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I’m really pleased with my decision to join the Daring Bakers. Although it has only been 3 months since I joined, I managed to experiment with so many baking techniques which I have avoided in the past for fear of failure and inconvenience. My first challenge involved bread making from scratch, and that’s without a bread machine! In the second challenge, I had to make a genoise cake covered with coffee buttercream and decorated with marzipan mushrooms for the Yule Log. This month, the daring bakers were celebrating the arrival of the new year with lemon meringue pies!
It’s time to reveal this month’s challenge! The daring bakers have been occupied with churning out Yule Logs this entire month!
To be honest, I had a hunch that December’s challenge would involve something that relates to the holiday season, and the yule log was one of those things I secretly hoped Lis and Ivonne would pick. I remember checking the DB’s blog every hour hoping to see the challenge posted hehe..
That’s right! I am now part of the awesome group called Daring Bakers! It’s hard to not notice this group if you read food blogs because a good majority of the food bloggers out there are part of this magnificent community. At the end of every month you will get to see what the Daring Bakers have been up to when the entire group posts about their findings on the same recipe.
The challenge for November is hosted by Tanna of My Kitchen in Half Cups, on the topic of Potato Bread. Yep, this is a yeasted bread that needs proving and kneading. Nope, we are not allowed to use the bread machine, we have to do it with our bare hands! This sounds like an exciting challenge for someone like me - one who has NEVER baked bread or even thought of baking one (not when you can get cheap loaves of bread off the shelves these days).
The recipe which Tanna provided included many details and tips on how to handle the dough. Hearing comments from other DBakers about how gooey and soft the dough was made me wary of the difficulties I might face ahead, but it also made me more excited about getting the challenge done!
Here, I present my very first Daring Bakers report!
