Your Daily Sweets (2005-2012)

[deensiebat]

To deal with the beginning of the onslaught: chocolate zucchini cake

[pjm333]

Passion Fruit Milk Chocolate Bomb

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gluucose/3813004969/

[pjm333]

Pineapple Kiwi White Chocolate Parfait

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gluucose/3824519393/

[pjm333]

Chocolate & Peanut Nougat Timbal

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gluucose/3822073064/

[pjm333]

Sacher Torte

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gluucose/3819420340/

[Darienne]

I don't know if ever I will have anything worthy of photographing and posting. The photos that you all post just blow me away.

However, I have been busy. We do have this small horde of people and their dogs descending upon us next weekend (starts on Thursday...) for our Annual Dog Weekend at the farm. Noisy, crowded, chaotic but lots of fun.

To that end I have made thus far: two kinds of gelato, vanilla and chocolate with the vanilla being made further into sandwiches in chocolate rectangle cookies (DL's recipe), blueberry loaves (Randi), Orange Cardamom Coffee Cake (RWood), Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cakes (thanks to Merstar), orange muffins. I think that's it for the baking. I have two ice creams left to make: Orange-Szechwan Pepper (DL) and Raspberry Gelato.

So many of these were firsts for me and so many were slight disasters, such as when the springform pan clip slipped and so did the batter. My first ice cream sandwiches are not beautiful although Tri2Cook did try to help.

I have had a ball and now I am going to lie down.

[Tri2Cook]

I don't know if ever I will have anything worthy of photographing and posting. 

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Anything you enjoy making is worthy of posting! The vast majority of what I post are experiments and ideas that I wanted to try. Some looked better in my head than on the plate. Some were things I know I'm not good at and posted to prove my point. I don't care, it's still fun. I very rarely post the stuff I do for work, posting my experiments for this crowd is more fun because I can find out very quickly if I'm getting too far out in weirdland.

[schneich]

me making mini desserts at "world chefs day" in cologne last weekend...

me saucing passion coulis (xanthan based)

cremeux jivara lactee, qumquat confit, chocolate macaron, chocolate sauce, coulis passion, chocolate soil, praline malto balls

unmolding yoghurt microwave sponge

plating sponge

saucing

another one

Edited August 19, 2009 by schneich (log)

[Kerry Beal]

Schneich - those look fabulous. How many items did you have to plate? Tell us more about 'worlds chef day'.

[schneich]

we plated about 10 different desserts -+300 plates. world chefs day is a show with about 70 exhibitors and about 14.000 chefs attending from all over europe. in addition to that there was the "bocuse d'or" competiton going on. all in all it was quite decent, but besides a few german ***star chefs hanging out nothing really spectacular...

cheers

t.

[Lior]

thanks for sharing! Mini things are always lovely! Looks nice!

[deensiebat]

Wow those teensy plated desserts look lovely. We went the somewhat homelier (yet still delicious route): chewy chocolate chocolate chip cookies:

Vegan, too. But they don't taste like it.

[dystopiandreamgirl]

more leaves, two views; bittersweet-fading-to-gianduja poplar, atop a coffee/almond marjolaine:

[stuartlikesstrudel]

Oh, those mini desserts are so exciting to look at!

Now you've got me thinking about ideas...!

They're so intricate and I know that each one would be a few mouthfuls of really interesting flavours and textures, then gone

Love the leaf cake too, dystopian... the gradation works really nicely. I hope the lighting was flattering to it so people could appreciate the effect.

[Darienne]

more leaves, two views; bittersweet-fading-to-gianduja poplar, atop a coffee/almond marjolaine:

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Wonderful!!!

[oli]

more leaves, two views; bittersweet-fading-to-gianduja poplar, atop a coffee/almond marjolaine:

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I think we should call you the leaf lady. Outstanding work.

[Aloha Steve]

White Peach Torte, for a first attempt making any torte it came out very nicely.

The recipe from Sept. 09 Food & Wine, page 119 called for peach preserves, which I bought.

When buying the amount of peaches, I decided on the amount from memory. Having enough for

two tortes, I made my own preserves, no recipe on the fly. This made it a little too watery, however made me feel proud and still tastes yummy so, its all good.

I did not have a proper torte pan so I used a 9" spring form pan and the torte is a bit too thick.

I cut into small slices and froze, so I could enjoy over a period of time. Well, not so good a idea to eat frozen (like say brownies or cookies) but after defrosting its still good.

[Lior]

looks totally delicious!

[Tri2Cook]

For the khymos.org TGRWT event #18 which paired plum and blue cheese...

cabrales cheesecake - pickled plum sorbet - plum slices - sablee nuggets - cabrales crumble - plum coulis

The TGRWT's are a lot of fun. People come up with lots of cool ways to use the sometimes obvious, sometimes seemingly odd pairings. It's cool to see the science behind it work. The pairings, no matter how unlikely seeming, always do indeed "go really well together".

[pjm333]

Pineapple Panna Cotta

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gluucose/3880425750/

[Kim Shook]

So many lovely desserts!

deensiebat – your chocolate cookies are just speaking to me right now!

Here is a CI German chocolate cake that I made last week:

My MIL ordered it for a friend’s birthday. I’ve made the cake, but not the frosting, before and it was delicious. I tasted the scraps and they were good, but it’s odd to send a cake out and not know what it really tasted like – what professionals go through all the time, I know. The cake is supposed to have bare sides with just the frosting showing between the layers. Two layers are split into 4 and then you frost. Once I trimmed them up, it just didn’t look nice, so I ran to the store for some canned frosting (sorry, but it was LATE and I’d just done the fantasy football draft party and was getting ready to go to NC for the weekend) and dolled it up. My MIL said that everyone loved the cake and that the birthday lady wanted it again next year.

[MariaA]

very simple dessert, sponge cake, filled with italian chocolate buttercream and vanilla buttercream. On the top whip cream and fresh raspberries.

[MariaA]

closer look.

[oli]

Wow, now that looks yummy.

[judiu]

closer look.

Beautiful cake, the raspberries are my favorite fruit with chocolate, and your photo just GLOWS! Thanks for sharing!