Baking with Julia this week, hosted by Heather of Heather's Bytes, has taken me to new territory - making bagels. I have never made a bagel before, and I was a little wary of the boiling then baking process. However, it wasn't as scary as I thought, and I was very happy with the end result.
I wanted sweet bagels, so I topped mine with cranberries, chopped walnuts and sugar:
I slathered a bagel in fig jam for the taste test:
Passed with flying colours!
Visit the LYL section of the Baking with Julia website to see what the other bakers thought of these bagels.