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Reason #423423 why

myrialux is an awesometastic boyfriend:

Chocolate Blackout Cake.

He offered to make a dessert for me to celebrate 40 (well, 38, technically) days minus sweets. This comes from one of the America's Test Kitchen magazines (not the monthlies, but the specials), but I've forgotten which one. It's basically chocolate cake with pudding layers, covered with pudding, with crumbled chocolate cake pressed into it.

myrialux got very frustrated during the making of this* so you guys need to tell him how awesome he is for doing it anyway. :D

* Especially because the directions assume that you do not have the mind of an engineer: when making the pudding, it says to take off the heat once it starts to bubble.

myrialux therefore took it off the heat as soon as he saw bubbles appearing that were not made by his stirring. What it SHOULD have said was "take off the heat once it starts bubbling and getting thicker." Re-heating it worked, however.

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Damn. That does look awesome. What exactly is the pudding? (I don't know if this is a British/American vocab difference or if I'm just generally ignorant about desserts...)

It's probably a British/American difference, as I think "pudding" is used more widely in the U.K. for different items. Here it's basically similar to a custard*. This one has cream, cornstarch, melted chocolate, and a couple of other things in it.

* Or maybe it *is* a custard? Although Wikipedia seems to think genuine custards are egg-based and this is dairy and cornstarch-based.

Edited 2011-04-27 16:38 (UTC)

Traditional American puddings are definitely not custards, at least as I understand them. Custards are egg-based. Bizarrely, you can combine them! As in certain vanilla custard pudding, which is a combination of *both* eggs and cream and cornstarch. Mmmm, now I want pudding.

World English Dictionary
pudding (ˈpʊdɪŋ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]

— n
1. a sweetened usually cooked dessert made in many forms and of various ingredients, such as flour, milk, and eggs, with fruit, etc
2. a savoury dish, usually soft and consisting partially of pastry or batter: steak-and-kidney pudding
3. the dessert course in a meal
4. a sausage-like mass of seasoned minced meat, oatmeal, etc, stuffed into a prepared skin or bag and boiled

[C13 poding; compare Old English puduc a wart, Low German puddek sausage]

When used by an American the term is virtually always a reference to 1, on rare occasions 2, but 3 & 4 are pretty much only used by the Brits. And maybe the Australians, I don't know. :)

*kicks herself* Damn, forgot to close the < b > tag. Oh well.

I think the only non-#1 usage I've come across in the US is Yorkshire pudding, which confused me as a kid because it looked like a (non-Brit) biscuit to me (and is technically a popover, I think).

oh that looks yummy! Please tell him I think he is awesome and a keeper!

I think so too! :D

*droools* wow. omnomnom!

Oh, yes,

myrialux is indeed awesometastic for producing that.

And I desperately want some. *settles for virtual*

It's quite yummy. We have not entered in the ingredients to calculate the calories but I bet there are QUITE A LOT. Yummmmm.

Pffft, calories. :p It's chocolate. That is therapeutic at times. *nodnod*

Whoa, that looks tasty! myrialux is quite a guy!

Yes, he is!

Unsurprisingly, I agree that the directions are misleading.

For me, I think I also expect custards to be egg-based.

Yeah, they're not clear at all if you've never made that sort of pudding before. I cannot blame him at all! :D

Waaaaaaaaaant. Go myrialux!

Hee! It's yummy!

Ooooo! Very awesometastic indeed! And I agree about the cooking directions being misleading -- it's running into things like that that tends to make me less likely to try professionally published recipes than ones shared by LJ friends whose brains I can pick about the exact details.

Which reminds me, I should post my Upside-down Chocolate Coffee Mango Disaster Cake recipe. After I make one, of course.

I've got enough experience under my belt that I can usually fake it well enough. I think I drive Toby nuts when he's cooking and I'm supervising, though: "It says to cook it for 8 minutes but our stove will burn it before then. This says to bake for 25 minutes but I usually stick it in for 35. You might want to start scraping the bottom now even though it says to leave it along, because it's going to burn onto the bottom of the pan."

YUM.

Very much so!

Go boyfriend who is willing to do anything culinary for girlfriend! +10 for it being chocolate-related.

Agreed! :D

I can feel my BG rising from here. ;)
It looks amazing... I want chocolate now!

Hell, MINE rises! (Dear God, there's, like, a pound of sugar in it!)

Heat-n-serve pudding is made of EVIL. I can never get it quite right (or when I do get it the right consistency, people feel ill afterward).

So extra shiny bonus points for the myrialux. :)

That looks FANTASTIC.

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