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baking, Daring Bakers, fall, French, mille-feuille, NaBloPoMo, napoleon, pastry, pastry cream, puff pastry, pumpkin
Our October 2012 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Suz of Serenely Full. Suz challenged us to not only tackle buttery and flaky puff pastry, but then take it step further and create a sinfully delicious Mille Feuille dessert with it!
So I was supposed to post this six days ago, but since I completed the challenge today, that would have been impossible sans TARDIS. Never mind, it’s done!
I think the last time I had a napoleon was while in college in Baltimore. There’s this dessert place in Little Italy called Vaccaro’s. What I mainly remember about that place was always being so overwhelmed by the size of their desserts. One would have been plenty to share between a few people, so naturally some would compete to see who could finish something off on their own. And then there were randomly waffle sundaes…