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Chocolate and Chestnut Buche de Noel
January 08th, 2008 | Category: Baked Goods, Cakes, Chocolate
Here’s the Chocolate and Chestnut Buche de Noel with Marzipan Mushrooms and Acorns we enjoyed at the New Year’s Eve dinner party. Come December, there would be a debate at the Mansion on what to prepare for the dinner party. For dessert, a few would always insist on a chocolate and raspberry cake, just because nothing can top that. Some wouldn’t even participate in the debate, since they pretty much enjoy everything. For me, it has to be something new. For one, I have a food blog and it is always nice to blog about something new. Secondly, how do we know the cake we ate last year was the best without exhausting all the possibilities from the piles of cookbooks I bought over the years? Someone needs to put them into good use, right?
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The Brioche Tart That Made Julia Child Cry
January 04th, 2008 | Category: Baked Goods, Chocolate, Ralph & The Mansion, Tart
As I am writing this post, first snow of the season is hitting the streets of Ä°stanbul. It was the only thing missing at our New Year’s Eve dinner party.
I baked two desserts for the occasion: Chocolate and Chestnut Buche de Noel and The Brioche Tart that made Julia Child Cry. Can you believe that name? I didn’t watch that specific episode, but apparently in one of the Baking with Julia episodes, she cried after having a bite of this tart. None of us cried at the dinner table, but it sure was delicious.
Here are some photos from the New Year’s dinner party at the Mansion…
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Best of Cafe Fernando 2007
January 01st, 2008 | Category: Memoir/Meme/Misc.
Another year has passed. Here is a quick recap of the most popular posts of 2007.
David hosted January’s Sugar High Friday event and I baked Chocolate Caramel Pot de Creme from one of my favorite cookbooks of the year, The Sweet Life: Desserts from Chanterelle by Kate Zuckerman.
The highlight of February was the story I wrote about my first day in San Francisco. Vanskapkaka, the imaginary St. Olaf friendship cake from the TV show “The Golden Girls” accompanied the post.
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