In the words of Homer Simpson...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm....doughnuts.



Homemade Vanilla Bean Glazed Doughnuts

The October 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Lori of Butter Me Up. Lori chose to challenge DBers to make doughnuts. She used several sources for her recipes including Alton Brown, Nancy Silverton, Kate Neumann and Epicurious. Thankfully, I no longer have a fear of frying, so I was pretty excited about this

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Piece Montée -also known as Croquembouche

Even the name sounds yummy.... cro-kemmmmmmm-booooooooshhhhh.



The May 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake. Cat challenged everyone to make a piece montée, or croquembouche, based on recipes from Peter Kump’s Baking School in Manhattan and Nick Malgieri. I was super excited when I this month's challenge, for a bunch of reasons...

I won't have to make anyone

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The Perfect Chocolate Éclair

If there's one thing my sister and I have a weakness for, it's cream. Thick, luxurious, sweet heavy cream. We've each been guilty of pouring straight heavy cream onto our morning cereal (why waste your time with milk?). Growing up, a bowl of sliced bananas or strawberries with cream and a sprinkling of sugar was (and still is) comfort food for us both. Whipped cream was served with so many

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