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Tastefully Simple | Beer Bread Recipe

One of my family’s favorite comfort foods is homemade bread, and one of my favorite breads is this Beer Bread recipe from Tastefully Simple.


Tastefully Simple Beer Bread

The seasons have changed and I’m back into my baking mode! Don’t you just love it when the scents and aroma coming out of the kitchen seem to scream Comfort Food?

Homemade Bread Recipe


When I was a little girl, my mom was a stay at home mom, and spent her days clipping recipes from newspapers and women’s magazines such as Family Circle and Good Housekeeping.  To this day I still have a Ziploc storage bag full of her clipped recipes and handwritten favorite family recipes.

Mom often made a homemade yeast bread recipe from Dill Weed.  We called it Dilly Bread.

When I would run in the back door when school got out, I could tell that my mom had made from scratch Dill Weed bread recipe because that wonderful herb scent would be the first to greet me!  Often that loaf of warm bread right out of the oven would still be on the counter, just waiting for me to slice into it and slather it with real butter from Guida’s Dairy, here in Connecticut!  Those were the days when the milkman would make home delivery of eggs, butter and milk in glass bottles right to a little silver insulated box next to our doorstep.

I enjoy cooking and baking, skills I learned from my mom, and wish I had more time to spend being a creative cook.  With such an active lifestyle incorporating a  full-time job, part-time blogger as well as being a mom and grandmom, I now look for recipes that are easy and simple.  I like to cook and bake with recipes that taste exactly as if home made from scratch.  So I fudge a little!

One of my new favorite quick bread recipes is the Bountiful Beer Bread Recipe from Tastefully Simple which can be ordered online or is available at home tasting parties.  It’s so easy to make because it’s a beer bread mix and there’s no kneading or rising time and the only thing I need to add is beer or any carbonated beverage of choice!  I could make it with Dr. Pepper, Coke or Pepsi, or even seltzer water!

The possibilities are endless for using this recipe for beer bread recipe:

  • Make grilled cheese sandwiches with bacon and tomatoes

  • Use cubed bread for bread pudding

  • Spread with Spinach & Herb Dip; top with deli smoked turkey and lettuce.

Easy clean up in the kitchen with Handmade Dish Cloths from Moomettes Crochet Shop





You can even add your own variations by creating a magnificent corn bread substituting beer with a 16 oz. can of creamed corn and 1/3 cup oil.

In a matter of minutes, your house will be filled with the mouth-watering aroma of freshly baked bread. It’s the perfect companion to dips and Autumn soups.

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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Bars Recipe

Do you get excited about Pumpkin Season?  I do! To make these tasty Pumpkin Bars I used the Tastefully Simple Almond Pound Cake mix but you could use any pound cake mix and Aldi works fine too, and borrowed the cream cheese filling that I use in my Cranberry Nibble Bread recipe that I make to serve with the Thanksgiving turkey dinner.  You could make these as Halloween treats at the kids' parties at school too!

Pumpkin Bars


Pumpkin Recipes



Pumpkin Bars Recipe



If you're wondering why many of my photos show that I'm using aluminum foil pans for baking, well, I do own many nice baking dishes! The majority of my creative cooking and baking is done on weekends for Sunday night dinner either at my house or my daughter's house. This way I know I don't have to worry about when I'll be getting my good white porcelain baking dishes and pans back!


Easy clean up with some of the handmade crochet dishcloths that I make and sell at Moomettes Crochet


Handmade Dish Cloths Orange

Check out my Cream Cheese Nibble Bread and Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies Recipes here

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars


I served these yummy pumpkin cream cheese bars with guess what - my homemade
Pumpkin Ice Cream !  I've also made my own homemade ice cream. What a delightful duo, and used some Cool Whip as a topping.  You can use canned dairy whipped cream, or make the real thing yourself!


1 (15 oz.) can Pumpkin, pure
  • 8 oz. cream cheese
    1 Egg
    1 box Almond pound cake mix or plain pound cake mix
    1 tbsp Cinnamon
    1 tbsp Nutmeg
    1/3 cup Sugar
    1 tsp Vanilla
    Mix cream cheese and egg together and whip.  Fold into dry cake mix and mix all ingredients together and bake in square pan according to box mix directions.

    Frost with whip cream 

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