Just One Bite.....: Gateau

Last week I discovered a Group called Tuesdays with Dorie , and I am very excited about joining in the fun. They are baking their way through the Book "Baking from my home to yours " By Dorie Greenspan. Everyone bakes one recipe a week (the same thing) and then posts about it on Tuesday. I ordered Dorie's book the next day and as soon as it came I started baking. The first thing I made was the Pecan Sour Cream Biscuits which were chosen as this weeks recipe by Ashley of eat me, delicious .

I loved the flavor of the biscuits, I tried them first with some apricot jam and then with just a little butter and honey. I prefer the honey-butter and I have been eating them for Breakfast this way the past few days. I got 13 biscuits out of the batch using a 2 1/2 inch cutter. I think next time I will roll the dough out a little thicker and aim for 8-10 biscuits that hopefully will rise a bit higher. I will definitely make these again, would love to try them with some Ham & Yams, Yum.

So , Tuesdays with Dorie have been baking together since the first week in January , which means I have missed eight weeks/recipes. After reading every ones blogs on all of the Delicious things they have made I chose to do some "Make-up Work" and bake a few more of the recipes I had missed.

First I made the Brown Sugar Apple Cheesecake from week 7 (Feb. 12) that was chosen by Jamie of Good Eats 'n Sweet Treats and then while it was in the refrigerator cooling I moved on to the Almost Fudge Gateau from week 8(Feb. 19) chosen by Nikki of Crazy Delicious .

Here is my finished Cheesecake ~~

I do not think I had ever tried Apple Cheesecake before, but after tasting this baby I know there will be more Apple Cheesecake in our future. My dh makes crockpot Apple butter every Autumn and I look forward to trying this again with the Apple butter variation.

Here is my finished Gateau ~~

WOW , this is so rich an decadent ,