With all my holiday baking this week I find myself right down to the wire for my TWD post (not that a last minute post is so terribly unusual for me, but I’m taking a break from baking for a few moments to get this posted before midnight). This week Macduff of The Lonely Sidecar selected Cafe Volcano Cookies (page 153). Without further ado, let’s get to the good stuff…
Here we are on another Tuesday, I’m not sure where the last week went. I was really looking forward to having the day off of work today and being able to bake the TWD assignment actually on Tuesday. It turns out that I haven’t truly had the day off (the ability to work from home is really only a benefit when it doesn’t interfer with time off!) and because of the long wait times involved in this week’s assignment I actually started working on it last night. Oh well, can’t have everything I suppose. Without further ado, this week’s TWD assignment is Kugelhopf (please don’t ask me to pronounce that!) selected by Yolanda of The All-Purpose Girl.
One thing I did like about waiting a couple more days to begin working on this recipe was the opportunity to learn from my fellow TWD-ers’ experiences. The idiom goes “forewarned is forearmed” and I wish it were true in this case, but sadly it just isn’t. The many reports of runny dough and dough that just never rose properly did not in any way save me from experiencing the exact same thing. I did have high hopes of avoiding the “bland” flavor reported by several TWD-ers, but alas, that was not to be either…
Having just returned from my honeymoon late Sunday night, I wasn’t sure if I was going to return to TWD this week or not. Then I saw that the recipe selected by Piggy of Piggy’s Cooking Journal was one that I had never tried before – rugelach. I decided I was up for the challenge after all, so here I am!
Rugelach is not only something I have never made before, but it is something that I have not even eaten before. One of the things I’m enjoying so much about TWD is that it is broadening my culinary horizons. Thankfully, since I was somewhat short on time and rather tired, this recipe came together pretty easily, although I did manage to forget a step…
