sharon....i'm sorry ! thanks for the link for haydel's. this is not the old fashioned kind or maybe it has changed with the times. actually, the bakeries used to make it to use up their old stuff...it originated for this purpose and was sold cheap. at least that is what my mom said. maybe your sisters will remember. it was so good. hopefully you can maybe find the original kind and see how it was.

Choux I will keep trying!

Loucinda; they gunna need me to take care of them in their old age; they won;t hurt me!

is this it?

http://herbsaint.wordpress.com/2006/09/09/russian-cake-creole-trifle/

I am now obcessed

it does not look the same...but i might try the recipe, the bloggers are so right with their memories