Mandatory Blog-checking lines: The Daring Bakers go
retro this month! Thanks to one of our very talented non-blogging
members, Sarah, the Daring Bakers were challenged to make Croissants
using a recipe from the Queen of French Cooking, none other than Julia
Child!Ummmm. Has it really been two whole weeks since I posted?
Has it really been ONLY two weeks since I posted?
Wait, first I need to swear you to secrecy.
I am NOT on the internet, m-kay?
I am packing up the piles and piles of junk on my desk. The tapping Mr. Boom thinks he might be hearing is simply the clacking of items falling into boxes. That's my story and you have to help me stick with it!
You see, we've made an offer on a house, and that offer has been accepted. It's a foreclosure, so we couldn't make the sale contingent on selling our current house. Ergo, we really must get this one cleaned up and sold ASAP. No time for blogging.
Or baking.
BUT!!!!
I had already made this month's Daring Baker's Challenge before we ever lay eyes on the new house. That's the good news. The bad news is that my attempt failed. It sucked. It was awful. It needed to be redone but I never did it.
I'm sure if YOU tried it, though, you'd meet with great success. Please please please don't let my failure sway your own judgement about whether or not to try.
You can find the recipe we used right here.
Now, I know the recipe is from good ol' Julia herself. But honestly? While I was going to give it one more attempt for the sake of the challenge, in the future I'll undoubtedly use the recipe I've used before from Julie at Willow Bird Baking. That recipe is here. And you can see my results on her blog here.
Excuse me a moment, gentle reader!
(Yes dear, I'm most certainly packing! Things are flying into boxes! Honey, how do you spell croissant? No reason! Just curious!!!)
I'm back.
For my definitive croissant post, go here.
For the world's most definitivest croissant post ever, go talk to Audax.
I'm outta here!
Sorry to hear that they didn't work out so well but I sure that you did learn so much in this challenge. Wonderful effort. Thank you so much for the link to my blog so nice of you and the kind words (((hugs))). Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.
ReplyDeleteSorry that the recipe didn't work out for you, but great effort! And congratulations on the new house :)
ReplyDeleteMine didn't work out either! c'est la vie! Hope the move went ok.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have such great results either. Maybe I will try the recipe on your link, thanks for sharing!
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