What cookbook and recipe did you use most recently? Rate recipe

[VanessaJC]

Hello
My question to all group members: What cookbook/recipe did you use most recently and how did the recipe and cookbook instructions work for you?

Yesterday I made ****Incredible****Chocolate Custard Ice Cream, using the recipe from David Lebovitz's The Perfect Scoop. Rich, deep chocolate flavor; it was about 100x better than any other chocolate ice cream I have made. The Perfect Scoop has some good glossary chapters, explaining different ingredients and options. Also, I like David's backstory of how he tested ice cream recipes until his freezer overflowed and he had to share out batches to friends and neighbors. But there were some particularly delicious batches he kept all to himself.

I would say that to get to "successful" custard ice cream with my ice cream maker I have had to search out tips online (e.g., watching temperature, constantly stirring, sifting before cooling, using handblender for final smooth, not expecting it to be frozen hard from the machine, etc.) and tips like these were not included in The Perfect Scoop. But deliciousness was not online...deliciousness was in the Perfect Scoop Cookbook...the recipe rocked.

[Vittoria]

I recently baked Dorie Greenspan's Hidden berry cream cheese Torte from Baking from My Home to Yours and found it underwhelming.
I found the torte overwhelmingly sweet - not cloyingly so, but still it was the only characteristic it had, the one impression it left, the one thing one tasted.
None of the flavours were crisp or stood particularly out from each other in the end result. It was edible, slightly better on the following day, but unexceptional, bland.
In italian we use an expression: non dire niente - to be found to not say anything, not speak to oneself - have nothing to show or say for itself -
I find it strange - quite often one cooks something good or bad, not to one's taste or ruined by a mistake, lacking somehow but still ok This is one of the few times when I found the result to be: MEH

The previous week I baked Maida Heatter's Queen Mother cake - and found out a new thing about myself that I never realized: I don't like chocolate - not the cake's fault .
It is a true chocolate lover's cake : D

[Amy]

I've mostly been concentrating on putting the finishing touches on my own upcoming cookbook, Eat Cake Naked. (It comes out on December 26.) But yesterday I revised the Lemonade Cake from Kiss My Bundt to make a passion fruit cake with a passion fruit glaze. It was awesome!