Your Daily Sweets (2005-2012)

[yunnermeier]

jumanggy: the plum cake looks gorgeous! Wow!

[jumanggy]

Thanks, Mei! (and thank you, camera of my brother! heh)

[Pille]

A pear and blue cheese tart (recipe here on my blog):

I used Finnish Aura Gold blue cheese, the filling is seasoned with what you'd call 'pumpkin spice' in the US. I really liked it, and it's versatile. I can imagine serving this as a starter, or as a dessert, or simply as an accompaniment for wine.

[GTO]

Great flavours, Pille. Looks pretty hefty.

I made Grape cake yesterday, using my new rented house's electric oven. It's not too bad.

[DesertCulinary]

I needed to make some cupcakes as a thank you, so I did these Maple-Walnut Cupcakes with Candied Walnuts.

The cupcake is where the walnuts hide and the frosting holds the maple with a decadent maple buttercream. We sampled a couple for dessert before giving them away

[Domestic Goddess]

Joe, that last picture is absolutely gorgeous!

[merstar]

I just made these and they're very good. I used almonds instead of macadamias, reduced the sugar by 25%, and cut down the salt:

Chocolate Chunk Macadamia Coconut Cookies

http://www.recipezaar.com/76580

[pax]

I made Dorie Greenspan's Golden Brioche last night, and this morning I used half the dough for her Pecan Sticky Buns.

My husband, he's so funny, they are sitting on the counter and he keeps going by and saying, "Oh, just a half."

There are three left.

[DesertCulinary]

Joe, that last picture is absolutely gorgeous!

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Thank you!

[Aria B.]

Not a pie, cake, or cookie, but Molly Katzen's Yogurt Herb bread from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. My girls love it.

[Pille]

I baked a beetroot & ginger cake yesterday:

Recipe from a Finnish Pirkka-magazine. We all liked it, and will be making it again.

[CKatCook]

I got the 9-5 job thing going on today, so nothings baking. But yesterday I made form the King Author Flour Baking Companion, Cheese Pennies, Cranberrie Orange Biscotti, Cinnamon Nut Coffee Ring.

MMMMMMMMM.....they were so good......

[CaliPoutine]

*sob* I'm without an oven for 2 possibly 3 weeks( Kitchen remodel)

[yunnermeier]

Right now, Marbled Banana Bundt Cake *yum*

[onehsancare]

Received my Steam Baking Master Artisan Bread Pan on Saturday, so I had to try it out. Having no baking time available in the schedule for the day, I used the second recipe in the instruction booklet, which used a small poolish in a very simple recipe.

Baked the loaves yesterday, and ended up with french bread that I think might rival Safeway's!

Okay, I didn't use any independent judgment at all in choosing the recipe or following it, but I'd still hoped for something with body, a little chewiness, a little taste . . . but it did have a crisp crust. Not worthy of a photo.

I'll play some more and report when I have some success.

[lisa_antonia]

Dorie Greenspan's peanut butter brownies from epicurious.com and Chewy Almond/Cherry Bars from Alice Medrich's cookies and brownies.

I'm going to dinner at a friend's house (a great excuse to use loads of chocolate and peanut butter.)

[Tri2Cook]

Thanksgiving today here in Canada.

Pumpkin cake with chocolate-chestnut buttercream and cubes of chestnut flan and pumpkin flan.

[gfron1]

A birthday cake for a friend who can't eat wheat (she poofs a lot ). Almond chocolate cake with orange and lemon peel. Its darker than it looks in this picture:

[prasantrin]

A birthday cake for a friend who can't eat wheat (she poofs a lot  ).  Almond chocolate cake with orange and lemon peel.  Its darker than it looks in this picture:

Cripes! Can I be your friend?

cough cough <recipe> cough cough

[gfron1]

I'm bah humbug about special diet foods, but The Old Foodie's recipe in post #3 chronicled in THIS topic is where I got the recipe. It truly was amazing.

[prasantrin]

I'm bah humbug about special diet foods, but The Old Foodie's recipe in post #3 chronicled in THIS topic is where I got the recipe.  It truly was amazing.

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Thanks for the pointer. From the recipe, it seems dead easy to make. If only I could get some good non-mikan oranges around here! Must find some soon!

[gfron1]

I didn't have the time to boil the oranges, so I used a bunch of peel from orange and lemon and boiled in dense sugar for 20 minutes, then added orange juice to get the moisture back to where it should have been.

[Pille]

Three recent desserts: on Sunday I baked a Beetroot & Ginger Cake:

We bought the ISI Gourmet Whip last Friday, and straight away tried the Piña Colada Espuma (recipe from the booklet accompanying the purchase):

We really liked it. Yesterday night we tried Ferran Adria's recipe for Pistachio Mousse in The Cook's Book (ed. Jill Norman). It does resemble (well, at least a little) the original creation, don't you think?

Will have to try this one again, with couple of changes..

[CanadianBakin']

We really liked it. Yesterday night we tried Ferran Adria's recipe for Pistachio Mousse in The Cook's Book (ed. Jill Norman). It does resemble (well, at least a little) the original creation, don't you think? 

Will have to try this one again, with couple of changes..

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It looks very cool but if you hadn't said it was mousse I would have thought it was some type of bread. It looks like it has been baked. What is it actually like?

Edited October 9, 2007 by CanadianBakin' (log)

[Pille]

We really liked it. Yesterday night we tried Ferran Adria's recipe for Pistachio Mousse in The Cook's Book (ed. Jill Norman). It does resemble (well, at least a little) the original creation, don't you think? 

Will have to try this one again, with couple of changes..

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It looks very cool but if you hadn't said it was mousse I would have thought it was some type of bread. It looks like it has been baked. What is it actually like?

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Well, first it's sprayed (?) out of the Gourmet Whip, and then microwaved for 45 seconds. Our was a bit denser than it should have been, the one on the photo looks a lot lighter & natural sponge like in texture.

Oh well, we'll try again and hopefully have better luck next time