Your Daily Sweets: What Are You Making and Baking? (2015)

[Franci]

Thanks Nancy, maybe Valentine's day helped. I normally don't buy strawberries in winter but what to do when a little girl asks for them for her birthday?

For today I made again the raspberry chocolate cake and the white chocolate cake. I made the chocolate cake using less bitter chocolate and a little more sugar to make it more palatable to children. The white chocolate cake is different than the one I made yesterday because it's a genoise, soaked with a simple syrup, plus strawberry purée, some freeze dried strawberry powder and juice of a lemon. The filling is a strawberry ganache mixed with slightly whipped cream. The job didn't really looked professional but I'm very pleased anyway, the taste was very good and I liked them.

[Kim Shook]

Franci – your cakes are absolutely lovely!

 

I did Valentine’s cupcakes to share with family, friends and neighbors:

 

 

 

 

The yellow ones are from a sugar-free mix for the diabetics in my life.  

[Darienne]

Kim, you are an angel on earth to make stuff for your friends, co-workers, neighbors, etc all the time.  Such a generous nature you have.

[emmalish]

Darienne, I'm a member of the Kim Shook fan club too! I'm always blown away by her posts. I would love to just hang out in her kitchen one day! 

[Dave W]

Figured it was fine time to bake up some more morning buns today

 

[rajoress]

Love those cakes, cupcakes and buns posted! Here's a pic of my birthday cake, I make my own every year but still have to please certain children in my family! Four layer chocolate cake with cream filling, buttercream, covered in chocolate coating so it's like a big snack cake! My birthday is on valentine's day so I've been using these same heart pans for a long time!

Thanks for looking!

Ruth

[gfron1]

Of course I'm making King Cakes today!

[jmacnaughtan]

Of course I'm making King Cakes today!

 

Those do not look greasy enough to be king cakes

[Thanks for the Crepes]

They look great, though!

 

I'd eat 'em.

[Kim Shook]

Darienne and Emmalish – thank you so much for the nice comments!

 

Dave – is your morning bun recipe from Cook’s Country?  That’s the one that I’ve tried and I didn’t get the beautiful rise that you got.  Those are gorgeous!

 

Ruth – Happy Birthday to you!

[Dave W]

Kim the recipe is just puff pastry I made with 56% hydrated bread flour, half milk, instant yeast and plugra with a sugar/cinnamon filling. They proof about an hour before baking after rolling and cutting.

[Matthew Kirshner]

I was trying out this cake design that i have had customers asked about, Rosette Cake:  Chocolate cake, Vanilla buttercream in three different shades of pink.  Not too bad for the first time.  Like my chefs before use to tell me, pratice make you better

[emmalish]

Gorgeous cake, Matthew!

[Shelby]

Salted peanut and pistachio pie

 

 

[Smithy]

Shelby, is that like a pecan pie (corn syrup etc. filling) with different nuts? It looks tasty and rich.

[jmacnaughtan]

It'd been a while since I made a properly old-fashioned Viennese-style cake.

 

 

So I made a Sachertorte.

[RWood]

little late for Valentine's day, but this is the dessert sampler I offered for the weekend.

Chocolate Pot de Creme, Red Velvet Macarons, and Passion Fruit Meringue Tarts.

I'm always trying to come up with some new ice creams because I have to make so much, and I can get bored making the same ones .

So, I did buttered popcorn as the base and then added caramel peanut popcorn. If you don't use the bad for you microwave popcorn in the base, you can't get enough flavor. I used freshly popped with my own butter and sea salt, and decided it needed more so I add the caramel corn.

The other, Raspberry Pinot Chocolate Chip. I'm still patting myself on the back for this one . It is so good.

[Anna N]

Oh my. Can't say as I generally get excited over desserts but oh my! Raspberry Pinot chocolate chip…Beautiful.

[ninagluck]

for tomorrows breakfast in the office I baked a brioche.

[Shelby]

Shelby, is that like a pecan pie (corn syrup etc. filling) with different nuts? It looks tasty and rich.

It's exactly like that.  I didn't have any dark corn syrup so I used light....I don't know if it made any difference.   I had been wanting to try this recipe.  It's called Salty Peanut Pie.  When I opened my can of peanuts I discovered that I had dumped a whole bunch of pistachios in there...soooooo....it became peanut pistachio pie lol.

[rotuts]

Wow

 

that's quite the top on the B.

 

!!!!

[ninagluck]

hihi, the "head" is a bit too big, but my guys will still like it I hope ;-)

[Franci]

I made a simple cake with heavy cream (that I needed to finish) instead of butter and Added some finely chopped candied orange peel and some grated white chocolate to the batter

[Ann_T]

 

Butter Tarts

 

Raspberry Tart

[oli]

 What a bunch of lovely postings

Edited February 25, 2015 by oli (log)