TWD- Lemon Cup Custard

Wow... its been a while since I posted. With

my sister's wedding and all, I hardly had any

time for anything! 

This weeks selection was Lemon Cup Custard

and it was chosen by 

Bridget from The Way the Cookie Crumbles

I have to say I was a bit skeptical about making 

this one, since a lot of people reported it had an 

eggy flavor to it and not enough lemon. 

Since I don't really care for lemon flavor I chose 

to make a vanilla-cinnamon flavored custard 

instead. I used a lime to decorate it.. but 

that was it. I really enjoyed the flan texture and

realized that it would have been much better had

I added some sugar caramel at the bottom before 

baking the custard. It was a little blah.. but it wasn't 

so bad. 

The recipe was very easy to make.. and I was thankful

I didn't have to go out and buy weird or hard to find 

ingredients. Great pick Bridget!!

You can find this recipe HERE. Please don't forget to 

check out all the TWD blogs!!

TwD- Devils Food White Out Cake

This week's recipe.. I believe a much anticipated recipe

by many, was chosen by 

Stephanie from Confessions of a City Eater. 

I baked this cake for our New Year's Eve celebration and

got good results. My boyfriends family really enjoyed it

although I'm not sure if they liked it more than the 

Berry Surprise cake.

To tell you the truth I don't remember if I had any issues 

with this cake. The frosting came out perfect and the cake

came out moist and delicious. I thought no one would ever 

pick this cake so I just decided to go ahead and make it and

it's fantastic. 

Hope everyone else enjoyed this cake as much as I did. The 

cake was renamed by my bf's family and is now known as 

"The Oreo cake". They say it looks similar to an Oreo cookie

which is kinda true. 

Don't forget to check out all of the other TWD member bloggs!! 

TwD- Floating Islands

According to Dorie, this desert is a French classic

.. and because of its great taste I must say it will 

become a classic here at home too. The dessert is 

composed of meringue puffs and a cream called 

Créme Anglaise. 

This recipe was chosen by Shari of Whisk: a food blog. 

Thank you Shari for helping me discover this great dessert. 

I thought making this recipe was fairly easy. The only 

thing that kinda drove me mad was making those little 

islands. I just couldn't get them to look "pretty". I just 

gave up and decided that the island on the recipe book 

didn't look that perfect either and felt just a tad better 

about mine. I absolutely loved the Créme Anglaise.. it 

has a great taste and I was even happier that this recipe 

called for no chocolate at all. Again.. I apologize if I offend 

any chocolate lovers. I just wanted something with out 

chocolate :)  

The whole recipe is super easy to make.. it just takes a 

little patience which I'm not really known to have, but 

if I could do it so can you.  I greatly recommend anyone 

to try this recipe out because I know you'll love it too! 

You can find the recipe HERE. 

OH... and please don't forget to check out all other TWD

bloggers HERE! 

TWD- World Peace Cookies

The recipe for this week was chosen by Jessica of 

cookbookhabit. Great pick by the way! 

The recipe for this week was fairly easy... and with the busy 

agenda that I had, it gave me just enough time since it 

was quick and easy.I have to say though that I am not a very 

big fan of chocolate. I willeat it, but that's if I have a big c

raving for it. I did think that the cookies were just a little 

bit too chocolaty for me.. but they had a good taste. I was 

tempted to leave them baking for a bit more than the recipe 

called for but then remembered that the book said they 

would look a bit undercooked. After they cooled down 

though, they held their shape better. The cookies were 

super moist which was one thing I did love about them. 

I took a bite after they had completely cooled down and 

the chocolate oozed from inside of it.. 

it was pretty cool. I'm guessing that if it had been a 

chocolate chip cookie it would have been better for me 

since they have less chocolate but don't get me wrong, 

they taste great! I actually only baked one roll.. the 

other one is waiting in thefridge. I had no problem 

shaping the roll since the dough came together fairly 

easy. I almost forgot to incorporate the chopped chocolate 

because I was being careful not to over work the dough 

but in the end they came together fine. I made the dough 

a day before I made the cookies and left it in the fridge to 

rest. The next day I took it out and it was pretty solid and 

it made the cutting a lot easier although they did crumble 

just a bit. Even if I'm not a chocolate lover I did think the 

cookies were good. 

I hope everyone enjoyed their cookies and don't forget 

to check out the other TWD blogs!

P.S.

Sorry for offending any chocolate lovers out there by 

saying they were too chocolaty, I'm just not the biggest 

fan of chocolate :) 

No baking this week! :(

Just want to let everyone know the reasons I wasn't

able to post this week... I guess the first and biggest 

reason of all is the fact that I will be the maid of honor 

in my sister's wedding.. and if you've been a maid of 

honor... you probably know that the last month is the 

"worst" not in a bad way of course. I've been pretty busy

helping out with the last details and things like that, 

that have kept me so busy and out of the kitchen. I do 

expect to post for next week though... I tend to leave 

things to the last minute.. which is often a big mistake..

so I plan.. hopefully... to make next week's recipe in 

advance. Well... I hope every one's recipe came out good! 

Please don't forget to visit the other TWD member blogs. 

With that said... hope everyone has a great weekend and

see you again Tuesday.