3/27/10
Clementine Tian (Daring Bakers)

The 2010 March Daring Baker’s challenge was hosted by Jennifer of Chocolate Shavings. She chose Orange Tian as the challenge for this month, a dessert based on a recipe from Alain Ducasse’s Cooking School in Paris. This refreshing layered dessert consists of a pâte sablée with clementine marmalade, lightly flavoured whipped cream, clementine segments, and a clementine caramel sauce (shown below.) I chose to use clementines in place of oranges because I love them and there were all I had in my refrigerator.
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Daring Bakers Challenge
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3/23/10
Tuesdays with Dorie: Dulce de Leche Duos
Once more, with feeling.
The recipe for these cookies is the only one from the book that I have been slightly disappointed with.
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Cookies ,
Dulce de Leche ,
Tuesdays with Dorie
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3/16/10
Baileys & Crème de Menthe Brownies
I promise, the green filling in these brownies is all from the crème de menthe, I have not backed out of my vow to avoid food colouring (with the exception of red velvet cake and that time when I was 5 and wanted to be a blonde.)
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Alcohol ,
Brownies ,
Chocolate
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Soft Dark Chocolate and Blueberry Tart (TWD)
I know. The pictures are all shot from the same angle. I'm not sure why, and it wasn't an issue until I uploaded them and realized how un-artistically uniform they appear, as though they're in a police line-up.
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Berries ,
Chocolate ,
Tarts ,
Tuesdays with Dorie
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3/12/10
Jensen Bars
Since I played around with the original recipe by adding various ingredients, including a sauce, I tried to come up with a compact, Mini Cooper name for these bars that was also inclusive of all the components.
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Bars ,
Blondies ,
Butterscotch ,
Cinnamon
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3/10/10
Cook's Illustrated Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie
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Chocolate ,
Chocolate Chip ,
Cookies
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3/9/10
Blueberry and Apricot Almond Thumbprints (TWD)
These cookies are fabulous. I loved everything about them. From their jewel toned eyes to their lacy dressing of powdered sugar.
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Cookies ,
Nuts ,
Tuesdays with Dorie
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3/2/10
Mini Toasted-Coconut Lime Custard Tart (TWD)
Rum, coconut custard, and fluffy whipped cream. All that was missing was the lime and private cove from a Maxfield Parrish painting. The lime was easy to incorporate. The weather here is wet, slushy, and muddy so the sea side sunset wish would have required a lot more rum than I was willing to ingest.
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Alcohol ,
Coconut ,
Tarts ,
Tuesdays with Dorie
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