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

[pjm333]

Chocolate Espresso Torte !

[jmacnaughtan]

Chocolate Espresso Torte !

Looks great- what's the veil you've put over it? Is it white chocolate?

[pjm333]

jmacnaughtan,

Its a White Chocolate Plastic the I spray it with a chocolate cocoa butter mix. Thank you !

[pquinene]

Chocolate Espresso Torte !

That looks sooo cool!

[pquinene]

I had to use up a couple of cans of coconut milk and solid pack pumpkin which are necessary for making buchi buchi -- Guam's version of fried pumpkin turnover. I ran out of filling so I opted to use whatever I had on hand -- cream cheese with jam, and ricotta cheese with ham-egg-and-cheddar. I don't know how the cream cheese and ricotta will hold up in the fryer, but I guess I'll see whenever I cook them -- maybe today. The fried pumpkin turnover picture is from a previous batch:

Guam buchi buchi

Miscellaneous pies -- jam and cream cheese

Ricotta with ham, cheddar cheese, and eggs

Edited January 29, 2014 by pquinene (log)

[Kim Shook]

Ruth – I love the sharp edges on your Christmas cookies (post #391). Do you share the recipe?

Patrick – your desserts are gorgeous! How in the world did you pipe that chocolate cream pie?

Lovely work, y’all!

BBC mini eclairs/cream puffs for a friend’s tea:

Vanilla bean custard and a 10x glaze.

Inside:

These were absolutely delicious, but the eclairs were just too small to fill with custard, so I’ll make only cream puffs from now on.

Jessica’s family birthday celebration – Happy 30th!!! She requested cheesecake:

Served with caramel apple and blueberry lemon toppings.

[pjm333]

Kim,

Thank you, I use a st honore tip.. Every pie is similar but different, I pipe 2 lines of whipped cream then 2 or 3 of chocolate whipped cream.

Patrick

[judiu]

Kim, I read a hint in a church cookbook just today, if you dip your cookie cutter in warm oil, it will cut sharper lines!

[DianaM]

Mmm, eclairs! Haven't had one in ages, but I would love one now. Or ten.

Passion fruit curd and vanilla bean swiss meringue-filled macs.

[pquinene]

Mmm, eclairs! Haven't had one in ages, but I would love one now. Or ten.

Passion fruit curd and vanilla bean swiss meringue-filled macs.

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Those are beautiful macarons!

[pquinene]

My son kept asking me to make walnut sandies. After breakfast this morning, I had a couple of them, and remembered why they are so dangerous to have in the house -- it was hard to stop at just a few.

Walnut sandies

Edited February 1, 2014 by pquinene (log)

[Kerry Beal]

Mmm, eclairs! Haven't had one in ages, but I would love one now. Or ten.

Passion fruit curd and vanilla bean swiss meringue-filled macs.

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They are so perfect!

[Anna N]

Carrot cake. Half will go to my daughter and family and the other half to my son's home. Since nobody cares for icing it is easy-peasy.

[DianaM]

They are so perfect!

Ha! The ones that look like a french beret did not make it into the picture!

[emmalish]

Carrot cake. Half will go to my daughter and family and the other half to my son's home. Since nobody cares for icing it is easy-peasy.

Whaaaat?? But the cream cheese icing is the best part of a carrot cake!

[rajoress]

Posted 30 January 2014 - 04:15 PM

Ruth – I love the sharp edges on your Christmas cookies (post #391). Do you share the recipe?

Kim - the credit for this wonderful shortbread cookie goes to King Arthur Flour. It is their "holiday cutout cookie" recipe that can be found on their site. I just used it to make valentines day cookies and it is a winner every time.

Love all your baking pics! :-)

Ruth

[pjm333]

Carrot Cake !

[pjm333]

Pineapple Panna Cotta with Kiwi gelee & white chocolate mousse.

[Alleguede]

Cacao Barry demo last week.

[Kerry Beal]

Cacao Barry demo last week.

Love the little flowers! What are the flavours?

[Alleguede]

The brown one is caramel, Ochoa mousse and semi candied apricot and chocolate sponge (recipe from Ramon morato, with a twist)

The other one is my valentines day, pistachio crunchy sponge, griotte compote and inaya dark chocolate mousse.

[Kerry Beal]

What is Ochoa?

[DianaM]

What is Ochoa?

I am not Alleguede, but I think he meant Ocoa, one of the new single origins from Cacao Barry, made with their Q-fermentation method.

Edited February 6, 2014 by DianaM (log)

[Kerry Beal]

I'll bet you are right - I searched ochoa cocao barry and got nothing - which would explain why!

[Panaderia Canadiense]

Oh, and if you've got Spanish set as an alternate language in your browser, it will autocorrect Ocoa to Ochoa (the latter is a last name.)

Those are beautiful, Alleguede! I may steal some of your decoration ideas for the upcoming Valentine's cheesecake orgy that is my baking life...