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Daring Bakers

Danish Braid

June 29, 2008
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Its daring bakers time again! This time it was another new challenge… Danish Braid. The guidelines this time around required that we use the basic dough recipe and do the apple filling and/or a filling of our choice made from scratch. I made the apple filling for one large danish braids and did a cream cheese [...]

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Cheesecake Pops

April 27, 2008
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Its that time again… daring bakers time that is! This time it was cute little cheesecake bites! When I first saw what this month’s challenge , I was thrilled because I’ve never made anything like this and hubby LOVES cheesecake. The downside of this month’s challenge… I don’t particularly care for cheesecake much. Although, maybe [...]

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Perfect Party Cake

March 30, 2008
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Its daring bakers time again! Quite honestly, I’m not sure how I manged to complete this month’s edition of Daring Bakers. All month I’d been planning to make this cake Easter weekend (also my mom’s birthday). It was going to be the perfect way to take care of this challenge. Unfortunately hubby’s grandfather got very [...]

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Lemon Meringue Pie

January 28, 2008
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For my second daring bakers challenge, the assignment was to make lemon meringue pie as chosen by Jen of The Canadian Baker. As I’ve said time and time again, I’m a chocoholic so things like lemon meringue are new experiences for me cause I tend to only bake sweets that have chocolate and consume chocolate [...]

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Buche de Noel (Yule Log)

December 22, 2007
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I’m proud to announce I am now a Daring Baker. December was the perfect time to join Daring Bakers as the Christmas baking season is upon us. What are the Daring Bakers? The Daring Bakers are a group dedicated to pushing the limits of their collective love — baking! Each month a challenge is set [...]

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