Tasty Twisted Cookies

Have you ever heard of a tuile cookie? I hadn’t before this month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge. I mean , I guess I’ve probably had one, but usually sweets are in my mouth so fast that I don’t even notice them all that much (oops!).

Basically, from what I can tell, a tuile is just a thin [...]

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Daring Bakers November – Caramel Cupcakes

This month I’m finally getting my Daring Baker post up on time! Yay. In fact, with Thanksgiving coming, I even made this one a little bit early believe it or not.
With all of the celebrating lately, my stomach has been acting up again. So I’m trying to cut back a little [...]

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Daring Bakers August – Eclairs

So I’m a day late, but I actually managed to complete the Daring Bakers challenge this month. And guess what, it worked? Despite all of my experimenting and changing, it actually turned out well this month, unlike this disasterous cake from July.
I am really happy with these eclairs. They didn’t [...]

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The Story of the Ugly Cake – Daring Bakers July

This story started, as all good things should, with a very tasty sounding cake. It had a lovely light nut sponge cake base, alcohol infused simple syrup, drizzled chocolate, and light but buttery frosting. Sigh. It should have turned out as a beautiful cake.

But there were two forks in the road. And I took the [...]

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Filbert Gateau with "Buttercream" – July Daring Bakers

Hi guys. I know that some of you are checking out all of the beautiful creations by the Daring Bakers this month and drooling.
Well I owe you an explanation…
…I really do.
But I just don’t have the energy right now to explain everything that didn’t go right. So for tonight, I suggest you go [...]

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