Courgette & Harissa Pasta and Cinnamon Sugar Tear-Apart Bread

Seeing how it's winter now,

I thought it's only right to update the summer Bake Club.

And with me moving out of the flat then,

it seemed only natural to have the Bake Club at mine.

Through some magical voting system,

we decided to bake a Cinammon bread.

And how else to have the energy to bake it

other than cooking some pasta with courgette & harissa.

The courgette & harissa pasta was so yummy

that we regretted not making more of it :(

Courgette & Harrisa Pasta

Heat some butter (or olive oil if you want to be healthy) in a pan.

Add some chopped garlic into the pan and fry it until it smells lovely.

Add the chopped courgettes and fry until it's soft

Boil some pasta of your choice in a large pan (we used fusilli)

until it's al dente (springy to the touch)

[Alternatively you can just throw the pasta onto a tiled wall and see if it sticks]

Then strain the pasta and put it back into the large pan.

Add the harissa & courgette mixture and stir on a low heat until evenly mixed.

And voila!

Deliciousness on a plate!

Pardon the tacky placemat :S

A member of Bake Club gobbling up the rest of the pasta!

Cinnamon Sugar Tear-Apart Bread

Can I just say how yummy this bread was?

Well done to whoever found the recipe.

And an even bigger round of applause for Joy The Baker

for creating such a yummy recipe.

See recipe below..

http://www.joythebaker.com/blog/2011/03/cinnamon-sugar-pull-apart-bread

Members of Bake Club discussing the recipe..

(or perhaps the filthy state of the kitchen)

Adding the flour to the egg dough mixture..

Stirring the sticky mixture..

Using a chilled bottled of Pimm's to roll the dough out..

I know..

Every baker should have a rolling pin in their kitchen drawer.

Pouring the melted butter onto the dough..

Sprinkling the sugar & cinnamon mixture onto the dough..

Until it looks like this..

Dividing the dough into 6 equal horizontal strips..

Stacking it on top of each other..

Slicing it again into 6 equal vertical strips..

Stacking it in the loaf pan..

Until it's all completely stacked up..

All squashed up and ready to bake..

We decided to put more sugar mixture on top of it..

Added butter pieces as well..

Diabetes in a pan :P

Fresh from the oven..

Yum.. Yum..