Jason from daily candor has challenged us to make armenian desserts for this month's edition of daring bakers. nazooks are filled and rolled cookies, i made two different versions: the traditionnal vanilla filling and an almond variant this is the recipe we were given: "yields 40 pieces ingredients pastry dough 3 cups (720 ml) (420 gm/15 oz) all-pu

I like to make puff pastries. they're easy, fast and impressive. but i must admit that making puff pastry swans are just as easy, almost as fast and way more impressive!! it was kat from the bobwhites that challenged us to make some of these beauties for august's daring bakers challenge, ok i'm very, very late but i have a really really really good

Second cracker attempt made for the daring bakers july challenge ingrediants: 1 pkg (5,5g) instant dry yeast corse salt 2 cups rye flour 1 cup t65 wheat flour 2 tbs honey 1 cup milk spices (cumin, caraway, fennel, coriander,...) method: i) disolve the yeast in the milk. set aside to proof itself. ii) after 5min when the yeast has foamed up, add the

Rasberry, almond and yogurt loaf: this recipe was adapted from the joy of cooking, it stays very close to the original recipe i just added a few personnal touches. mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl: - 2 cups flour (t65) - 1 tbs baking powder - 1/2 tea salt in another bowl beat: - 2 eggs - 1 cup milk/ yogurt - 2/3 cup sugar - 100g melted butter

4 1/2 cups of flour 2 tbs sugar 2 tea salt 1 package of instant yeast 1 cup of milk 1/2 cup of water 4 tbs of butter 1 egg 1 yolk 1 white for glaze poppy seeds, sesame seeds, fried onions... combine the first 4 ingrediants, the dry ones in a big bowl, mix well. melt the butter ina a pan then add the milk and water to heat up to a vary warm temperat

I grew up in a teeny tiny house with a huge oak table in the center of it. pretty much every memory of home revolves around that table. playing under it as a kid, doing my homework on it as a teenager and then of course the meals shared around it. i was raised by a single working mom, i don't know how she did it, but every single meal was homemade.

Panettone. i don't like panettone. a towering dry loaf speckled with nasty multicolored candied fruits. so when this december marcellina from marcellina in cucina challenged us to make panettone for the last edition of daring bakers, i sighed. but since some people actually do like this bread i decided to pull up my sleaves and make it to give away

Dry mix: 130g oatmeal ground to a corse flour 250g wheat flour t65 1/2 tea cinnamon 1 1/2 tea baking soda 1/2 tea salt wet mix: 80g coconut oil 1c moist dark brown sugar 2 eggs ( or 2 tbs of chia seeds soaked for 10min in 4tbs of water) 2 tea vanilla 313g applesauce (1 1/4 c) 190g coconut cream 1/4c cashew milk note: i used coconut milk but all tha

This month i made challah breads for the may edition of the daring bakers challenge. they were definetly yummy but the recipe yeilded way to much for just the two of us, i would suggest that you cut the portions in half since this recipe made 3 loafs!! ingredients: 31g fresh yeast 1 cup of warm water 1/2 cup of brown sugar 1/2 cup of butter 2 tea o

I love crackers. among store bought crackers my favorits are beyond any doubt : cheeze its. i mean i have my dad send them all the way to france and then i hord them as a very special treat. now anyone that knows me and my "all homemade food with no wierd ingrediants" obsession will find this to be a bit of a contradiction. and it is. nobody's perf