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Choux Pastry – Pâte à Choux Puffs

27 May 2010
Choux Pastry - Pâte à Choux Puffs

Serving some of the most elegant of desserts, like éclairs and profiteroles requires mastering the Pâte à choux pastry dough.

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Daring Bakers – February 2010: Tiramisu

28 February 2010
Tiramisu

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.   Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks):  “What is Tiramisu?”  Jay [...]

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Homemade Savoiardi Biscuits – Ladyfingers

28 February 2010
Homemade Savoiardi Biscuits - Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers are called savoiardi in Italian, derived “from savoy”. The French call them biscuits à la cuillère and are a common ingredient in many French desserts. You may be familiar with ladyfinger like biscuits in tiramisu, charlottes and trifles. The recipe to these biscuits makes a delicate and perfect accompaniment to your coffee or tea. [...]

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Homemade Mascarpone

28 February 2010
Homemade Mascarpone

Homemade Mascarpone Mascarpone (mahs-car-PO-nay) is probably best known as an ingredient used in tiramisu.   It’s also sometimes used in lieu of butter to thicken rissoto. I hadn’t made anything with mascarpone before, but I have tasted it in tiramisu I’ve enjoyed in restaurants for dessert.    For the February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge, we made tiramisu and [...]

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Daring Bakers – November 2009: Cannoli

28 November 2009
Cannoli

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 Bakers – October 2009: Parisian Macarons

27 October 2009
Parisian Macarons

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. I hadn’t tasted a French or Parisian Macaron before this month’s challenge and I, like many others, always associated a Macaron or Macaroon as [...]

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The Teenie Cakes Blog

12 October 2009

A couple of years ago when I started the Teenie Cakes blog (originally on Blogger), my intention was to blog about cupcakes and baking.   Ironically, I haven’t posted one recipe on cupcakes.   There are a lot of inspiring cupcake blogs (my all-time fav Cupcake Bakeshop by Chockylit) out on the internet and I was inspired [...]

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Daring Bakers – August 2009: Dobos Torte

30 August 2009
Dobos Torte

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. Was running a couple days late on [...]

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