Quickity quick, sweet, smooth, lemony cheesecake with not the merest hint of an oven to preheat. I made the cheesecake with Splenda (one of our Sunday luncheon guests has diabetes) and made the sauce with maple syrup (for the rest of us sugar eaters). I’m all about personal responsibility, me.
Puddings are a challenge when one has to limit the sugar in them. You have no idea how tempted I was to just slap an apple on each placemat. Turns out that apples aren’t that great either – it’s all about the berries, you know? Just not the berries with maple syrup on them.
I made another berried dessert that he could eat, but that will have to wait for the next blog entry…
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AKA American buttermilk pancakes with banana slices in them… drowned in maple syrup. Oh, yes please!
My Mum and MIL dined on these in Hong Kong when I was a toddler, the memory remained and the recipe, whilst it has morphed with input from both Mum and me over the years (decades actually, eek!) is still as sigh-inducing as always. I often wonder what I was eating whilst they stuffed banana hotcakes down their throats. Probably best not to know, really. It would only be upsetting.
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I’ve wanted to make American ‘chocolate pudding’ for ages because the ‘pudding mix’ is used extensively in baking and we don’t have it over here. There are hundreds of recipes for pudding from scratch, but I settled on one from ‘Diner Desserts’. It’s actually a section of the recipe for Chocolate Cream Pie. It’s so rich, I can’t imagine a slice of it with cream on top, but you know… never say never.
Describing it isn’t as straightforward as it seems. I was expecting a set chocolate custard, but it wasn’t that, nor was it blancmange. Somewhere between blancmange and ganache and deeply, deeply pleasing. The most fun I’ve had with a whisk for ages. Probably.
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Puff pastry, sweet gooey marzipan, juicy baked fruit and it is ready to dazzle in around 30 minutes.
Oh yeah baby.
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