Every bite of food should be a sweet bite
Funny, how this week’s choices in both of my baking clubs force me to do things that I have never thought I would do in baking.
In one I spun sugar, to form a beautiful ball of caramel ball to top a stunning trifle and with this recipe I got to finally used my ice cream maker.
The one that has been with me for over 15 years.
And I have NEVER, EVER use.
Never!
This week's HCB choice has been in the calendar for over 3 weeks and most of the bakers have been talking non-stop about it during all that time, if you check out the HCB Blog and the recaps comments, the choice gets mentioned again and again.
This one would likely fall under the "difficult" category, not because it’s difficult to make, but after 6 pages with 6 different steps, we must call it SOMETHING! Now for most season bakers, all of those steps are not very difficult, the batter is pretty straight forward sponge cake. Then the syrup is pretty easy, the making of the Chiboust Cream is made in 30 minutes top, then there is some cutting and mixing on the next step of preparing the strawberries and the preserves. The second to last step is the whipped cream topping and then the piece of resistant, what all of us bakers been talking about for the last 3 weeks, the spun sugar step.
Yep, Rose is making us cross boundaries here and urging us to be daring bakers.
If you visit this site enough time, you probably wondering is I ever even cook savory stuff.
Let me put that to rest.
I do cook savory stuff, actually LOTS of savory dishes. Except that most is done at night, during the weekdays and after a long day at work. I tend to get home, drop everything in the dining room table and get to work on creating a fast dinner. And of course, every single time I forget to take pictures of what I’m doing.
It’s more about feeding our empty bellies than documenting the process. We are hungry people!
I know. And I hear you loud and clear. I have to get better with it and get in the grove of things and think like a good blogger and snap away during the meal preparation. I'm working on it.
But this I have to share.