A Year of Home Baking

Diposting oleh good reading on Jumat, 28 Desember 2007

One year has already past since I first started this blog.This was my intention when I first started this blog:I hope I am able to get ideas and suggestions from fellow home bakers to improve my baking skills. At the same [...]
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Here Comes Santa Claus!

Diposting oleh good reading on Senin, 24 Desember 2007

Santa Claus finally came over to our house last night ;)My two boys have been waiting for this day ever since the school holidays started. During the past weeks, they kept changing their minds about what to wish for from [...]
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Let it Snow!

Diposting oleh good reading on Minggu, 23 Desember 2007

Living almost right on the Equator means that we never get to see snow on Christmas. In fact I didn't get to experience snow until we went for our honeymoon. My first encounter with snow was at Mount Titlis, Switzerland. [...]
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RECIPE REVIEW: DECEMBER MISSION: GREENSPAN'S BLACK AND WHITE CHOCOLATE CAKE

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greenspan's black and white chocolate cake: let's say it had potential but came short in delivery. i had to decorate with tons of white and dark chocolate shavings to distract people from the ugly sides of the cake the [...]
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CURDLED MOUSSE EMERGENCY!

Diposting oleh good reading on Sabtu, 22 Desember 2007

any ideas what to do with curdled white chocolate mousse?I knew I shouldn't have mouthed off about how I didn't think there would be a problem with me making Dorie Greenspan's Black and White Chocolate Cake recipe.Perhaps [...]
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CHRISTMAS COOKIE BOXES: LAST ROUND!

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a stack of christmas cookie boxes ready for givingWHEW! with all this baking going on, i forgot to make christmas cards this year (oops!) so instead i made a little card with a list of the contents inside I don't want [...]
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Colour My World

Diposting oleh good reading on Jumat, 21 Desember 2007

This is a slice of a birthday cake I made for my younger son.As compared to his elder brother, somehow, it seems to take a longer time for this boy to grow! Due to his small built, plus, his behaviour, he seems to be a baby [...]
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ALMOND COCOA NIB STICKS

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crispy, crunchy and not too sweet--these are a perfect gift for a chocolate connoisseurAAAACK! only 4 more days until Christmas! There's so much baking and Christmas cooking to be done and so little time! I've whittled [...]
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PISTACHIO COCOA NIB THINS

Diposting oleh good reading on Kamis, 20 Desember 2007

pistachio & cocoa nib thinsAt last, my baking frenzy is winding down. Here I am playing around with the Nibby Pecan Cookies ; replacing the pecans with pistachios as Tartelette did. I didn't bother chopping the pistachios [...]
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TIFFANY SNOWFLAKE COOKIES

Diposting oleh good reading on Rabu, 19 Desember 2007

tiffany snowflake cookies a bowl of cute vanilla pod mini-snowflakesthis was cakebrain's first stab at decorating intricate snowflake cookies with royal icingAfter my fortuitous excursion to Williams-Sonoma, where I picked [...]
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CAKEBRAIN'S CHRISTMAS COOKIE BOXES: ROUND 1

Diposting oleh good reading on Senin, 17 Desember 2007

here's what the first batch of christmas cookie boxes looks like insideAhhh...'tis the season to be weary. clockwise from top left: world peace, vanilla butter, green tea christmas trees, bah humbug black sesame butter [...]
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