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 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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Christmas and New Year Treats
Here is a pic of the Christmas treats I made for the lovely ladies in my life: chocolate truffles, chocolate salted caramels, chocolate peanut butter caramels, chocolate and caramel popcorn and honeycomb. Went down very well…none left now!
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