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November 2008 Daring Bakers Challenge Author: Shuna Fish Lydon Recipe Origin: Caramel Cake, the recipe DB Challenge Hosts: Dolores of Culinary Curiosity , Alex of Blondie and Brownie , and Jenny of Foray into Food with gluten-free recipe assistance from Natalie of Gluten-a-Go-Go . --- It will come as...

Our host for this month's challenge is Rosa of Rosa's Yummy Yums . In honor of Sher , who was to be her co-host for this month, Rosa went with Sher's challenge idea: Peter Reinhart's basic pizza dough. I had a lot of fun with this challenge. Shane, my friend Nancy and I gathered in the...

Our DB hosts this month, Shel of Musings from the Fishbowl and Natalie of Gluten A Go Go , challenged us to make lavash, a type of flatbread, and a vegan dip of our choosing. Although we were given the option of baking the lavash without gluten, I went for gluten. The recipe came together fairly easily...

There are a lot of steps in making the Filbert Gateau with Praline Buttercream -- the recipe is almost as long as the name -- but it wasn't an overly difficult cake to make. (Though getting a cake to look beautiful is difficult, and I need a lot more practice before one of my cakes could be mistaken...

My camera died, so it may be a while before pics accompany recipes again. I'll try to get things back to normal ASAP! There are three types of food I'm very particular (if not snobby) about: 1) Pizza (NY style Neapolitan) 2) Lasagna (mine) 3) Bagels I'm not sure many people have had genuine...

This month's Daring Bakers challenge was an opera cake and oh, what beautiful examples of the opera cake can be found on the other DB blogs! Unfortunately, preparing for CRB's gigs (Friday and next Wednesday) have made me too busy to complete this month's challenge. We're doing several...

When Lis , Ivonne , Fran and Shea announced this month's Daring Baker Challenge -- an opera cake sans the traditional coffee and dark chocolate flavors -- I was apprehensive. What flavors should I use to make this my own? How many steps in this recipe? How many ingredients? How much will they cost...

Lessoned learned during this month's Daring Bakers Challenge: you can't hurry cheesecake pops (noooo you just have to wait .... pops don't come easy .... it's a game of ... sorry, got carried away). The challenge, from Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey by Jill O'Connor, looked like a fun...

I was thrilled when March's DB challenged was announced: Dorrie Greenspan's perfect party cake. Our host, Morven of Food Art and Random Thoughts , said we could play around, adapting the recipe's flavor as we liked; we just needed to stick to a layer cake format. Who doesn't love cake...

This month's Daring Bakers challenge was a convenient one for me, because it was a dessert I could serve on Easter. It was a party cake by Dorie Greenspan that had lots of room for creativity. I decided on a lemony cake and frosting, with strawberry jam in the middle and strawberries in the middle...