September 17, 2009 - 2:06pm
Home Sweet Home Chicago
Off to my hometown for a big birthday party. Must make sure I bring everything
Checklist:
1. chocolate sourdough bread. Check.
2. Chocolate zucchini cakes. Check.
3. panetonne. Check.
4. Portuguese filled rolls (sweet bean paste, almond paste). Check.
5. Malasadas filled with passionfruit curd.
Uncheck! OOOps, forgot we ate them just as they came out of the fryer. Supposedly, these are only good fresh- so we had to eat them right away. Don't you just hate it when they twist your arm to eat donuts?
6. Frozen bread from last week's bake-off. Check.
7. Tropical chiffon cake, crumb-iced. Check.
8. passionfruit tart. Check.
And a stack of full-sized crepes, frozen (not pictured) + caramel sauce.
Hmmmnnn... did I forget anything?
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So lovely that I suggest you duct-tape the mouths of any passengers just to make sure your delights get to the party intact! ;-)
Gorgeous Cake Diva, let me know if you need corn from Tom's, there is still plentiful available.
Have a safe trip "home".
Thomas
Absolutely Gorgeous baking! Beautiful photos! Have a wonderful time!
Sylvia
your checklist is impressive, but i must say your actual creations are mouth watering! i was especially interested in your portuguese sweet rolls with the red bean paste.
lovely...just lovely.
Someone stole a piece from one of your Panettones! The scoundrel! A very lucky group at a birthday party in Chi-town!
Betty
Thanks everyone for the compliments. The recipients of the goodies were very happy indeed!
Thomas, so sorry to have missed going up to the NW suburbs to get corn. We got into Northbrook midnight, then I was up early Friday for a 10-hr interview, then down to the SW suburbs for the party, then to Chicago Sunday for my husband's high school reunion. I have a feeling though that there will be more opportunities in the future to get corn- I'm very optimistic about the NOrthbrook position.
Here's a picture of the finished bday cake. This is composed of 3 full-recipe layers of chiffon cake sandwiched by a layer of coconut cream and a layer of passionfruit curd. The icing alone is 3# of Italian meringue buttercream. My husband gets the credit for the decor. I am the formulator-engineer, but he has the imagination.
Really one scrumptious cake!
Hey Cake Diva,
That sounds like a very busy schedule, hopefully successful, I keep my fingers crossed.
Thomas
Cherry Blossom time in Chicago!
I'm about 1-1/2 hours northwest from downtown chicago. You forgot to send me an invitation! the 17 th of sept. is (was)my oldest daughter's birthday.
I guess I'd have to settle for the recipes. :-) especially the malasadas and the chocolate zuchiini bread and sourdough bread
-susie
Susie,
The chocolate sd bread is from Shiao-ping in her blog here somewhere. I added dried cherries to mine and they just added sweet tartness to the rather dense chocolate bread- just perfect for breakfast. The malasadas (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/follow-that-food/malasadas-recipe/index.html) I injected (using a pastry bag with filling injector tip) with passionfruit curd after frying and rolling in cinnamon sugar. I dare say you can fill with good English lemon curd instead (if you don't want to go to the trouble of making your own) and you'll still be wowed. Both of these are worth the investment in time and effort. Let me know how it turns out.
THe corn stand is only about 15 minutes from my house. SEE! if you had sent me an invitation I could have brought the corn! They'll be closing that stand pretty soon. I guess I should get some and freeze it.
-susie
Hey Susie
They still will have it in the main store on Algonquin Road in Huntley. They normally have it till the first big frost.
Thomas