Roopa After book club today – the book was The Power of Habit, so I felt very inspired to exert excellent self control over my eating – my friends Gina and Alex came over to bake some mini doughnuts. We’ve been planning a baking date for ages, and I am still excessively excited about this … More Earl Grey Baby Doughnuts with Cardamom Glaze
Alana Despite only being back home for a short time after my pastry school adventure, I’m off to spend the weekend in Jasper! This weekend is the Jasper Pride Festival, and I’m heading down with a few friends to celebrate and have a gay ‘ol time (pun!) This years theme is “From Jasper with Love “(James … More Banana Banana Bread II
Roopa After I impressively screwed up these doughnuts I felt compelled to make some redemption doughnuts. I had leftover buttermilk and a good night’s sleep! I read the recipe correctly this time, and made the changes based on how the last ones turned out. I also made a plain glaze, but I tried heating it to … More Chocolate Baby Doughnuts: V2
Roopa As you may have noticed, we now own the domain of chateaugateau.ca (yay!), and that is all thanks to my friend Akos. To thank him, I promised that I would bake him something, so I thought I’d whip up some baby doughnuts to take to volleyball. I wanted to make something pretty easy since … More Chocolate Baby Doughnuts
Team Shambles Neither of us ever go out of our way to have creme brulee, but this was pretty good… Creme brulee is actually a very simple dessert to prepare, however the real challenge is baking it properly. Chef Marco also insisted that using proper ramekins is mandatory; you must achieve the proper ratio of … More Creme Brulee
Team Shambles This cake is a combination of a pistachio cheesecake, sour cherries, and mousse. You wouldn’t necessarily think the pistachio would mix well with the sour cherries, but it’s a very complementary pairing! On an unrelated note, hand mixing of meringues and whipped cream have really made us appreciate technology. Roopa’s favourite! PISTACHIO SOUR … More Pistachio & Sour Cherry Cheesecake
Team Shambles Creme caramel and creme brulee are a big part of why we were excited for the cheesecakes course. Alana has made creme brulee a few times, and talked a little bit about the differences between creme brulee and creme caramel here. The main points referred to the differences in presentation, but didn’t actually look … More Creme Caramel
Team Shambles This particular cheesecake tasted like it could be cousins with a banana cream pie. Roopa’s classmates devoured half of it before class even started in the morning! There is some fierce banana action in this cheesecake; banana-lovers rejoice! COCONUT STREUSEL INGREDIENTS 60 g granulated sugar 60 g butter 90 g coconut powder DIRECTIONS … More Banana Sour Cream Cheesecake
Alana This pie needs no reason or explanation! I recruited Mike to help me because I hoped that he would have all the digits of pi memorized, so I could put on the pie. Sadly he doesn’t, so we needed to look them up on the Google. Engineers are so useless when it comes to … More Happy Pi Day!
Team Shambles Camembert cheesecake? What? We were taken back a little bit when we saw this recipe, because the cheesecakes that people are most familiar with use cream cheese and not, well, Camembert! Roopa (who is admittedly not a connoisseur of most things) had not even heard of Camembert cheese before! Regardless, it’s not an … More Camembert Cheesecake
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