Chocolate Eclairs

OH MY GOD!!!! This mounth the challenge was amazing, not because the recipe but the origin of the recipe. We made chocolate eclairs from Pierre Herme!!! AMAZING, and the moust amazing thing was i had the book with the recipe but never tried it, i already had an amazing recipe so just kind of was sticy to it! Our lovevly hosts was MeetaK from Whats for lunch honey? and Tony Tahhan from Tony Tahhan, the recipe you can find at their blogs.

I have to say that i really enjoyed making it! Had no troubles what so ever. In the begginig i planned to make the recipe as it was given, but i wanted to do a lite treat (he really likes The Simpsons and donuts so i made him a cream puff/donut) for my boyfriend and ended up making white chocolate pastry cream, but the rest was the original recipe.

Can wait for next mounth challenge and check out the other creations from The Daring Bakers .

A FILBERT GATEAU NOT THAT MUCH FILBERT!

Sooo... This mounth challenge was a Filbert Gateau with Praline Buttercream from the book "Great Cakes" by Carol Walter, this mounth host was Chris from Mele Cotte, you can find the recipe in her blog.
This time i decided that i wanted to go out of line and not make exactelly the recipe as it says... Inside the rules, of course, so... instead of hazelnuts as the recipe called for i used macadamia and instead of the buttercream that the recipe called, a Swiss one, i decide to use a White Chocolate Cream Cheese Buttercream from "The Cake Bible", and well for the first time i really enjoyed buttercream, i always find them to butterry.
And i can honestylly say that i really liked the cake, when i first saw the challenge i tought, cake with buttercream? can i take it again?? and well this time i could.

I think the true challenge this mounth was to make praline... i don't really make it often and don't have much practice and the way that the recipe where it gave me butterflys on my bally, but every think ended up going really well as you can see.

And here is the final product.

Check out the DB's blogroll to see the master picies that my fellow bakers have created.
See you next mounth.

Danish Dought

So... as usual i only post the DB challenge of the mounth. This time the hostess were Kelly, Sass & Veracity, and Ben, What’s Cookin’?. And their choice was a Danish Dought, and i looked and wondered, what is that?, is it difficult? So i went trought their wonderfull text that was very inlightening and trought the recipa, hum... sounded a little hard, wey out of my confort zone, of course i just loved.

But it would consume a lot of time that i was kind of out this mounth, here in Brazil is the end of the semester for school and colleges, no different for me, so lots of tests, papers and lots of studying, again.... really time consuming. I tought about skiping this mounth challenge, even tought i was really excited for... so.. i waited till the end of the mounth i lucky for me i got a little time of to complete the challenge... (very tight on schedule – i made it on the 28^th of the mounth).

And i coudn’t be happier.... it went all very nice... nothing to difficult or hard working and the smelly, on the good sense... cardamom plus vanilla bean plus orange... OH MY GOD just amazing...

The recipe suggested a apple filling, but how i had strawberry and raspyberrys at home decide to combine with havy cream and white chocolate in a ganache and this was my filling... oh.. and i added a little lemon just to make it even more citrus... acutally i made a berry jam and then added the ganache and as you all can see the filling exploded... But thats OK because everything tasted so dam good that no one really cared about aperences... We just loved, and the left overs of the dought i baked just as it is and again amazing... definitlly a keeper... the dought not the combination of dought and filling.

I loved, and had a wonderfull time making it.

Thank you Kelly and Ben for this mounth challenge. The recipe you can check out on their blogs and the creations of my fellow bakers you can find here.

A late DB Challange

As ussualy I only come here to post the DB 's challanges not because i don't cook just don't cook enough or have time to take pics to post... But at leats this i'm doing.. OH NO.... this mounth i'm late... the challenge should have been posted yesterday but du to a cold i just couldn't.. but here i am today...

A liked the OPERA CAKE a lot, the challange was indeed a challange... but... with some of mom's help it all whent OK.

This mounth challange was dedicaded to Barbara of winosandfoodies.com. Barbara is the force behind the food blog event called A Taste of Yellow that supports the LiveSTRONG foundation started by Lance Armstrong.

And here are the result!
Thank you Lis and Ivonne for the great challange and mostly for creating this group.

As always you can find the recipes in their blogs.

Hope you had as much fun as i had.

BBM packge-just a litlle late

How late am I?
I've recived my packge a week a go and just now had the time to post here!
It camed all the way from Baltimore, from Katie.
Her box was just so cute, very well put together.
The itens were:
- car (with a draw made from her), a letter and a recipe;
- potatos chips;
- star foil cups (so cuteee)
- Vanilla butter
- spices
- chewy caramel

Just loved
Thank you very vey much!!

Daring Baker's go with Dorie

Hello!!

And the time of the mounth i actually post!! The DB challenge.

This Mounth we made the Perfect Party Cake by no other then Dorie Greenspan, the hostess, Morven at Food Art and Random Thoughts, gave us total freedom to make the cake as we wanted but, i decided to go with Dorie and do it just the way the recipe was.


I liked i a lot, deffinitlly a keeper for special ocasions.


Can't wait for next mounth challenge.

Please check out the recipe at blog and view the other beautifull creations of my fellow DB's.

See you soon i hope...

The Challenged i almost didn't post!!

For God sakes... HOW COUfLD I POSSIBIBLE FORGET TO POST THE CHALLENGE??
I've made this bread suck a long time ago to be sure that i would be fine and safe to post the challenge today and what happened?? Weeelll... i've forgot and remembered to post when i was coming back home at 11 (pm) o'clock!!!
So... came running to the computer and to my suprise.. were are the photos?? I simple coulnd't find them...(as you can see i found then, but only after i've finished to do the post)
But... going to the challenge it self now... As i alredy said i've made it a long time ago, in the very begging of the mounth, on the 5th.

I took the hole day to do it.... began at 8 am and finished at 7 pm, but had lots of fun. As you can see we made French Bread, but not just a french bread, it was Julia Child French Bread. Indeed a challenge, that was hostesses by Breadchick Mary (The Sour Dough) & Sara (I Like to Cook).
This mounth i wont be writing a lot but was want to give a big thanks to Mary and Sara to say that this mounth i realllllly leaft my confort zone and tried something i would have never, really never, choosen to make, and i really enjoyed to make it, i probably wont be doing it again but it was nice to know i'm able to do something like that... THANK YOU really....
The recipe is really long so i wont be posting here you can find them at Mary and/or Sara's blog.
And please... check out the other beautis that the rest of the group baked.

PS: It's 11:55!!!!