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Your Daily Sweets (2005-2012)

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Tri2Cook

Tri2Cook

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Lemon Meringue...

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lemon curd ice cream - baked meringue crumble - graham cracker crust puree - graham cracker crust powder - poached meringues - lemon curd

It's kinda like wrestling a gorilla... you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired.

Dane_B

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Been lurking a while and finally decided to start sharing some of my stuff. Mango-chile sorbet I made last night served in an absinthe glass. It kept melting while I was remembering how to use my camera, hence the ice.

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Dane_B

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Thanks.

Great mango flavor and just the right amount of heat. There's something about cold, spicy things that I love.

Tri2Cook

Tri2Cook

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Here's a flourless chocolate cake I made today with a chocolate mirror glaze and it felt grand enough to deserve a big sheet of gold!

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Nice glaze Rob. I have to confess to never having worked with gold sheets, it is a nice look against chocolate but I guess I'm too cheap. :biggrin:

It's kinda like wrestling a gorilla... you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired.

Tri2Cook

Tri2Cook

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There's something about cold, spicy things that I love.

So do I... hot, spicy things too for that matter. Nice looking sorbet, nice flavor combo. Did you use habanero? I love the fruity flavor of habs.

It's kinda like wrestling a gorilla... you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired.

Dane_B

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There's something about cold, spicy things that I love.

So do I... hot, spicy things too for that matter. Nice looking sorbet, nice flavor combo. Did you use habanero? I love the fruity flavor of habs.

It was just pureed mango, Absolut Peppar, cayenne pepper, lime juice, and sugar. The whole pepper thing was kind of spur of the moment and that was what I had. I'm going to have to try something with habanero though.

Dane_B

Dane_B

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I'm on a mission to perfect a pie crust. I rendered my own leaf lard and everything for these. It still needs a little fine tuning but the crust turned out really well.

Pluot Pie

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Plum and Pluot Strusel Pie

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Here's a slice of the above pie:

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I also made a Tourte aux Blettes for dinner using the same dough

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A slice of the Tourte

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Sorry for the big post but I was busy and I wanted to share.

tafkap4d

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mini cupcakes! We are having a wine tasting this coming Saturday and serving "finger"/bit size food and I'm trying out a new cupcake recipe.

Whoever said that man cannot live by bread alone...simply did not know me.
hummingbirdkiss

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MAGNIFICANT DANE!!! AWESOME JOB!!!! I am looking for my piece and do not see it anywhere????

I'm on a mission to perfect a pie crust.  I rendered my own leaf lard and everything for these.  It still needs a little fine tuning but the crust turned out really well.

Pluot Pie

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Plum and Pluot Strusel Pie

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Here's a slice of the above pie:

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I also made a Tourte aux Blettes for dinner using the same dough

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A slice of the Tourte

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Sorry for the big post but I was busy and I wanted to share.

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David Ross

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Fall is my favorite time of year. Why? Because this is the time of year where the fruit of the Northwest is at its peak-Apples, Pears, Peaches and yes, the King of all Northwest berries-the Huckleberry.

I've posted a piece about Huckleberries in the New York-Cooking forum, but I wanted to share three Huckleberry sweets with the fine bakers in this topic.

Hope you enjoy:

Open-Face Huckleberry Tart-

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Pear Brown Betty with Huckleberry Ice Cream-

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The most delicious pie known to this man, Huckleberry Pie-

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CanadianBakin'

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Our daughters had their 6th birthday last month and each requested a very different cake which was neat because what they chose reflected their personalities quite well.

Here's Lauren and her whimsical cake.

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And here's Katie with my second attempt at fondant.

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As well as a front view:

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Not perfect by any means but I was quite happy with the result.

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jayhay

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Everyone's baking looks delicious!

CanadianBakin' , your girls are very lucky to have a mommy willing to make them each a beautiful cake of their own. Love the happy look on their pretty faces!

Lior

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Gorgeous!!! I love it. They are so adorable (the girls) I love Katie's cake and I just know that my girls, when they were that age would both want Lauren's!!! :biggrin:

My eldest, now 25 threatened to run away from home when she was 4 if I didn't allow her to make her daddy's bday cake pink and purple!! She even packed a sack and then I put it on the end of a broomstick and showed her how to hold it. I thought it was fun but she was insulted!! Of course, I said sorry and hugged her, and she got a pink and purple cake for her bday as I couldn't let in to bribery!! :laugh:

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Tri2Cook

Tri2Cook

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Peach Pie

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warm spiced peaches - vanilla ice cream mousse - brown butter and sucanat shortbread

The peaches were cooked with sucanat, star anise, cinnamon stick, vanilla bean, a squeeze of orange juice and a pinch of salt. The mousse is a vanilla ice cream base made with milk, sugar, egg yolk, a pinch of salt and vanilla. Some gelatin was dissolved in then whipped cream folded in. The "crust" is the shortbread. I'm very happy with the flavor, I'm going to work on the plating a bit. There are lightly scored areas in the shortbread so that when you tap it with a fork it collapses in on itself giving little chunks of shortbread to mix with the peaches and depositing the cold mousse on the warm peaches where it starts to soften and melt like ice cream. That part of the plan worked out fine but it looks a bit bland.

It's kinda like wrestling a gorilla... you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired.

jumanggy

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Larry - I am loving these desserts you've made. (I only wish more people in this household of mine liked lemon-flavored desserts!) Anyway, the flavors of the peach pie sound spot-on. I also love the interactive aspect of the dessert, it's quite imaginative as always!

CanadianBakin' - Those cakes look pretty darn near-perfect to me. I believe the sparkles in your daughters' eyes will agree with me!

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Tri2Cook

Tri2Cook

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Thanks Mark. I'm not at all happy with the look of the peach dessert though, too dull and drab. I'll figure that one out before I actually need it.

Just in case anybody wonders, I went with the mousse over an actual ice cream for holding purposes. It's going to have to be able to survive outside a freezer for a bit at this particular event. I found that if I mold the mousse into little balls and freeze them then dip them in the mousse for a more natural appearance and freeze them again they thaw nicely within the timeframe I'm working in. The outside gets soft with a small soft-frozen core to compliment the ice cream idea.

It's kinda like wrestling a gorilla... you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired.

tupac17616

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Okay so maaaybe this isn't the right thread for this, but I figured this would be as good a place as any to share what I had for dessert tonight...

Chocolate.

With bacon.

Pretty decent. Though a little too much smokey flavor, and the texture (a few chunks of chewy bacon fat inside) left something to be desired..

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