Okay, well usually life hands you lemons and you make lemonade...but it is in the 60's now and hopefully raining all week, so lemonade is not really on my mind. And since I have leftover puff pastry from Hay Hay, It's Donna Day I decided to drown my sorrows in puff pastry. I only had a little bit left so I decided to make mini Napoleons, since I haven't made them for over a year. Many people cower at the idea of making pastry cream, and I'm not really sure why...other than the fact that you are the slave to the stove top for a little bit. I chose to just make a basic pasrty cream spiked with a little bit of Grand Marnier and cover with some dark chocolate sauce(because my jeans were actually fitting this week, and well, we can't have that). Grand Marnier Napoleons with Dark Chocolate Sauce 1 box of Puff Pastry chocolate sauce*   Pastry Cream: 4 1/2 cups whole milk 1 1/3 cups sugar 1 cup egg yolks 6 TBSP cornstarch 1 tsp vanilla extract 4 TBSP … [Read more...]