Him: They're baking again!
Her: It smells sweet.
Him: mmm
Her: I love it when it's bread...
I loved them so much that when they came home they found a tin of these ridiculously sweet little bars at their front door.
The only changes that I made in this recipe were to reduce the total amount of chocolate (out of necessity) and to use plain old coffee grounds instead of instant espresso powder. In a pudding or a more delicate cake, that might have been a problem, but here they just blended in and added their crunch. I made the toffee myself, over almonds, using the recipe from David Lebovitz's The Perfect Scoop (much like this one).
The end product? Fun, but kind of overwhelming. For my taste, I should have just made a double batch of toffee. Still, they had that sweet intensity that sometimes everyone just needs, an ice cream sundae in bar form, buttery and tooth-aching and addictive. I bet they'd be fantastic picnic food, after something very savory.
And yes, I did put vanilla ice cream on them--or toffee vanilla ice cream, because I made it in the same pot that the toffee had been made in, and it melted and absorbed the drips. I churned the vanilla ice cream that didn't go into the sandwiches with the remaining crumbs from last week's chocolate cakes. I am a TWD recycling superstar.
4 comments:
You are such a doll to give the neighbors a treat.
cool neighbors! The toffee ice cream sounds delicious.
Yummy looking bars. And to share -- very sweet.
Awww I love that story about your neighbors! And it's so sweet of you to give them those bars! I should move in next door to you...
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