Your Daily Sweets (2005-2012)

[Kerry Beal]

Fresh Ginger Cake - recipe by David Lebovitz. I couldn't find the cloves in my disorganized spice rack, so I added a touch of clove oil, meanwhile forgot to add the black pepper. But it smells awesome. I'll take it to work tomorrow and see how they like it.

David suggests serving it with lemon curd lightened with whipped cream.

[Anna N]

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David suggests serving it with lemon curd lightened with whipped cream.

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That looks so good and the idea of ginger cake with lemon curd is awesome!

[Kim Shook]

Sif - One year??? One year???????? I am banging my head against the keyboard as I type! Beautiful. I am so very, very impressed and jealous!

Mark - gorgeous pie and great photograghy! If eGullet had a brick and mortar institute, we would have the best photography school anywhere!

I made Randi's brownies:

We were blown away by these! The flavor was deep and rich and fantastic. I saw Randi's post yesterday morning at the crack of dawn and decided that I was making them. The only store in Richmond that I know of that sells Callebaut is closed on Sunday, so I used Valrhona. They were more a fudge cake than brownie, to me. They took about 50 minutes instead of 30 for me and when I saw them puff up on top, I thought I'd done something wrong, but looking closely at Randi's picture, I think hers do the same thing. I can wholeheartedly recommend this recipe. It was truly amazing!

Kim

[CaliPoutine]

I made Randi's brownies:

We were blown away by these!  The flavor was deep and rich and fantastic.  I saw Randi's post yesterday morning at the crack of dawn and decided that I was making them.  The only store in Richmond that I know of that sells Callebaut is closed on Sunday, so I used Valrhona.  They were more a fudge cake than brownie, to me.  They took about 50 minutes instead of 30 for me and when I saw them puff up on top,  I thought I'd done something wrong, but looking closely at Randi's picture, I think hers do the same thing.  I can wholeheartedly recommend this recipe.  It was truly amazing!

Kim

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I think thats why I liked them so much. I love cake, don't love brownies. I think whipped the eggs with the sugar plus the levener made them crack on top. Mine did too, btw. They were yummy.

[gfron1]

Amernick's Chocolate Babka - very light coffeecake dough with apricot and chocolate filling.

[eskay]

Carrot cake! With pineapple! And cream cheese icing! I packed all the pieces except this one up, and am going to take it to school with a bunch of containers to give to everyone I know so that I don't eat it all

[doughgirl]

Coffee and Chocolate Cupcakes-the cupcakes are just regular cupcakes (the Magnolia Bakery recipe) filled with chocolate ganache, soaked with coffee syrup and decorated with both coffee swiss meringue buttercream and chocolate ganache. Very yummy and very caffeinated. I was going to add a marbled chocolate covered espresso bean on top of each, but I ran out.

[DesertCulinary]

For the work treat this week I made the Crunchy Milk Chocolate–Peanut Butter Layer Cake from Nancy Olson (Via Food and Wine)

This was quite a moist and decadent cake with three layers of milk chocolate ganache! They were quite surprised with how much they loved the crunchy meringue/peanut/peanut butter/chocolate/Rice Krispie layer inside!

[CanadianBakin']

For the work treat this week I made the Crunchy Milk Chocolate–Peanut Butter Layer Cake from Nancy Olson (Via Food and Wine)

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That looks delicious! Do you think it would work with dark chocolate (~60%) instead of milk?

Edited November 22, 2007 by CanadianBakin' (log)

[sanrensho]

For the work treat this week I made the Crunchy Milk Chocolate–Peanut Butter Layer Cake from Nancy Olson (Via Food and Wine)

That looks fantastic, even more alluring than the photo in Food & Wine.

I have to ask though, did you make the recipe as written, and was it too sweet? The recipe above calls for 2 cups + 2 tbs sugar in the cake alone!

[jsmeeker]

For Thanksgiving.

A cranberry-apple pie. Recipe is from Cook's Illustrated. The pie dough is their dough that uses vodka. first time I have ever made this pie or used this dough. The dough was easy to work. Just used plenty of flour to roll it out. We'll see how it tastes. For now, while the pie cools, I will simply post pics of the the whole pie. After we dig into it later in the day, I'll take pics of a slice and come back and post it.

[CaliPoutine]

For the work treat this week I made the Crunchy Milk Chocolate–Peanut Butter Layer Cake from Nancy Olson (Via Food and Wine)

That looks fantastic, even more alluring than the photo in Food & Wine.

I have to ask though, did you make the recipe as written, and was it too sweet? The recipe above calls for 2 cups + 2 tbs sugar in the cake alone!

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I'm curious too, since I plan on making it for Robin's bday.

[sanrensho]

I'm curious too, since I plan on making it for Robin's bday.

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I'm leaning toward using the PH cocoa cake and a bittersweet ganache in place of the written recipe. That should offset the sweetness of the dacquoise/peanut butter filling.

[DesertCulinary]

That looks delicious! Do you think it would work with dark chocolate (~60%) instead of milk?

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I prefer dark chocolate, but in this cake I quite liked the milky sweetness paired against the rich cake.

I have to ask though, did you make the recipe as written, and was it too sweet? The recipe above calls for 2 cups + 2 tbs sugar in the cake alone!

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I didn't find it cloyingly sweet and from what I heard, the people who enjoyed it agreed. The saltiness from the chopped nuts and peanut butter did help to cut the sweetness, but yes, it was still quite sweet.

[Tri2Cook]

Top to bottom...

Chocolate-Morello Cherry Mousse

Flourless Chocolate Biscuit

Morello Cherry Mousse

Flourless Chocolate Biscuit

...sides sprayed with chocolate, topped with dejaq's dark mirror glaze from the demo, decorated with my first ever (so don't be too hard on me) attempt at sugar work. Caramelized dried cherries, sugar coil and spun sugar.

[CanadianBakin']

Top to bottom...

Chocolate-Morello Cherry Mousse

Flourless Chocolate Biscuit

Morello Cherry Mousse

Flourless Chocolate Biscuit

...sides sprayed with chocolate, topped with dejaq's dark mirror glaze from the demo, decorated with my first ever (so don't be too hard on me) attempt at sugar work. Caramelized dried cherries, sugar coil and spun sugar.

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It looks fantastic! I love chocolate and cherries.

[gfron1]

So beautiful! I was going to make the tear drop caramel for a project I'm working on. What was your technique (temps, proportions, etc)?

[Tri2Cook]

Rob, I wish I had a bunch of cool sounding technical info to share but the truth is I just boiled 2 cups of sugar and 1/2 cup of water until I got the color I wanted, dipped the bottom of the pan in cold water and went to work with it. For the cherries, I speared dried Bing cherries with bamboo skewers bent into an L-shape, dipped them and stuck the skewers under a heavy pan at the edge of a table and let them drip onto paper on the floor. I used the same pot of sugar for everything. I just let it cool until I could pull a strand from it and wrapped that around the metal handle of a whisk to make the coil. I wasn't as happy with the spun sugar, got some drops in there with the strands, but I was just using a regular dinner fork to throw the sugar between 2 wooden spoons.

[gfron1]

That's cool and technical enough for me - thanks!

[suzilightning]

for thanksgiving for john an apple strusel pie

and how he topped his - with vanilla toffuti. mine had sharp cheddar on it.

[Lior]

Nothing as artistic as all of yours, but yummy anyway...! A favorite in my house- no bake, fridge biscuit cake

and a slice :

Edited November 24, 2007 by Lior (log)

[jende]

Nothing as artistic as all of yours, but yummy anyway...! A favorite in my house- no bake, fridge biscuit cake

and a slice :

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Looks good. Can you give us details?

[John DePaula]

Top to bottom...

Chocolate-Morello Cherry Mousse

Flourless Chocolate Biscuit

Morello Cherry Mousse

Flourless Chocolate Biscuit

...sides sprayed with chocolate, topped with dejaq's dark mirror glaze from the demo, decorated with my first ever (so don't be too hard on me) attempt at sugar work. Caramelized dried cherries, sugar coil and spun sugar.

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You are just kidding me! That's gorgeous, Tri2Cook. And by the way, that's not tri-ing, that's pretty much do-ing!

[Tri2Cook]

Thanks for the kind words everybody. It's how I spent my b'day, cooking for somebody else. The cake was for a catering job I had on friday. I had some backup decorations made in case I couldn't get results I could live with using the sugar. I know... experimenting with something new on a customer's dime isn't nice but it's the vision I had for the cake so I had to at least try. I really enjoyed playing with the sugar, enough so that I ordered Notter's book and a few tools today. I'm not sure how far I'll get without a class but I'm going to give it a shot.

[RuthWells]

Top to bottom...

Chocolate-Morello Cherry Mousse

Flourless Chocolate Biscuit

Morello Cherry Mousse

Flourless Chocolate Biscuit

...sides sprayed with chocolate, topped with dejaq's dark mirror glaze from the demo, decorated with my first ever (so don't be too hard on me) attempt at sugar work. Caramelized dried cherries, sugar coil and spun sugar.

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Gorgeous! Color me green with envy.