Daring Baker Challenge: Baked Alaska
Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets
The August 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Elissa of 17 and Baking. For the first time, The Daring Bakers partnered with Sugar High Fridays for a co-event and Elissa was the gracious hostess of both. Using the theme of beurre noisette, or browned butter, Elissa chose to challenge Daring Bakers to make a [...]
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Daring Baker Challenge: Swiss Swirl Ice Cream Cake
Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets
The July 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Sunita of Sunita’s world – life and food. Sunita challenged everyone to make an ice-cream filled Swiss roll that’s then used to make a bombe with hot fudge. Her recipe is based on an ice cream cake recipe from Taste of Home. I have to admit, [...]
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Daring Baker Challenge: Chocolate Pavlovas with Chocolate Mascarpone Mousse
Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets
The June 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Dawn of Doable and Delicious. Dawn challenged the Daring Bakers’ to make Chocolate Pavlovas and Chocolate Mascarpone Mousse. The challenge recipe is based on a recipe from the book Chocolate Epiphany by Francois Payard. I couldn’t have been happier to make a chocolate recipe this month. [...]
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Daring Baker Challenge: Croquembouche
Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets
The May 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake. Cat challenged everyone to make a piece montée, or croquembouche, based on recipes from Peter Kump’s Baking School in Manhattan and Nick Malgieri. “Piece montée” literally means “mounted piece.” You may know this dessert by another name: croquembouche (“crunch in the [...]
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Daring Baker Challenge: Rhubarb Tian
Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets
The 2010 March Daring Baker’s challenge was hosted by Jennifer of Chocolate Shavings. She chose Orange Tian as the challenge for this month, a dessert based on a recipe from Alain Ducasse’s Cooking School in Paris. When I saw that this month’s challenge was orange tian, I was looking forward to it…but I also wasn’t [...]
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