First Challenge Complete

Yay! I'm a daring baker! For those who don't know Daring Baker's are a group of individuals who challenge themselves to a different recipe each month and then post about it on the same day. This month was laminated dough hosted by Kelly of Sass & Veracity, and Ben of What’s Cooking?.

I had an easy enough time making the dough. Although, I thought I'd use the same orange for the zest and the juice and discovered why naval oranges aren't used for juicing. I did't use the cardamom as that was a bit pricey but I have since found some at a decent price at and Indian grocer that I didn't know existed before. So, I will be trying it soon.

So, I made half the braid one day earlier in the month then froze the rest of the dough and made the rest last week. It was interesting and a bit difficult not to get to talk about it before now. I made the apple filling that we were given and then on the later braid and danish I made a cream cheese filling and a peach amaretto filling. I have to say that I was quite proud of myself with my peach filling. I made up the recipe on my own but with the influence of a jam I had tried. Well, I was proud of myself all the way around really for meeting this challenge and being mostly successful at it. I did have issues with the dough rising. I'm not sure what it is with me and yeast breads or could it be the Florida humidity? I don't know, but it tasted good anyway.