Almond Lemon-Lime Slice

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About a month ago, a representative of the Donsuemor Bakery, located in Alameda, California, contacted me about wanting to send me some samples of their baking products and see what I could come up with using them and ingredients in a dessert.

First I was all up and anxious about this.  I will be the first to tell you that when it comes to developing a savory recipe I’m all for it.  But, developing a sweet recipe - I’m a total coward.  Baking for me is the holy grail of step-by-step cooking and I rarely venture off the instructions.

But, I figure it was going to give me a challenge and I never back away from a challenge.

That is why Tom and I are having an all out war with the angry birds game in our house.

He is up by one game.

I plan on whooping his butt this weekend.

But, back to the point

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HCB: Apple Upside-Down Cake

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And I’m back baking from Rose’s Heavenly Cakes.  We are in the last stretch, and the last couple of weeks nothing in the line up has made me run to the kitchen to bake, making my HBC participation the last thing on my to do list the last couple of months. 

I blame it on the fact that everyone is feeling the inferno that the weather god is sending our way this summer with those 100+ temperatures.  Who in their right mind want’s to turn the oven on when it’s like a gazillion degrees outside?

But, this week was free choice and I wanted to bake – because well, I’m crazy!  I have a love-hate relationship with the “free choice” options.  In one end, I love it because I get to choose what I’m going to bake, in the other; I hate it because I get to choose what I’m going to bake.  I dislike having so many choices – give me 3 and I can make a decision, give me over 3 and I become this indecisive puddle of doubt.   I ended up having to call Tom and ask him to narrow it down.

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Galletas Maria Torte (Maria Biscuits)

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The desert above is another of my childhood favorites.  

I’m on a roll with these memories guys - I cannot seem to stop them.

This time, the recipe is not from my grandmother’s or my mother’s but, from another important person in my life while growing up – my nanny, Maria.

Just like any country, Venezuela has its share of local desserts that are very uncommonly found anywhere else but there.  And this “cake” or “torte” is precisely that.  Even after all of my travels I have yet to find something like this.

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