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Week 43: Hot Fudge Pudding Cake
Hot Fudge Pudding Cake Today was supposed to be lava cake but we wanted to feed several people today so […]
Week 42: Chess Pie
Chess Pie This is a pie that made it on Aubrey’s wish list. I thought it was weird since she […]
Week 41: Boston Cream Pie
Boston Cream Pie If you know anything about Boston Cream Pie, you know it’s not a pie at all, it’s […]
Week 40: Galette
Galette Just when I thought we were done with the fruit desserts (it is fall after all), along comes the […]
Week 39: Gateau Breton
Gateau Breton Well, we found this recipe somewhere in our cook books or magazines when we made our list, but […]
Week 38: Italian Cream Cake
Italian Cream Cake Well, if you have been reading any of these blogs, you know that we discarded this recipe […]
Week 37: Cream Puffs & Eclairs
Cream Puffs and Eclairs This is another dessert that I have made but Aubrey hadn’t and she really wanted to […]
Week 36: Strudel
Apple Strudel We selected this dessert for the weekend of Labor Day because we have a family reunion in Ellis, […]
Week 35: Chocolate Soufflé
Chocolate Soufflé It shouldn’t be difficult to know who put this item on our list. It’s chocolate and there is […]
Week 34: Sticky Toffee Pudding
Sticky Toffee Pudding We have yet another traditional British dessert this week. We saw this once on The Great British […]
Week 33: Lemon Mascarpone Mini Tarts
Lemon Mascarpone Mini Tarts It was bound to happen! When we embarked upon this journey, we knew there would be […]
Week 32: Limoncello Cake
Limoncello Cake This week we were supposed to make Italian Cream Cake but after looking at the recipe, we decided […]
Week 31: Popovers
Popovers The first time I ever heard the word “popover” was when I was in college. I was working at […]
Week 30: Banoffee Pie
Banoffee Pie Here we go again! What the heck, Pam? Banoffee pie?? Banoffee pie is a real thing and, yes, […]
Week 29: Soft Pretzels
Soft Pretzels This might be the only thing we will bake this year that isn’t a dessert. We made the […]
Week 28: Pumpkin Bread
Pumpkin Bread Pumpkin bread?? In the middle of the summer? Why not? I’ve always wondered why pumpkin has to be […]
Week 27: Trifle
Trifle A trifle is a layered dessert that is made in a glass bowl that usually has straight sides so […]
Week 26: Lemon Meringue Pie
Lemon Meringue PIe Here we are at the halfway point of our journey! I am totally a pie person but […]
Week 25: Blueberry Buckle
Blueberry Buckle This selection is, once again, of my choosing. As I was paging through my Mom’s Best Desserts cookbook […]
Week 24: Macarons
Macarons This was the weekend we have been waiting for! We have re-scheduled them several times and continued to push […]
Week 23: Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake Strawberry shortcake doesn’t make the list of particularly difficult things to make…it’s a biscuit after all. Now, having […]
Week 22: Peach Cobbler
Peach Cobbler When we made our list before the beginning of the year, we decided that we would try to […]
Week 21: Pound Cake
Pound Cake This is most certainly on our list because Aubrey wanted to make it…I’m not a cake person even […]
Week 20: Apple Pandowdy
Apple Pandowdy The apple pandowdy had such a unique name we figured that 1) it must be an old dessert […]
Week 19: Danishes
Danishes This week features a personal favorite: Danishes. It takes every ounce of willpower to pass the cheese Danishes every […]
Week 18: Tarte Tatin
Tarte Tatin The tarte Tatin (tart tat-tan) sounds really fancy. This is another bake that we wanted to try after […]
Week 17: Banana Cream Pie
Banana Cream Pie I’m going to start by saying I love banana flavored stuff. I have banana yogurt nearly every […]
Week 16: Pavlova
Pavlova This week we made an item that we aren’t exactly sure why it made it on our list. Chances […]
Week 15: Shoofly Pie
Shoofly Pie What on earth made us put this on the list you ask? Well, it certainly wasn’t Aubrey’s idea. […]
Week 14: Kransekake
Kransekake This was one of the “bakes” I was looking forward to making since we started this journey. I had […]
Week 13: Blondies
Blondies We do a lot of baking at our house and as difficult as it is to believe, we have […]
Week 12: Lemon Pudding Cake
Lemon Pudding Cake You are probably wondering how or why we selected this as one of our weekly bakes. Honestly, […]
Week 11: Crème Brûlée
Crème Brûlée As I stated on Week 8, we were eventually going to make a crème brûlée and this was […]
Week 10: Bread Pudding
Name the food to be made here. This week brought the one selection that I had no desire to bake […]
Week 9: Scottish Shortbread
Scottish Shortbread This was a dessert that made our list while perusing through my favorite dessert cookbook, Mom’s Best Desserts (see the […]
Week 8: Crème Caramel
Traditional Crème Caramel This week was definitely inspired by The Great British Baking Show. I’m not sure which season it […]
Week 7: King Cake
King Cake Oddly enough, we didn’t really want to dive into breads this year because they are a year of […]
Week 6: Babka
Babka – Chocolate & Cinnamon When we started on this journey, we made a list of things we wanted to […]
Week 5: NY Style Cheesecake
New York Style Cheesecake I have baked a lot of things so it’s hard to imagine that I have never […]
Week 4: Baklava
Baklava Well, last week wasn’t incredibly difficult nor did it stretch our baking skills/knowledge. This week was a bit more […]
Week 3 – Baked Cake Doughnuts
After our marathon bake last week, we had a much simpler task this week. This was also Aubrey’s first week […]
Week 2: Napoleons
Napoleons With Chocolate Glaze Once again, you might be asking, what the heck is a napoleon? (No, it’s not the […]
Week 1: Bakewell Tart
Mary Berry’s Bakewell Tart For our first baking experience of the year, we decided we wanted to try a bakewell […]