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Savoury Food 2022
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Dillapeño Beer Bread Kit

By Lazy Bake | Made in Calgary

This delightful kit yields one loaf of freshly baked bread, featuring flavours of dill and jalapeno, made start-to-finish in less than an hour. The judges marvelled over the ease of this kit, while the smells of the loaf baking in the oven had them all swooning.

Like many of us, Katie Duffin re-discovered her passion for baking in 2020. As she dug deeper into baking projects, she noticed a gap in the marketplace — while many meal kits were emerging during the pandemic, there didn’t seem to be many baking kits available.

Lazy Bake launched in October 2020 with a vision to spread joy through kits that only require a few steps, but still bring the warm smells and tastes of home baking to your kitchen. Duffin makes the effort to support other local businesses by sourcing ingredients from Calgary companies, including Village Brewery, which helped develop her line of Beer Bread kits. (Duffin’s father is one of the founders of Village Brewery, making this an obvious collaboration.) “It was really fun working with the team at Village,” she says. “I’ve paired this bread kit with the Village Wit, which happens to also be my favourite beer!”

Busy (or lazy) bakers will love how quickly this savoury dill bread with a kick of jalapeno comes together: Combine the contents in a mixing bowl with a bottle of beer, and bake. There’s no need to knead, proof or rise the dough, and non-beer drinkers can substitute the beer for any carbonated beverage. Slather a thick slice with butter and honey, or use it to make delicious grilled-cheese sandwiches.

Lazy Bake kits can be found at retailers across the province. Customers can also order kits online through lazybake.com, or join a monthly subscription service, so that wonderful fresh-baked-bread smell is always just a quick mix away.

$15
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