From the kitchen of a passionate baker

The passionate baker is me... Love baking cookies and cakes. With my insatiable sweet tooth, you know where the products go. I started to cook five years back and my baking attempts are on since my first disaster with pie crust. I wanted to make S an apple pie. I did not have recipe either. I came up with this idea of making this blog a journal of my travel through the culinary world. What could be more apt than racking my brains and remembering desserts I made in the by-gone days? May not make sense to you, but if it bothers you, go get your own blog. Most of the stuff I have made is from Food TV especially from one of the greatest pastry chef, Gale Gand. All her recipes have been huge hits with my family.

Without further ado, here is the list possibly with links:

1. Tangerine soaked tea cake- hit
2. Tiramisu- hit
3. Baklava-hit
4. Five spice tea cake-hit
5. Pumpkin cheesecake- ho hum- don't care much for pumpkin in sweet dishes
6. Mango flan with brownie crust- whoo, what was I thinking as a beginner- not so much- discovered I am not a custard person except for creme brulee
7. Chocolate souffle from Sara Moulton's show- hit
8. Creme Brulee-hit
9. White chocolate jasmine tea cake from a book called chocolate cake- hit
10. An unsuccessful Kendra's apple pie
11. Ethel's orange cake-ok
12. Chocolate ice cream roulade from a Flo Barker's recipe- whoo, big hit
13. Key lime pie- hit
14. carrot cake without frosting- ok
15. chocolate hazelnut torte-ok
16. Chocolate genoise from a Pierre Hermes book, don't know and don't remember if I got it right- used it for individual tiramisus
17. Lemon poppy seed pound cake- ok- not a lemon person
18. Blueberry muffins- ok- muffins are not desserts
19. Chocolate chip cookies- made several times with different recipes and different results
20. Coconut macaroons with m.stewart recipe- ok
21. Red velvet cake- flop
22. Chocolate pudding cake- ok for a quick chocolate craving

Am I a cooking nerd or what...