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This Jewish yeast bread is rolled with chocolate, cinnamon, and nuts.

In Great Britain, scones are served with clotted cream and strawberry jam during “cream tea”.

This Scottish bread is made with almonds and flavored with candied lemon and orange peel.

I have grown to appreciate tahini over the past couple of years. I love it in hummus and sauces, and I also have a pretty great tahini cookie recipe. So image my delight, as I was working on an Armenian menu for my book club post on The Sandcastle Girls, when I came upon tahini bread. I couldn’t wait to bake a batch of these tahini-filled sweet yeast breads topped with toasted sesame seeds. Delicious!

This easy white chocolate bread pudding comes together in one bowl and there is no need to make a separate sauce.

This excellent parathas recipe is adapted from About.com. Paratha is an Indian multi-layered flatbread, but what’s special about this is recipe is that it includes surprise goodies inside.

Chapatti is an unleavened bread from Northern India and Pakistan. It is similar to a tortilla and a perfect side dish for any soup or stew.

These tortillas are thicker and puffier than the store-bought tortillas. If you’ve never tried a thick and chewy flour tortilla, well, you’ve been missing out.

Bunuelos are flat fried sugar cinnamon sweets found in most Mexican bakeries. Bunuelos are also very addictive!

Freshly made pitot or pita bread to stuff with your favorite meats and/or vegetables is easy to prepare and so much better than the blah tasting pita pockets available at the grocery store. The pocket is created by the steam that puffs the dough up during cooking. Pitot also stores well in the refrigerator or freezer.