This recipe has been tantalizing me for some time now. The picture in Nigella's book looks so yummy that I couldn't wait to try it. It is true that I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that this recipe too has double cream in it...though I'm not sure why I was surprised. I'm thinking about taking stock in double cream the way Nigella uses it. And I'm not exactly sure how I'm supposed to loose weight eating all this double cream. Anyhow, I did run into a touch of a problem at Metro with this one of course. But this time it was truly disappointing because normally my Metro does have coconut yogurt. But last night they were all sold out!!! Can you believe it? I couldn't. I just can't win with this grocery shopping thing. I didn't feel like driving to another grocery store so I decided to just go ahead and use the Greek Yogurt. So it wouldn't be as flavourful, but I would keep that in mind when reviewing the recipe I told myself. "Chances are it'll still be pretty good." thinking of that lovely photo beside the recipe. So this morning I made this recipe for after dinner dessert.
First off, I wasn't sure what dish to make this in because my ramekins are not glass and I thought this recipe needed to be seen, what with the layering and what not. After some hard thinking I decided the best thing I had to use were martini glasses. I lined the bottom of my glasses with banana, covered the bananas with the yogurt/cream/rum mixture. Here I'll tell you I used banana flavoured malibu rum (I thought the banana in the rum would help out the lack of coconut in the yogurt). Then you Sprinkle with brown sugar...I kept reading the instructions over again after this because my dessert looked NOTHING like Nigella's delicious looking photo. But after a few re-reads I found I hadn't missed anything and put my desserts in the fridge feeling let down.
Six hours later, I was a little hungry so I decided that I'd have my dessert as an appetizer to dinner. I took it out to the couch and dug in (Husband had the good sense not to question this behaviour). I have to tell you it was pretty damn good. And remembering that this was without the coconut yogurt I'm gonna say this dessert is damn fine. Mine still didn't hold a candle to Nigella's appearance wise but it sure did taste yummy. I wasn't too sweet and since my sweet tooth is baby tooth size this dessert is perfect for me. As a matter of fact about an hour after I'd had my caesar salad dinner I felt a little peckish again. So I ate Husband's pudding too! Caribbean Creams are light, yummy and when you are eating this you'll feel everything is Irie Mon! I really liked this dessert and I can't wait to try it with the coconut yogurt!
Six hours later, I was a little hungry so I decided that I'd have my dessert as an appetizer to dinner. I took it out to the couch and dug in (Husband had the good sense not to question this behaviour). I have to tell you it was pretty damn good. And remembering that this was without the coconut yogurt I'm gonna say this dessert is damn fine. Mine still didn't hold a candle to Nigella's appearance wise but it sure did taste yummy. I wasn't too sweet and since my sweet tooth is baby tooth size this dessert is perfect for me. As a matter of fact about an hour after I'd had my caesar salad dinner I felt a little peckish again. So I ate Husband's pudding too! Caribbean Creams are light, yummy and when you are eating this you'll feel everything is Irie Mon! I really liked this dessert and I can't wait to try it with the coconut yogurt!
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