True Confessions time: before this Daring Bakers challenge, I didn’t know what strudel was. [pause for everyone to stop laughing] I’m serious. All I knew was that it was a German (Austrian? Austro-German?) dessert, and that it was mentioned in “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music, along with “shnitzel with noodles.” Come to…
Miscellaneous Desserts
No TWD; Instead, Dessert Smorgasborg!
This past week has been a blur of packing, moving, unpacking, baking, missing sleep, skipping showers, making poor nutritional decisions, and manipulating my husband into giving me endless foot massages. In short, I didn’t have time to make the TWD recipe. But considering the fact that I don’t drink alcohol or coffee, and I need…
Tuesdays with Dorie: Chocolate Bread Pudding
My name is Elizabeth, and I’m a bread pudding-holic. Hi, Elizabeth! I first experimented with bread pudding in college, at a cozy restaurant called The Press in Claremont. I enjoyed it and ordered it on a regular basis, but I was able to control my intake and considered my bread pudding consumption to be at…
The Daring Bakers Do Éclairs
You know you belong to a hardcore baking group when you’re assigned to bake éclairs and everyone sighs with relief and gushes about how easy the challenge will be this month. As soon as this month’s challenge was announced, there was a sigh heard ’round the world, and I could almost hear the hundreds of…
Sugar High Friday: Tropical Pavlovas
I love participating in blog events because they offer a great excuse to experiment and try new desserts that I would probably never make otherwise. Having said that, I was originally a little lukewarm on this month’s Sugar High Friday theme, “meringues.” I’ve never liked those dry, chalky meringue cookies that are sold in plastic…
Homemade S’mores
As a child I hated camping. I hated the claustrophobia of stuffy tents and sleeping bags, I hated being away from warm showers, I hated hiking, and I especially hated pit toilets. In fact, the only element of camping I remotely enjoyed was the food. Camping was a great excuse to indulge in foods that…
Curiouser and curiouser
We sell these as “gourmet ding-dongs.” Two layers of fudgy chocolate cake cover a filling of whipped cream or chocolate mousse. The whole sandwich is enrobed in a double layer of chocolate ganache. Really rich, but oh so adorable. I won the argument with my boss over whether the cakes should read “Eat me” or…
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