Erin Wooddell
Every month, I get together with a group of girlfriends from college. Last year, we all moved within 1.5 hours of each other and we decided we needed to plan visits on a more regular basis. These visits soon turned into Pinterest dinners.
When Pinterest first became a phenomenon, I heard about girls getting together and working on crafts and DIY projects they'd pinned. Well, as someone who uses glue and scissors on a kindergarten skill level, I wasn't too keen on the idea of participating in those events.
Luckily, these friends didn't seem that into crafting, either. Instead, we focused on our favorite Pinterest resource—the recipes! Among the four of us, the responsibility rotates. For example: This month I was in charge of dessert.
I was a little nervous about my task this month for two reasons:
1) I am in the middle of packing, so all my bakeware is in boxes, and I don't currently have baking ingredients.
2) This month, the husbands and boyfriends are also attending. Meaning more mouths to feed and an impression to make.
Every month, I get together with a group of girlfriends from college. Last year, we all moved within 1.5 hours of each other and we decided we needed to plan visits on a more regular basis. These visits soon turned into Pinterest dinners.
When Pinterest first became a phenomenon, I heard about girls getting together and working on crafts and DIY projects they'd pinned. Well, as someone who uses glue and scissors on a kindergarten skill level, I wasn't too keen on the idea of participating in those events.
Luckily, these friends didn't seem that into crafting, either. Instead, we focused on our favorite Pinterest resource—the recipes! Among the four of us, the responsibility rotates. For example: This month I was in charge of dessert.
I was a little nervous about my task this month for two reasons:
1) I am in the middle of packing, so all my bakeware is in boxes, and I don't currently have baking ingredients.
2) This month, the husbands and boyfriends are also attending. Meaning more mouths to feed and an impression to make.
If you all aren't aware by now, I am a lover of dessert. Give me chocolate and I'm instantly happier. Naturally, because of my love for decadence and sweetness, my dessert board on Pinterest is full of incredibly complicated, involved and ambitious treats. (Most of which I don't have the ingredients, time or patience to really try.)
And then I stumbled upon a recipe for a No-Bake Boston Cream Pie Strata. Boston Cream Pies are amazing because they involve the flavor combination of my all-time favorite treat: eclairs. A vanilla pastry/cake, custard and chocolate icing. Sign me up every time!
This recipe was way less complicated than most of the others, but it still called for some extensive steps and ingredients I didn't want to fool with, or didn't have. So I improvised. I made it Tuesday night and let it set up in the fridge as directed. On Wednesday I tried a bite to make sure it would be OK and I had to use all my willpower to put down my fork and close the lid.
This recipe is a real keeper. Here's my improvised version:
And then I stumbled upon a recipe for a No-Bake Boston Cream Pie Strata. Boston Cream Pies are amazing because they involve the flavor combination of my all-time favorite treat: eclairs. A vanilla pastry/cake, custard and chocolate icing. Sign me up every time!
This recipe was way less complicated than most of the others, but it still called for some extensive steps and ingredients I didn't want to fool with, or didn't have. So I improvised. I made it Tuesday night and let it set up in the fridge as directed. On Wednesday I tried a bite to make sure it would be OK and I had to use all my willpower to put down my fork and close the lid.
This recipe is a real keeper. Here's my improvised version:
No-Bake Boston Cream Pie
Ingredients: For the "cake" and custard:
For the icing: (I used a completely different recipe for the icing, because the one with the above link kept curdling.)
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