This time around, Daring Bakers Helen(Tartelette) and Anita(Dessert First) chose a multi step cake for us. One that made a more than a few DB's nervous. When you have as many Daring Bakers as we do now, you need to do something with your dessert to make it stand out a little among the others. I wanted to go miniature, but I knew so would a lot of people. So I decided I should take one more step to stand out, I made mine rectangular. It worked out nicely as you have no extra puff pastry dough to throw away. If I had to do things over, I would use store bought puff pastry. Not because it is particularly hard to make puff pastry(just time consuming) but because I don't have the freezer space to store it. And I just can't throw away extra puff pastry that took hours to make. So in retrospect, just buying one box of it would be the way to go. The only changes I made were with the cream puffs. I had run out of all-purpose flour by the time it came to make the puffs and I was too lazy to … [Read more...]