For anyone counting, this is my third Baked Sunday Mornings failure in a row.
The saving grace for this cake is, no matter how you eat it, it’s delicious. My version needs to be eaten in a bowl, with a spoon.
It was the pudding that did me in again. I don’t know if it’s just me, or if there’s something off with the pudding recipes in the book. My crust turned out great – I love Oreo crusts. The flourless cake is also great, although it sunk kind of oddly – stuck to the sides of the pan. That turned out to be okay because it helped form a dam for the pudding failure.
My pudding seemed fine coming off the stove. Thick, and really delicious. I’d absolutely eat this pudding on its own. But after it was chilled (overnight in my case), it had lost viscosity and was very loose. I poured it in anyway, since the crust and cake part of the dessert provided some structure.
Adding the whipped cream to the top of liquid pudding required patience and talent, but it turned out okay. We got a couple of pictures before the dam broke and pudding started to leak out. This is just a big mess of chocolate, oreo and whipped cream at this point, but it still tastes really good.
To get the recipe and see the other entries from this week’s Baked Sunday Mornings head on over to Baked Sunday Mornings.
- Mississippi Mud Pie (B), aka Muddy Mississippi Cake (Baked Explorations, p. 156)
I wouldn’t call it a “winner” recipe in my home … which surprised me because everything I make out of this cookbook is amazing. I would make it again but with different components. Better pudding recipe and different flourless chocolate cake section.
Love your cake stand!! Don’t give up: amazing recipes in there!
Sorry your pudding didn’t work out. Mine was very thick after time in the fridge. Yours looks really nice though.
I’m sorry to hear that, Sheri, but I’m glad I wasn’t the only one. I knew something was wrong with the pudding when I took it off the stove because the texture was a little gritty. I thought that it was just because of all the cocoa powder in the recipe and that it would smooth out in the fridge, but it didn’t. I’m not sure it even needed the pudding layer at all, anyway. The only thing I was really upset about was wasting such expensive chocolate.
I’m not always convinced that these recipes are created for home cooks. I know if it was my cookbook, I’d surely be asking for feedback from a group like ours. Maybe they should ask us to kitchen-test some of their new recipes.
Still, I learn a lot from this group and really enjoy seeing how everyone else fares.
Happy 4th of July!
Aw, such a bummer about the pudding, although I’m glad it still tasted good! Mileage definitely varies for a lot of the recipes in this cookbook (and the previous one). I’m sure the baking stars will line up for you next time!