May 12, 2015
If I were a bird, I'd be an Albatros; if I were a wild animal, I'd be an Elephant; if I lived in the ocean, I'd be a Minke Whale; if I were a fruit, I'd be a lemon--citrus that is tart and sour, sometimes sweet, always bold and beautiful. With sandwich cookies like these, I felt it was important to ensure that the lemon had top billing. I wanted to cookies rolled thin enough so that they supported the lemon flavour without competing. I chose to use lemon curd over buttercream because 1) I prefer the texture, juiciness and shiny yellow of lemon curd, and 2) I’m buttercream'ed out by the Polish Princess.
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Sugar and lemon finely ground.
Lemon cookie dough.
First edition.
The Bleeding Heart Wedding Cake from The Cake Bible that I made for a garden wedding, circa 1999.
A snapshot of a chocolate wedding cake I made from The Cake Bible. Rick snapped this pic just before we left the hall. I made the flowers and the green leaves and everything. Looking back on it now, it was so much work! Circa 2000.
Information like this is why I love The Cake Bible.
The lemon curd before it’s cooked.
Straining the lemon curd while still hot.
The proportional difference between the spec’d cookie and the smaller one I used.
Floured Silpat.
Cutter is now working.
Cutting the centers.
As you can see, I was more or less successful keeping the cookies from browning.
Self explanatory.
Three wild guesses what I’m doing here…
Lemon Jammies, The Finer Cookie.
WHAT ARE THE ALPHA BAKERS? : Here's how it works: once a week, for the next two years, 25 Alpha Bakers commit to baking their way through every recipe of Rose Levy Beranbaum's newly published The Baking Bible . Each week we post our experiences on our blog sites: our successes, our failures, our like and dislikes . The recipes are scheduled in advance so that everyone is baking the same recipe at the same time. No recipes can be shared in my Alpha Bakers Baking Bible posts due to publishing restrictions enforced by the publisher, but if you love to bake, this is a must-have book. You can see other tutorials for the same recipe at the following link The Baking Bible Alpha Bakers at http://rosesalphabakers.blogspot.ca/.
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Sugar and lemon finely ground.
Lemon cookie dough.
First edition.
The Bleeding Heart Wedding Cake from The Cake Bible that I made for a garden wedding, circa 1999.
A snapshot of a chocolate wedding cake I made from The Cake Bible. Rick snapped this pic just before we left the hall. I made the flowers and the green leaves and everything. Looking back on it now, it was so much work! Circa 2000.
Information like this is why I love The Cake Bible.
The lemon curd before it’s cooked.
Straining the lemon curd while still hot.
The proportional difference between the spec’d cookie and the smaller one I used.
Floured Silpat.
Cutter is now working.
Cutting the centers.
As you can see, I was more or less successful keeping the cookies from browning.
Self explanatory.
Three wild guesses what I’m doing here…
Lemon Jammies, The Finer Cookie.
WHAT ARE THE ALPHA BAKERS? : Here's how it works: once a week, for the next two years, 25 Alpha Bakers commit to baking their way through every recipe of Rose Levy Beranbaum's newly published The Baking Bible . Each week we post our experiences on our blog sites: our successes, our failures, our like and dislikes . The recipes are scheduled in advance so that everyone is baking the same recipe at the same time. No recipes can be shared in my Alpha Bakers Baking Bible posts due to publishing restrictions enforced by the publisher, but if you love to bake, this is a must-have book. You can see other tutorials for the same recipe at the following link The Baking Bible Alpha Bakers at http://rosesalphabakers.blogspot.ca/.
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