Your Daily Sweets (2005-2012)

[Lior]

I agree. My old fashioned banana cake is a loaf with no icing...That is FANCY~

[AmritaBala]

I agree. My old fashioned banana cake is a loaf with no icing...That is FANCY~

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Hehe....Lol!

Could my excuse be that I like cream cheese?

[Tri2Cook]

I'll take a dozen donuts, half a dozen cupcakes, a piece of chocolate cake with buttercream, a piece of ginger cheesecake and a huge chunk of that banana pecan cake... and a diet pepsi.

jackfruit gelee, honeydew in vanilla syrup, caramelized rice crispy disc, jackfruit-cardamom mousse

[gfron1]

That's a lot of fun - was it good? Was there any of the jackfruit smell or just taste?

[AmritaBala]

Tri2Cook....make that a diet coke for me =op

Wow, your "emotion" desserts really does look like it came out of a Pierre Herme outlet!

[Brigid Mary]

Wow, guys! Everything looks so amazing...but those donuts are calling me!

Here's what I've made lately

Vanilla cake with sweet pastry cream, chocolate ganache and chocolate buttercream.

(picture is after it was in the fridge)

Chocolate pound cake with cheesecake filling and chocolate streusel with very finely chopped almonds.

Kit Kat cake- chocolate cake filled with chocolate buttercream, crushed KitKat bars and topped with chocolate fudge icing.

Kit kats "glued" on the outside with more buttercream.

Edited April 12, 2008 by Brigid Mary (log)

[CaliPoutine]

Brigid Mary,

Is the pound cake a Carole Walter recipe?

It looks great!!

Meyer Lemon CreamCheese Pound Cake. I met an Eg member in Florida last month and she gave me the biggest meyer lemons I'd ever seen. These looked like grapefruits!!

Edited April 12, 2008 by CaliPoutine (log)

[Tri2Cook]

That's a lot of fun - was it good?  Was there any of the jackfruit smell or just taste?

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None of the rotten exterior smell because only canned jackfruit is available here (which is fine with me, I didn't really want to deal with the smell and glue involved with cutting up the fresh ones for this project anyway). That slightly musky interior smell is there but at a lower level than the fruit on it's own. It went over very well with those who tried it, for me personally it was a bit too sweet. Maybe something more tart or spicy than the melon with vanilla next time to balance things better.

[Brigid Mary]

Brigid Mary,

Is the pound cake a Carole Walter recipe?

It looks great!!

Meyer Lemon CreamCheese Pound Cake.  I met an Eg member in Florida last month and she gave me the biggest meyer lemons I'd ever seen.  These looked like grapefruits!!

The batter for the chocolate pound cake is the batter from Carole's "black and white pound cake" but I made all the batter chocolate instead of half, and added the cheesecake filling. That's her chocolate streusel. I'm very obsessed with her recipes and how easy it is to play around with them.

That pound cake looks so good! I may have to make that one now.

[David Ross]

Last night, Devil's Food Cake with Chocolate Creme Anglaise, Chocolated Malt Ice Cream:

[SanaaSol]

ginger cheesecake with a chocolate crust and chocolate bamboo leaves

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WOW! Just...wow.

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I'll second that! Beautiful...

[AmritaBala]

Brigid Mary, I love love love your kit kat cake! Did the kit kats go soggy after a while? My wafers which I used last time did....But I guess the chocolate coating on the kit kats protects it..?

Last night, Devil's Food Cake with Chocolate Creme Anglaise, Chocolated Malt Ice Cream:

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David, Awesome as usual! You never fail to impress.

[Renka]

Wowee to everyone here and all their impressive creations! To take things down a couple notches, here are some simple cookies that I baked up last week.

I'm experimenting with a number of recipes (mainly an orange theme) for a large project in mid-May.

Orange Icebox Cookies with Sliced Almonds

Pichet Ong's Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

Spiced Sesame Orange Florentines with Sliced Almonds & Fleur de Sel before the chocolate drizzle

and after the 72% dark chocolate drizzle.

[Brigid Mary]

Renka, those cookies look amazing! Especially the last ones!!

Chocolate chip cookies pie, with substitute chocolate chips made with a crusty fudge icing piped and frozen. (I have no chocolate chips and no money )

Frozen Ricotta Cream Pie with Caramel Sauce

Iced cake brownies (too cakey for me, I wanted a brownie, not cake!)

Deformed chocolate chip cookies, with substitute chocolate chips

Pecan Upside down cake with fluffly cream cheese frosting

The frosting was so light and fluffy, tasted almost like Cinnabon!

[shaloop]

Deformed chocolate chip cookies, with substitute chocolate chips

Deformed or not, they look delicious. Do you mind sharing the recipe?

[shaloop]

The thread on Hot Milk Sponge Cake got me thinking about what to do with my strawberries. This was dessert a couple of days ago.

[Brigid Mary]

Deformed chocolate chip cookies, with substitute chocolate chips

Deformed or not, they look delicious. Do you mind sharing the recipe?

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No problem! The recipe is here, along with my first time making them.

[Lior]

Hmmm. The frozen ricotta pie! The screen stops me from getting to it! All I get is cold and static-y glass!

[insomniac]

Hmmm. The frozen ricotta pie! The screen stops me from getting to it! All I get is cold and static-y glass!

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I share your pain

[David Ross]

Last night I did two desserts from the "Traditional British Cooking" cookbook. I wanted to do two fruit desserts with fresh, clean "Spring" flavors to follow a dinner of Chicken with Morels and Asparagus.

Of course, I couldn't just settle for using the recipe exactly as it is written in the book. Instead of serving the Syllabub on its own in a glass or bowl, I spooned it into a tartlet made with a Shortbread crust.

The second dessert is Cranberry Jelly with Raspberries and Cream. You cook the cranberry juice with spices before chilling it. I changed the spice mixture in the recipe by using star anise instead of the cinnamon and clove called for in the recipe. You also add fresh ginger to the juice as it cooks. The jelly was pretty tangy, almost too much so, but it was a nice counter balance to the sweetness and richness of the syllabub.

Orange Syllabub with Cranberry Jelly and Raspberry:

[mukki]

Pichet Ong's Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

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How were the Pichet Ong cookies? Could you taste the coconut?

[Kim Shook]

I made a version of Brigid Mary’s Kit Kat cake. I, like Brigid, made it for a friend’s birthday celebration and it was a great success! I used the CI recipe for German chocolate cake for the cake and CakeLove chocolate Italian Meringue Buttercream for the filling and frosting (I put chopped Kit Kat bars in the filling, too, like Brigid). Thanks so much for posting that cake, Brigid – this was a fun cake to make and to serve – everyone was impressed:

[Simonne]

Kim, I love your Kit Kat 's Cake!

Here are my recent baking

Sponge Cupcake

Perfection Pound Cake

Zebra Cake

Pandan Chiffon

Chocolate Tart

Lemon Cotton Cheesecake

(1st Attempt)

(2nd Attempt)

[Brigid Mary]

I made a version of Brigid Mary’s Kit Kat cake.  I, like Brigid, made it for a friend’s birthday celebration and it was a great success!  I used the CI recipe for German chocolate cake for the cake and CakeLove chocolate Italian Meringue Buttercream for the filling and frosting (I put chopped Kit Kat bars in the filling, too, like Brigid).  Thanks so much for posting that cake, Brigid – this was a fun cake to make and to serve – everyone was impressed:

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Kim, the cake looks awesome, I love how you did the top!

I really want some of that zebra cake!

Edited May 4, 2008 by Brigid Mary (log)

[CaliPoutine]

Kim,

The kit kat cakes looks so good. I can totally taste it having just made the CI german chocolate cake. What a great idea to use a different frosting. The frosting looks so light and fluffy. I really should try an Italian Meringue Buttercream again. I've only made one once and it was great, but I'm always intimidated by hot sugar syrup!!