Catching up with Tuesdays With Dorie
January 20th, 2009
I’ve made the Tall & Creamy Cheesecake as well as the fabulous French Pear Tart.
Now, I’m not sure why the French Pear Tart wasn’t as fabulous to me, but it may be because I deleted the icing sugar, didn’t mix the egg in enough but the crust was not so very good. Okay, then moving on to the almond cream: I used brown sugar and the almonds were as fine as sand, so this may have been another factor. It wasn’t light & textured as I wanted. Next, I used peaches. Canned peaches.
Did I mention I didn’t really follow the recipe? Such presumption! Preposterous.
Tall & Creamy Cheesecake’s final verdict: GOOD! But there was a bit of a comedy of errors here. I had a 500g block of cream cheese – however I forgot that um, 1 pound of cream cheese does equal 500g. I had it in my brain that it was 1kg. You see, my unassailable self then halved the recipe but still used 500g cream cheese. Good grief how my heart sank when I realised the mistake. It was still good because I never told a soul (until only the crumbs were left haha) then we all realised that it should have a lighter and creamier texture.
SMILE!
January 21st, 2009 at 7:14 pm
SNIGGER about the cheese. so, hangon, i’m confused, it was meant to be 1/2 pound? thanks for dropping by. love ur writing style…(the non exclusively chick posts la)
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:50 am
fatboybakes yeah my poor family were overdosed with cheese. never thought that could happen, but it did. haha! YES if I halved the recipe, I should’ve halved the cheese to 1/2 a pound (250g) buden…youknowlah. people who think their quite good with conversions never check wan. (cough, me) haha.
such remorse and leeglett. i really should have just googled to discover that 1 pound = 500g!
haha hey, chick posts not bad also what, take it as ‘bus-stop learning’
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:51 am
oh and thank you! i love your writing. will it marry me!!
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:52 am
*blushes beautifully for you..i mean, it*
January 29th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Hi Eunice, Happy CNY!
I finally tried a carrot cake recipe! Check out the recipe at http://www.exclusivelyfood.com.au
Remember to cut down on the sugar! :)
January 30th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Happy CNY Jo!
Whee. Looks really yummy! I’ll be trying it after I try out my bookmarked carrot cake recipe. Did you find it really good? I’ve been dying to try the other one, so I’ll try both of them & give it a review on here when I’ve tried em both kay? :)
Thanks again!
Eunice