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From KQED.

From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Across cultures and religions, there's something to the holiday sweet.

Maybe it's a Panetone, one of those Italian sweet bread speckled with candied fruit,

or it's a Mexican bunuelo flat and fried and delicious,

or it's a plate of cookies, a half dozen varieties chosen just so, and arrayed for a party

or a present.

You see where I'm going here?

We're talking holiday sweets with elite bakers who can talk about their own traditions

and help you find just the thing at the intersection of what you want and what you can actually make.

So lightly dust yourself with flour,

cue up the Mariah Carey, preheat that oven.

It's holiday baking time coming up after the break. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Though I love to cook, I spent my first 21 years as an adult, afraid of flour.

It just seemed to have all these magical properties, and I didn't feel like I had been initiated into the sacred club of people who could alchemize flour and sugar into delicious things.

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