Finally, sleet gave way to snow tonight. We will likely see just a few inches, but I am hoping for more. Maybe not quite as much as the foot predicted for our friends in Madison, but still, just a bit more.
Archive for December 8th, 2009
8 Dec
Malted milk chocolate cheesecake
The day before Thanksgiving, Ava helped me make this Malted Milk Chocolate Cheesecake.
Well, not this one, per se, but the first one of two.
The first one–fresh out of the oven–slid off it’s perch in the back of the Pilot as we drove out of the driveway that afternoon. It was sandwiched sideways between the luggage and the lift gate.
I tried to catch it with one hand as I opened the lift gate with the other, but only managed to burn my hands as it sloshed out of the pan and down the bumper of the car, landing in the driveway in a big chocolate puddle.
Bryan, who hates packing, traveling and especially traveling with things that are poorly packed, sighed heavily and headed back to the house to gather the things we’d need to clean up this giant mess.
He returned with a trash can, paper towels and a spoon.
With the positive results of Bryan’s taste test, I picked up the ingredients on the way out of town, and I made it again once we arrived.
This time, it stayed intact until it was served. It was only then I realized I added just half the sugar the recipe required.
Third time’s a charm, right?
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