Dessert

Daring Bakers – October 2011 – Povitica

October 27, 2011

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 July 2011: Fraisiers Cake

July 27, 2011

The month’s daring bakers challenge was to make a fraisier cake, meaning the chiffon cake, the pastry cream, the whipped cream, and the simple syrup were all to do made from scratch. The recipe said the cake would take at least 4 hours, although all components could be made a day or two in advance. I decided [...]

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Peanut Graham Cracker Squares

June 7, 2011

I’ve made these bars twice now – they’re really easy to make, and taste pretty good too. The first time I made them D liked them but did not seem to be too impressed – the second time around though, he thought they were amazing and couldn’t get enough. I made them the same way [...]

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Daring Bakers May 2011: Marquise on Meringue

May 28, 2011

Another interesting Daring Bakers challenge. One with numerous components and a few mistakes on my end. Nevertheless, it’s a delicious dessert and one I’ve never seen anywhere else. The mandatory items were the meringue (good thing I had enough for 2 baking sheets because the first batch burned under the broiler) and marquise, with caramel [...]

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Browned Butter Brownies

May 11, 2011

For this week’s Tuesday dinner delivery the dessert offered was brownies. And after looking through a bunch of different recipes I decided to go with this one. I was a little scared – for some reason I seem to have a lot of problems with “browning” butter. Well what happens is I’m always standing there [...]

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Baklava

May 4, 2011

District Catering now offers dinner delivery on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The menu changes each time but there is always a starter, an entrée and a dessert. A couple weeks ago we decided to go with a Turkish theme. And what better dessert for that than baklava? I have only had baklava a handful of times in my life [...]

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Daring Bakers April 2011: Nut Bowls with Maple Mousse

April 27, 2011

This is the April daring bakers challenge. The mandatory component was the maple mousse and an edible container, but the host of this month’s challenge provided the recipe for this nut bowl so I decided to go with it. Haven’t been feeling too creative this month. Maybe next month? I was really happy with how this dessert [...]

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Blackberry Cheesecake

April 22, 2011

I have made a lot of different cheesecakes with various toppings and flavors. But this is my first blackberry cheesecake. Which doesn’t even make sense – since blackberry is my favorite berry. I think I’ve mentioned this before – the country house my grandmother has in the boonies of Russia, where she grows everything – [...]

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Green Tea Ice Cream

April 13, 2011

I thought I really loved the oreo and then the strawberry ice cream, but I was wrong. The one I truly love is this green tea ice cream. Such a great flavor. I guess it does depend on your taste preferences though. For example, D loves the strawberry gelato and cookies and cream ice cream [...]

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Mini Green Tea Cupcakes

April 8, 2011

This is cherry blossom time in DC. In case you aren’t familiar with it, the cherry trees (Sakura) were a gift of friendship from the Japanese in 1912. These 3000+ trees were planted around the tidal basin in DC and for 2-3 weeks each year they are in bloom. The cherry blossoms really are fascinating [...]

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