What a Flake
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…
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…
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…
The December 2007 Daring Bakers challenge featured a traditional yule log, or buche de noel, which is decorated to emulate an actual log. My version used a chocolate genoise, and chestnut and dark chocolate buttercreams.
I’ve made this cake a few times now. The first time was while Jeremy was in school, and I brought it to a friend’s house to share after dinner. It was absolutely divine, extremely moist…