I love sponge cake. I didn’t know it until I went to pastry school, because I never had it growing up. I don’t know exactly why I love the airy, eggy stuff – I can’t stand eggs on their own but add sugar and I’m all over ‘em. The other day I was flipping through [...]
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Spongecake Mochipants
Sunday, March 27th, 2011Daring Bakers April 2010: Steamed Pudding
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet. I wasn’t terribly excited about this challenge at first, and didn’t bother with the whole suet thing, choosing instead to substitute butter (of [...]
The Spoils of Food Blogging
Thursday, April 8th, 2010As much as I enjoy participating in the Daring Bakers, I do run into the same problem fairly frequently – I make some component for the challenge dessert and end up with much too much of whatever it is. This time, it was grapefruit marmalade. Luckily, I only had to wonder what I was going [...]
