Here's what I did to myself. I had a box mix for pound cake in my pantry. In an effort to clean out my pantry and freezer I decided to make my own pound cake. Would you know that darn pound cake took about an hour to bake?? Why didn't I think of that? Conveniently, I also forgot that the pound cake would be HOT for a long time!! I got angry with myself and sat the pound cake aside until the next day. I can never find store-bought lemon curd, so I decided to make it myself. Lemon curd is one of those time consuming recipes that consists of zesting quite a bit of lemons and then cooking over low heat for quite some time. I had made it once before with success, but this time it didn't turn out!! So, I made it again, but not until the next day. Do you see a recurring theme here?? (And by the way.....yes I know I have quite a temper, but I've learned when to walk away). The next day, the strawberries weren't looking so good and the pound cake was half gone. I really didn't want to go back in the kitchen and work on this, but I wanted to just get it finished. I found enough strawberries to make one little pudding and I ate it for breakfast. It was really good and would be even better if I had followed Tyler's directions and actually bought store-bought ingredients. Why do we do these things to ourselves??
Strawberry-Lemon Puddings, adapted from Tyler Florence, Dinner at My Place
2 cups strawberries, hulled and halved
1 meyer lemon, juice only
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
1 pint heavy whipping cream
1 cup powdered sugar, plus 1 tablespoon for garnish
1/2 cup store-bought lemon curd
1 store-bought pound cake
Combine strawberries, lemon juice, and 2 tablespoonsof powdered sugar in a small saucepan; place over medium heat. Cook and stir for 4 to 5 minutes, then remove from heat to cool. Remove 4 strawberry halves from saucepan and reserve for garnish.
Whip heavy cream in a large mixing bowl until soft peaks form. Fold in the 1 cup owdered sugar and the lemon curd, a little at a time, until combined. Set aside in the refrigerator while you prepare the cake. Preheat oven to 350F. Cut pound cake into 1/4" thick slices. Use an inverted 6-ounce ramekin, carefully cut out 8 rounds. (The rounds should fit snugly inside of the ramekin itself). Break the remaining scraps of pound cake into coarse crumbs and toast on a baking sheet in the preheated oven about 5 minutes, until golden brown and fragrant.
To assemble, start with a layer of the lemon cream on the bottom of each of the four 6-ounce ramekins, followed by a cake round, some strawberries, and lemon cream. Add another layer of cake. Drizzle the final cake layers with syrup from the strawberries and then top with a swirl of lemon cream and some toasted pound cake crumbs. Garnish each pu dding with a reserved strawberry half and dust with powdered sugar.
My advice, should you decide to make this, take Tyler's word and buy store-bought. I think that guy knows a thing or two about cooking!!
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these sound really delicious and simple (if you buy the ingredients). you definitely get an A+ for making it all yourself!
ReplyDeleteLOL!! Gotta do things the hard way, huh!? I hear ya...these were delicious...and I used the easy way ;P
ReplyDeleteHaha..OMG...I'm laughing right now...lol..mostly because I would have done the exact same thing :) How funny. I am so glad you were able to at least put together one and enjoy it :) They sound delish!
ReplyDeleteSo funny! Running over to list to put lemon curd on there... I always kick myself for not having a jar of it for occasions like this!
ReplyDeleteI loved this post. It made me laugh cause its just the kind of thing I do. Sometimes a girl has to learn things the hard way i guess. At least you got a yummy desert out of it. It sure looks pretty :). HOpe you have a fantastic weekend!!!
ReplyDeleteHey, I didn't miss the ending. I'm cool. I'm in!
ReplyDeleteLOL! A temper is a good thing!! Your dessert sounds like it ended up wonderfully.
ReplyDeleteFor all the problems you had getting it going, it sounds wonderful and eating it for breakfast was a great idea!
ReplyDeleteI think you deserved to eat it for breakfast. lunch and dinner with all that work! It looks amazing and hopefully worth at least some of the effort. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThat little pudding took a LOT of effort! Kudos to you for staying committed. I would have certainly thrown in the towel. I will try to make this, except with the store-bought goods ;).
ReplyDeleteOh no! One more thing we have in common! We're both gluttons for punishment! I made 2 TF recipes last week that both BOMBED, and there I was last night, trying them again, just determined to make it work! LOL well, your lonely little pudding does look lovely....
ReplyDeleteOh I've been there! It looks like you had a good result though, this looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I understand only too well what you did. It's a classic symptom of overachievers. It does look like you had a delicious breakfast, though.
ReplyDeleteWell, your one pudding certainly looks great!! I know exactly what you mean about making things harder than they have to be (unfortunately!!).
ReplyDeleteWow, you and I must be "untwins" that sounds exactly like the kind of thing that I would do!!!
ReplyDeletePudding sounds like a great breakfast.