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[kthull]

O.M.G. Ling!!!

[Megan Blocker]

2 big pieces of my trial birthday cake--4 layers of chocolate cake sandwiched with Italian caramel buttercream (I had made a rum French buttercream a few days ago, but decided not to use it as it was a bit too rich with the cake), pecan and almond dacquoise, Valrhona whipped ganache (used Manjari), covered in a chocolate mirror glaze and topped with more dacquoise crumbles. 

I do hope we'll get to see pictures of the final product of all this delicious experimentation!

[Ling]

^I'll post a pic as soon as my friend sends them to me! I did my best, but it's still pretty damn ugly compared to all the professional pics I see on this site.

[Megan Blocker]

^I'll post a pic as soon as my friend sends them to me!  I did my best, but it's still pretty damn ugly compared to all the professional pics I see on this site. 

I'm sure it will be gorgeous - you're too modest.

Besides, what really matters...is how it TASTES!!!

[KarenS]

Ling, I really appreciate the joy that you get out of pastry- you are the type of customer that I love to bake for!

Edited by KarenS, 11 September 2005 - 04:11 PM.

[kthull]

Tonight, we had vanilla ice cream (Edy's) topped with scraps of yesterday's brownies, freshly whipped cream, still-warm chocolate sauce (Herme's recipe) and raspberries from the garden. Simple, but delicious.

[rooftop1000]

today I made a crumble that unbuckled my diet and made me slump...actually I dont even know what to call what I made anymore ....melted butter, cake batter and fresh sliced peaches baked for ever ..at least 75 min to firm up all the way....but it was damned tasty especially compared to mom's costco pudding pie....

oh yeah I baked it in a glass pan ...no wonder it took so long


tracey

Edited by rooftop1000, 11 September 2005 - 07:24 PM.

[Ling]

Ling, I really appreciate the joy that you get out of pastry- you are the type of customer that I love to bake for!

Awww thanks! That's very sweet of you!

Today's dessert was the chocolate pastry cream I was going to use for my birthday cake, but decided not to (it was lumpy). Also, green tea shortbread cookies at my bf's house.

[Ling]

http://www.imagestat...s...6657&idx=1'

Here's my cake! Can you see the pic? I can't seem to upload to ImageGullet or Photobucket...so I'm trying Imagestation.

[binkyboots]

wow! that cake looks gorgeous, so shiny (bet it tastes rather good too )

last night's dessert here was apple and blueberry crumble (finally, a night chilly enough to make crumble desirable) with home made custard.

[Ling]

Last night's desserts were:
- a delicious cheese course with figs and bread
- Sugar Pumpkin Tarte Tatin with Pine Mushroom creme anglaise
- R&B Brewing Spent Grain spice cake with dark caramel and whipped creme fraiche

..and when I got home, I polished off the last slice of my birthday cake that I was saving for a friend. Oh well...I had a craving for something chocolate-y

[kthull]

For a class project, I have to research the origins of Shoo-fly Pie and bring in samples on Thursday. Sounds painfully sweet!

[Ling]

chocolate cupcake and frozen cookie dough (gingersnap)

mmm....!

[Moopheus]

This week we had a pan of pecan-coconut-chocolate-chip blondies, the recipe from the Richard Sax book being discussed in another thread. It calls for white chocolate chips, which I don't really care for, so I used regular chocolate chips instead. Yummy and now gone.

[Patrick S]

Orange-Cardamom cupcakes. They're pretty ho-hum.

Edited by Patrick S, 15 September 2005 - 04:20 PM.

[RuthWells]

Two stale Starburst squares from my kids' left-over Easter candy. Strawberry flavor.

[Ling]

Cacao Berry chocolate

[kthull]

Well, shoo-fly pie is pretty gross.

[browniebaker]

Blueberry pie! I used Rose Levy Beranbaum's recipe for two-crust blueberry pie in The Pie and Pastry Bible.

Her Flaky Cream-Cheese Crust I had made countless times before, but this time, instead of placing the butter pieces and flour mixture in a Ziploc bag before rolling the butter into flakes, I just dumped the whole thing onto my granite countertop and rolled it right there. I got the same flaky pastry as always, and I avoided throwing one more piece of plastic into the landfill.

[Moopheus]

Well, shoo-fly pie is pretty gross. 

Especially when the shoo-flies are out of season, and all you can get is canned.

[Ling]

Well, shoo-fly pie is pretty gross. 

Especially when the shoo-flies are out of season, and all you can get is canned.

I had a monster of a date square today. I swear, it was like a 4" x 4" cube! It was really difficult to eat.

[Megan Blocker]

Chocolate chip cookies!!!!!

[Moopheus]

Choklit cake. Though I screwed up the frosting and used the wrong amount of butter, so ended up with not enough to cover the whole cake. Oops. So now I must eat my mistake. Boo, hoo, hoo.

[sanrensho]

I'm way behind. The most notable things we had in the last couple of weeks were:

-Flourless chocolate cake from the Saveur Italian book: Turned out great despite despite the poor recipe instructions. (The recipe lists 13 TBS butter but only 12 is actually needed for the cake. The remaining TBS is for greasing the pan.) I especially liked the lovely crust that forms on the top of this cake. My daughter's reaction when tasting this cake was, "Brownie!" She was right, too. The ultimate brownie.

-CI's blueberry buckle recipe, frozen from a previous baking: A second tasting confirms my opinion that this recipe is way too sweet with the suggested amount of topping.

-Birthday cake for my 7-year old daughter: Two layers each of choc. fudge cake and cocoa dacquoise discs filled white choc. mousse and raspberry BC. The single layer of raspberry BC was definitely the highlight of this cake. In the future, I'll up the raspberry quotient with a gelee layer or raspberry mousse.

[Ling]

still workin' on those chocolate cakes I made last week and decided not to use for my birthday cake...only 1 cake left!

I ate it straight from the freezer. There's a lot of fat in the recipe so it was still quite soft.

[RuthWells]

Individual shortcakes with lemon mousse (actually, Italian meringue folded with lemon curd) in place of whipped cream, strawberries, and blueberries. Yum!

[Ling]

pre-dinner: Portuguese cream tarts

post-dinner: brownies...this is the first time I've been allowed to bake in A WEEK! My mom requested that I take a week off from baking b/c she's sick of the smell of chocolate that permeates the house day in and day out.

Edited by Ling, 19 September 2005 - 10:15 PM.

[Shalmanese]

...she's sick the smell of chocolate that permeates the house...

Are those words even allowed to go next to each other in the English language?

[Ling]

^I know! I can't believe we're related!!!

[RuthWells]

Cupcake batter, right off the spatula.