So I know I haven't posted my July Daring Bakers challenge yet and seemed to have bypassed it for August, but I swear I did it. There was quite the production for making the ice cream cake- I will explain at the end.
The August 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Elissa of 17 and Baking. For the first time, The Daring Bakers partnered with Sugar High Fridays for a co-event and Elissa was the gracious hostess of both. Using the theme of beurre noisette, or browned butter, Elissa chose to challenge Daring Bakers to make a pound cake to be used in either a Baked Alaska or in Ice Cream Petit Fours. The sources for Elissa’s challenge were Gourmet magazine and David Lebovitz’s “The Perfect Scoop”.
If you haven't tried using brown butter in any baked goods you should. Everyone who had a piece loved the nutty flavour it had and kept suggesting different ice cream and glaze combinations (some actually got pretty excited about it). I used the recipe provided for the cake, some leftover maple ice cream from the July challenge and glazed it with a maple butter glaze. The snapdragons are from our garden-we have every colour you could ever want in a flower and then a few more. And they're growing all crazy.
I honestly hate the smell of brown butter. It makes me feel nauseous however it has a huge impact on the colour, taste, and texture of the cake. It looked so moist that at first I wasn't sure that it was done baking until I toothpicked it. Everything was super easy to put together (it's always nice to use up past DB challenge components) and it looks rather impressive when sharing.
As for my July challenge I haven't posted because I don't have pictures. It was done up at my cottage and the pictures are on my mother's camera which she has with her and has been up at the cottage since then. She did come home at one point and uploaded the pictures on the laptop, told me she did, then proceeded to take the laptop back up to the cottage. I don't get it. It's my mother-go figure. I should have it in the next couple days as she's coming home to help my sister move so check back soon!
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