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What's For Dessert?

katydidthat — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:05:24 GMT

I have to brag a little bit ... I rarely cook dessert.

Tonight, though, I am making apple pie.

It's kind of accidental ... I ordered 2 single green apples from the supermarket for home delivery and got 2 kilos of them. So, when life delivers you apples, you make apple pie, don't you?

I'm going to add lots of sugar and some sultanas and top it with puff pastry made with BUTTER and then I'm going to add lots of whipped cream. Sounding good?

Questions:

When you make apple pie, do you cook the apples first, or just add them to the pie dish raw?

What are you having for dessert tonight?

What did you last cook for dessert?

Do you have any yummy recipes or ideas to share?

Do you just break out the chocolate?

And, feel free to add your own comments and questions ... 😉 🙂

Re: What's For Dessert?

2106greencat — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:13:16 GMT

Sounds fabulous -

Unfortunately my kid's risk their very lives just eating a meal I have cooked, I really couldn't put them at further risk by cooking desert.

😞

Re: What's For Dessert?

azureline** — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:14:54 GMT

Yum!

I always cook the apples first.

I made apple strudel yesterday, shortcrust pastry.

I find puff pastry too "rigid"

Re: What's For Dessert?

2106greencat — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:18:09 GMT

Just to prove my point - ^^^^^

I made sausage rolls one time.....that's right, didn't notice it was shortcrust pastry 😞

Re: What's For Dessert?

freddie*rooster — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:23:17 GMT

I was watching one of those cooking shows recently. They used puff pastry, they cut the pastry into breville size squares, brushed it with melted marg, placed thinly sliced apple cinnamon and a sprinkle of sugar on it, they put a square of the puff pastry on top brushed it with melted marg and wacked it in the breville, it looked so yummy on the plate with a blob of cream and icecream.

Re: What's For Dessert?

katydidthat — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:28:48 GMT

Greencat ... your poor kids :_|

😉

Thanks, Az ... I think I used to do it that way ... it's a good 20 years since I made an apple pie.

I'm too lazy to make pastry today ... and I have to have it without margarine .... so they had puff pastry made with butter.

Has anyone invented a better way to get the apples ready for apple pie? What with peeling, coring and slicing, I'm just about worn out ...

Re: What's For Dessert?

katydidthat — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:52:05 GMT

I've heard of that, Freddie, but never had a breville.

Well, what are YOU all cooking for dessert?

I mean, here I am with a great big inferiority complex about rarely cooking dessert for my lovely boy, and imagining that all Aussie mums are slaving away at the stove cooking nightly ... or weekly ... or monthly ... sweet things for their lovely families, while I buy the occasional bag of snakes ... and no-one else here is making dessert? Am I really normal?

Oh, God. I just remembered. The year before last he made his own birthday cake.

HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: What's For Dessert?

freddie*rooster — Thu, 30 May 2013 06:16:08 GMT

Katy, this recipe cooks the apple.

http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/apple-pie-L3136.html

No dessert here for me, but the OH is having mango cheese cake from the freezer, thanks to his sister who is a chef.

Re: What's For Dessert?

katydidthat — Thu, 30 May 2013 06:28:44 GMT

Thanks, Freddie ... that is just about what I did, except I added sultanas and that spice stuff that's not cinnamon 🙂

It's in the oven now.

I'm feeling more inadequate ... I sliced off the bits of pastry around the pie dish and had meant to make them into pretty leaves ... I just put the straggly bits on the top and thought ... that'll do (or something like that).

I mean ... it will TASTE the same, won't it?

Re: What's For Dessert?

freddie*rooster — Thu, 30 May 2013 06:32:19 GMT

Yes it will and boy's never ever notice important things, you have done very well.

Here's one for next week.

Crepes with Caramel Apples

Ingredients

2 Eggs
200g Flour, sifted
200 - 250 ml Milk
60g caster sugar + 100g sugar for caramel
50g Butter, melted
2 green apples
½ Lemon zest
1 pinch cinnamon

Method

Sift the flour. Make a well in the middle and break eggs. Mix until combined and gradually add the milk, sugar and melted butter. Mix well to make sure there are no lumps.

Set aside.

In another pan add the remaining sugar to make a caramel. Add peeled and quartered apples and cook for 10 minutes on low heat. Now add the zest.

To make crepes, heat a pan and add oil, pour in a ladle full of crepe mix and spread around pan. Cook for 1 minute on each side.

To serve, fold crepes in quarters and spoon over some caramel apples with a pinch of cinnamon.

Re: What's For Dessert?

kengillard — Thu, 30 May 2013 06:33:17 GMT

wouldn't worry Katy....sounds delishous

my speciality used to be caramel custard....when I cooked dessert i.e.

Re: What's For Dessert?

freddie*rooster — Thu, 30 May 2013 06:41:08 GMT

Individual Sticky Date Puddings with Butterscotch Sauce

Makes 12

Ingredients

200g dried dates, coarsely chopped
1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
1 ¼ cups boiling water
60g butter, softened
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup self raising flour
2 eggs, lightly beaten

Butterscotch sauce
1 ¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar
300ml pouring cream
125g butter

Method

Preheat oven to 180°c. Grease a 1/3 cup capacity muffin tray.

Place dates, bicarbonate soda and boiling water into a heatproof jug; stand for 5 minutes then carefully pour into blender jug. Place lid on jug.

Add butter and sugar and PULSE 2-3 times; add flour and eggs and PULSE mixture until just combined. Do not over process. Scrape down sides of jug if necessary.

Divide mixture evenly between 12 holes of the muffin tray and bake for about 25 -30 minutes or until cooked when tested with a wooden skewer. Remove from oven and stand for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack. Serve warm.

Serve puddings with butterscotch sauce. To make sauce, combine all ingredients in a saucepan and cook, stirring, over a low heat until combined.

Re: What's For Dessert?

katydidthat — Thu, 30 May 2013 06:59:27 GMT

Yes it will and boy's never ever notice important things, you have done very well.

Here's one for next week YEAR.

But I could get into sticky date puddings in the near future 🙂

Thanks, Freddie.

Thank you, Gillie. It took me a LONG time to get over custard powder 😉

This is an easy, yummy, and drunk-making dessert.

Chocolate digestive biscuits (McVities)

Whipped cream (the real stuff)

Madeira or other sweet fortified wine

Sandwich the biscuits with the cream into a log shape.

Slowly pour over the booze until it is absorbed in the biscuits.

Refrigerate overnight.

DO NOT EAT IN THE MORNING.

Re: What's For Dessert?

kengillard — Thu, 30 May 2013 08:36:53 GMT

egg custard is the way to go Katy

Re: What's For Dessert?

mugssy65 — Thu, 30 May 2013 08:55:58 GMT

Did you do the little V marks in the top? How many did you do?

1 to let the steam out

2 coz my mother did

3 coz I don't want to be my Mother!

Re: What's For Dessert?

katydidthat — Thu, 30 May 2013 09:08:20 GMT

Gillie, I find that commercial custard is pretty good ...

Mugssy, no V marks. I did make marks around the outside of the pie.

Re: What's For Dessert?

freddie*rooster — Thu, 30 May 2013 09:18:30 GMT

Did you do the little V marks in the top? How many did you do?

1 to let the steam out

2 coz my mother did

3 coz I don't want to be my Mother!

:^O

Re: What's For Dessert?

freddie*rooster — Thu, 30 May 2013 09:20:49 GMT

Katy, I might be up your way in the next month or so, I will give you a cooee, if you would like we could have a chat and a coffee.

Re: What's For Dessert?

mugssy65 — Thu, 30 May 2013 09:23:39 GMT

I thought you had to poke the steam holes in or the underneath of your pastry would be soggy?

Old wives tale maybe?

Re: What's For Dessert?

katydidthat — Thu, 30 May 2013 09:27:17 GMT

Muggsy ... 3 coz I won't want to be my Mother ... If I had thought about it, I would have incorporated 666. I've spent a lot of time not being my mother.