Tag: dessert

Daring Bakers: Tiramisu

The February 2010 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington...

Ribbon Candy

Now that DIY projects like homebrewing and canning are becoming so popular, it seems to me that it is only a matter of time before candymaking gets its moment in the sun. Most of the materials are inexpensive, the...

Daring Bakers: Cannoli

The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and...

Our Last Night in Hong Kong

On the very last night of our trip, in between finding our hostel (located in the Mirador Mansions, a building in the mold of, and neighbor to, the infamous Chungking Mansions) and repacking our souvenirs for the airport, we...

Daring Bakers: French (Frozen) Yule Log

This will be my last Daring Bakers entry until May, so I'm glad it was an exciting one! This month's challenge is brought to us by the adventurous Hilda from Saffron and Blueberry and Marion from Il en Faut Peu...

Election Cake

"I like the idea of baking [to celebrate] the right to vote," says Kim O'Donnel, whose article on election cake appeared in The Washington Post two years ago. So do I! Election cake is actually a yeast bread. It's...

Shave Ice

Shave ice is as strongly associated with Hawaii as poi, and much more favorably regarded. Shave ice is the sophisticated sister of the snow cone, trading clunky crushed ice for delicate flakes shaved from a block, a difference that makes...