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Daring Bakers April Challenge: Cheesecake pops
I was excited by this month's challenge, chosen by our lovely hosts, Deborah of Taste and Tell and Elle of FME, especially because my husband loves NY style cheesecake. But I've only made cheesecake...
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Cheesecake cupcakes
cheesecake cupcakesWell out of my cheesecake pop near-debacle have emerged these cute cheesecake cupcakes, inspired by the good folks at Cooking for Engineers. If you may recall, I was left with a...
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A little spice
So, for some strange reason, I suddenly began craving Delhi-style choley -- aka chickpeas or garbanzo beans -- with kulchas a leavened flatbread. Luckily I had a large can of beans in my pantry and...
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Dundee Cake
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }If you feel like a nutty...
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Almond mini cakes
I wanted to bring in something nice to work, using the pretty tea cake pan my friend had lent me. And I also wanted to try the almond paste I had picked up at Surfas a while back. So a little poking...
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Pandan butter cake
I've been wanting to try pandan, sight unseen, ever since I saw this gorgeous jelly dessert a few years ago. All I knew about pandan was that it was related to the delicious kewra essence that is used...
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Lemon tea cakes
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Lemon tea cakes, originally...
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Daring Bakers May Challenge: Opera Cake
When I read what the Daring Bakers challenge was for this month was, I mentally said "yeah, right" and thought I'd be sitting this one out, leaving Aamena to do her creative work. But she's tied up in...
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a Birthday and an Anniversary...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }My sister's anniversary and my...
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Zebra cake
Zebra cakeSo finally, here is the photo of the zebra cake I made using Farida's recipe and technique. My ladle wasn't big enough, hence the thin whispery "stripes" -- really more like veins. I will...
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not quite danish...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Of all the crazy things I have...
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Thrice as nice!
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }I missed my niece's first...
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Chiffon cake - two halves make it whole
This is my first attempt at Chiffon cake -- I had shied away from it so far because I hate making things that require separating the egg whites and yolks, and I especially hate it if I have leftover...
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Very berry cake
I made this cake a few weeks ago, but never got around to posting about it. I used a victoria sponge recipe and topped it with a little leftover white chocolate ganache and lots and lots of raspberries...
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Plums galore!
There is so much lovely summer fruit to choose from these days. The other day I bought several pounds of plums and thought I should use them up before they got too soft. So I made this easy peasy plum...
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Bet it's a record!
So how much time did you take to make your Filbert Gateau?I made it in a record time of four hours! (Confession: I ignored the sugar syrup and the apricot glaze).Soon after Chris of Mele Cotte...
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Mango chiffon cake
So I recently made this yummy Mango chiffon cake. For a few weeks now, what with California flooded with mangoes, I'd been day-dreaming about mango cake, one that incorporates mangoes in the batter,...
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Another chiffon cake
Can you tell I've become a convert to the religion of chiffon! What amazing results and taste with such little heartache. After my first attempt convinced me it wasn't hard, I thought I'd give it...
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Daring Bakers August Challenge: Chocolate Eclairs
I've sat out the last few challenges, but this month's -- Chocolate Eclairs -- was absolutely irresistable. Thank you Meeta and Tony for the great selection, and the delectable recipe from Chocolate...
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Catching up
It's been a long time since either Aamena or I posted. She has a good excuse... no oven in her new digs. I don't, since I have been baking and cooking, and even taking photos... but have just been too...
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Daring Bakers October Challenge: Basic Pizza dough
Better late than never, as they say! The October challenge was hosted by the lovely Rosa, who gave us a recipe from Peter Reinhart's "The Bread Baker's Apprentice." I used roasted veggies, eggplant,...
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Dubbu's Paneer
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Daring Bakers February Challenge: Chocolate Valentino!
What's challenging about chocolate cake, you say? Well this isn't any old chocolate cake, it's a flour-less chocolate cake... rich and decadent. And part of the challenge is to make your own ice cream...
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Daring Bakers May 2009 Challenge: Raspberry strudel
The May Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Linda of make life sweeter! and Courtney of Coco Cooks. They chose Apple Strudel from the recipe book Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic...
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Daring Bakers August Challenge: Dobos Torte
The August 2009 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Angela of A Spoonfulof Sugar and Lorraine of Not Quite Nigella. They chose the spectacular DobosTorte based on a recipe from Rick Rodgers'...
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