White Chocolate Brownies

For this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie, Marthe of Culinary Delights selected White Chocolate Brownies on pages 110 and 111 of  Dorie Greenspan’s book  Baking: From My Home to Yours.  These brownies are layers of white chocolate base batter sprinkled with fresh raspberries and then topped with a meringue.  For my version, I used blueberries and [...]

Daring Bakers: Piece Montee (Croquembouche)

The May 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake. Cat challenged everyone to make a piece montée, or croquembouche, based on recipes from Peter Kump’s Baking School in Manhattan and Nick Malgieri. I almost missed the deadline for this month’s challenge. It was only this morning when I realized I [...]