Summer means lighter desserts since the last thing you want on a hot day is something heavy. Imagine a nice warm summer evening sitting on the deck sipping chilled moscato wine, listening to jazz and tucking into one of these tarts. The beauty is you can make these ahead of time; like the day before and enjoy…
Category: Pudding/Pastry Cream/Custard Desserts (9)
Happy Valentines Day: White Chocolate and Raspberry Pudding Parfaits
White chocolate and raspberry are a classic combination. The slightly tart but still sweet raspberry plays well off of the sweet mellow white chocolate. I love this combination for a pudding. I layered the flavors in dessert shooter glasses for a sweet looking parfait. If you don’t have access to fresh raspberries you can use frozen for…
Banana Pudding and Homemade “Nilla” Wafers
I’ve never been a big fan of banana pudding. Not that I don’t like it, it’s just not something I ever had a big taste for. That all changed a few years ago when I set foot in a BBQ place called Baby Blues in San Francisco. The first time we went there was on…
Tangelo-Tangerine Pudding, Vanilla Pudding
Today-I’m channeling my inner child. With pudding. Pudding was a big thing in my house growing up. We always had a box of pudding mix in the cupboard. Now that I’m older, my love of a good pudding has not changed; although now I make it from scratch. It really is not hard to crank out a quick…
Rich Chocolate Pudding
Rich Chocolate Pudding When I was growing up, my Mother used to put me in charge of making the pudding. I’m not really sure how it happened, that I became the “Jello de Master”, but I loved doing it. I remember feeling so grown up making that Jello brand pudding. It was a treat that we shared as a family. Many a Saturday…