this may seem very odd but we dont really have deserts in this household (just amazing sweets when I feel like cooking) but today I though that i would make an actual desert at actual desert time :P
so I had seen this thing in a womens weekly cook book at student works (another thing to blog about) and Im not going to go into detail - purely because i cant be bothered :P but it was with puff pastry, cream and berries (I think) and a few days ago we brought this butterscotch icecream - I wanted hazelnut but they didnt have any :( - and so I decided to create this thing from the book . . . ok, so its nothing like it but they both have puff pastry!
to intencify the butterscotch flavour and make it not so boring I decided to attempt at making a a butterscotch sauce so I looked up a few recipes and whiped together a suprizingly yummy one!
the "base" recipe that I used was from this website:
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/12431/butterscotch+sauce
but as usual I couldnt just use that recipe, I had to adjust it somehow!
I only had whipped cream in the fridge (there was probably between 1/2 and 2/3c of it) so in that went followed by some brown sugar (visually a bit more than the cream) I then put about 1 1/2 tbs of butter and heated it up. I then decided to put some golden syrup (about 1tbs) and because the cream was chantilly, I didnt bother with any vanilla essance.
the pastry took forever to cook but I soon had a finished desert and I must say it tasted pretty damn good!
the butterscotch sauce however had colled down and seperated by the time the pastery was cooked and it looked really weird, it was sort of coated in butter, but I heated it up again and it came back together; I think I will have to have a bit of a play with the proportions of things!
so much for "quick thoughts" but anyway! Im off to qld on tuesday :D hopefully to do some shopping, cooking, and chinese food eating! . . . there are these two amazing chinese shops up there, one near the vally, i think its like a little china town street?? I have only been there once but it was very memorable and they had the BEST fried rice and the other is near southbank and they have an AMAZINGLY good satay chicken - also the best of its kind! ohh, and theres also this awesome pancake place at southbank and they have those dutch pancake things, you know the ones, the small puffy things YUM!!! I usually get them at festivale but i didnt go there this year and then I also could have had them at agfest but I decided not to so watch out dad . . . I will be after my pancake and chinese fix! I swear I dont have chinese anywhere else now . . . nothing is as good as it is in qld! thai on the other hand . . . :D
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