Yesterday, I got an email from Tuesdays With Dorie that I could join!  Yay!!  (However, I’m not on the list yet.  They must have a million emails everyday!  So I’m happily patiently waiting!)

So, I decided to start following the weekly baking assignments.  This week was Split Level Pudding from page 384-385 chosen by Garrett of The Flavor of Vanilla.  Pudding!  I love pudding!

I had some butter that I had picked up from the Farmer’s Market last week (along with the corn).

Butter from Farmer's Market

There was a lot of moving the mix (from the processor to the saucepan to the processor to the…).  However, overall,  I thought it was a quick and easy recipe.  Making the chocolate ganache was simple enough.  I was thinking that maybe next time I would either alternate the pudding and the ganache, or put the ganache on the top.

Ganache on the bottom

Then came the Vanilla pudding.  The recipe called for 6 small separate puddings.  However, all I could find in my cupboard were empty jars with caps.  So i decided to make 3 larger batches.

Three large jarful of pudding

It was also perfect for me because there was a hygienist at our clinic who just had her birthday.  And putting it in a jar made it easy to simply twist on the cap and bring it to clinic!

As a gift

In the book, it’s suggested that we use shaved chocolate as garnish.  Rather, I decided to place a piece of dark chocolate on top.

Hawaiian Plumeria Dark Chocolate

And as I said before, I put the cap on, and now it’s ready to go!

Hope she likes it!