Given the timing, it wasn’t a surprise that this month’s Daring Bakers challenge was a Yule Log, or Buche de Noel. It also wasn’t a surprise that this was the most time-intensive, complicated Yule Log I’ve ever made. Most yule logs that I’ve seen are comprised of a thin sponge cake rolled around a mousse…
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Christmas Baking, Part 2
I like the Christmas candy recipes that I posted yesterday, but I LOVE these cookie recipes. I guess I’m more of a cookie girl at heart. Gingerbread Cookies This recipe is AMAZING. I’ve tried many different gingerbread recipes, and I invariably find ones that taste great but don’t hold their shape well, or hold their…
Christmas Baking, Part 1
No TWD for me this week…the house is already stuffed to the rafters with sugary sweets, and the thought of adding butterscotch pudding to the mix didn’t excite me at all. However, I did happen to make some things I think are even better than pudding: Christmas cookies and candy! I got medieval with the…
Tuesdays with Dorie: Christmas Sugar Cookies
After the fun of baking with my mom last week, it was a bit of a letdown to go back to solo baking. However, the fabulous sugar cookie recipe this week and the resulting cookies I scarfed went a long way toward consoling me. So, folks. Sugar cookies. Not too exciting, right? A basic component…
Buche de Noel
First buche de noel of the season! Chocolate-almond sponge cake rolled around raspberry buttercream and frosted with dark chocolate ganache. Decorated with meringue mushrooms, holly berries, buttercream snow, chocolate curl “leaves”, and powdered sugar.
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