{"id":86,"date":"2009-03-22T20:28:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T01:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-03-22T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T01:28:26","slug":"for-the-love-of-spring-and-lemons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"For the love of spring and lemons"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things on my to-do list for my vacation was to do some baking. I rarely seem to find time to experiment in the kitchen these days. It seems that I didn’t really find the time over my break either. I just wasn’t feeling inspired to cook, instead I spent the week either crafting or being lazy. <\/p>\n

Last night\/this morning at 3 a.m., I woke up with an urge to create something yummy. My brain wouldn’t shut up and let me go back to sleep. 3 a.m. is not a good time for baking though, I’m likely to fall asleep and burn whatever I’m cooking. However, I perused TasteSpotting<\/a> for a bit and kept coming back to one picture. <\/p>\n

This morning, when I woke up again, I was still determined to give it a shot. Hungry Girl’s Lemon Cream and Cheesecake Pots<\/a> was haunting me. Lemon cream looked like a lot of work, but I was willing to try it once.<\/p>\n

If you are afraid of the fat grams, don’t look at the recipe. <\/p>\n

I had a bit of trouble with the Lemon Cream. I put a glass bowl over a simmering pot of water and stirred my mixture. However, the temperature seemed to do the Macarena on me. It would go up and then back down. I spent over a half hour stirring it and it just would not come up to 180F. I finally gave up and moved it to a saucepan over low heat and stirred it constantly and didn’t look away for a second. That did the trick, it hit temperature within another 2 minutes. I finished off the lemon cream and moved it to the fridge. A spoonful of this is tart-ally awesome. Think the initial taste of a Lemonhead candy.<\/p>\n

I followed her recipe for the Cheesecake pots and split them between 3 ramekins for baking. There would be 3 of us for dinner. <\/p>\n

At serving time, I spooned a couple of dollops of the lemon cream on each cheesecake and spread it around. <\/p>\n

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It’s a bit tough to differentiate the layers in this picture.<\/p>\n

However, I think this next picture will explain our opinions on the dessert.<\/p>\n

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My final thoughts are this: yes, lemon cream is fiddly, but it’s worth the effort. Also, I can totally see this cheesecake becoming a favorite – it was quite simple and not terribly sweet and made just enough for dessert for 3-4 (I could have easily stretched it to 4 ramekins if a fourth person were coming over) with no leftovers. However, I still have half a bowl of lemon cream, so I’ll either be making cheesecakes again this week or else smearing lemon cream on everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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