Chocolate

TWD ~ Tiramisu Cake (an ode to TWD)

May 7, 2009

Buongiorno! Megan of My Baking Adventures leads us to Italy, the land of Tiramisu with Dorie’s Tiramisu Cake. In an attempt to be faithful to the recipe, I’ve been all over town trying to find mascarpone cheese. My last ditch effort was at a natural food store on Tuesday, but no luck. I know some [...]

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Cherry Midnight Cupcakes! (My un-Iron Cupcake post)

April 29, 2009

You know the song in Alice In Wonderland, “A very merry un-Birthday to you!” Well, a very merry un-Iron Cupcake challenge to you! At least I’m going to try since I obviously did not make the deadline…yet again…this month. I still managed to get a cupcake designed and baked though, and that’s what the challenge [...]

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TWD ~ Chocolate Cream Tart

April 28, 2009

Shesh, has another week gone by already? Some weeks I’m not all that jazzed about the TWD selection, sometimes I’m in excitement mode, and then there are weeks where I’m neither jazzed nor excited. This week initially started out jazzed, then turned lukewarm. When I initially heard the title, “Chocolate Cream Tart” (selected by Kim [...]

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TWD ~ Four Star Chocolate Bread Pudding

April 21, 2009

I had high hopes for this weeks selection of “Four Star” Chocolate Bread Pudding (brought to us by Lauren of Upper East Side Chronicle) but alas, my hopes were dashed along soggy rocks of toooo stale brioche.

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TWD ~ 15 Minute Magic: Chocolate Amaretti Torte

April 14, 2009

Our TWD selection this week is brought to you by Holly of Phe/MOM/enon. It’s the 15 Minute Magic: Chocolate Amaretti Torte! The “15 minute magic” part really only applies if you have a food processor. If you are food processor-less, and as temporally challenged as I am then this may take you quite a bit [...]

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I came, I baked, I…er…it collapsed

March 2, 2009

My first true visual disaster in a Daring Bakers challenge. Who knew that I could screw up a three ingredient recipe? What you see here is actually an illusion. I know, it looks pretty appetizing (at least I think so). However, I had to perform radical surgery to get the cake to look so appealing. [...]

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TWD ~ Devil’s Food White-Out Cake

February 18, 2009

Someone finally picked the recipe for the picture that is most likely responsible for over half of the sales of this book. Stephanie of Confessions of a City Eater picked the jaw-dropping Devil’s Food White-Out Cake. Despite appearances, this cake is actually pretty easy to make. The thing you want to remember when making cakes, [...]

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TWD ~ World Peace Cookies

February 6, 2009

One of these days I’m actually going to be on time. It’s going to happen. It’ll probably be the day a giant meteor hits the earth destroying all life on the planet before anyone gets to read it. Figures. This weeks selection is brought to you by Jessica of cookbookhabit.

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I feel like I just ran a marathon…

December 29, 2008

Yep, those were the exact words that left my lips the night (or was it morning?) when I finally finished the assembly of this challenge. I just joined the Daring Bakers group last month and while last month’s challenge wasn’t too difficult for me, seeing as I had made a caramel cake a couple of [...]

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Chocolate Alert!

November 10, 2008

I came across this post on Food Interviews the other day and I wanted to give everyone a last minute alert to a deal that Patric Chocolate is offering through Food Interviews until Wednesday, November 12th. First, there’s a contest to win up to $100 of chocolate. The way it works is every tenth person [...]

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