Mini Desserts!!! We are starting with one of the most famous duos, chocolate. and peanut butter!!! AH-MA-ZING!!!
How was your Christmas and New Year?!? I hope you had a lot of fun with your family and friends. All the drinking and eating that I did during the holiday season is spectacular! Is there a new dessert that you tasted this holiday?
This year my family did a staycation and it was the best!! We stayed home, stay up late, wake up late, watch movies with the kiddos (I highly recommend Spider-Man : Into the Spider-Verse!!!),go out to eat, just really really relaxing. It’s just what we need after the busy holiday season that we had.
One new tradition that I start this year (I should’ve started this earlier!!) is to have my family help me with cleaning and packing the Christmas tree. Decorating for Christmas is always more exciting but taking it down is a downer for sure!! I usually do my Christmas decorating right after Thanksgiving. It’s fun and invigorating because of the baking that I do and also the decorating (Two of my favorite thing to do!!). But I always drag myself to do the cleanup. But this year, I actually corralled and asked my family to help me and we did it in under an hour!!! It was amazing!!! Ask and you might get help!!!
For the 1st bake of the year, I like to start with mini desserts. After all the holiday treats, I want to make something light yet still delicious. After looking for ideas and recipes, I am going to start with a flavors that everybody loves and go so great together, Peanut Butter Cookie and Nutella Pastry Cream. So here’s to the first Bake of 2019!!
In the stand mixer, mix together the butter, peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar and eggs.
After it’s all combined, gently add the dry mixture while the machine is on the low-speed.
When the dough comes together, put it in a bowl and chill for about 1 hour.
Using an ice cream scoop, scoop out the cookies and bake on parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for about 13-15 minutes until it becomes golden brown. Go ahead and try one once it’s cooled. It’s called quality control!! ?
When the dough is chilling, start making the Nutella pastry cream. In a medium bowl, whisk together the egg yolk, sugar and cornstarch.
Gently add the warmed milk into the egg mixture. Keep whisking while you’re pouring the milk so it doesn’t become scrambled eggs.
Then pour the mixture back in the saucepan. It will start watery and soupy like the picture below. You want to warm it on low-medium heat and keep on whisking. Do not leave the stove because you might burn the bottom.
After a few minutes the mixture will thicken up like the picture below.
Take it off the heat and then add the Nutella. Combine until all the Nutella is incorporated.
Put a plastic wrap right on top of the pastry cream and then chill for about 2 hours.
After everything is ready, it’s time to assemble!!! Spoon or pipe the pastry cream into the shot glass.
Add a layer of crumbled cookie.
Add another layer of the pastry cream and top it with a little piece of cookie!
It’s a Masterpiece!!!! ????. Well, I might be exaggerating but it is for sure delicious!!!
Happy Baking!!
- In a medium bowl, mix together the egg yolks, sugar and cornstarch.
- In a saucepan, heat up the milk until it comes almost to a boil.
- When the milk is warmed up, gently pour it into the egg yolk mixture while whisking it slowly.
- Pour all the mixture back into the saucepan. Keep stirring on medium high heat until the mixture thickens up. Be careful it might bubbles and splatter.
- Take it off the heat, add the Nutella and mix again. Transfer into a bowl. Put a plastic wrap right on top of the pastry cream so it doesn't make a skin. Cool down.
- Chill in the refrigerator for about 2 hours before using.
- To assemble, crumble a few cookies. Using a small round piping tip, pipe the pastry cream into each shot glass. Add the crumbled cookie. Add another layer of pastry cream, then top with a small piece of cookie.
Adapted from : Allrecipes
