And The Winners Are . . .

Random.org picked the numbers 4, 6, and 10, which means Amanda Z., Lori, and N are the winners of the cookbook giveaway. Congratulations! Thank you to all the readers for helping me celebrate 3 yrs of Fruit Tart!

Daring Bakers: Tuiles

I waited too long to have much opportunity to play with this recipe, or I would have done several renditions with different flavors and shapes. For these I followed the recipe as given. I shaped some using a butterfly stencil I made when decorating Tartlet 1’s room and the others I simply spread into [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are actually having a low-key day at home rather than a big festive Thanksgiving.  Because I don’t really like turkey very much, we’ll be having a ham later and we’ll spread out some of the Thanksgiving favorites over the entire weekend rather than trying to stuff ourselves with them today. In addition [...]

Happy Birthday, Husband!

Yesterday was The Husband’s birthday.  There was also a pre-Thanksgiving party at work, so he asked if I would make him a special dessert.  He doesn’t often ask for a specific treat, so it’s hard to say no.  But I was surprised by his request. A little more than a week ago, I made [...]

Daring To Be Crispy

Well, sorry I’m a day late on the Daring Bakers reveal.  I baked it on Thursday as I was leaving for my Ladies’ Retreat and didn’t have time to compose a post before I left.  So, by now, the whole world must know that the Daring Baker challenge this month was a lavash cracker (I [...]