The July 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Sunita of Sunita’s world – life and food. Sunita challenged everyone to make an ice-cream filled Swiss roll that’s then used to make a bombe with hot fudge. Her recipe is based on an ice cream cake recipe from Taste of Home. I’m sitting back breathing [...]
The May 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake. Cat challenged everyone to make a piece montée, or croquembouche, based on recipes from Peter Kump’s Baking School in Manhattan and Nick Malgieri. Holy smokes, can I tell you how excited I was for this month’s challenge?! I’ve been quite busy [...]
Perfect excuse for a Looney Tunes tie in! As I was posting this I was informed by Doug that one of the images I lit and composited for the upcoming Looney Tunes shorts was released in the New York Times. Very cool!
I made these a long while ago but just flipped through a few photos of them. These were far too cool to not talk about to I’m going back to easily the most bad-ass of cupcakes I’ve ever seen. Forgive my photos. I scrambled and pulled what I could off my iPhone. 2 summers ago Doug and [...]
The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet. I wish I was more enthusiastic for this challenge. British pudding makes me think of just a big meat pie and to be [...]
Man am I lame at keeping up with this! I wish I had better excuses since I made this cake oh, over a month ago…I don’t. Work is insanely busy right now. But very very cool and fun. I’ll tell ya’ll more when you can go see what Doug and I are working on in [...]
The 2010 March Daring Baker’s challenge was hosted by Jennifer of Chocolate Shavings. She chose Orange Tian as the challenge for this month, a dessert based on a recipe from Alain Ducasse’s Cooking School in Paris. Let me say, this is my first post as a Daring Baker! I watched you all from hiding behind [...]
