Mexican Marquise on Meringue
The May 2011 Daring Bakers challenge was a decadent chocolate marquise on meringue, garnished with caramel and spiced nuts. I chose a Mexican chocolate theme with cinnamon and dulce de leche that turned out beautifully.
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Baked Alaska
The August 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was brown butter pound cake combined with homemade ice cream into baked Alaska and ice cream petit fours.
Chocolate Pavlovas with Mascarpone Mousse
The June 2010 Daring Bakers challenge featured chocolate pavlovas or meringues topped with chocolate mascarpone mousse and a creme anglaise drizzle.
Getting the Hang of Lemon Meringue
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)!
Yule (B)Logging, Part 2: Sawing Logs
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…
Yule (B)Logging, Part 1: Logrolling
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.
Here’s to Hoods
In which I gush over the glory of Hood strawberries, and make the best strawberry ice cream you could ever imagine.
Point A to Point B
It’s funny how one thing leads to another. For instance, because Jeremy stayed home from work last Wednesday, I got to have wonderful memories of making snow ice cream as a child in Colorado winters.…
Catching Up
A visit from my folks, two new additions to my kitchen "staff," and a basic recipe for pate brisee.