Custard

Sugar Cream Pie

A slice of sugar cream pie dusted with cinnamon on a plate next to a fork.Sugar Cream Pie is an old-fashioned custard pie with flaky buttery crust and a rich, creamy vanilla filling topped with cinnamon and nutmeg. Also called Hoosier Pie, it’s a no egg custard pie and reminds me of crémé brulée but it has super simple ingredients that turn into a decadent dessert. I’m a pie expert…

Panettone Bread Pudding

I’m somewhat of a grump about bread pudding. It’s not that I don’t like it, but to me, bread pudding is something you eat at home, like fruit salad. I don’t need someone cutting up a bowl of fruit for me nor do I need someone tearing up leftover bread and serving it forth. (And handing me a bill for it.) Bread pudding is home…

Panettone French Toast

I’ve been pondering what, if anything, I should close out the year with. In the past, I’ve written down my thoughts here, which I spent the last couple of days pondering. Reading and re-reading what I wrote, I realized that I couldn’t quite figure out what I wanted to say. And if I couldn’t figure it out, I didn’t feel like I should inflict that on…

Coffee Caramel Panna Cotta

Two of my favorite flavors come together right here, in this Coffee Caramel Panna Cotta, which offers up the rich flavor of caramel with a few strong shots of espresso. I seem to have good caramel karma and when I baked professionally, the executive pastry chef at one restaurant told me that I was the one she wanted to make the caramel desserts since I…

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