Daily December #9 - desserts and me
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schneefink asked, What are my favorite desserts to make?I bake cookies all the time, for lunches and snacks and all--your basic chocolate chip, brownies, chocolate malted whopper cookies, cupcakes (drat, I can't find my nutella self-frosting cupcake recipe online), etc, but they don't really count as dessert somehow.
D is not big on actual dessert--pecan pie from the recipe on the back of the Karo syrup bottle (no fancying it up allowed!) is about all he eats. He'll share a bite or two of creme brulee if we're at a good restaurant, so I learned how to make that w/o a blow torch (here.) The boys like it, too, plus there's an old Southern Living recipe for a red velvet cake with peppermint buttercream that goes over super well at this time of hear. I've also been making a pretty mean pumpkin cheesecake since the 90s, waaaaay before the current pumpkin spice craze. The absolute craziest thing I've ever made is Marcel Desaulniers' Death by Chocolate, which takes days and has gotten me a little high (the steam coming off the mocha rum sauce is caffeinated alcohol.)
But my favorite is from Julia Child--Mousseline au Chocolat. This is serious, serious chocolate mousse and really not all that hard. (And should your dear SO forget to mention that he's invited the entire coaching staff & their families to drop by for dessert on the day after Christmas, it is rich enough that even if you don't have enough chocolate in the house to make 3x the recipe, you can triple the whipped cream component and nobody will ever suspect you've served them 1/3-strength mousse. :D)
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