway will remain open until Monday, March 12th. 2011 at 12 p.m. CST. Winner will be chosen at random, notified by email and will have 48 hours to respond.
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Since we’re all about Spring baking, leave me a comment telling me your favorite treat to bake to welcome this bright and colorful season.
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Anything with angel food cake or lemon.
I love making anything with lemon in it! Especially white cakes with lemon curd.
Any kind of pie! Can’t wait for the summer strawberries, blueberries, peaches!
Strawberry short cakes! Sweet biscuit like individual flaky cakes with fresh strawberries in syrup soaking in and running down the sides, topped with fresh whipped cream, ummm!
Frest strawberry cake topped with strawberry icing. Says springtime.
ANYTHING lemon!! Lemon bars, lemonade cupcakes, lemon meringue cupcakes, and key lime pie for my daughter. And I just found a recipe for sticky lemon rolls with lemon cream cheese icing I can’t wait to try this weekend!
Not a dessert, but quiche says “spring” to me…maybe it’s the eggs. If we’re talking dessert, then some kind of lemon cake.
love me some pink lemonade cupcakes.
strawberry cake made with strawberry yogurt. very light and soooo easy
More grilling outdoors and rhubarb bars!
Lemon meringue pie always reminds me of springtime!
I love making blueberry muffins from scratch. Just makes it feel like spring!
Lemon Pie so yummy and delicious. Tastes amazing too!
My very favorite thing to bake this time of year are lemon raspberry muffins. They are made using lemon yogurt and fresh raspberries.
Blueberry lemon muffins!
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Spring makes me think of strawberries, citrus and cherries.
I love to bake anything with these favors, especially pies.
Strawberry pie or Strawberry shortcake. YUMMY!
Nothing taste like spring like the delightfully tart flavor of lemon bars! The crust made with powdered sugar help with a light supporting flavor that highlights the delicious lemon!
I love mandarin orange fluff with nuts. Sooo refreshing!
I enjoy making cake pops! They are so fun and you can combine so many different combinations! (current favorite is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, then dipped in white chocolate. <3
I love to bake king cake. The bright colors of the sugars remind be that brighter days of spring and summer are coming.
My rhubarb plant is starting to put out leaves, I can’t wait to make desserts with the stems of the plant.
all kinds of pies, i simple love fruit pies.
I hope this is for the giveaway or sweepstake.
Favorite thing is anything with strawberries or lemons. Cakes – pies – muffins. I bring stuff in for the guys in my department. That way I can bake but not eat it all myself.
It’s gotta be rhubarb pie. Yes, I know it’s old fashioned, but it just screams spring to me, way before the strawberries or blueberries. So, Grandma’s old fashioned rhubarb pie, no other fruits, no custard, just flour, sugar and rhubarb. Sigh. it’s spring.
I love to cook and have been reading cookbooks like others read novels for most of my life ( 60 + years) I look for new ideas daily and would love to have your cookbook. I appreciate everyone’s input and testing recipes so we have a tried and true evaluation of the finished product. I also enjoy knowing the history behind all those recipes. Happy Kitchen Memories !
Baking a cross cake for Easter out of friendship batter says spring is just about here, and getting my studded tires off of my car!
My favorite thing to make in spring is a fresh friut pie.
I do alot of baking with strawberries plentiful now anything to make with them is fine with me.
Jello Pie! It sounds strange and does not taste like jello but yes, a box of jello is one of the ingredients. It is lime flavored and fluffy from whipped milk … and served frozen. Mmmmmm I loved this pie as a child and it is still my favorite.
My favorite is Strawberry pie!! I love starwberry season, Ive made everything from shortcake to cookies with this beautiful lucious berry!!!!
I have been a cook and baker for 60 years and do not know what lemon curd is. I want to make the rolls so could you let me know. This sure makes me feel stupid.
I want the recipe for the cake in the picture with what looks like an egg white whipped frosting. I could not find it!!!!!
Under “Spring Baking & A Giveaway”, there is a photo of a cake, iced with merange, but I can’t find the recipe. Is it a Baked Alaska, or what kind of cake – where can I find the recipe? Thank you!
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