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Daring Bakers: Croquembouche

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. The recipes I used for the choux buns and the pastry cream were from the BBC good food [...]

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Chocolate Bread and Barbeque

It’s been a really great weekend, the weather was lovely and I managed to get quite a bit done in the vegetable patch. We also had the first barbeque of the year in the garden (including giant sirloin steaks from butchers extraordinaire …  Orr’s of Holywood). Unfortunately its Monday now and I’m back at work [...]

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Posted on May 3, 2010 at 11:57 pm by Marv Woodhouse · Permalink · 2 Comments
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A Lemon Trilogy Part 3: Lemon Macarons

After the success of my Raspberry Macarons I decided to complete the ‘Lemon Trilogy’ by making Lemon Macarons for this month’s ‘Easter’ Mactweets theme.  The recipe for the shells are adapted from the Rose Macaron shells I made previously.  I omitted the red food colouring and added 2 tsp of pure lemon oil to the ground [...]

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Posted on April 12, 2010 at 4:40 pm by Marv Woodhouse · Permalink · 9 Comments
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Raspberry Macarons

I have been wanting to bake macarons for a while and inspired by the wonderful creations by Edward Kimber, Aran Goyoaga and Helene Dujardin I decided to have a crack at making my own. Pierre Herme is the undisputed master of this elegant confection and the recipe for the rose shells are from his book [...]

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Posted on March 21, 2010 at 3:14 pm by Marv Woodhouse · Permalink · 12 Comments
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Chocolate Covered Salted Caramels

This made up one component of my Christmas chocolate gift bags.  I used Dan Lepard’s recipe to make a soft caramel sauce.  I tempered 72% dark chocolate (green and blacks cooking grade) using a microwave and my fabulously useful  ikea cooking thermometer a bargain at £7 and good for the Christmas turkey too. The tempering [...]

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Posted on January 17, 2010 at 2:15 pm by Marv Woodhouse · Permalink · Leave a comment
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