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Your Daily Sweets (2005-2012)

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CanadianBakin'

CanadianBakin'

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Thank you all! The royal icing is a great idea, Darienne and thank you RWood for the information about oil based colors for white chocolate. I have a million ideas, if only I can get these to TASTE good!

I made them using homemade chocolate cake and cream cheese icing and they were terrible. I don't get the appeal aside from them being so cute. I think I'd prefer going the mini cupcake route. At least I know they'll taste good. If you find a way to make them that tastes good, let us know.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Orison Swett Marden

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E.T.

E.T.

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Personally I feel cake for lunch is acceptable any day of the week as long as it covers at least 50% of all the food groups :)

I'll have to remember that one :)

recipe please? I have 4 jars of honey in my cabinet and that looks great.

I used this recipe, without any modifications. The honey flavor is amazing, and it's not too sweet. I recommend using a deep 9in pan (the batter was about 2in deep when poured in), and lining the bottom with greased parchment paper.

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stuartlikesstrudel

stuartlikesstrudel

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where do you get calcium chloride from?

thanks!

Lior, you could also look into Agar Spherification as a more low-tech way to make little spheres/caviar. They are a bit different in texture but don't require the special chemicals (just some agar agar which is more readily available).

I've never actually tried the calcium ones but I played around with agar a few weeks ago and had a great result with my first attempt.

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Kim Shook

Kim Shook

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We had Mr. Kim’s mom over for dinner last night and for dessert I did Granny Smith sorbet:

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And fig, apple mascarpone tart w/ Dulce de Leche. Before baking:

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Baked and glazed:

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Slice:

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I got these recipes from eG’s Lisa2K - I've made it 3 years in a row and I’m pretty sure that this is going to be our traditional ‘Welcome Fall’ dessert.

Kim

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Spring

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Thank you.

I will do that and then I will try the calcium. It is kind of far away (Spring, where are they located?) to go get and crazy to have delivered-such a small amount!

I dont remember where they are, the best thing would be to call him and ask. I didnt order a lot at all as wanted to play around with it first and if I remember correctly shipping is reasonable. He also included little droppers to make the caviar with, gave me great advice on what not to do and emailed me some information. HTH

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suzilightning

suzilightning

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not really a baker anymore - used to bake for independent sale and then also worked part time in the bakery section of a restaurant - but wanted to do try out some things.

yesterday did two recipes: the apple cake from dorie greenspan's book and a riff on a recipe i saw demoed on tuesday night - cranberry harvest bars.

when i do the apple cake again i will either halve the number of apples or increase the "batter" half again just so all the apples have some sort of a "cake" coating. this really reminded me of a clafouti.

still tweaking the bars - original called for eggs, butter, flour, sugar, 2 cups of cranberries, 1 cup of walnuts, ground cinnamon, ground cloves and orange zest. i subbed out extra light olive oil and some orange juice for the butter and reduced the cranberries by half(husband's request) and the nuts by 1/4. good but still needs a bit more tweaking till i am happy.

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David A. Goldfarb

David A. Goldfarb

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A friend brought us a pumpkin from a farm near his place in the Adirondacks, and our son (who will be 4 in December) wanted to make a pumpkin pie, inspired by the funny Mr Potato Head style Halloween pumpkins a couple of doors down.

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oli

oli

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Slice:

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I got these recipes from eG’s Lisa2K - I've made it 3 years in a row and I’m pretty sure that this is going to be our traditional ‘Welcome Fall’ dessert.

I've tried to find the recipe, would you mind sharing it?

Thanks

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David A. Goldfarb

David A. Goldfarb

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what an adorable punkin pie!!!! Very nice. Did you help him make the features? I assume so.... Anyhow, adorable and fun!! Precious moments...

Well, he's not handling sharp knives yet, but anything I did was in consultation with the chef.

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