Friendship cakes and bread have one thing in common: A starter is required. A number of readers have asked for the recipe for both the starter and bread. The procedure sounds lengthy, and it is.

Bake a delicious Orange Chocolate Chip Amish Friendship Bread with starter. The perfect sweet bread AFB variation for sharing, gifting, or enjoying yourself. Be sure to get my free printable recipe ...

Dear Lisa: I used to love to make a cake called "Friendship Cake" or the 30-day cake. You would get your starter from a friend, and every few days you would add a fruit and sugar until it was complete ...

Friendship bread is the chain letter of baking: A simple starter that you divvy up, keeping some for yourself and sharing the rest with others. It's an old tradition that connect neighbors through the ...

When you give the starter to your friends, and with the remaining starter you have (not including the 1 cup for you to use in the Amish Bread recipe), include the following directions and the above ...

Begin with a Brandied Fruit Starter, feed and care for it for 30 days and then bake several Friendship Cakes (which your friends will be delighted to receive), and then begin the process once more.

In the 20-plus years that I have written this column, I have met some of the nicest people. Some keep in touch even though they have moved away, and others communicate through Facebook or Messenger ...

Friendship bread is anything but. You'd never toast it, top it with jam and eat it for breakfast. It's way too sweet for that. As for the "friendship" part, well, something interesting happened when a ...

Chef Carla Hall had never heard of "friendship bread" before someone gave her a plastic zip-top bag full of a yeasty, mushy starter. As a young caterer just starting out, she got busy baking up a ...