On 7/15/2011 6:21 AM, Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> Marty wrote:
>
>> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>>> Cheryl wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here are your ingredients. You have a whole pantry to use to create a
>>>> dessert with your mandatory ingredients. What would you make?
>>>>
>>>> pita bread
>>>> a bottle of Starbucks frappuccino
>>>> honey mentholated cough drops
>>>> sour cream
>>>
>>> The cough drops are the trickiest ingredient. I'd melt them down with
>>> water and honey to make a honey-menthol syrup, which I'd then use to
>>> make Italian meringues (Beat egg whites until nearly stiff; drizzle
>>> boiling-hot syrup in while continuing to beat until glossy. Dollop or
>>> pipe onto parchment and bake until lightly toasted.)
>>>
>>> I'd blend the pita bread in a food processor with brown sugar, egg
>>> yolks, sour cream, and baking soda. Form into thin cookies and bake
>>> at 350F until lightly browned.
>>>
>>> I'd cook the frappuccino with cornstarch to make pudding. When
>>> thickened, I'd remove from the heat and add Frangelico and orange
>>> extract.
>>> I'd tie it all together by making a chocolate syrup (corn syrup,
>>> Dutch-processed cocoa powder, sugar, and butter) to drizzle over
>>> everything on the plate.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bob
>>
>> She forgot to mention you've got twenty minutes.
>> ;-)
>
>
> How fast does the oven preheat? :-) It would only take about five minutes to
> get the cookies onto the cookie sheet. The time-consuming things would be
> melting the cough drops and cooking the pudding; everything else is pretty
> quick. The meringues can be cooked in the residual heat from the brown-sugar
> cookies. The game plan would be:
>
> 1. Put water, honey, and cough drops into a pan and start heating.
> 2. Separate eggs.
> 3. Start heating frappuccino.
> 4. Prepare cookie sheets.
> 5. Make pita cookie dough, put onto cookie sheet and into oven.
> 6. Make chocolate syrup
> 7. Cough drops should have melted by now, so make Italian meringue; dollop
> onto prepared cookie sheet.
> 8. Make thick heavy-cream and cornstarch slurry; stir into frappuccino,
> bring to boil. As soon as the mixture starts boiling (which shouldn't be
> long), remove from heat, add Frangelico and orange extract, dispense into
> serving dishes, and start chilling. (It's okay if the pudding is still warm
> when it's served.)
> 9. Remove pita cookies from oven, put meringues into oven, and turn oven
> off.
> 10. Plate pita cookies and pudding.
> 11. Remove meringues from oven and put onto plates.
> 12. Drizzle chocolate syrup over everything.
>
> Would that take less than 20 minutes? POSSIBLY. I don't know for sure.

I like the sound of it actually! Ironically I picked up a bottle of
Frangelico tonight for a sweet buzz.