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Compounding Assets

| August 16, 2010

compound_butters

In the second week of the Preserve the Bounty Challenge, we preserved fruits and vegetables in fat and oil. My approach was three flavorful compound butters: basil, peach-praline, and tomato-garlic.

The Full Montée

| May 27, 2010

The May 2010 Daring Bakers challenge featured the croquembouche, a tower of cream puffs glued together with caramel or chocolate ganache. I filled my choux puffs with chocolate and vanilla praline pastry cream based on a Julia Child recipe.

Got Milk?

| August 4, 2008

A vanilla pudding infused with hazelnut praline, in honor of World Breastfeeding Week.

Daring Bakers Go Nuts

| July 30, 2008

Cut filbert gateau

The July 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured a filbert gateau with praline buttercream and a ganache glaze. It gave me a chance to play with caramel and piping.

Waffles to Play Warcraft By

| November 14, 2007

Pumpkin praline waffles

Pumpkin gives these waffles an especially tender crumb that played well with the baking spices and nuts. Use a light touch when handling them.

Praline Ricotta Pancakes

| July 17, 2006

Praline Ricotta Pancakes

I’m not really a pancake girl; give me a plate of French toast instead anytime. But I have met my match in praline ricotta pancakes, which I can safely say are the best pancakes ever. My recipe is a riff off of the hazelnut-lemon-ricotta pancakes posted on The Wednesday Chef, from an Amanda Hesser article [...]

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