so yeah, totally not watching what I eat at all. Made yummy treats for dessert last night, and they were yummy, but the recipe was flawed and now I have to tweak it to make it work.
it was for a S'mores - style treat bar. You take 1 cup graham cracker crumbs and mix them with 3 tablespoons of melted butter. press it into a pan, and bake for a few mins - till you can smell it, about 12 mins. then add 5 tablespoons butter, melted, to 6 oz. melted semisweet chocolate. pour that on top of the graham cracker crust. cut 18 marshmallows in half and stick them, cut sides down, tot he chocolate until the entire surface is marshmallow. bake for a few mins, then chill for at least 40 minutes. when its time to eat, pop the dish under the broiler for about half a minute till the marshmallows brown. cut in to squares and eat.
sounds good, right? It tasted good, but there was a problem. the graham cracker crust wasn't a crust, and it didn't stick to the chocolate. So I got a chocolate and marshmallow square with a buttery graham cracker sand underneath. The texture was wrong, and the crust honestly hadn't any flavor.
This isn't the first time Ive encountered recipes with graham cracker crusts that were sub-par; my favorite Thanksgiving potluck recipe for lemony cheesecake bars had the same problem and I ended up adding copious amounts of butter and brown sugar to that crust until it finally did what it was supposed to. it still is crumbly and fally-aparty, but better than the original, which was dry and overly nutty.
Anyway, I'll try again sometime soon - it's an incredibly inexpensive recipe. I wonder if tweaked enough it would make a good wedding dessert, or if the marshmallow would just be too sticky?
nexttime i may talk about Queasy Cakes, my personal recipe of Doom for unsuspecting pot-luckers who think they are about to eat cornbread and instead get a mouth puckering sweet cake with a sour punch!
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