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The January 2009 Daring Bakers challenge featured tuile cookies molded into fun shapes, decorated with chocolate dots and squiggles, and served with chocolate-coconut sorbet.
The January 2009 Daring Bakers challenge featured tuile cookies molded into fun shapes, decorated with chocolate dots and squiggles, and served with chocolate-coconut sorbet.
A follow-up concluding my December 2008 Daring Bakers challenge, and offering suggestions to use up leftover elements from the dessert.
The December 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured a modern French holiday confection, the frozen yule log, consisting of layers of cake, ganache, creme brulee, feuillete crisp, and mousse under a shiny glaze. I went with…
The September 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured crunchy lavash crackers, decorated with Middle Eastern spices and sesame seeds. I served mine at a going-away party with muhammara, a roasted-red pepper dip thickened with walnuts and…
The August 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured chocolate eclairs made with choux pastry, filled with chocolate pastry cream, and dipped in shiny chocolate glaze.
A vanilla pudding infused with hazelnut praline, in honor of World Breastfeeding Week.
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.
Fettuccine with a velvety fava bean sauce, garnished with salty feta and crisp bacon, in honor of fellow foodblogger Sher of What Did You Eat?
The June 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured the Danish braid, a gorgeous pastry of homemade laminated dough. I filled my braid with apples, and set about making a host of smaller pastries with a variety…
A quick pasta dish comprised primarily of pantry staples.
The May 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured an almost "albino" version of the traditional dark chocolate opéra cake. My variation had a piña colada theme, involving pineapple curd and mousse, coconut buttercream, and a garnish…
It’s time for another Daring Bakers challenge, but I’m going to have to take a pass this month, for the first time since I joined last July. The recipe—for Cheesecake Pops, from Sticky, Chewy, Messy,…
The March 2008 Daring Bakers challenge was Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party Cake. My variation, served at my baby shower, was a creamsicle cake with cherry preserves, Cara Cara orange buttercream, and candied orange slices for…
Pi Day celebrated with chocolate coconut pie, and reminiscences about a fun children's book.
The February 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured Julia Child's recipe for French bread, a labor-intensive process that yields a scrumptious result.
My attempt to tackle both chocolate-glazed yeasted doughnuts and the elusive creme-filled long john.
A shockingly decadent version of my husband's favorite birthday cake, this towering dessert from the Junior's cookbook sandwiches an entire New York-style cheesecake between layers of fluffy German chocolate cake. Now that's what I'm talking…
The January 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured the classic lemon meringue pie. My first encounter with making a meringue topping ended well, with no weeping (me or the pie)!
Despite my pitiful crimping technique, these homemade wonton wrappers perform admirably when transformed into pork potstickers.
The December 2007 Daring Bakers challenge featured a traditional yule log, or buche de noel, which is decorated to emulate an actual log. My "log" was embellished with meringue mushrooms, marzipan ivy and acorns, ganache…