I decided to join the Daring Bakers because I don’t know a ton about baking and thought this could be a really cool way to contribute to the food-making in our house. Brad, well, he does all of it. :) I’m a VERY lucky woman - but I want to do my part, too! So this month I participated in the Cheesecake Pops challenge along with the help of Jamie (who you may know as the second-shooter for your wedding!) and it was a success!
We donned “foix” hawks in honor of Top Chef, and our first DB challenge. Brad thought it was hilarious:
Check out the amount of cream cheese we needed:
Sneaking a taste:
Look at how beautiful it is:
Nice, another angle of my foix hawk:
Making a heart:
Yum.
We had to create our own double-boiler:
Check out how beautiful it came out. We let it sit in the freezer overnight:
Next day, normal cute hair:
We got so messy!
Mo wanted to be part of the action!
Our stuffed freezer - we haven’t made ice cubes in I don’t know how long:
The carnage:
The chocolate:
That’s me mastering the dip:
And, yum.
We added spices to the chocolate for some of the pops, and they came out deliciously. Here’s what we used:
So all in all, a success. I don’t like cheesecake but my coworkers do, so they totally lucked out. Jamie and Brad also gave their stamp of approval. I can’t wait until next month!
P.S. A post today means a post break tomorrow :) See you Tuesday!