Lemon Curd (Version 2)

This recipe for a lemon curd is simply a smaller batch of an earlier recipe, making about half the amount. I had similar difficulties as the first time I did it, but in the end it came out well. After 2 hours, the curd was as I would expect: shiny, a nice consistently and lemony.

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Banana Chocolate Bread Pudding

Bread pudding. This is a concept I never really grasped. Why would you want to purposely wet bread and eat it so? In my mind the result would be a soggy and unpleasant mixture. This recipe, however, yielded a dessert that was none of that. Admittedly, I think that I slightly undercooked the bread pudding and as a result it was a bit “wet” still, but I could tell that perfectly cooked it would have tasted even better.

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Creamy Mocha Pudding

For a New Year’s Even dinner at my best friend’s house I was looking for a special dessert that would be liked and appreciated by my friends. Since I knew that the dinner itself would be quite filling, I was looking for a light dessert – not too rich nor too heavy. After flipping through the pages a couple of times, I came across a lifesaver recipe that is a traditional dessert loved my most: pudding!

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