Quarantine Cooking Dessert Using Leftovers

The other night I made some fettuccine Alfredo and had a bunch of fettuccine left over. I also had about a third of an 8 ounce block of cream cheese and some almost questionable sour cream in the fridge. It only made sense to use them for something and what would be better than an almost kugel.
I had no cottage cheese so it was not going to be a true one, but who cared?

A kugel is a Jewish noodle dish that is traditionally served on the Sabbath or on the holidays. A real one has egg noodles, cottage cheese, sugar, sour cream, eggs and milk and often has raisins or grated apples. Mine was no where near traditional, especially since I was using cream cheese instead of the cottage variety, but all I was trying to do was create a dessert using stuff I had on hand  that needed to be used.



1 1/2- 2 cups noodles (I did not measure but it was close to this amount)



1/3 cup cream cheese (softened, in my world it means nuke it for about 15 seconds)
1/3 cup sour cream
1/3 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup whole milk  or half and half ( I used heavy cream cut with water because I had no milk 3/4 cream to 1/4 water)
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 pinches cardamom

First  grease a small baking pan. 6x6 is
I grabbed my kitchen shears and cut the fettuccine into lengths approximately the length of egg noodles and placed them in the bottom of the pan. Next prepare the custard.
Mix the softened cream cheese with the sour cream add the sugar and blend well. Stir in the eggs and mix together then add the milk or cream the extract and the spices. Whisk  until it is smooth, pour over the noodles and bake at 350 for about 35 minutes.

Unlike a traditional kugel, I dd not have enough noodles for the custard to barely cover, so I had no tell-tale noodles on the surface of the dessert. I just had a smooth custard layer. It was fine with us, but might offend someone who makes this regularly. My aim was to create a delicious interpretation   rather than authentic dish.

And boy, was this ever good. I should have let it sit so it would firm up a little and I could have cut it into nice neat squares, but we ate it as soon as it came out of the oven and enjoyed every bit of its piping hot deliciousness.  Squares? No way! I spooned it into bowls so we really had blobs of deliciousness, but it was great. So good that TheHub had 2 1/2 bowls of it.

I am putting this in our dessert rotation, which is about to come almost to an end because next week I start back on the keto lifestyle. I seem to be an all or nothing type of gal and I will either eat sweets daily or have none at all. My jeans say I need to go back to being a no sugar or grains at all gal.

Anyway, if you want a cheap, tasty, easy dessert this might be for you. (Especially if you cook too much pasta)