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The March 2011 Daring Baker’s Challenge was hosted by Ria of Ria’s Collection and Jamie of Life’s a Feast. Ria and Jamie challenged The Daring Bakers to bake a yeasted Meringue Coffee Cake.
This is my first Daring Bakers Challenge that I participated in and to be honest, I was kind of intimidated when I saw that this month's recipe used yeast. Baking with yeast always freaks me out since I always hallucinate that the dough is never going to rise. And I always have the impression that it's going to take aaaaaages to prepare.
Anyways, the recipe was extremely fun to make and was quite quick for yeast (and TWO rises)! I started around 2 pm and by 4.45pm everything was ready. The BEST part was the part below: spreading the meringue on the cake and sprinkling walnuts, chocolate chips, cinnamon, and sugar. Rolling it up was quite amusing as well.. since I had never done something like that before.
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| The second rise before it was baked |
The smell of the kitchen as it was baking was HEAVENLY. And the smell of the actual cake was even better. Everyone was trying to stick their noses into it to get a full whiff of that cinnamony, chocolatey, sugared goodness.
Chocolatey Cinnamony goodness indeed!
ReplyDeleteWelcome and hello to the Daring Kitchen and congratulations on your first very very successful challenge and wonderful to hear that it worked out so well for you. And your photos say it all well done. Great work on this challenge.
ReplyDeleteCheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.
Wonderful job for your first challenge. Chocolate and cinnamon - yum!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the Daring Bakers! And wow - what a beautiful job on your first challenge! Your coffee cake looks so delicious. I hope this helped put some of your yeast fears to rest, because you really did a fantastic job.
ReplyDeletemy first challenge too! great job on it!
ReplyDeleteYou did a fantastic job on your first DB challenge! The top photo is especially drool-worthy :)
ReplyDeletewow, this looks really good and quite complicated, so well done you!
ReplyDeleteLooks beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI've seen this recipe floating around the blogosphere lately. Yours looks so wonderful; I love your shots. I also think your flavour combinations are great
ReplyDeleteGreat job Sid - very daring!
ReplyDeleteFirst time here,love to follow ur blog...
ReplyDeleteDo visit mine,if time permits...
Cake Luks delicious and Perfect.
You really did a great job with this challenge. Your coffee cake looks wonderful. I know I'd love to have a piece of it. I hope you have a great day. Blessings...Mary
ReplyDeleteThis looks beautiful! I would love to have a slice right now :).
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful versions of this cake I am seeing today all over the food blog world - Yours seems to have come out perfect dear :)
ReplyDeleteYour version certainly looks delicious! I can imagine the smell emitting from your kitchen as you bake this!
ReplyDeleteYour coffee cake looks very tempting and I would love to be in your kitchen when you were baking this cake. The photos of your final presentation are lovely.
ReplyDeleteHi, I came by to introduce myself, I'm Bobbie from bobbiesbakingblog.com
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited to participate in your challenge this month.
congratulations on starting your catering services...could you put up a bigger font size...found difficult to read
ReplyDeletethe final two pics are really good...and get yeasted up!
It looks great! :)
ReplyDeleteIt must have really tasted heavenly with the cinnamon!
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