Posts Tagged ‘meringue’

Iron Cupcake: Summer Berries I

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

June is my birth month and I have a deep love for all things sweet and summery, so I was super thrilled to find out that this month’s Iron Cupcake theme is Summer Berries! There are four main summer berries that come to mind (strawberry, blueberry, raspberry and blackberry) and I’ve planned a cupcake for [...]

Apricot Strudel: Daring Bakers May 2009

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

The May Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Linda of make life sweeter! and Courtney of Coco Cooks. They chose Apple Strudel from the recipe book Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest and Prague by Rick Rodgers. As you can see, I didn’t make an apple strudel. I had a bunch of [...]

Just Because

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

I’ll be writing up my trip to New York in the coming days – I’ve got a lot of pictures to edit and a box of the most gorgeous macarons to eat. But in the meantime, here’s a little something sweet I put together before I left.

Big Fat (Vanilla) Beans

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Though I’m glad I was able to acquire a bunch of lovely, fat, juicy vanilla beans relatively cheaply online, I’ve been trying to come up with vanilla-filled goodies to make.  Since I had more egg whites left over from the wine buttercream, I decided to try some vanilla bean meringues.

So I Noticed…

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Christmas is only a few days away…and I’ve been intending to make edible goodies for people (and a couple non-edible handcrafted items).  Soooo I started last night.  I had egg whites left over from making the wine frosting the other night, and had been seeing a lot of super cute little peppermint meringues on others’ [...]