Lush gelato with rhubarb bread pudding

During this time of year I frequently find myself up to my ears in cake. The Jewish new year and harvest holidays are back to back, and with Jewish holidays comes the excuse to over-feed your friends and family. The sentiment is wonderful, and certainly shared with many other cultures: sweet new year wishes and thoughts of bounty and abundance. But, in reality, it means I have cakes of all kinds getting stale on my countertop. Far be it from me to let cake go bad…

Not knowing about my present cake situation, a friend dropped by yesterday with one of my favorite sweet treats – handmade Argentine-style gelato from Lush. She called a few hours before she came, so I had time to drum up something with my left over sour cream coffee cake, (recipe to follow in a coming post  here) I had a couple other ingredients on hand like some “rhubarb butterscotch” and an early bounty of Meyer lemons from our tree. I heard a chant in my head: “bread pudding, bread pudding bread pudding!”

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