Daring Bakers

Yeah!! I did it! I finshed a Daring Baker challenge ahead of time!It’s been far too long since I last finished a Daring Baker challenge and when I found out that my dear friend from Life’s a Feast, Jamie was co-hosting this event together with Ria from Ria’s Collection, I just knew I had to [...]

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I think this is possibly the first time ever that I am finishing a Daring Baker challenge this early! I still have almost two weeks left! It’s been quite a while since I last completed a challenge and now that things have quieted down a little bit I figured I would definitely be making the [...]

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What is it with me and the Daring Bakers…? I forget one completely (but manage to make it a day late) and now I just did not have the time to make this lovely Orange Tian on time. Ofcourse it is not so much the fact that I do not have time, but maybe I [...]

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I was quite excited when I read what the Daring Bakers challenge for this month was gonna be… Tiramisu…  And it would be hosted by two of my favorite blogs! Tiramisu is an old time favorite in this household and in fact something I make almost every year for New Years when we go and [...]

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Ok, don’t you all dare to laugh at me… Yes I forgot to make the challenge but I think I came back pretty quickly didn’t I? I was lucky that an appointment for today was cancelled so I all of a sudden had time to make these lovely bars. I first started with making the [...]

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Daring Bakers…. oooooo

by Simone (junglefrog) on January 27, 2010 · 12 comments

in Challenges, Daring Bakers

If you came here thinking to look at beautiful Nanaimo bars you’re in for a disappointment. I all of a sudden realized TODAY that I should be posting these lovely bars TODAY… And I forgot; completely and utterly forgot to make them! How incredibly stupid… I had so looked forward to making the bars that [...]

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Can you believe it is only two days till christmas?? I’ve been running around all day doing last minute errands and not trying to be overrun by the crazy shopping crowd… I am so happy I will not have to go shopping tomorrow as that must be the worst day of the year! Carloads full [...]

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Daring Bakers; French macarons

by Simone (junglefrog) on October 27, 2009 · 50 comments

in Challenges, Daring Bakers, Food and Drink

Macarons

I want feet, I want feet, I want feet.. But…. as you can see…. no feet (again) When I saw that the Daring Bakers challenge for october was making french macarons I figured I had a potentially good chance of succeeding. It would of-course be my fourth attempt at making macarons and with two fails [...]

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Vol-au-vents: Daring Bakers september 09

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 27, 2009 · 43 comments

in Challenges, Daring Bakers, Food and Drink

With tuna

When coming back from holiday one of the first things I did was to check out the new assignment for the daring bakers. I would ofcourse have less time then the usual month, so figured I should make sure that I could do it in the time left. So when I read that we were [...]

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Three variations to the one theme

Yesterday I all of a sudden realized that I had to complete both the Daring Bakers and the Daring Cooks this week if I wanted to have it completed before I go on holiday! Now I had been planning this cake for this week anyway, so that was no issue, but I did not plan [...]

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Mallows; Daring Bakers July challenge

by Simone (junglefrog) on July 27, 2009 · 46 comments

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What can I say? It was probably one of those days… One of those days that I should have not gotten myself into the kitchen and let alone try and make corn syrup! The July Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from [...]

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