So I made Beeramisu for dessert last night. I used the same recipe, made no alterations because I'm not comfortable changing dessert recipes...who knows what could happen! Explosions?! Strange growing things?! Terrible, bad-flavored things???!!!
I did halve the recipe and put it into three glasses rather than one large pan. Because of this I had to do some shoddy measuring and cutting of the lady fingers to fit into each glass, but it worked out okay. I tasted one of the glasses the night before V-Day, after it had been sitting about three hours, just to see if it was a flop or not. It wasn't -- at all! -- but it was a little runny. I worried -- maybe I hadn't whipped enough cream? Maybe I hadn't "folded" the ingredients together properly (because what the hell does "fold" mean when you're talking about whipped cream and liquid sugary marscapone)?
The next day all my fears were put to rest when Jared took his first spoonful and said "Oh my god." The ladyfingers had layered appropriately, the creamy stuff had taken an appropriate texture -- "Like fluffy pudding," I decided -- and the dusted chocolate had liquified. You couldn't really taste the beer but it definitely didn't matter. Heaven.
(A little too much Heaven. I ate only half of mine.)
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