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Posted in Cakes and tarts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen on May 27th, 2010
I won’t lie. We are pretty proud of this! Croquembouche seems like the kind of thing that would be inordinately difficult, but it was surprisingly pretty simple. When we found out that this was the Daring Bakers’ May challenge, we felt a little intimidated. But it all turned out well. There are three fairly easy [...]
Posted in Biscuits, slices and muffins, Desserts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Feb 27th, 2010
At boarding school, we were given ‘tiramisu’ for dessert about once a month. I remember it as a foul concoction of supermarket jam scrolls, packet custard, and raspberry jelly. (Or whatever leftovers the cook decided to ‘inventively’ combine.) It was not one of my favoured desserts in those days. The tiramisu that was set as [...]
