This month's MacTweets Challenge comes hot on the heels of my trip to Food Blogger Connect, in London. It was an incredible trip, one of the best things being tha I finally got to meet a few of my fellow MacTweeters like Cecilia with her One Vanilla Bean, Bethany and all of her Dirty Kitchen Secrets, Pam a.k.a. the Cooking Ninja, Sarah, who lives at the fabulous Maison Cupcake, the fabulous Mowie
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Showing posts with label pastry cream. Show all posts
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 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
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