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Raspberry Shortcake

This dessert was the finishing touch to our salad dinner on Tuesday night.  Fresh raspberries, drop biscuits left from breakfast on Memorial Day, and decadent, freshly whipped cream combined to make variation on raspberry shortcake. 

Creme Caramel (Flan)

Back from a trip to the Texas / Mexico Rio Grande Valley, I am inspired to fix some Border food.  This flan was an indulgence and immensely enjoyable. 

Blueberry Scones

These two blueberry scones were crispy on the edges but melt-in-your-mouth luscious.  I expected them to rise more than they did -- I'll have to try them again and see what happens...

Cookies

This photo is from a couple of weeks ago.  When I was making treats for the staff meeting, I had extra dough from the base of the raspberry bars and so made sugar cookies.  They were so light and flaky.  I pulled out this dog shape and a little lion since it wasn't near any holiday. 

Baked Apple

An attractive and simple fruit dish!  The Golden Delicious apple is baked at a low temperature on a cabbage leaf after being oh-so-lightly sprinkled with lemon juice and cinnamon-sugar.  The apple remained crisp and crunchy and was infused with the sweetness and flavor of the topping.

Angel food cake

A week or so ago, we had this for a special dessert.  We had angel food cake (naturally fat free by the way), with whipped cream  (not fat free...) and raspberries.  Yum!

Treats for Staff meeting

At work we have a list where we're assigned to bring treats for the monthly staff meeting.  It only comes around once or twice a year, for which some people are very happy even though it is fine to buy something.  I decided to bake!  Here are raspberry breakfast bars from Nancy Silverton's Pastries from the La Brea Bakery and Meltaways with Lemon Curd from The Secrets of Baking: Simple Techniques for Sophisticated Desserts.  Smashing!

Slice of cake

Well, this looks better than it tasted unfortunately.  I'm not sure why it turned out so dry...  It was immensely helped by the mascarpone frosting and the raspberry sauce.

Cupcakes

As a treat the other evening, I decided to try a new-to-me technique for batter.  This cupcake recipe is based on a technique called folding.  And it was much more directive then the way I learned to do it in junior high "home ec" class!  The cupcakes turned out great (much better than the cake I tried more recently! which I hoped to send to work with Bill.)

Banana-Chocolate Souffle

Oh, how delightful!  I've recently started learning how to make souffles.  The first I tried were oatmeal souffles and it was like eating oatmeal-flavored air.  The one pictured here is flavored with a banana-rum sauce and chopped Valrhona chocolate.  It is just out of the oven and will shortly be served with a chocolate sauce.  Yum!