12 in 2012

Many bloggers, at one point or another, have a "wish list" of foods they aspire to bake or make. I've seen a lot of "30x30" lists - thirty food items to make before turning thirty years old. Sounds like a great plan, but 30 sounds like a lot to me - especially to do it all in one year (and since I turned thirty a mere 14 days into the year). Since my real "wish list" has hundreds of recipes bookmarked, I slimmed down the challenge for myself to a more manageable number.

Here's the challenge: to successfully make each of these by the end of 2012

baked's sweet & salty cake
bagels [cinnamon swirl whole wheat bagels]
nanaimo bars
marshmallows
tarte tatin
profiteroles [raspberry cream filled eclairs]
samoas
corn dogs
peanut butter
fried donuts or apple fritters
my grandmother's christmas cookies
parker house rolls

11 in 2011:

french macarons [vanilla buttercream filled vanilla bean macarons]
churros
gnocchi - my first try resulted in a miserable failure, but the second was gnocchi success!
cannolis [secret recipe club: cannoli]
graham crackers [graham crackers two ways: honey and cinnamon]
gelato [mocha gelato]

german chocolate cake [baked's german chocolate cake]

caramel corn [robust butterscotch caramel corn and sweet & salty caramel corn]

english muffins [easy english muffins]

monkey bread [baked's monkey bubble bread]
cake pops - my first try resulted in a miserable failure [there is such a thing as too much buttercream!] as did my second [how do you keep the cake from not falling off the stick?!] - i surrender!