Your Daily Sweets: What Are You Making and Baking? (2017 – )

[TdeV]

Oh yum, Shai! Recipe, please?

 

[shain]

13 hours ago, TdeV said:

Oh yum, Shai! Recipe, please?

 

 

Sure:

 

 

[trisme11]

Made an entremet for a get together/baby announcement over the weekend .

 

Mirror Glaze

White chocolate mousse

Strawberry confit

Strawberry cremeux

Raspberry Madeleine 

 

I'll probably switch out the Madeleine for something else next time. Still delicious 😋 

[jmacnaughtan]

8 hours ago, trisme11 said:

Made an entremet for a get together/baby announcement over the weekend .

 

Mirror Glaze

White chocolate mousse

Strawberry confit

Strawberry cremeux

Raspberry Madeleine 

 

I'll probably switch out the Madeleine for something else next time. Still delicious 😋 

Nicely done! I find that madeleine and other buttery sponge layers freeze badly. Maybe try a financier next time? They're fairly forgiving.

[jmacnaughtan]

Something of a tart-making spree this weekend - more desserts in three days than I've been making all year. Here are two of the better ones:

 

Apricot and milk chocolate

 

Pâte sucrée

Apricot confit

Financier

Milk chocolate and apricot crémeux

Dried apricot pieces

 

 

Chocolate, orange and hazelnut

 

Pâte sucrée

Chocolate orange curd

Toasted hazelnuts

Candied bergamot

 

 

This one was the most successful - I love my chocolate orange curd recipe 😍

Edited June 14, 2022 by jmacnaughtan (log)

[trisme11]

4 hours ago, jmacnaughtan said:

Nicely done! I find that madeleine and other buttery sponge layers freeze badly. Maybe try a financier next time? They're fairly forgiving.

Thank you!

Yes I usually do but wanted to try something different. It wasn't bad just too thick for my liking. I might try a less thicker version next time or just go back to my usual

[MaryIsobel]

10 hours ago, jmacnaughtan said:

Something of a tart-making spree this weekend - more desserts in three days than I've been making all year. Here are two of the better ones:

 

Apricot and milk chocolate

 

Pâte sucrée

Apricot confit

Financier

Milk chocolate and apricot crémeux

Dried apricot pieces

 

 

Chocolate, orange and hazelnut

 

Pâte sucrée

Chocolate orange curd

Toasted hazelnuts

Candied bergamot

 

 

This one was the most successful - I love my chocolate orange curd recipe 😍

Chocolate orange curd sounds heavenly. Care to share your recipe?

[jmacnaughtan]

10 hours ago, MaryIsobel said:

Chocolate orange curd sounds heavenly. Care to share your recipe?

 

Sure, no problem! Here you go.

[shain]

Blintzes with strawberry cream cheese filling.

 

 

[shain]

Blintzes filled with farmers cheese, lemon zest, vanilla and raisins.

I wanted to brulee it, but couldn't find the torch I'm sure is laying somewhere.  So I ended up grilling them. Not exactly the same result, but still tasty.

[Darienne]

4 hours ago, shain said:

Blintzes filled with farmers cheese, lemon zest, vanilla and raisins.

I wanted to brulee it, but couldn't find the torch I'm sure is laying somewhere.  So I ended up grilling them. Not exactly the same result, but still tasty.

YES!!!

[kayb]

Bought blackberries at the farmers market today. There will be blackberry cobbler tomorrow!

[kayb]

The aforementioned blackberry cobbler.

 

Lunch.

 

[Shelby]

44 minutes ago, kayb said:

The aforementioned blackberry cobbler.

 

Lunch.

 

That looks sublime.

[kayb]

3 hours ago, Shelby said:

That looks sublime.

It pretty much was. If I do say so myownself.

[Shelby]

1 minute ago, kayb said:

It pretty much was. If I do say so myownself.

Where is the jealous button

[kayb]

5 minutes ago, Shelby said:

Where is the jealous button

Come on down. I got leftovers. And lots of ice cream. Pie warms well in the microwave.

[Shelby]

3 minutes ago, kayb said:

Come on down. I got leftovers. And lots of ice cream. Pie warms well in the microwave.

I would scare you half to death.....hair not done since pandemic....I look like a wild woman lol but thanks  🤗

[kayb]

Y’know, it’d be awright. I went to church this morning. Was getting ready, brushed my hair, and looked to grab makeup. Thought, “Nah, I can’t be bothered.”

 

Went ahead on.

[shain]

Mango coconut smoothie-sorbet.

 

 

[RWood]

Pound cake. Tried a new recipe that starts in a cold oven. Came out very nice. 

[Kim Shook]

On 6/25/2022 at 4:41 PM, RWood said:

Pound cake. Tried a new recipe that starts in a cold oven. Came out very nice. 

That is a beautiful looking cake!  Pound cake is one of my very favorite cakes and I sometimes have trouble with it - specifically I have tended in the past to get a crust that rises up off the cake and has to be pulled off.  Not a huge deal when  that becomes the bottom, but looks bad in a loaf cake.  Many years ago (2006) @shaloop gave me a recipe that helped alleviate that - partially by not preheating the oven.  The theory was that not getting that initial "lift" helped avoid the raised up crust.  Does that make sense to you?

[RWood]

8 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

That is a beautiful looking cake!  Pound cake is one of my very favorite cakes and I sometimes have trouble with it - specifically I have tended in the past to get a crust that rises up off the cake and has to be pulled off.  Not a huge deal when  that becomes the bottom, but looks bad in a loaf cake.  Many years ago (2006) @shaloop gave me a recipe that helped alleviate that - partially by not preheating the oven.  The theory was that not getting that initial "lift" helped avoid the raised up crust.  Does that make sense to you?

There was a little bit of that on one side. Not sure why one side, could be from the convection oven. But, I thought it was from a little bit of over creaming. My butter was really soft when I got around to making it, and I use a scraper paddle. While it needs to be very light and fluffy to help with the texture and lift, mine may have been beaten a little too long. I've not had that problem though with a loaf or pound cake before. Weird. 

[shain]

Made a smoothie of mangoes and a little coconut cream, pandan extract, ginger, brown sugar, rose water, cinnamon.

[AlaMoi]

local peaches are coming in.  these are smallish not freestone but WOW they be good.