French Country Bread from Sourdough, Daring Baker’s Challenge

A basic sourdough for this month’s Daring Bakers Challenge!

Chocolate Saltine Toffee. Also known as Christmas Crack and it’s as delicious and addictive as that name suggests.

Limoncello Pound Cake w/ Meyer Lemon Curd Filling and a Goat Cheese, Thyme & Lemon Icing. The best cake I’ve ever made. Period.

A popular cake in the Philippines (and Goa, India) of cashewnut meringue layers sandwiched with French style cardamom & saffron buttercream

Sans Rival, a Filipino dessert for the Daring Bakers. (in Portuguese)

Daring Bakers’ Challenge: Filipino Desserts – These are Bibingka, a rice flour and coconut milk cake baked in banana leaves

Povitica-Croatian Chocolate Walnut Bread made of sweet yeasted dough with a delicious walnut/chocolate/vanilla filling.

A traditional Eastern European dessert bread.

A Croatian yeasted sweet swirl bread filled with hazelnuts, cinnamon, and chocolate chips.

Daring Bakers’ make Povitica for the month of October. A traditional walnut filled Povitica and a poppy seed one.

Savory povitica with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and basil

Learn how to make Povitica a traditional Eastern European dessert bread – a Daring Bakers challenge.

Walnut and poppy seed povitica

For Daring Bakers, we made this Eastern European bread, povitica, with all the fancy swirls! Perfect for a holiday morning!

A traditional Eastern European holiday bread made using ground English walnuts.

This is why I love Daring Bakers, for the unusual recipes and this indeed was a challenge in a good way. Povitica.

Povitica

Povitica, an amazingly beautiful and delicious Croatian bread for the Daring Bakers. (in Portuguese)

Four varieties of swirl bread, including peanut butter and jam, and caramelised white chocolate.

Joconde sponge with bavarian cream filling

French and fancy- Daring Bakers showcase croissants this month. It took three days to make but they are worth it.