Desserts are by definition a treat, but not all desserts are treats. And every wild once in a while, I find myself trying out a recipe that initially makes me angry at the dessert developer until I realize that I'm the sucker who fell for a kitchen freakshow and rode it like a jackass through all three rings of its circus.
The week before last, I made a very bad decision about the next recipe I ought to try. It was a lengthy unnecessarily overwrought process, complicated and expensive and with a stunningly disappointing result. The recipe: limoncello creme cake. While it seems to have enjoyed tons of "shares" from the recipe website, and an oddly uncritical mass of favorable comments, I appreciated that at least one person commented: "There are so many things wrong with this recipe that I won't bother to go into them all."
An 8-yolk lemon curd, mixed into THREE containers of mascarpone cheese, various tablespoons-full of lemon extract and limoncello, plus a recommendation that you zest, like, 6 or 8 lemons...but a freakin' box mix for cake and an insistence that you find Cook-and-Serve lemon pudding...for the love of all that's holy: I am a moron for choosing to try to make this ridiculous absurdity that was a physical disaster but an interesting nod toward a different kind of lemon cake. The recipe printout has been tossed in the rubbish bin.
"Limoncello Creme Cake," from Kathleen Hagood and posted to JustAPinch.com.
Yeah, we've all been there.
ReplyDeleteI suppose I've put on full display the butt-hurt that I felt about it.
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