Weekend Treats

Saturdays are our Treat Day!  Throughout the week I like to think about and plan what our treat will be.  There are multiple conversations about said thoughts and plans.  Although, the word "conversation" implies two people participated.  It is probably more correct to say I talk to Paul about the weekend's treat, and get the kids excited about it.

We have actually been thinking about this weekend's treat for awhile.  Paul even participated in some of this thinking.  Key Lime Pie.  Except, the family can't have gluten, so we needed a different crust.  I am avoiding dairy (for Lex), so we needed to avoid the sweetened condensed milk, and I didn't feel like using tofu.

Key Lime Pie

After a little searching we pieced together an idea for Coconut Milk Key Lime Pie with a Coconut Crust and Coconut Meringue Topping.  Say it with me.  Mmmmmmm, coconut goodness!  This treat needed to be made Friday night so that it could set overnight.

Doesn't it look delish?!

Except, it didn't work out quite that way.  I'll start with the crust.  It disintegrated.  The filling . . . did not set.  The meringue . . . deflated.  Was this treat a total failure?  No, it was still yummy.  Totally consumed by the end of the day.  Cavell stole a piece while it was still cooling on the counter Friday.  I admit to a spoonful that night to check if it was firming up.  For breakfast, Paul "evened out" the pan where our bites where missing.  And there was just enough left for the four of us to each have a small bowl for dessert Saturday night.  We did need to give it a different name.  Key Lime Pudding with Coconut and Whipped topping.  It provided a definite spike to the family's insulin levels.  It did NOT fulfill Paul's desire for a pie.  We will have to come up with a different pie treat for a different Saturday.

Alayna has been asking to make Snowy White Chocolate Crescents from the Mrs. Fields book.  Every.  Day.  It was her choice on the MUST MAKE list.  It turns out, she only wanted to help with the rolling and shaping of the cookies.

Instead, she took pictures of Cavell helping to make them.  When the dough was made I dutifully scooped out "level tablespoons" of the dough for the children to shape.  They both did very well making dough snakes and then bending them into crescent shapes.

Except, these cookies did not keep their shape and looked nothing like the pretty, 3-dimensional cookies in the book's picture.  Instead they became flat C-shaped cookies.  There was no way we would able to roll the cookies in the powdered sugar (the other step Alayna wanted to help with) we could only dust them.

The cookies tasted okay; the whole batch has been eaten.  Even Alayna agrees, these cookies are really NOT worth making again.  Overall, a somewhat disappointing Treat Day.  I still hold out hope that some of the other cookies we have lined up to make from this book WILL be a good find.  But, we will have to wait until our next Treat Day to find out.