Saturday, February 28, 2009

Chocolate Valentino

As this mounth is a mounth of love for most of people around the world, in Brazil it's not - we only celebrate Valentine's Day in June - the Daring Baker's could only hav choossen a recipe to celebrate it!


The February 2009 challenge is hosted by Wendy of WMPE's blog and Dharm of Dad ~ Baker & Chef.We have chosen a Chocolate Valentino cake by Chef Wan; a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Dharm and a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Wendy as the challenge.


The ice cream was free... we could done as we wanted it.. so... as here is verrryyyy hot i choose a strawberry frozen... really good...


One of the most easy and fun to make challenge!! Just loved... oopss..


Thank's so much to this mounts hosts!!


See you next month!!


Friday, January 30, 2009

Late but here



Sooo


After two months whitout posting i finally got around to post this one, i say post 'cause the november i did it, but did make how to post it and december. well it was all crazy!!


So i'm late but i'm posting...


This month's challenge is brought to us by Karen of Bake My Day and Zorra of 1x umruehren bitte aka Kochtopf. They have chosen Tuiles from The Chocolate Book by Angélique Schmeink and Nougatine and Chocolate Tuiles from Michel Roux.
Something light to star the year! Can't say that i didn't enjoy making it but didin't really enjoed the finished product.


We had to par with something light too light mousse... so i made a Cosmopolitan mousse, with condensed milk, heavy cream, cramberry juice, vodca, orange liquor and lemon juice. It tasted fantastic!!!




So.. sorry the delay... hope i can be here next mounth.








Wednesday, October 29, 2008

PIZZA!!!!

YES!! This Mounth the Daring Bakers baked pizza!!!
This mounth challenge was hosted by Rosa from Rosa's Yummy Yums
Amazing... what a mass i made at home!! Terrible, but terrific at the same time...
Loved it.
Here's the tossing (a requeriment!)

Well, for the toppings i sticy with the simple... cheesse... lots of it with some jalapeño pepper. Very very good... definitlly a sucess.






Can't wait for November challenge ... see you there... and check out the others yummy yummu pizzas at the Daring Barkers Blogroll.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Lavash Crackers & Toppings


This mounth challenged i almost skipped, the month went on and on and i just wasn't finding the time to make... But today i finaly got it throught!! And i coulnd't be happier. Lavash Crackers and Dips to go with it, and ohh... vegan/gluten free. When i saw this mounth challenge i have to say i got exited, dips vegan/gluten free, but, but, but... cheese makes a excelent dip!!! What would i make? So, 'cause of timing i ended up making the lavash non gluten free (didn't have the proper flour and agave syrup) with a sweet and a savory topping (sugar and sugar with cinnamon and sesame seeds) and for the dips a apple puré, of course with rhun and a tomato dip.
I just loved it was read for lunch time, very easy, nice to make and distressfull!!!
Thank you so much Natalie and Shel for bringing this lovely lovely recipe.
The recipe i post here as it is and check out the creations of my fellow bakers at our blogroll.


Makes 1 sheet pan of crackers

* 1 1/2 cups (6.75 oz) unbleached bread flour or gluten free flour blend (If you use a blend without xanthan gum, add 1 tsp xanthan or guar gum to the recipe)
* 1/2 tsp (.13 oz) salt
* 1/2 tsp (.055 oz) instant yeast
* 1 Tb (.75 oz) agave syrup or sugar
* 1 Tb (.5 oz) vegetable oil
* 1/3 to 1/2 cup + 2 Tb (3 to 4 oz) water, at room temperature
* Poppy seeds, sesame seeds, paprika, cumin seeds, caraway seeds, or kosher salt for toppings

1. In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour, salt yeast, agave, oil, and just enough water to bring everything together into a ball. You may not need the full 1/2 cup + 2 Tb of water, but be prepared to use it all if needed.

2. For Non Gluten Free Cracker Dough: Sprinkle some flour on the counter and transfer the dough to the counter. Knead for about 10 minutes, or until the ingredients are evenly distributed. The dough should pass the windowpane test (see http://www.wikihow.com/Determine-if-Bre … ong-Enough for a discription of this) and register 77 degrees to 81 degrees Fahrenheit. The dough should be firmer than French bread dough, but not quite as firm as bagel dough (what I call medium-firm dough), satiny to the touch, not tacky, and supple enough to stretch when pulled. Lightly oil a bowl and transfer the dough to the bowl, rolling it around to coat it with oil. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap.

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2. For Gluten Free Cracker Dough: The dough should be firmer than French bread dough, but not quite as firm as bagel dough (what I call medium-firm dough), and slightly tacky. Lightly oil a bowl and transfer the dough to the bowl, rolling it around to coat it with oil. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap.

3. Ferment at room temperature for 90 minutes, or until the dough doubles in size. (You can also retard the dough overnight in the refrigerator immediately after kneading or mixing).

4. For Non Gluten Free Cracker Dough: Mist the counter lightly with spray oil and transfer the dough to the counter. Press the dough into a square with your hand and dust the top of the dough lightly with flour. Roll it out with a rolling pin into a paper thin sheet about 15 inches by 12 inches. You may have to stop from time to time so that the gluten can relax. At these times, lift the dough from the counter and wave it a little, and then lay it back down. Cover it with a towel or plastic wrap while it relaxes. When it is the desired thinness, let the dough relax for 5 minutes. Line a sheet pan with baking parchment. Carefully lift the sheet of dough and lay it on the parchment. If it overlaps the edge of the pan, snip off the excess with scissors.

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4. For Gluten Free Cracker Dough: Lay out two sheets of parchment paper. Divide the cracker dough in half and then sandwich the dough between the two sheets of parchment. Roll out the dough until it is a paper thin sheet about 15 inches by 12 inches. Slowly peel away the top layer of parchment paper. Then set the bottom layer of parchment paper with the cracker dough on it onto a baking sheet.

5. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit with the oven rack on the middle shelf. Mist the top of the dough with water and sprinkle a covering of seeds or spices on the dough (such as alternating rows of poppy seeds, sesame seeds, paprika, cumin seeds, caraway seeds, kosher or pretzel salt, etc.) Be careful with spices and salt - a little goes a long way. If you want to precut the cracker, use a pizza cutter (rolling blade) and cut diamonds or rectangles in the dough. You do not need to separate the pieces, as they will snap apart after baking. If you want to make shards, bake the sheet of dough without cutting it first.

5. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the crackers begin to brown evenly across the top (the time will depend on how thinly and evenly you rolled the dough).

6. When the crackers are baked, remove the pan from the oven and let them cool in the pan for about 10 minutes. You can then snap them apart or snap off shards and serve.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

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 .

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

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 28th 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.