More Baking

More baking this weekend. I'm told both recipes were quite tasty, though as usual, I didn't try either one.



Here's a chocolate hazlenut tart. Note to self: buy crushed graham crackers next time. You might feel like a more accomplished chef if you buy whole crackers and mash them yourself, but it takes about 20 minutes to get 1.5 cups. Pretty much pure chocolate and hazlenuts on the top layer, so the tart was very heavy. Almost all of my chocolate products have been flourless (or close to it).







































This is an Autumn trifle with roasted apples, pears, and pumpkin-caramel sauce. You basically line the bowl with ladyfingers (brushed with sherry) and then layer the a cinnamon pastry cream, some roasted fruit, and the pumpkin-caramel sauce... then it's another layer of lady fingers followed by the cream, apples, and sauce. I got some pastry bags from the bakery at Giant and tried to apply some fresh whipped cream decoratively, also using thin pear slices to add a bit of flair. You have to utterly destroy the trifle to eat it, though, which is a bit tragic.