We had a fundraiser dessert this week and I was charged with making the desserts. Rob wanted them to be fancy, "like from a restaurant menu...molten chocolate something or other...." I thought that was a little impractical, since everything had to be prepared in advance and moved to another location. So I made Bekah's Strawberry Poke Cake, Oreo Chocolate Cheesecake (somehow eaten without a picture), and Dulce de Leche cookies, which I will detail here. My idea was to go in three different directions flavor wise and texture wise. It would have been nice for one of them to be hot too, but no one complained
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| (Bekah's) Strawberry Poke Cake - poked full of pureed strawberries, yes indeed. One lady ate some and told me I should go into dessert catering. |
The cheesecake was round and chocolate with an Oreo cookie crust and 14 Oreo cookies around the sides - it also had a sour cream topping on it that pooled in the center even though it was supposed to be spread evenly over the top. But...it still looked pretty nice. I learned a neat trick while I was baking it. The middle just seemed to be refusing to set and the outside was definitely done and I found a tip online to just turn the oven off and leave the cheesecake in it while it cooled off. It worked! The cheesecake was perfectly done!
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| Princess Sonia Lee stand guard over the tempting Dulce de Leche Cookies. |
My neighbor Laura gave me the "recipe" for making these cookies. It's so easy...well I was busy and needed to get to some other things, so I had the kids make them.
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| Step one: open a package of Vanilla Wafers - it is not necessary for them to be any particular brand of wafers. |
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| Step two: Spread a small amount of dulce de leche on one wafer and top it with a 2nd wafer. |
Do they sell dulce de leche in other parts of the US? My store had 4 different brands.
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| Step Three: Toss the little sandwich in powdered sugar. Voila. |
I've made these three times since Laura told me about them. This time I didn't have powdered sugar on hand, so we put some regular sugar in the food processor with a little corn starch. I think it worked much better than regular powdered sugar.
