My OperaNovember 2008 Daring Bakers Chalenge!
Saturday, November 29, 2008 11:43:00 PM
Hello, everybody! This is the first time I am part of a Daring Bakers Event!
Well, just as a quick explanation, The Daring Bakers are a comunity of blogers and anonimous cookers who have united themselves to dare baking some new and different recipe, decided by the monthly hosts, and then, we post all our results in the very same day (which, for November 2008, it is today, the 29th!).
This month's chalenge was hosted by Dolores, from Chronicles in Culinary Curiosity and co-hosted by Alex (from Brownie and Brownie) and Jenny (from Foray into Food). And to help about alternative baking, Natalie, from Gluten-a-Go-Go gave a special assistance!
And Dolores told us to bake Shuna Fish Lydon's Caramel Cake, from Eggbeater. Her original recipe is posted here.
Baking this cake was really funny!
First, I made the caramel syrup. Last time I tried to make caramel, I burned the first batch, and the second one was more like molten sugar than caramel (ok, I know, melting sugar is the process to make caramels, but really, the flavors are so different!). But I think I had luck, and this time, it worked really fine!
Then, I made the cake, and baked in two formats. A small one, to send my parents, and a larger one, for a small home party, I had with some friends!
Well, just as a quick explanation, The Daring Bakers are a comunity of blogers and anonimous cookers who have united themselves to dare baking some new and different recipe, decided by the monthly hosts, and then, we post all our results in the very same day (which, for November 2008, it is today, the 29th!).
This month's chalenge was hosted by Dolores, from Chronicles in Culinary Curiosity and co-hosted by Alex (from Brownie and Brownie) and Jenny (from Foray into Food). And to help about alternative baking, Natalie, from Gluten-a-Go-Go gave a special assistance!
And Dolores told us to bake Shuna Fish Lydon's Caramel Cake, from Eggbeater. Her original recipe is posted here.
Baking this cake was really funny!
First, I made the caramel syrup. Last time I tried to make caramel, I burned the first batch, and the second one was more like molten sugar than caramel (ok, I know, melting sugar is the process to make caramels, but really, the flavors are so different!). But I think I had luck, and this time, it worked really fine!
Then, I made the cake, and baked in two formats. A small one, to send my parents, and a larger one, for a small home party, I had with some friends!
