Baking Spices Crossword Puzzle

About the Baking Spices Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle focuses on spices and flavorings used in sweet baking, from familiar cinnamon and nutmeg to cardamom, mace, and vanilla. It also includes spice blends and treats such as speculaas and lebkuchen. Home bakers, food fans, and anyone who enjoys the aromas of spiced cakes and cookies will find plenty of familiar terms.

This crossword draws on 38 clues about Baking Spices. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Berry with clove, cinnamon, and nutmeg notes (8 letters)
• •New Mexico cookies flavored with anise (11 letters)
• •Rye-bread seed with a sharp, earthy taste (7 letters)
• •Sweet topping for toast or churros (13 letters)
• •Zesty rhizome used in snaps andbread (6 letters)
• •German honey cookie often topped with icing (9 letters)
• •Aromatic kernel from a sour cherry pit (6 letters)
• •Grated peel that adds bright citrus aroma (10 letters)

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