How do you participate in Tuesdays with Dorie when: (1) you’ve been gone for almost two weeks, (2) you feel like a giant ball of fat because you’ve been eating hotel food during that time, and (3) you don’t have much time to bake because your family is out of clean underwear?
You improvise. Yes, you go to Trader Joe’s, pick up some lady fingers and mascarpone, and make one SMALL dessert. SMALL. So you don’t have an entire tiramisu cake around to tempt you, and add to the horror of looking at the bathroom scale. Okay, I only gained one two pounds on my trip, but at my age, while it took two weeks to put that on, it will take a month to take it off. Curses!
This week, Megan of My Baking Adventures chose Dorie Greenspan’s Tiramisu Cake on pages 266-268 from Baking: From My Home to Yours. The verdict? What’s not to like about tiramisu? Chocolate, coffee, mascarpone . . . . Oh, I’m soooooo glad I made one small dessert!
Now, check out what the other TWD bakers did this week!
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OH…I can’t wait to see it.
Hey, I am ALWAYS trying to make these desserts smaller! Temptation is hard enough when I have batter or dough near me, I don’t need full cakes and the like to go along with it! I can’t wait to see it!
Can’t wait to see how it turned out – I went small too for the same reason 🙂 As for the chicory essence, I got it at L’Epicerie online. It’s fantastic stuff!
Bwah ha ha ha – no clean underwear? And yes – I know just what you mean, 2 pounds does take a month to come off! And my husband says, what’s the big deal? It’s only 2 pounds! But its a HUGE deal!
Yes. I’ve been struggling with 1 1/2 pounds all year! Maybe TWD has something to do with it.
Can’t wait to see your picture. Sounds like had a great improvise.
Making a mini or half recipe is the way to go; not too much guilt, LOL. Can’t wait to see your mini version.
I hope you get a few minutes to relax at some point! =) I look forward to seeing the pictures.
Ugh, curse that hotel food! As for the clean underwear, we’ve been known to buy more. Shhhh!
I couldn’t believe how much cheaper mascarpone is at Trader Joe’s. So glad we have one now.
I didn’t end up making this one. I just might have to….
Ack! Don’t tell me that! I’m going on vacation Friday!
Can’t wait to see the cake. I’m sure it was worth the wait for clean underwear!
Don’t feel guilty! We all have such phases…
Cheers,
Rosa
There are times in life when we must be gentle on ourselves! 🙂 Sounds like you’ve been very busy. Glad you enjoyed the cake and I look forward to seeing the photo.
Welcome back! The mascarpone cream is luscious — hope you are enjoying it!
yay! We’re in the single serve club together! And I don’t know about *your* age, but I’ve heard that for women over 50 it’s twice as hard to lose weight – it seems like forever before my scale budges 🙁
We’re always out of either underwear or socks, but especially after a trip.
Nancy
That looks sooooo good. I like making little servings for all the same reasons you listed. Just enuff to sooth away that little gnawing craving…
I like your philosophy. Small is good. After all, it was the late-Julia Child who always believed in eating everything, just in moderation.