Bakers Challenge: Croque en Bouche

Well I was reminded with this challenge that its not because you know how to make something that you will always succeed. i have made pâte à choux a many times in my life and always without a hitch basically….except this time. I don,t know why when I took them out of the oven they almost all deflated. I also forgot the egg wash but did put some on about 5 after for a prettier top. But my flat balls did not change the taste. I decided to for with a fort formation rather then a cone. I thought it would work better considering my flattened choux. It was a successful mistake!

The May 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake. Cat challenged everyone to make a piece montée, or Croque en Bouche, based on recipes from Peter Kump’s Baking School in Manhattan and Nick Malgieri.

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Bakers Challenge: British Pudding

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. Now I did not find suet but basically this recipe will…

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Wow, this was something I never had made before and I knew it would be a different experience. Esther proposed 2 types of pudding: one with crust a bit more like a pie and one sponge type more like a cake. I knew right away I wanted to try the crust type since I did not know this version existed. Now what about the filling?

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Macaron Attempted

Yet again, my second Baker’s Challenge was a major challenge. I spoke to a few fellow DK members and they all agree the last two months have been tough ones. I am really hoping the next one is easy…ouff. So this month we had to make Macarons. This was kind of funny to me [...]

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