By Jeanne, on November 27th, 2009
The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchenby Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and The Sopranos Family Cookbook by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michelle Scicolone, as ingredient/direction guides. She added her own modifications/changes, so the recipe is not 100% verbatim from either book.
I am officially a Daring Baker, and this is my first challenge! I’m not sure that I would ever have attempted to make cannoli on my own. That’s why I joined the Daring Bakers…to bake outside the box (er, mixing bowl?).
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By Jeanne, on November 8th, 2009
Do you prefer cookies or muffins? Well, now you can have your pick. Or, if you can’t make up your mind, make both! That’s what I did today.
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By Jeanne, on October 20th, 2009
Autumn is my favorite season for baking. The weather is just starting to get cool enough to turn on the oven more frequently. The apple orchards in Oak Glen have fresh apple cider and a large variety of apples to choose from. Pumpkin patches have cropped up all over the area.
Apples and pumpkin are two of my most favorite ingredients. A few weeks ago, on my Saturday stroll down the baking aisle at Trader Joe’s, I was ecstatic to see that they had finally made room on their shelves for cans of organic pumpkin. Just in case this pumpkin shortage that I’ve heard about is for real, I bought a few cans.
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