{"id":452,"date":"2011-03-20T17:50:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T00:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=452"},"modified":"2012-05-24T22:57:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T05:57:40","slug":"resurrecting-an-extinct-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Resurrecting an extinct dessert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is my birthday, and normally on my birthday I have scratch cake as a treat. \u00a0This year I decided to do something different, and attempt to reproduce my all-time favorite dessert, something I’ve never found a replacement for.<\/p>\n

In my early teens we lived in Manitoba, and sometimes we would go down to\u00a0Brandon<\/a> for overnight shopping trips. \u00a0On a few occasions we ate at a restaurant called Aunt Sara’s, which had the best dessert I’ve ever had – a layer of vanilla ice cream between two warm cake layers, all covered with very thick hot fudge sauce. \u00a0I had it two or three times, then we moved away.<\/p>\n

When I returned a few years later, the restaurant was under new management and no longer had the same desserts. \u00a0Since then I’ve been trying similar desserts at other restaurants looking for a replacement. \u00a0Injury to insult, Google tells me the restaurant has now been\u00a0demolished<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ABC’s\u00a0Hot Fudge Mt. Baker<\/a> is similar in form but not in execution – the ice cream is sub-par, the fudge sauce is runny and insufficient, the cake is too fluffy and there’s way too much whipped cream on it. \u00a0Moxies’\u00a0White Chocolate Brownie<\/a> is the best cake-and-ice-cream dessert I’ve found since (on the rare occasions they put enough sauce on it and remember to heat up the brownie) but it’s not the same thing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I decided to try and recreate the original Aunt Sara’s dessert myself. \u00a0I’ve been planning this for a few months and have tried several different cake recipes and fudge sauces. \u00a0In the end I settled on these. \u00a0Normally I’d use Haagen-Dazs ice cream, but I thought I’d try this organic ice cream I recently spotted. \u00a0It’s pretty good.<\/p>\n

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(And before you call me out for using gluten-free and organic stuff and not using a scratch cake recipe, I chose these for flavor and texture.)<\/p>\n

Cake baked (with an extra egg to bulk it up a bit), chilled to make it cut more cleanly, then reheated in the microwave along with the fudge sauce. Cut a slice of the ice cream with a hot knife (not easy to get it out of the tub in slice form), and voila:<\/p>\n

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Although mine is a little sloppy, this actually looks pretty similar to the original (minus whipped cream, which is usually an annoyance anyway). \u00a0Flavor-wise, unfortunately, it doesn’t stack up to my memories of the original. \u00a0It’s close. \u00a0Closer than ABC’s version and closer than anything else I’ve tried since, but still not the same. Maybe I’m over-romanticizing my memories. \u00a0But it’s good and I’ll still call it a success. \u00a0Going to have to finished it over several days to avoid a sugar coma tnough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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