What's the best dessert you've ever had?
Yo mama.
(Not to be confused with Yo-Yo Ma.)
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What's the best dessert you've ever had?
Yo mama.
(Not to be confused with Yo-Yo Ma.)
t /twelve
Want chocolate lava cake. Want nap.
Entertain me, for I have no chocolate nor no nap.
I've always thought of it just as a cream, but I don't think custard is an actual wrong description, Gus. It's thinner--less set, than actual baked custard.
The "cream" in Boston Cream Pie is traditionally thickened with cornstarch rather than egg yolks, and so is not technically a custard,
To me, custard flavor + gloopy= custard, but I see what you're saying. (I've never made either custard or Boston Cream Pie myself.)
Cindy, I don't know if a boxed dessert would match what the restaurant does, but I seem to remember seeing a Duncan Hines boxed chocolate lava cake.
I had a chocolate volcano cake filled with caramel and topped with whipped cream at Cutter's in Seattle. It is my favorite restaurant dessert.
My understanding has always been that Boston cream pie is sponge cake, custard filling, and chocolate icing. Have I been lead astray?
Possibly. Boston Cream Pie for me is whipped cream over a light, fluffy aeriation of chocolate. It weighs nothing, and has every superlative of taste.
Huh -- the Boston Beanery's Boston Cream Pie does contain traditional egg custard, so it seems to be a matter of choice.
What's the best dessert you've ever had?
I've had a chocolate molten cup in New Orleans very similar to the various collapsible, hot chocolate desserts mentioned here. Delicious with a fresh raspberry sauce, but not my #1.
Locally I'm partial to the warm gingercake served with pumpkin ice cream and drizzled with caramel sauce.
Also the white chocoalte blueberry tart. Very lovely.
And the banana creme tartlet at Miette with the Scharffenberger chocolate bottom.
Best ever though is probably the first tiramisiu I ever had, which was in Paris. It was more Italian than French and more custardy than cakey. So good.
Boston Cream Pie for me is whipped cream over a light, fluffy aeriation of chocolate.
No cakey bits at all? That sounds like chocolate mousse to me.
I think Allyson is getting EVERYONE'S secretary's day presents!
bug thing: I once put my foot in my loafer and was greeted by a water bug. I came close to heart failure. I am not kidding.
Okay, this is torture and I want to go back to the bugs now.
(Really good chocolate-covered strawberries, I think. One of those foodstuffs that shouldn't just be good enough.)