Cheese Pie

so that peach cobbler that we made was gone in like, 2 days........really makes a difference if dad eats it or not. O.o Anyway, since our last dessert was gone, obviously it was time to make a new one. we can't live without desserts for one day apparently.

Anyway, so somehow we decided to make the "Rich Ricotta Cheese Pie." sounds amazing no? So we got to the part where we add the stevia, only to find we had a megar six packets left. Just a side note, yes, we use the packets of stevia, ment for sweetening tea and coffee, to make gourmet desserts....who's bright idea was that? Although it really isn't our fault, Raisin Rack doesn't carry it in bulk >=( if anybody reading this (anyone? anyone??) actually buys the book and tries to make the desserts, i would highly (HIGHLY!!) advise you to go to Trader Joe's and buy some bulk stevia. or order it off the internet somwhere. i suppose we could do that too, but we're just to lazy. So! back to the cheese pie. throwing caution (and Lisa Job's recepie) to the win, we put in all six packets.

Another note, we did everything she said to do to avoid cracking of the cheesecake (it was cheese pie a minute ago, wasn't it?? O.o) and it still cracked majorly....=.= what planet do you LIVE on Lisa Jobs?? or are we just really crappy cooks? anyway, so it turned out pretty yummy, and our dad (obviously the most critical of desserts in our family; he has a MAJOR sweet tooth) said it was the best one yet =) although beating out the biscuits couldn't be THAT hard right?

it's even better when enjoyed with fresh or frozen blueberries.

Peach Cobbler and the case of the missing eggs...

A couple days ago, our "savoury dessert" (brownies in case you didn't remember) ran out... so we decided to make another dessert, nopefully with more sucess than the last one. so we busted into our frige to get out the "essentials" only to find one pathetic hard-boiled egg............

with a heavy heart we flipped through the book trying to find an eggless dessert (almost immpossible by the way) only to stumble upon a pear cobbler. well, we didn't have any pears, but our dad had frozen some peaches eariler in the summer. so with some casual bribing, we got the peaches and went to work.

just a side note, Lisa Jobs uses a crap-load of butter.....kinda like Juila Child, or Paula Deen. anyway, for the topping, we cut the butter in half and added some blackstrap molasses. because blackstrap molasses is delicious in toppings.

in another note, if your using frozen fruit, DON'T use all the liquid that comes off of them when you defrost them. or if you do, cut the water you add to the fruit. cause if you don't, you'll end up with some peach soup like we did >=( thanks goodness in congealed up over night in the frige.

and the verdict? yum! can't go wrong with fruit desserts.... and the topping was (of course) amazing. because I (A) made it. with blackstrap molasses.

it even passed "The Dad Test." victory!

Brownies......

so today we made brownies. Actually we made them yesterday, but they were a failure until this morning. We followed the recipe but apparently, our stevia sucks. We put in the right amount but they tasted like savoury salty, chocolate biscuits! Our dad came home and unwittingly took an enormous bite of one (like he always does to desserts) only to spit it out and exclaim, "Why am I eating this??" Yea, they were that bad. So we broke out our unsweetened chocolate, milk, and fail-stevia and attempted to make a chocolate ganache for them. But guess what? It tasted bitter... :( So with a bad mood and an upset stomach we plopped the bitter ganache on the salty biscuits stuck it in the fridge, and called it a day.

So this morning, J (the boy) gave the biscuits a second chance and ate one...for breakfast. (yum!) And guess what? He liked them! Especially when topped with peanut butter and bananas. (Naturally More pb if you were wondering...its amazing! ...shameless plug! :P) So then A came home (the girl) and ate one after lunch, and it was good! We'll still have to test it on the dad, but so far the ganache at least is a success.

So here's what we used:

We followed Lisa Job's brownie recipe in "Sensational Stevia Desserts" for the (biscuits) I mean brownies. The ganache we made ourselves without any recipe! :O

It used:
1 1/2 squares unsweetend baker's chocolate. (The other 1/2 a square mysteriously melted on the stove's burner. o.o wonder how it got there? A..?)
A bunch of milk, possibly 3/4 cup? We kept adding it to taste to try and get rid of the bitterness of the chocolate.
4 packs of NOW stevia extract, but whatever stevia your using is probably better.
Some corn starch. Our mom kept adding it, so i'm guessing like 2 tablespoons? enough to make it more pudding than ganache, but who actually knows what "ganache" is anyways?

I don't expect anyone will actually try to make this, but if you do, don't eat it until the day after with peanut butter or bananas...or both! Otherwise you might as well eat it with your turkey gravy and call it dinner.

heyy world ;)

hi everyone! this is a blog about the misadventures of my brother an i in the kitchen. last spring, we discovered that eating copius amounts of sugar caused massive breakouts on both our faces. lovely. an thus started our life of sugar-free eating. so far, we (well, at least i) haven't had many problems with breakouts anymore! which is pretty nice considering i've had pretty bad acne since i was like, what, 10? TMI perhaps?

anyway, the only problem was, i like me some cookies. so does my brother. then we discovered this wonderful herb stevia a la eat this not that =) sweet, and most certainly does NOT cause breakouts! hooray! saved! except we had no idea how to cook with it.....

so i bought my bro the book "Senstional Stevia Desserts" for christmas. jsut a couple weeks ago, we decided to go through the book and make all the recipies that sounded yummy. this blog is a sort of diary of our sucesses and our failures as we experiment an concoct (hopefully) delicious desserts with no sugar.

thanks for reading! hope you enjoy our misaventures haha...