Oliver's Twist

Turns out, it's hard to get a good picture of a chocolate-filled cream puff. One wrong angle and the whole thing looks like a colostomy bag*.

I'm on a baking streak this weekend. As thank you presents, I made the Smitten Kitchen's dulce de leche cheesecake. It was surprisingly straight forward. And tastes as good as it sounds. Imagine everything you like about cheesecake, then add the creamy sweetness of dulce de leche, and top it off with a chocolate glaze. I would post pictures, but they really just look like they do on the site. You should stop reading this now and go make one for yourself. I called mine "Haddon's Matrix Cheesecake**" because they're for Prof Papa.

I also made "(Injury) Prevention Profiteroles**." I followed the Minimalist's recent profiterole recipe but swapped raspberries and vanilla ice cream for chocolate Bailey's pudding. That is to say, I swapped raspberries and ice cream for excellence. Tastes surprisingly like "the real thing," except better.

*That probably crossed a taste line of some sort. My apologies.

**Shameless renaming that has nothing to do with the desserts and everything to do with pandering to Prof Papa? Perhaps. What're you going to do about it?