Apple Strudel (Daring Bakers)

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 Cafés of Vienna, Budapest and Prague by Rick Rodgers.
I was surprised to see that I had already made a version of this month’s chosen [...]

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake (Daring Bakers)

The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge.
Holy freaking amazing cheesecake, Batman!  I’ve posted a few time in the past that I’m not a big cheesecake person.  It started to change when I made the Brownie Mosaic Cheesecake, and realized that I do [...]

Strawberry Mirror Cake

I am not always into fruity desserts, but I think that it is necessary for Easter.  We got together with our friends and each contributed something to the meal.  David was in charge of the meat, and I made pineapple casserole (David can’t have Easter without it!), a bread (to be posted later), and this [...]

March Daring Bakers: Lasagna (Gluten Free)

I will go ahead and admit that I wasn’t that excited when I saw this month’s challenge.  I know there is a Daring Cooks group to debut soon, but this seemed too close to cooking, and I wanted to be more challenged in the baking arena.  I also had to make the gluten free version [...]

February Daring Bakers: Chocolate Valentino

It’s hard to believe that I’ve been a part of the Daring Bakers for a year now!  I started in February 2008 with Julia Child’s French Bread, which made me stretch my baking skills and built my confidence.  I am proud to say that I have yet to miss a challenge!  I’ve gotten to try [...]

January Daring Bakers: Tuiles

This month’s challenge is brought to us by Karen of Bake My Day and Zorra of 1x umruehren bitte aka Kochtopf. They have chosen Tuiles from The Chocolate Book by Angélique Schmeink and Nougatine and Chocolate Tuiles from Michel Roux.
I had been wanting to make tuiles for a while.  More accurately, my husband has been [...]

The Chocolatiest Birthday Cake

I turned 24 on January 9, and wanted to make a cake to celebrate.  (Yes I made my own )  I knew it had to be chocolate, and I’ve had my eye on this Chocolate Intensity Cake for a while now.  The Daring Bakers made this cake in February 2007 and gave it rave [...]

December Daring Bakers: French Yule Log

I was pretty excited when I saw the December 2008 challenge.  It was nice that it was something sweet, which gave me a great dessert to serve for our Christmas party.  I have really been wanting to go back and make the yule log from December 2007, and I still plan to, since I wasn’t [...]

November Daring Bakers: Caramel Cake with Caramelized Butter Frosting (and bonus Caramels)

We’re bringing on the sugar for this month’s Daring Bakers challenge!  Our wonderful hosts for this month were Delores of Chronicles of Culinary Curiousity, Alex of A Blondie and a Brownie, Jenny of Foray into Food, and Natalie of Gluten-a-Go-Go (who was in charge of the alternative bakers) and they chose this lovely cake from [...]

October Daring Bakers: Peter Reinhart’s Pizza

The Daring Bakers are baking up another Peter Reinhart recipe for October’s challenge.  I didn’t mind one bit because I love Peter Reinhart and his book and because I had really been wanting to try out his recipe for pizza dough.  This gave me just the nudge I needed!  Rosa of Rosa’s Yummy Yum-Yums chose [...]