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Daring Bakers August 2012 – Filled Pate a Choux Swans

August 27, 2012
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This month’s Daring Bakers challenge was to make a creme filled choux pastry in the design of your choice. With my lack of creativity I designed to go with the design outlined in the recipe itself – swan shaped pate a choux pastries. The most intricate and funny looking recipe I’ve ever created? Without a [...]

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Daring Bakers June 2012 – Coffee and Walnut Battenberg

June 27, 2012
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This month’s daring bakers challenge was to make a battenberg cake – a square oblong cake with 2 different colored checks and an edible marzipan covering.  Traditionally made as a wedding cake for royalty, the first cake celebrated the marriage of Queen Victoria’s granddaughter, Princess Victoria to Prince Louise of Battenberg.  It was flavored with [...]

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Daring Bakers May 2012 – Challah

May 27, 2012
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This month’s daring bakers challenge was to make challah – a bread that I’ve eaten many times but had never made myself. The recipe itself is pretty simple – calling for the standard baking ingredients – flour, yeast, honey etc. The interesting part comes in when you need to shape the bread – which is [...]

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Daring Bakers April 2012 – Armenian Nazook

April 27, 2012
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This month’s daring bakers challenge was Armenian themed. The mandatory component was to prepare either nazook or nutmeg cake. Since in the realm of sweets I generally dislike cakes I went with the nazook – an Armenian pastry filled with vanilla and sugar. I printed out the recipe, placed in neatly on the counter and [...]

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Daring Bakers – January 2012 – Biscuits

January 27, 2012
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This daring bakers challenge has probably been the simplest one yet. Who knew that biscuits are apparently so quick and easy to make? Not me. I had never made them before and always assumed that if Pillsbury is selling them refrigerated and rolled up in a tennis ball like container – they must be time [...]

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Daring Bakers December 2011 – Russian Rye Bread

December 28, 2011
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This daring bakers challenge got off to a bad start. First of all I hadn’t realized I would need 7 days to complete it so I really should have gotten started weeks ago. I did look at the recipe just in time to be able to finish it before the posting date, but knowing that [...]

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Daring Bakers November 2011 – Sans Rival Cake

November 27, 2011
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Daring Bakers – October 2011 – Povitica

October 27, 2011
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This month’s challenge – Povitica. Have you ever heard of it? Nope? Me neither. Well apparently, Povitica is a traditional Eastern European dessert bread and in English can be better described as a Nutroll. Long story short, you make the dough, roll it out, spread the nut filling over the dough, roll it back up [...]

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Daring Bakers – September 2011 – Croissants

September 27, 2011
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Another great daring bakers challenge. I had never made croissants from scratch before but had always wanted to learn! With 57 steps, the recipe can be a tad intimidating but with the tons of pictures provided it wasn’t too hard to follow. It does take a while though from start to finish. I started on [...]

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Daring Bakers August 2011 – Hazelnut Truffles and Sponge Candy

August 27, 2011
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This month’s Daring Bakers challenge was to make candy! And although I don’t care for sweets I did enjoy the hazelnut truffles (they slightly remind me of the Ferrero Rocher balls). The sponge candy was quite an adventure. The first batch I burned completely — although it’s not my fault at all - you see, the [...]

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