What's For Dessert?

[katydidthat]

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 ... 😉 🙂

[kengillard]

wouldn't worry Katy....sounds delishous

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

[freddie*rooster]

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.

[katydidthat]

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.  

[kengillard]

egg custard is the way to go Katy

[mugssy65]

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!

[katydidthat]

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

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

[freddie*rooster]

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

[freddie*rooster]

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.

[mugssy65]

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

Old wives tale maybe?

[katydidthat]

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.