January 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge - Tuiles

Well, after a break from last month's crazy Yule Log challenge, I'm back for the first Daring Baker's challenge in 2009!

The challenge: Tuiles! Karen of Bake My Day and Zorra of 1x umruehren bitte aka Kochtopf chose these awesome and simple goodies for the group this month. The recipe originates from The Chocolate Book by Angélique Schmeink and Nougatine and Chocolate Tuiles from Michel Roux. I was so grateful that this was a quickie--because I totally forgot about the challenge until I saw it pop up on some fellow Daring Baker's blogs this morning. Ahhh!

I stuck with the first recipe listed from The Chocolate Book. You can find it on Zorra's blog. I did as the recipe suggested and piped chocolate designs on the tuiles before baking. I rolled half of them and then shaped the others on a rolling pin. I found a great raspberry cream cheese filling recipe from Phemomenon. I substituted the raspberry puree with fresh blackberry puree. Here's the recipe from Helen at Tartelette. See the filled ones here!

I was pleasantly surprised at how easy this recipe was and how much I loved it. I will totally make it again and probably bring it the next time I'm asked to bring a dessert! I think I'll stuff it with nutella buttercream or a new nutella cream cheese filling! Make sure you check out all the other tuiles made by the my fellow Daring Bakers!