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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Daring Baker Challenge: Tiramisu
Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets
The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession. When I saw that the Daring Baker challenge [...]
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Daring Baker Challenge: Gingerbread Houses
Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets
The December 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes. I was [...]
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Daring Baker Challenge: Cannoli
Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets
The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and The Sopranos Family Cookbook by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michelle Scicolone, as ingredient/direction guides. She [...]
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Daring Baker Challenge: Macarons
Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets
The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe. Look familiar? That’s because I made these macarons back in August. Each month I try very hard to be true to the Daring Baker challenge [...]
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Daring Baker Challenge: Vols-au-Vent
Posted by Tracy | Filed under breads & pastries
The September 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Steph of A Whisk and a Spoon. She chose the French treat, Vols-au-Vent based on the Puff Pastry recipe by Michel Richard from the cookbook Baking With Julia by Dorie Greenspan. I was so excited to see that the Daring Baker challenge for this month required [...]
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Daring Baker Challenge: Dobos Torte
Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets
The August 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Angela of A Spoonful of Sugar and Lorraine of Not Quite Nigella. They chose the spectacular Dobos Torte based on a recipe from Rick Rodgers’ cookbook Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Caffés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague. The Dobos Torte is a five-layer sponge cake filled [...]
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