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French Cooking Class - Desserts and the End...

The last 5 or 6 weeks of my cooking class focused on desserts. From classic french pastries such as eclairs and profiteroles to homemade ice cream, cakes, crepes, mousses and souffles. Unfortunately, we didn't get to make macaroons since our instructor is allergic to nuts and therefore almond flour was out but that's okay. We learned to make pate a choux dough, which is used to make eclairs and profiteroles and of course you can make them savory instead of sweet, which we did by adding cheese. We then used the dough to make a little sandwich with bacon, onion and arugula. We also made swans out of the choux dough and filled them with pastry cream and dusted them with powdered sugar.    And finally, we made churros from the choux dough as well. We fried them and then tossed them with sugar and cinnamon. We also made lunch on dessert day since it's hard to eat 8 different kinds of dessert for lunch without throwing up so we made a paella with sausages, ch...

Brown Sugar Cheesecake

I don't know about anyone else but I get tired of making the same recipes over and over and once in a while I look for different things to try or at least change up a favorite.  I've got my tried and true recipe collection and there's my I've-got-to-make-this-one-day collection because they sound really good. And since cheesecake is one of my favorite desserts and my dad's birthday is this month, I decided to dig out one of those recipes I promised I'd try and found this one: Brown Sugar Cheesecake with Bourbon Butterscotch Sauce . Oooooh yeah, sign me up baby! I found this recipe on Epicurious which received 3.5 forks out of 4. The reviews were good but there were a few issues "not thick like a NY cheesecake" and some had problems with the sauce.  I too enjoy a NY style thick cheesecake, which is how I always make mine and the directions for the sauce seem, well, weird. First things first, I didn't have any bourbon but I had rum, whic...