Your Daily Sweets: What Are You Making and Baking? (2015 – 2016)

[LindaK]

Franci,

Now you "just" need to write a cookbook. I actually don't have much of a sweet tooth, but I always want some of whatever baked goods you post here.

 

Best of luck with your business.

[Shelby]

Franci, I'm wowed!  Each cake looks perfect.  One can tell that you really enjoy what you do  .  When you start selling over the internet, I'll be your first order.

[Kerry Beal]

I have had the good fortune to try Franci's cakes - she brought some for Anna and I when she was in Toronto last year. Gotta say - they were fabulous! I was particularly taken by the limoncello cake. 

[Franci]

23 hours ago, LindaK said:

Franci,

Now you "just" need to write a cookbook. I actually don't have much of a sweet tooth, but I always want some of whatever baked goods you post here.

 

Best of luck with your business.

 

Ah, ah, that's what my husband says. Linda, I honesty don't have a very sweet tooth myself and irony of it, of course it that in cooking school pastry was dread station

20 hours ago, Shelby said:

Franci, I'm wowed!  Each cake looks perfect.  One can tell that you really enjoy what you do  .  When you start selling over the internet, I'll be your first order.

 

Shelby, you are really such a nice person!

 

8 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:

I have had the good fortune to try Franci's cakes - she brought some for Anna and I when she was in Toronto last year. Gotta say - they were fabulous! I was particularly taken by the limoncello cake. 

 

Huge thank you, to you and Anna! You helped me so much.

[Vlcatko]

No idea what to call this, probably marzipan semolina cake? I tried to figure out how to replicate one of my favorite bought desserts (very cheap, very full of not so nice ingredients, covered in a very nasty "chocolate" I always cut off but sooo good...) and based on the texture and flavor profile, I combined several recipes for marzipan (flavor) and semolina (texture) cakes...

 

Served with warm berries and extra thick double cream:

 

I found out three things:

1) I need a better pan - this one is too big/wide

2) I really need to read the manual to my new oven - I thought I was baking the cake at 175°C for 40 minutes while I was just "resting" it in the slowly cooling oven (by setting the timer I somehow turned off the heating and didn't notice until 35 minutes in). The cake was still edible but I think the rise/texture suffered.

3) The semolina I used was maybe a bit too coarse, next time i will try to use half of this grind and half of a finer one. (I liked it very much with the coarse one but if I want to come as close to the original as possible I need a bit finer structure, I think.)

[Panaderia Canadiense]

Of all my clients, I think I like the kids the best.  Ollie is turning 10 today, and he's a wonderful little Star Wars fanboy already.  This is an orange spice cake under the orange-flavoured fondant, with a hidden core of mocha IMBC in bombé style.

 

 

Yes, I realize I'm severely mixing my trilogies.

 

Yes, those are gumpaste Tie-Fighter candle-holders.

 

And yes, I just had to do the planet-killer death-ray pyrotechnics test for myself….

Edited February 8, 2016 by Panaderia Canadiense
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[Thanks for the Crepes]

@Panaderia Canadiense

 

The community you supply with your amazing creations is certainly a lucky one!

 

Your artistic attention to detail is quite amazing. Pyrotechnics! 

 

Even if his/her cake tasted like plastic, which I'm sure it definitely does not, Ollie will be one thrilled happy camper. Every child aspires to a cake made especially for them by the talented PanaCan.

[Panaderia Canadiense]

3 hours ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:

Even if his/her cake tasted like plastic, which I'm sure it definitely does not, Ollie will be one thrilled happy camper. Every child aspires to a cake made especially for them by the talented PanaCan.

 

He was there when I did the delivery - and he was dressed like Darth Maul and jumping up and down for joy.  I exceeded his expectations, no mean feat when those were set by last year's Smaug the Dragon cake.

[Kim Shook]

Franci – your cakes are gorgeous!  I hope your business is very successful.  I wish that I was close enough to buy some!

 

Elizabeth – I’m just stunned at the cakes that you are turning out.  Amazing!

 

 

Jessica’s birthday dessert was Coca-Cola chocolate cake with chocolate icing:

That is some DARK icing!  I used some cocoa that I bought when we were in Indiana last year.  It was called black cocoa.  I think it must be similar to what they use to make Oreos!  I topped it with dulce de leche and toasted hazelnuts.  Slice:

One of our favorite cakes.

 

I made Tin Roof Brownie bars (minus the nuts) for one of Mr. Kim’s co-workers:

[rotuts]

KS

 

Ill be over soon

 

Please same my " Many slices "

 

cheers

[ChocoMom]

Franci...your cakes are beyond beautiful! Your business is sure to be a phenomenal success!!

 

PanCan....That cake a AMAZING!  My nephews would kill for that! 

 

Kim....That cake, those brownies....there are no words. Just me, drooling on the computer keyboard again.

 

I've been working on too many chocolate orders to have much time for baking goodies. I finally managed to get some bread dough made yesterday, only to throw it into the oven without allowing it time to rise. Thankfully, hubby and kids weren't too discriminating last night at dinner, and they happily devoured that brick/bread.

[con delight]

I love making sweets so this is my kind of post :-)

lately I made so many desserts, but the last one is marshmallow treats with chocolate pudding cake.

[con delight]

And another one, especially for chocolate lovers

[Panaderia Canadiense]

@Kim Shook - That cake is making me drool on the keyboard.  And I know the cocoa you're talking about - it's the non-Dutched kind.  The omission of the alkalization step in the processing of black cocoa is what allows it to take on its natural deep colour.  (Incidentally, this is the only type of cocoa I use.)

[Norm Matthews]

Everyone's sweets looks delicious. . For the past 5 or 6 years, around mid February, I have made a Chocolate Raspberry Torte (last years effort shown last picture) but it was really really rich so I thought I'd try this Chocolate Cloud Cake this year.  Both are flourless cakes.

 

 

 

Edited February 12, 2016 by Norm Matthews (log)

[cakewalk]

Both cakes look great, Norm. Is this year's cake less rich than the previous one? They both look pretty high on the richness scale! (BTW - I have never understood what people mean when they say something is "too rich.")

[Norm Matthews]

Haha. Cassie said essentially the same thing about "too rich" not being a problem for her.  It did seem less rich but it might have been because the torte had raspberry jam and the cake had whipped cream.  Also I always made the torte with Dutch Cocoa and the cake was made with melted chocolate chips and that made it seem (to me anyway) less "chocolatey" if that is a word.  I think next year I'll go back to the torte. "Rich" has its merits. 

[Shelby]

Had blueberries leftover from my Super Bowl cheesecake so I made blueberry muffins.  Recipe called for 2 cups of berries......I think I had at least 3 cups to use...they are very blueberry-y.

 

[cakewalk]

Alice Medrich's sesame seed cake (x 2). One for the freezer, the other for friends tomorrow. Possibly my all-time favorite cake.

[shain]

Today's brunch was s sweet noodle kugel. This style of kugel is called "Jerusalem kugel". It's usually made much larger, but I was only feeding a few people.

Made a dark caramel, added butter (it is usually dairy free, but I prefer butter over oil), cooked egg noodles, eggs, almonds, cinnamon, dry ginger, plenty of black pepper and a fair amount of salt. Baked, in a low oven all night long in a tightly sealed pot so keep the moisture inside. Then served warm with some tart and slightly sweet cornichons. The long bake gives it this signature brown color and flavor.

Edited February 13, 2016 by shain (log)

[blue_dolphin]

1 hour ago, shain said:

served warm with some tart and slightly sweet cornichons

 

Very interesting to serve the sweet kugel with tart pickles.  Brings to mind childhood memories of sugar on snow (maple syrup, boiled so it will form taffy-like threads when swirled on the snow), always served with super tart pickles! 

Edited February 13, 2016 by blue_dolphin (log)

[RWood]

Yeesh, I'm beginning to hate holidays from working in a restaurant.Two wedding cakes, extra production, Valentine's special, and we'll probably do 1800 covers from Friday-Sunday with extended hours. 

Anyway :), here's the special-Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cake 

 

[Franci]

Talking about noodles in desserts, this is from Emilia-Romagna: torta di tagliatelle 

 

 

[Kim Shook]

Thank you so much for the nice comments!  I seem to be on a chocolate theme lately! 

 

Shelby – I always add at least half again as many blueberries are a recipe calls for.  I also top muffins with a few berries – I think it looks extra pretty. 

 

Made a cake mix fix-up chocolate pound cake for our church annual meeting potluck on Sunday:

This was the first time I used my pan that Mike got me for Christmas and I was nervous.  But I sprayed it with Pam and dust it HEAVILY with cocoa and it came right out!  With chocolate glaze:

[Thanks for the Crepes]

10 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

Thank you so much for the nice comments!  I seem to be on a chocolate theme lately! 

 

Made a cake mix fix-up chocolate pound cake for our church annual meeting potluck on Sunday:

 

This was the first time I used my pan that Mike got me for Christmas and I was nervous.  But I sprayed it with Pam and dust it HEAVILY with cocoa and it came right out!  With chocolate glaze:

 

 

Kim,

 

Your cake came out looking beautiful!

 

Also I don't know why I never thought to use cocoa for dusting the pan instead of flour for a chocolate cake. Thanks for the tip.

 

It gives me more confidence to use the Nordic Ware holiday bundt pan my nephew gave me for Christmas. I think your pattern is much more nervousness-inducing than mine, but if yours worked, mine should be a cakewalk.