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Hot cross buns are a beautiful springtime tradition, celebrated around the world during Easter and spring festivals like Ostara. These lightly sweetened, yeast-leavened rolls are warmly spiced with cinnamon and studded with sweet currants.

Baking these buns fills your home with an irresistible, comforting aroma. While they require a little patience as the dough rises, the process is incredibly rewarding. Finished with a sweet icing cross and enjoyed warm with a cup of tea, these soft and fluffy buns are a wonderful way to welcome the season of renewal.

This edible cats are the perfect treat for the wizards and witches prowling on Halloween.

Pear jam makes a nice spread for breakfast or snack and easy to prepare. Just follow the recipe.

Few cultures would be adventurous enough to call a recipe 'fried milk', especially since it's made by boiling and frying. But that's the basis of this delectable treat. Great desserts don't come any easier than this one.

This sweet bread recipe will have everyone begging to go for those servings recommended by the food pyramid. Superb.

An import from the Catalan region of Spain, this creamy dessert is easy to prepare and even easier to eat. Delicious.

Calling flan a caramel custard is to do it an injustice. No mere pudding, this traditional Mexican dessert, from Spanish origins, is the crème de la crème of sweets. Of course, not surprisingly, there are a hundred and one variations on the basic recipe. But sometimes the original is so much more than one can expect, to alter it is to approach cooking blasphemy.

For a traditional American treat, bake some gingerbread.