Our hosts for this month's Daring Bakers challenge are the lovely Meeta of What's for lunch, Honey? and Tony Tahhan. They took pity on us and offered up a fairly straightforward recipe that wouldn't leave us sweltering in the...
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This month, The Daring Bakers are undertaking a real challenge: Danish Braid. I once tried to make Danish pastries using Nigella's recipe in How to be a Domestic Goddess and let's just say that it wasn't a resounding success....
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This month the Daring Bakers are tackling the multi-layered and very impressive Opera cake. As you can see from the picture, I haven't made a traditional chocolate and coffee Opera. There was a twist stipulated by our four lovely...
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This month's Daring Bakers challenge, hosted by Deborah of Taste and Tell and Elle of Feeding My Enthusiasms, is Cheesecake Pops. Or, as I like to think of it, cheesecake-onna-stick. My love of cheesecake is legendary and of course,...
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Riddle me this... what recipe sprawls over ten pages and takes seven hours to complete? Julia Child's French Bread, of course! Julia Child evokes warm, fuzzy feelings in the hearts of many Americans, however on this side of the...
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...or how to dent your ego in one easy step. I've been baking Lemon Meringue Pies (hereafter abbreviated to LMP) since the age of seven, so when LMP was announced as the January challenge for the Daring Bakers--hosted by...
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