Category Archives: Daring Kitchen
Grand Marnier Ice Cream
This ice cream was one of the components of the July Daring Bakers Challenge, a Swiss Swirl Ice Cream Cake. It is rich and sophisticated and just a very light tasting. It combines well with chocolate or other fruit flavors.
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Chocolate Swiss Swirl Cake with Orange Cream Filling
A Swiss Roll Cake is a thin rectangular cake made in a jelly roll pan that you fill with some kind of creamy goodness and roll it into a log shape. They are the basis for some wonderful desserts like … Continue reading
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Tagged cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, daring bakers, orange, swiss roll cake
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Asian Noodle Salad with Gingery Garlicy Cashew Dressing
The July 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by Margie of More Please and Natashya of Living in the Kitchen with Puppies. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make their own nut butter from scratch, and use the nut butter in a recipe. … Continue reading
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Tagged asian noodle salad, daring bakers, tofu, vegetarian
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Black Forest Pavlovas: Chocolate Pavlovas with Chocolate Mascarpone Mousse and Poached Cherries
The June 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Dawn of Doable and Delicious. Dawn challenged the Daring Bakers’ to make Chocolate Pavlovas and Chocolate Mascarpone Mousse. The challenge recipe is based on a recipe from the book Chocolate Epiphany … Continue reading
Poached Vanilla Cherries
As I mentioned earlier, I felt that all of the deep chocolate and rich cream needed something to lighten it up for the summer months. We’re having a bumper crop of gorgeous cherries this season so I poached some in … Continue reading
Mascarpone Cream
The mascarpone added a slight tartness to the sauce which was delicious. From: Daring Bakers, June 2010 Challenge I made half of the recipe below. Ingredients: One recipe creme anglaise 1/2 cup mascarpone 2 tablespoons Sambucca (optional, I did not … Continue reading
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Creme Anglaise
A good creme anglaise is a beautiful thing. This one, with the specs of vanilla bean throughout was fantastic. From: Daring Baker’s, June 2010 Challenge I made half of the original recipe below. Ingredients: 6 large egg yolks 6 tablespoons … Continue reading
Chocolate Mascarpone Mousse
I love a good chocolate mousse though usually find them too rich to eat much of. This mousse, made with mascarpone, dark chocolate and Grand Marnier was outstanding but I would probably make a traditional mousse instead of the mascarpone … Continue reading
Chocolate Meringues
I’ve been on a macaron making kick lately so I’ve been working with lots of meringues. I’ve learned a few tricks along the way and they held me in good stead for this part of the challenge. The meringues were … Continue reading
Homeade Mascarpone Cheese
I adore mascarpone cheese and here in the Bay Area we have access to some amazing artisan cheeses (including an incredible mascarpone sold by Cowgirl Creamery) but it is soooo expensive so I decided to try making my own. The … Continue reading
