Baking as Transformation
Chocolate Crumble Cake Bread Pudding
Memo to anyone who bought the Double Chocolate Crumble Cake from Whole Foods this weekend. If you were as disappointed as we were with this, consider following this Paula Deen recipe and transform it into yummela bread pudding!
The unseasonably warm weather has almost put me off baking and soup-making, both traditional activities for me this time of year. I’m looking forward to a drop in temperature next week — and more baking adventures.
Wait, so which bits of the Deen recipe did you substitute with the chocolate cake? The entire ‘red velvet cake’ section?
Yes — just substituted one cake for the other. Given the staleness of the Crumble Cake, there was no need to dry it out for 10 minutes in the oven, however…