So I'm sitting here at my desk, waiting for Rachel to get here so we can start on our first dazzling dessert: Watermelon Sorbet! I thought I'd give a little more background to where our challenge came from while I wait...
I guess it all really began a little over a week ago at my graduation open house. My mom had made her delicious Oatmeal-Chocolate Coffee Cake which Rachel absolutely loves. My mom mentioned to Rachel that we could have some baking parties this summer to make (and eat!) the cake again. Rachel and I took that idea to heart, and while cleaning out my room (a rare occasion indeed!) I found a dessert cookbook I had received for Christmas the previous year: the Best of the Best Recipe Hall of Fame DESSERT Cookbook. I figured we could find some great recipes in there for our baking parties, so I began flipping through. I read the back cover of the book which mentioned that there were 318 dessert recipes in the book, and I immediately thought of having a challenge like that in the movie Julie & Julia (318 is pretty close to 365--a book in a year!). I told Rachel of my "brilliant" idea, but she immediately brought me back down to earth, "Yeah..but we're going to COLLEGE in 2 months..."...so then the SUMMER Dessert Challenge was born--7 weeks, 14 recipes, and a summer of delicious fun!
Well..Rachel is finally here now, so: Let the challenge begin!
"I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert." ~Jason Love
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