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Daring Bakers: Puff Pastry

September 27, 2009 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

Puff pastry was far from a disaster, but it was the most physically demanding challenge to date, as I had to push so hard on my rolling pin that the heels of my hands were bruised for two days afterwards. After suffering* thusly, you can bet I would have broken a window or a least eaten some ice cream right out of the carton if the darn stuff hadn’t puffed. But it did puff. #&@%*.

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Daring Bakers: Milano & Mallow Cookies

July 27, 2009 Cookies

Since May, I’ve had a poster over my desk at work with COOKIES scrawled in Sharpie at the top, followed by a list of names and check marks. When I needed a favor this spring, my default promise was “I’ll bake you cookies.” At least one person said “I’ll hold you to that.” In July, I made good, embarking on Christmas in July Cookiefest 2009 as part of the July Daring Bakers challenge: Milano cookies and Mallow cookies.

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February Challenge: Make the Sweets Yourself

February 5, 2008 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

Here’s the ingredient list for a Twinkie: Enriched wheat flour, sugar, corn syrup, water, high fructose corn syrup, vegetable and/or animal shortening (containing one or more of partially hydrogenated soybean, cottonseed or canola oil, or beef fat), dextrose, whole eggs, modified corn starch, cellulose gum, whey, leavenings (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), salt, [...]

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