Your Daily Sweets: What are you making and baking? (2012–2014)

[FrogPrincesse]

A pound cake with Valencia orange zest, glazed with orange juice (David Lebovitz's recipe from Ready for Dessert). Excellent with coffee.

[sunshine-supernova]

Not posted in a while as haven't had anything much to share. That's what happens when you are on a diet and avoiding sugar / carbs etc !

Anyway - started playing around with a few ideas for Halloween. This is one of them... cake layered with buttercream and jam (to look like a meat pie), covered in fondant and chocolate fingers.

[stuartlikesstrudel]

Wow, that is grotesque and excellent! Really effective

[patti_h]

Baselerd- that rice pudding dish looks delicious. I am such a sucker for cardamom!

[Kim Shook]

Ann – those Danish look delectable!

Baselerd – I love the look of your strawberry/sorbet concoction and I adore the idea of freeze dried strawberry powder!

Pquinene – your rocky road ice cream looks so scrumptious.

Elise – lovely looking and sounding poundcake!

Last night’s dessert was lemon chess pie w/ CI’s vodka pie pastry:

What is not so evident in this picture is that while I cooked it in a deep dish pie pan, the pie filling makes a fairly shallow pie:

It looked decidedly odd when sliced and I made a note to cook it in a regular pie pan from now on .

[judiu]

Or double the filling recipe...

[rajoress]

Everyone's desserts look amazing! The baking bug hit me this weekend - blueberry hand pies (recipe from King Arthur) and banana chocolate chip cake - wonderful recipe from Baking with Dorie Goldspan - delicious (I added the chocolate chips). Thanks for looking!

(Sorry if the pictures come out too large!)

[pjm333]

Yogurt Panna Cotta with gorgonzola dolce & walnut crumble, strawberry sorbet.

[pjm333]

Passion Fruit Napoleon Coconut Sorbet !

[FrogPrincesse]

pjm333 - Beautiful! What recipe do you use for the coconut sorbet?

[pjm333]

1 part simple syrup & 2 parts coconut puree and a little glucose powder

[cookalong]

Made some mini tarte tatins, which came out great. Served with a rocher of vanilla ice cream, but the kitchen was way too hot to play around with ice cream photography.

[Baselerd]

Nice work pjm!

[janeer]

Made some mini tarte tatins, which came out great. Served with a rocher of vanilla ice cream, but the kitchen was way too hot to play around with ice cream photography.

very appealing. What did you use to make these?

[cookalong]

Thank you,

I made it in a small tin I found in a kitchenware store. First pre-poached apples in caramel/butter/apple juice, sliced them in 4 pieces, put the pieces in the tin on top of some butter and sugar. Finally added some rolled out puff pastry on top.

[FrogPrincesse]

Inspired by a recent trip to San Francisco where I devoured delicious fruit tartlets at Frog Hollow Farm bakery, last weekend I made a couple of rustic tarts that I brought to picnics. Peach, and my favorite one (photo) which was nectarine-apricot.

Not using a tart pan is liberating. It makes the whole process so much faster.

[rotuts]

Stunning. I bet delicious too.

[FrogPrincesse]

Thanks rotuts. It disappeared in no time!

[janeer]

Thank you,

I made it in a small tin I found in a kitchenware store. First pre-poached apples in caramel/butter/apple juice, sliced them in 4 pieces, put the pieces in the tin on top of some butter and sugar. Finally added some rolled out puff pastry on top.

Thanks. Might work well with flan rings, too.

[Kerry Beal]

Not a totally appropriate place to post this - as I didn't make or bake it - however they were made by eG's Alleguede at Ma Maison in Etobicoke.

It was my pleasure to visit Rodney and Jess at their home the other night - and I came away with these two wonderful cakes -

Chocolate and hazelnut - I got a small taste before hubby tucked away the rest for his enjoyment.

Coconut and red fruit that I believe included strawberry - I enjoyed the lions share of this one - although I did take a couple of nice slices over to my father today - who at 94 has given in completely to his sweet tooth.

[Ashen]

maple bacon cupcakes my wife made this past saturday for a bbq party.. We only learned after the fact that Saturday , also happened to be

International Bacon Day.. Recipe is from southern living mag although she changed up a bit and maple syrup candied the bacon.

Edited September 3, 2013 by Ashen (log)

[Alleguede]

Yes sorry i gave you the cakes without defining :

- white one : yogurt mousse, wild strawberry cremeux, coconut sponge

- brown one : hazelnut praline mousse, Ghana milk chocolate ganache, roasted hazelnut dacquoise

Both cakes gluten free.

I hope they were good?

[Kerry Beal]

They were wonderful!

[Rozin Abbas]

Kerry, those cakes are stunners!

Oatmeal chocolate chip are my favourite cookies, so I gave Deb's recipe from Smitten Kitchen a go and it was pretty darn good. I appreciate that she uses twice as many oats as flour. Mind the poor ribbon job haha. I was trying to make it cute for a lady friend

[rotuts]

Oatmeal chocolate chip

looks good! Ill look up the Rx. how do you feel about adding toasted pecans? dried cranberries?

Yum!