This month's Daring Baker challenge was fantastic! I didn't quite get it right, purely my fault, lack of planning and loads of procrastination, but it tasted fantastic anyway. I mean, come on. Home-made ice-cream, home baked Swiss Roll, combined to make a cake. Yum!
Coffee ice-cream, choc fudge sauce, choc chip ice-cream
Vanilla & marshmallow, choc fudge sauce and choc chip ice-cream
Moist sponge with small chunks of apple, spiced with cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Filled with creamy dulce de leche and finished off with tangy and smooth cream cheese frosting.
Yum!
Ok!
Make that a triple chocolate threesome cheesecake drenched with warm Frangelico sauce. That's what I call a happy birthday!
I had a lot of fun with this challenge and made three different flavoured Tiramisu, Baileys, Frangelico and Lavender with Earl Grey tea, and used three different recipes, one of them being the DB challenge recipe.
I think the one I had the most fun with was my Blue Rinse Tiramisu, named that way because when I thought of the combination of lavender with Earl Grey tea, old ladies with blue hair came to mind!
I loved all three flavours and would make each of them again.
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Rice Krispie, Strawberry Pop & Mars Bar Coco Pop Treats
P.S. Happy Valentine's Day!
]]>Make your own Graham Crackers. Ok, easy enough.
Gluten free.
Ah! There's the twist!
It was a good experience and I'm glad to have learnt something about baking gluten free, my neighbour's daughter has just been diagnosed with Celiacs disease so I had her in mind when I made January's challenge.
There was a second part to the challenge, to use the Graham Crackers to make Nanaimo Bars. These seriously sweet bars are absolutely fantastic and there's a lot you can do with flavour variations.
Daring Bakers January '10: GF Graham Crackers & Nanaimo Bars
Jill from Jillicious Discoveries passed on the "Over the Top" blog award... to me!
Thanks so much Jill, I love that you enjoy my site and find the content and photos appealing :D
And now, I'm going to pass this award on to two other blogs that I enjoy.
Firstly, Lisa @ Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives
Her blog deserves this award because everything she does is over the top, in the best way possible. She never does anything half heartedly. With all her food creations, she goes above and beyond to make them interesting, tasty, and of course, visually delicious too!
And then I'm also passing this on to Kris @ Bake In Paris
Kris's photos are just beautiful and every single pic makes me want to lick my screen! Definitely worthy of the Over the Top award :)
]]>Whatever Christmas means to you, I wish you a joy-filled festive season full of love and good memories in the making, and a wonderful 2010.
And enjoy these lovely little festive macarons too!
Gingerbread: Spiced with gingerbread spices, filled with a ginger spiced buttercream and a little surprise in the middle, a small peice of crystallised ginger
Mulled Spice: Lovely mulled spiced shells filled with a tasty brandy buttercream
Candy Cane: Bright red & white macarons filled with peppermint buttercream
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Need I say more?
21 again! ;)