Chocoholic Anonymous

As usual, I’m cutting it pretty close to the wire for my TWD post.  Maybe someday organization and time management will return to my life.  In the mean time, let’s discuss Elizabeth of Cake or Death? selection of Apple-Apple Bread Pudding on pages 408 and 409 of Dorie’s book.

I think I may have mentioned it the last time we did a bread pudding, but in general I would say they aren’t my favorite dessert.  I’m really not sure why – in essence they are a baked french toast and french toast is listed among my favorite breakfast foods.  Maybe that is the issue, maybe bread pudding just seems more like a breakfast than a dessert.  That being said, I was surprised to find that I really did enjoy this particular bread pudding…

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It seems like every week Tuesday arrives more quickly – here it is again and most of the past week is a hazy sleep deprived blur. But despite my sleep deprived state I found the time and energy to make Beryl’s (of Cinemon Girl) pick: Toasted-Coconut Custard Tart on pages 344 and 345.

I have very fond memories of eating my grandmother’s coconut cream pie as a child so I was looking forward to giving this recipe a try.

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It’s Tuesday again and I find myself a week behind on my TWD posts.  I did in fact make last week’s Chocolate Armagnac Cake but between a death in the family and a stolen car I’m afraid TWD wasn’t exactly uppermost in my thoughts.  Rather than skip entirely I decided that I would combine two weeks of TWD into a TWD Double Header.

I’ll start us off with this week’s selection by Bridget of The Way the Cookie Crumbles;  Lemon Cup Custard on page 387, and then, if you are interested you can continue on to read about last week when Lyb of And then I do the dishes chose Dorie’ Chocolate Armagnac Cake (or The Cake That Got Me Fired).

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I’m getting this posted a bit later than I intended today, but it is still Tuesday (if only for a little while longer).  TWD is one of the things that inspired me to begin my own blog, so I am very excited to be making my first TWD post.   This week’s recipe is crème brulée (selected by Mari of Mevrouw Cupcake).

Now, I have to admit that I have always been more in love with the concept of crème brulée than with the dessert itself.  I’ve tried ordering it in various restaurants but I’ve always finished the sweet with a vague feeling of disappointment.  It never quite lived up to my expectations.   I can’t quite clearly define what those expectations are, but I can say with absolute certainty that they’ve never been met.

So, I entered into this with somewhat mixed feelings.  Would I be disappointed yet again…this time in my own kitchen?

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