Triple pudding Saturday, Dec 27 2008 

custard and fruit dayah 3:17 pm

Talk about dessertini right? Dessert in a martini glass!

Anyway this is called triple pudding because the bottom most layer is made of sponge/pound cake. The next layer is a fruity one, and the top most layer is custard.

Salmah gave the whole bunch of TJ girls the recipe to this wholesome goodness a few years ago during Hari Raya, but I think most of us threw it away misplaced it (including me). I’m just wondering how she got the custard layer to be pale yellow, almost creamish, instead of my bright canary yellow one. Oh well. At least it tastes good!

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Custard puffs Tuesday, Apr 22 2008 

choux and custard dayah 3:28 am

Actually the recipe said it was ‘Coffee profiteroles with chocolate sauce’ but nobody would understand what in the world that thing is anyway! And I changed the coffee cream to vanilla custard cream.

Chou(x) pastry, paste, or dough (French pâte à choux, German Brandteig) is a light pastry dough used to make profiteroles, croquembouches, eclairs, French crullers, beignets, and gougeres.It contains only butter, water, flour, and eggs. Its raising agent is the high moisture content, which creates steam during cooking, puffing out the pastry. (Source: Wikipedia) Yup. Basically puffs, in a lot of fancy shmancy names and shapes. But they all taste the same.

Considering it was my 2nd time baking these, they turned out pretty well. Unlike the first one, which were laughingly called puffs, since they were too watery and became flats. I had to sandwich 2 fluffs (flat-puffs, geddit?) to make 1 custard puff. Well, at least they didn’t taste bad. And the drizzled chocolate sauce helped camouflage the funny fluffs.

I’ll try this recipe again with chocolate pudding fillings instead. OR make them into eclairs. YES! New project!

Recipe follows:

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Fruit tarts with custard filling Tuesday, Apr 22 2008 

custard and fruit and tart dayah 3:08 am

Recycled photo:

There’s the fruit tarts on the left and lemon meringue tarts on the right, in case you didn’t know. I don’t have to repeat myself by saying that tarts rock, BUT, what I just found out was that tarts are higher in calories, as compared to angel food cake. DUH! I’ll try to bake one of those, one fine day. Who cares about calories when these treats are right in front of you??!!

One thing I forgot to do was glaze the fruits, because after I left them in the refrigerator overnight, they became dehydrated and kind of slightly dried up. Uugh. Nevermind. There’s always a next time!

Recipe follows:

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