CAKES
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Yeasted Meringue Coffee Cake – Sweet & savoury for Daring Bakers
The monthly date with Daring Bakers and this tiime we were challenged to make a 'Mets la main à la pâte' or Yeasted Meringue Coffee Cake. I did both a sweet and savoury take on the challenge, and used 'painted bread technique' that I recently discovered! Fun and delicious ...
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Blueberry Lime Buttermilk Pound Cake
Blueberries & lime - a combination made in heaven, makes for beautiful pairing. The buttermilk in the pound cake gives it a beautiful, light crumb. It's very nice warm, and good even the next day. The blueberries rehydrate with the lime and buttermilk and add glory to the cake. This is one basic cake I make ALL the time, the recipe lives in my head, and takes any number of flavour combinations willingly.
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Biscuit Joconde Imprime/Entremet … Strawberry & Chocolate; Espresso & Chocolate
A Biscuit Joconde Imprime to wrap around an Entremets dessert. A Daring Bakers challenge done in 2 hues - Strawberry Bavarian Mousse with Chocolate Cream, and Espresso Panna Cotta with Chocolate Cream. Fabulous learning experience!!
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Strawberries & Cream Mac-O-range Cake … Macinspirations
A cake with flavours I love - strawberries, cream and orange. I added macarons around and on top for effect as I was elated to have found enough feet to go around a cake! Gosh, it isn't often that I find so much mac-success, so mac-inspiration was in order.
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Garam Masala Fruit Cake … a twist to the traditional, my recipe from scratch!
A Christmas Fruit Cake with a twist. Have you ever added garam masala to your fruit cake? You really should try it. It doesn't add curry flavours to your cake, I promise. It adds deep warm winter flavours that mingle with the fruit ever so deliciously, you'll wonder what kept you away so long.
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Apple Cake … Dorie Greenspan’s winning recipe
Everything about Marie Helen's Apple Cake for Dorie Greenspans new book is wonderful & well balanced - the fruit, the texture, the sweetness, the lightness; above all the power to satisfy. The best dessert we've had in a while ... fresh baked, almost steaming hot, a cake which unbelievingly delivered perfect light as cloud slices. I added a scraped vanilla bean to the batter, and flaked almonds on top. It's a designated winner in my book; one which I will make over and over again.
