Yolk yolk yolk yolk yolk!
If you read my prior post you'd know that once the wedding cake was done and complete I'd have about 5billion egg yolks left over. What's a girl to do with 5 billion egg yolks!!! Think of all that cholesterol! BUT! Think of all the delicious creations that could be made with those lovely, lovely, yellowy/orangey, silky smooth yolks! That was my challenge the begining of this week... be gone with the yolks! I am proud to say that from those 5 bajillion yolks I made 4 delicious desserts, and only 3 yolks remain! do do do do!! (yes I do deserve that royal trumpet sound)!
What, pray tell, would these delicious desserts be, you ask? Oh, don't you worry, I will share with you these 4 delicious desserts!
#1 Creme Brulee Ice Cream!
(yum)
So, this local gelato joint has some amazing creme brulee gelato (so I've heard, I haven't had the pleasure of trying it). I took it upon myself to do the same, yes I'm a copy cat... sue me. I went online and I searched creme brulee ice cream recipes and this is the one I found. So this lady, has this I guess vanilla sweet cream type of ice cream recipe and at first she made some toffee and mixed it in the ice cream... then, the second time around, she decided to put the ice cream in little pots and serve them as a creme brulee would normally be served, with torched, burnt sugar on top.
I didn't really want to do either of those. My original thought was, well the toffee is too thick, and I don't have enough pots for this ice cream brulee idea. What I wanted to do was, throw some sugar on the silpat and torch away, to have nice thin slivers of burnt sugar.
My friend came over and we proceeded to make this ice cream. Unfortunately, I have a small torch and it would've taken 10 yrs and a day to torch all of that sugar. Then we thought we could put it in the broiler, but thankfully I googled it, and silpat in broiler = no bueno. So, we opted for the toffee idea. I tried to spread it out as thinly as possible.
The outcome? The ice cream, like i mentioned above, tasted like a sweet cream vanilla ice cream, and the toffee, while delicious, was still too thick for my liking. Next time, I hope to either a) not make ice cream so late, thus having time to torch sugar or b) buy a bigger torch! :)
#2 Lemon Bars!
(super yum!)
I must preface this with a little lemon bar story. Yes, I have a lemon bar story. When I worked at my old branch, an old coworker of mine made THE BEST lemon bars. Before her lemon bars I was strictly a chocolate dessert eater, I never really dabbled in the fruity dessert world. Her lemon bars are AMAZING! So, I got into lemon bars. One day we had a lemon bar bake off, she accidentally burnt her and they were still better than mine. The lemony goodness she has on top is like a custardy/curdy type of lemon topping... it's smooth and light and creamy, oh what I'd give for that recipe!
I researched lemon bar recipes, and I landed on this one. Well, there are several recipes in this link and there are 2 lemon bar recipes. I tried the first recipe. For some reason I thought that this might be something close to what my coworker made... alas, it was not :( BUT! I definitely am going to try the second recipe in this link! The second recipe has heavy cream in its recipe! I don't know why I didn't think to try that one... the heavy cream might be the trick! I gotta try it next time!
#3 Hazelnut Ice Cream
(eeep!!!)
I might have mentioned this before, if not this wont be the first time.... i love... LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE....love love love... looooooooove hazelnuts! Fucking Nutella! C'mon! Whoever doesn't like hazelnuts, I mean, I wouldn't even know what to say to them, just the thought of it leaves me speechless. mmm mmm mmm!
I found this simple hazelnut ice cream recipe. Super simple, super awesome. I did tweak the recipe a bit, instead of 4 cups of light cream I used 2 cups of light cream and 2 cups of 2% milk... for no other reason than my cheapness kicked in. It is, of course, delicious! Although, it's a bit on the soft side, but that's okay... and the ground up hazelnuts are a little gritty, but that's okay too because it's hazelnuts and it's delicious! Oh, also, I omitted the vanilla extract... I wanted to taste the hazelnut and not have the chance of the hazelnutty flavor being overpowered by the vanilla extract. I mean, don't get me wrong, I do enjoy vanilla in my life, but it's seriously in almost every recipe!!! sheesh!
It's delicious :)
#4 Chocolate Almond Creme Brulee
(yum?)
I only question the deliciousness of this recipe, because I haven't tasted it yet. Here's the recipe. I haven't tasted it because, clearly I made a shit ton of desserts... 3 of them in one day. I'm not about to sit on my couch like a fat ass and gobble all of this shit down... I'd like to, but I surprisingly enough have the will power to JUST SAY NO! This is a no-bake recipe, which is supa cool! So, I made the custard and poured it in my ramekins, stuck them in the fridge to stiff up, then individually wrapped them and stuck them in the freezer... I hope that's okay!?
The one thing I changed in this recipe is the almond topping. Hopefully, when I take one or several out, I will remember that I wanted to grind up some toasted almonds, mix the almond meal with some sugar and burn that together, I think it'll call for a nice, sweet, nutty, toasty, chocolaty flavor!
I was lazy and took crappy pictures on my phone of the last 3 recipes.. I'm not sharing them because they're crap :) Fine... I feel bad... I'll just share them... sigh...... but, let me say, they don't do any justice :)
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| hazelnut ice cream! |
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| lemon bars... |
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| Almond Chocolate Brulee |
enjoy!
