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

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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.

I never

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HCB: Caramelized Pineapple Pudding Cakes

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The first weekend of the months are the hardest for me when it comes to baking.  My commitment to three baking groups makes it a bit hard, since I technically have 3 dessert to bake during the first weekend.  So usually during this time one tends to fall of the to bake list.  Since I had passed last weeks choice on HCB, I could not bring myself to pass on a second week.  One of the other baking club is going to take a hit - the jury still out as to which.

I decided to start with HCB choice, because it was the hardest of the 3.  The pudding portion had 3 pages of instructions, add 4 more if you decided to do the Brioche and you got, once more, 7 pages of instructions ahead of you.  Which mean one thing - hold on to your whisk, its going to be a bumpy bake.  After reading, I realized that after putting into account the waiting time between the steps, I was looking at well over 12+ hours of work for six baby cakes.

God, I thought the Apple Charlotte was hard.
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Palmeras {Palmiers – Elephant Ears}

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In Venezuela there is a bakery in every single corner of every single neighborhood.  Most of these bakeries are owned either by Portuguese and/or Italian immigrants that came after the war – and in some cases pass down form generation to generation.  Do you know what that means right?

European pastries and breads.

I know, I know, I’m a total snob when it comes to my sweets.

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