After a failed attempt at baking a flourless Nutella cake, I decided to focus my mind on flour based goods instead. I was craving peanut butter and Nutella so I found a recipe online at Erica’s Sweet Tooth that utilized both ingredients. I didn’t have regular pb at home, so I used my fancy white chocolate pb instead. I think I could have used a little more Nutella, but the cookies turned out pretty good anyways.
Whenever I mention my love for condensed milk, more often than not, people around me gasp and look at me like I’m crazy. I don’t get it. The stuff is good. Have you ever dipped strawberries in condensed milk? Delicious. Have you ever spread condensed milk over toast? Heaven. Have you had dripped coffee with condensed milk? Caffeine boost and sugar rush. It’s amazing.
Someone, I don’t remember who, recently posted about condensed milk cake. I wanted some. So I searched the internet for a recipe and decided to use the one I found on pizzarossa.
I think I may have kept it in the oven a little too long, but aside from the thin layer on the outside of the cake being a little on the crispier side, it was still moist on the inside and surprisingly not too sweet. I’m tempted to add a little more condensed milk next time.
Yesterday I baked a Greenlandic Cake aka big round raisin bread inspired by a blog that I read recently. After I pulled it out of the oven and took a few bites, I decided it wasn’t sweet enough. So today I decided to sliced the bread into small cubes to make rum raisin bread pudding, but without the rum because I didn’t want to go buy a new bottle.
1. Cut the bread into small cubes, enough to fill a mixing bowl. My dad and I ate some of the bread, so this was 3/4 of a loaf.
2. Add 1 tsp of vanilla extract, 1 tsp of ground cinnamon, 3/4 cup of raisins, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 3 tbsp of butter and 3 cups of milk to a saucepan and simmer until the milk is warm and the butter is all melted.
3. Pour the mixture over the bread and let it sit for 30 minutes.
4. While waiting, you can slice some bananas to fill 24 cupcake liners. Both the bananas and the cupcake pans are optional. I decided that cupcake size bread pudding would be very cute. If you’re just going to bake the bread pudding in a baking pan, add the bananas in when you add the egg mixture (below). Also, you can preheat the oven to 300 degrees at this time.
5. After 30 minutes have passed, whisk 4 eggs together and pour over the bread and milk mixture.
6. Scoop into cupcake liners, all the way to the top. Please wipe off any mixture that gets onto the sides around each cup. Why? Because it will burn and stick to the pan. So unless you want to spend an extra 5 minutes scrubbing the stuff off later, I suggest you just wipe it off before you stick the pan in the oven. Anyhoo, now bake for 50 minutes.
It should look a little brown (like there might be slight crunch to it) on top when you pull the bread pudding out of the oven.
There is no need to wait for the bread pudding to cool down before eating it. I didn’t. If you have any chocolate sugar at home, feel free to sprinkle some on top.
There is a reason why I rarely go out for dinner on Monday nights. Monday is my dad’s day off and he usually cooks dinner. He makes us the good stuff.
Last weekend my sister and I drove up to the Bay Area. We unloaded her stuff at her apartment in Berkeley for her last semester. Gosh my mini me is growing up so fast and is making me feel very old. The weather was beautiful in San Francisco and my three day weekend would have been perfect had I not got a speeding ticket on the 280 and then a parking ticket too on the same day. At least I did get to eat some good food and spend some quality time with a few friends and family.
On the way to SF, my sister and I stopped at Harris Ranch for dinner for the first time.
Saturday, I had brunch with a few friends at Town’s End (pics from my iPhone) by Pier 38.
After brunch, I introduced Judy to Daiso and Bi-Rite (pic from my iPhone).
Wendy had suggested we have dinner at The Tipsy Pig in the Marina area. Umm…the appetizers were good.
After I got my speeding ticket on Sunday, I had lunch with my sister and cousins at the On The Bridge restaurant in Japantown. The service was so slow.
As for dinner, I slowly drove myself back to Millbrae for some steak at Jerry and Grace’s house. Argh! I’m dreading the day that damn speeding ticket arrives in the mail. I hate traffic school, even if it’s online.
