Baking Checklist
Breakfast
- Croissants (9-29-11)
- Brioche (1-10-12)
- Bostock (1-13-12)
- Brioche Bread Pudding
- Almond breakfast cake with fresh fruit and crumble topping
- Buttermilk scones (12-7-11)
- Quiche (10-17-11)
- Savory Bread pudding (11-21-11)
Tarts and Pies
- Lemon Cream tart
- Blueberry-Lemon chiffon tart
- Chocolate hazelnut tart
- Frangipane tart
- Banana cream pie with caramel and chocolate (11-3-11)
- Apple nougatine tart (10-13-11)
- Fresh fruit tart
- Fresh fruit tart with bavarian filling
- Blackberry tart with rose geranium cream
- Pecan maple pie with kumquats and bourbon (1-5-12)
- Pumpkin pie (11-23-11)
- Shaker lemon pie
- Fruit galettes
Cakes
- Lemon meringue cake
- Passion fruit and lime bavarian
- Summer fruit bavarian
- Fromage blanc bavarian
- Pastel de tres leches
- Chocolate soufflé cake
- Devil’s food layer cake (11-16-11)
- Bûche de Noël (12-25-11)
- Banana-Date tea cake
- Pumpkin Tea Cake (11-7-11)
- Zucchini and orange marmalade tea cake
- Steamed gingerbread pudding with bourbon hard sauce (12-13-11)
- Almond-lemon tea cake (10-10-11)
Fruit Desserts
- Mixed-berry shortcakes with berry-caramel sauce
- Trifle of summer fruit
- Apple crisp (10-1-11)
- Cherry and apricot dumpling
- Clafoutis
Cookies
- Shortbread
- Chocolate-Oatmeal-Walnut cookies (11-1-11)
- Orange-Oatmeal-Currant cookies
- Walnut cinnamon slices (12-9-11)
- Almond rochers (10-20-11)
- Soft glazed gingerbread (12-22-11)
- Hazelnut biscotti (10-6-11)
- Deluxe double chocolate cookies
Pastries and Confections
- Éclairs (1-17-12)
- Lemon bars on brown butter shortbread (12-15-11)
- Chocolate friands
- Pecan-Bourbon pralines
- Chocolate Almond toffee
- Chocolate truffles
- Maple-glazed pecans (10-29-11)
- Peanut brittle (12-1-11)
- Brownies (10-27-11)
- Panforte with Candied quince
- Caramel apples (10-4-11)
Cream Desserts
- Chocolate pots de crème (11-27-11)
- Parfait
- White chocolate and lime parfait with lime granita
- Toasted almond and lavendar parfait
- Roast banana with maple pecans (1-24-12)
- Lemon-buttermilk pudding cake (1-20-12)
- Chocolate pudding (11-13-11)
With a glass of wine
- Gougères (12-31-11)
- Cheddar cheese crackers (11-9-11)
- Spiced cocktail nuts (1-2-12)
- Wild mushroom tart (10-23-11)
- Pissaladière on brioche
Basic Bakery Recipes (these are often repeated throughout the recipes; a * means I’ve mafde it at some point thus far)
- Flaky tart dough *
- Sweet tart dough
- Génoise
- Basic chiffon cake
- Basic chiffon cake for Bûche de Noël *
- Lemon chiffon cake
- Orange chiffon cake
- Coconut chiffon cake
- Chocolate chiffon cake *
- Pastry cream *
- Lemon cream
- Frangipane cream *
- Caramel *
- Candied fruit
- Candied zest