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Your Daily Sweets (2005-2012)


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That's really cool jumanggy. Looks great and I bet it tastes awesome.

Thanks for the compliment. My inspiration was a song title. The band NoFX did a punk-ish, rocked up version of the song "All of Me" and titled it "Olive Me". I always thought that was kinda cool. The candied olives are just sliced black olives that I soaked overnight in sugar syrup and oven dried. They have a crunchy but not hard texture and taste sweet with a light olive flavor and a distinct background licorice/anise taste that I didn't expect to find. I did the cake like a pineapple upside down cake but used a lemon-olive oil cake and candied olive slices instead of pineapple and plated it with a bit of olive oil. The nibs are just chopped up candied olives. The mousse, I shaped into "olives" then drizzled with olive oil and a bit of sea salt.

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

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here are some delicious florentins i recently made

just honey, caramel and almonds over a pate sucrée base

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no peels or chocolate!

x fanny

Really gorgeous, Fanny! Mmmmmm.... Where's that 'Drool' emoticon? :biggrin:

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Tri2cook- your Olive me is amazing! Absolutely gorgeous! And Jumanggy your plated dessert is art! I wish I could taste it-ohhhh!! It is my style!! Fanny, your floretins are just lovely! They are so perfect!! If I could live my life over I would become a pastry chef!! The beauty of all your desserts really does something to me. I could just look and look!! (well if I could I would eat and eat!!)

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Olive Me:

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lemon-olive oil cake w/ candied olives

olive oil ice cream

candied olive nibs

chocolate-olive oil mousse

Tri2Cook, that is such an inspiration. I love olive oil in my desserts and that ice cream looks very tempting.

Fanny, your floretins are just lovely! They are so perfect!! If I could live my life over I would become a pastry chef!! The beauty of all your desserts really does something to me. I could just look and look!! (well if I could I would eat and eat!!)

I so wish I were a pastry chef too. Maybe one day... Who knows?

fanny loves foodbeam

pâtisserie & sweetness

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...Here's my first attempt at a plated dessert and also my first attempt at an entremet. I called it a "Maya Gold", inspired by the organic chocolate bar that I wanted to play with.

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That's orange creme brulee with dark chocolate orange mousse and fudge brownie base (if I had tons of money, I would've added Grand Marnier in there somewhere to drive the point home), then glazed. Decor is candied orange peel and caramel, uh, thingies. Just to keep with the pyramid-jewel-theme. Bitten through:

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I'm really tired! :laugh:

First attempt ? First smashing success, wipe the green with envy drool off the keyboard. Wowzers. How you gonna follow that one up. Whe-ew.

Fanny, that close up is killer!

Tri2Cook, umm, candied olives? Could you, without revealing state secrets, talk about those a bit?

Edited to add>> Tri2, I found your description

The candied olives are just sliced black olives that I soaked overnight in sugar syrup and oven dried. They have a crunchy but not hard texture and taste sweet with a light olive flavor and a distinct background licorice/anise taste that I didn't expect to find.

Wow again.

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Tri2Cook - I hope you don't mind if I take a cue from Rob and abbreviate your name to T2C :laugh: if for no other reason than the fact that you're no longer "trying" if you're excelling!

K8 - After months of going over these forums, I picked up a little something I guess :smile: Imagine my horror when Chef Dean (chiantiglace) mentions here that no plated dessert can be simpler than his biscuit-mousse-creme brulee creation, hahaha! Well, gotta start somewhere. I've been reading Tish Boyle's Grand Finales (Neoclassic view of plated desserts) in the bookstore (it costs $73-- to much for me) and I've picked up some new inspiration, I only hope I can pull through. It's very intimidating for me! As T2C mentions above, the olives are soaked overnight in syrup and oven-dried.

I've been wanting to open a topic about dessert professional-oriented websites (either here in P&B or in Food on the Internet), but I'm more afraid of criticism for some reason (that website is crap, the recipes are bad, it hinders imagination, it's a rip-off, etc). So I'll wait till one asks..

Fanny - I read your blog post too, I've never had a Florentine but now I'm very curious (just for yours-- they look very classy). Pierre Herme does his square and half-dipped in chocolate with orange peel, right? What do you think of those?

Rob - haha, it is more a triumph of styling than anything else, and even then, during the plating I don't think a dessert has ever been told "F***!!" more times in human history (though many P&B regulars might step up and claim otherwise). GTO's given me a lot of tips.

Mark

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Some gorgeous stuff, y'all! I am totally humbled. Now that I finally have a working camera and have figured out how to re-size my images so that I can post them here(thanks, Chris), I thought I'd just use this thread to post all of the stuff that I made for the holidays:

Iced Almonds - amazingly easy and really, really good - I added hot sauce to one of the batches and topped with coarsely ground sea salt:

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The dessert spread on Christmas Eve:

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Calipoutine's Magic Brownies:

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Oatmeal Raisinettes and Chocolate Chocolate Chips:

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Lemon Chess Tarts & Mince Tarts (Ted Fairhead made the mince tarts):

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Three kinds of fudge:

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Peanut Butter Cookies & Pecan Turtles:

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Sugar Cookies:

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Candied Pecans:

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I still have some of most of this in the freezer! Items are going every day to work with us to be finished up by someone else :laugh: !

Kim

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Florida Pie from Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan

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Taken with my "high quality" cameraphone :rolleyes:

Delicious, but, quite rich...

This is something that should be made on special occasions only as I'm sure I sent my relatives home with at least 5 extra pounds :biggrin:

a very hungry college kid

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hey Mota - since I'm the only person in the universe who doesn't have that book - what is the filling?  It looks really, really good.

Don't feel too bad, I borrowed it from the library

The filling contains 1/2 c Lime Juice(key lime if it is available), a 14 oz can of Condensed milk, and 4 egg yolks

a very hungry college kid

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Here's a rotten picture of a lovely tart we made Saturday night: pate sable, creme patissiere with almonds, blackberries and blueberries. Our guests growled.

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Really awesome stuff everybody. Fanny, you can send a box of those my way if you need to get rid of them. :biggrin:

Inspired by following the adventures of Kerry, Rob and Verjuice in the Silver City Culinary Extravaganza thread...

Tres Amigos

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nopales and new mexico chile sorbet

prickly pear foa... errr... froth! (that was close, I almost said "foam")

mole paper

passion fruit pearls

mole soil

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

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Thanks! It sounded like you were all having a huge amount of fun and it inspired me to play with some southwest flavors.

nopales and new mexico chile sorbet:

pureed and strained nopales (unfortunately, from a jar), new mexico chile powder (I would have prefered to use fire roasted new mexico puree but no fresh new mexicos available here), agave nectar, a bit of lemon and a pinch of salt

prickly pear foa... errr... froth:

prickly pear juice, xanthan gum, methylcellulose

mole paper:

wonton skin painted with a mixture of ancho and poblano chile oil, cocoa, melted chocolate and a bit of cinnamon, baked until crispy

passion fruit pearls:

used the oil spherification technique for these, just passion fruit juice and agar dripped into freezing cold oil

mole soil:

the paint for the "paper" powdered with tapioca maltodextrin

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

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WOW! Out of control indeed. I had to look up "nopales" :raz: I've never heard of it.

Most of the processes are inaccessible to me, but that mole paper is just inspired. Well done.

Mark

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I have such a backlog of things I've baked the last while, that I hope you don't mind if I post up some "recent" bakes.

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Eggless Chocolate Cake with Coconut Buttercream Frosting

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Banana Coconut Bread

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Gluten- & Dairy-free Peanut Butter Cookies

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Pierre Hermé's Suzy's Cake

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Emily Luchetti's Black Forest Brownies with Mocha Ganache

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More of those baked treats...

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Chocolate cupcakes filled with surprises (aka a chunk of bubbly chocolate or fruit & nut chocolate) topped with chocolate, peanut butter or coconut buttercream

A personal fave:

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Perfect Blueberry Scone from Cook's Illustrated

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... and a look inside that scone. :wub:

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Sesame Cookies

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Flo Braker's S'More Squares

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And my annual holiday (or any day) bake from La Pâtisserie de Pierre Hermé: Pierre Hermé's Sables Florentins

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Some of the sweets from the holiday parties/packages a few weeks back:

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Not pictured here are some tartlets that were filled with caramel, covered with 72% chocolate and topped with a peg of candied orange peel

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Fig-Orange & Amaretti Tartlet with Pine Nuts (I used the amarretti I purchased from Pasticceria Marchini from my trip to Venice and Dalmatia's Fig Spread with Orange)

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Coconut & Chestnut Cream Tartlet

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Swiss Bettinas (walnut and caramel)

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Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Clusters

Boxed:

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The final packages that were ready to go (after a week devoted to baking 85 dozen minature sweets) :smile: :

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I have such a backlog of things I've baked the last while, that I hope you don't mind if I post up some "recent" bakes.

Why of course I mind! :angry: I mind that you didn't share any of those delicious sweets with me! :biggrin: And I'm sure you have more pictures in your backlog--post those, too!

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Emily Luchetti's Black Forest Brownies with Mocha Ganache

Even though I'm not a huge fan of chocolate, this one really speaks to me! It forced me to look up the recipe on the internet (I'm a big fan of Emily Luchetti recipes--I've never tried one that hasn't been a success--but I have none of her books!), and now that I have it...

Where did you get your cherries for this recipe at this time of year? I don't even think I could get frozen cherries in Japan right now (though if I could, do you think I could use those if I drained them well?). Do you think some sort of dried cherry substitution would work for the brownie? I could soak them in kirsch to plump them up if I had to. No cherry garnish, though.

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