Tres Leches - Three-Milk Cake

October 12, 2010 by Monica in Baking, Desserts, Cake, Family Cookbook

I wrote about the Tres Leches cake before.

When I just started baking for the Heavenly Cake Bakers group back in January the “Torta de las Tres Leches” from the book was my first “official” post into the group.

I mention in that post that this is in fact my “signature cake” with my family and friends. What? Don’t you have a signature dessert or food? I been baking this cake for over 20 years for birthdays, special dinner parties, events, because any time my family or friends has “something special” this is the dessert that is requested.

When I made Rose’s version of the cake, my family went up in arms… how crazy was I to change this? To “cheat” on my original recipe and do something else! Don’t do it! And while Rose’s version was “ok” in everyone’s verdicts, mine own recipe continue to come on top.

This past weekend as most of you know by now, we celebrated my mother’s birthday. And of course as soon as I asked her what birthday cake she wanted, she all but shouted “TRES LECHES!”

So, I thought it would be the perfect time to share my version of this cake.

GCC: Menu 2 - Ricotta and Arugula Roulade and Quindim

October 10, 2010 by Monica in Appletizers & Snacks, Baking, Cookbooks, Cooking Club, Desserts, Entertaining, Gutsy Cooks Club, Savory

And its week two of the Gutsy Cooks Club.

Our inaugural week was such a success, not only in participation but the choosen recipes were a total hit with the club. Most of us are putting them on the repeat list. I was also happy to see most of us get “gutsy” with the recipes by changing things around and getting creative.

That is the spirit guys!

And here we are in week 2. These choices were actually ones that got my attention when I first got the book and was browsing through it, because a savory roulade? Really? And if there is anything that I like more is changing sweet staples into a savory spin off. This was perfect; I have done so many sweet rolls before, so I was looking forward to it.

The best part of it is that my mother’s birthday was Sunday and I cooked a whole lunch for her, and this fit right into the menu nicely. I was not even trying to make it fit, but this tells you how good this would go with any type of menu.

The roulade was pretty easy to put together, in fact I was so surprise how easy it came together. And the taste before it went into the oven to cook was good. So I was all sorts of exited.

This was going to be good, I thought…

ABC: Orange Chiffon Tweed Cake with Milk n' Honey Sabayon

October 06, 2010 by Monica in ABC, Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Desserts, Sweets

Yesterday I became an aunt (indirectly, since this was from Tom’s side of the family). This perfect little baby girl that we all be waiting for decided that 12:11am was a good time to make her way into the world.

Do you know what we were doing at 12:11am yesterday?

Tom and I were cutting into this cake to have a taste. From this day forward I will officially call this cake “Sienna’s Birthday cake” in honor of my new niece.

Way to go kid, being born when you aunt Monica was busy baking. You and I are going to get along just fine.

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