Ricotta Cake

November 09, 2013 by Monica in Cake, Baking, Desserts, Sweets

If you have read my writings long enough, you know my love affair with pound cakes. Out of all the cakes – and believe me, I had my share of different types of cakes in my lifetime – the simple pound cakes grabs me every single time. Hands down.

My wedding cake was a pound cake. Which was soaked in rum and filled… oh, wait were was I.. oh, yeah – sorry.

But, like any baker (or cook) knows, we are always (and I truly mean ALWAYS) looking for the next best recipe of our favorite thing.

What can I say… we are a crazy bunch.

I think, I have found something better than my favorite pound cake.

I present to you the Ricotta Cake

It’s sweet, but not too sweet, hints of vanilla flavor all over it, moist (ohhhh soooo very moist), easy to make, less than 15 minutes putting it together and 45 minutes baking time. It’s good warm, cold and every temperature in between. Yummy with all sorts of toppings - fruits, cream, ice cream and whatever you may think of.

But alone, it’s simply, a little bite of heaven.

Pan de Mej [Pani de Mie] Sweet corn buns

March 25, 2013 by Monica in Baking, Desserts, Family Cookbook

This past weekend I stayed at home and decided Sunday my oven was going to go into overtime. I had the bug to be in the kitchen and do some major cooking. And when our big baby – Rufus (the dog) started to bark at 7:00am to be let out, I took that as a sign that I needed to put on the apron and get to work.

I started by fixing some baby zucchinis (more on that at a later post) then moved over to do some potatoes that turned into a hot pocket (yeah I going to share that one too). But, after all that savory cooking I knew I needed to end the day in a sweet note.

Chocolate Chip and Coconut Rum Cookies

March 03, 2013 by Monica in Baking, Cookies, Family Cookbook, Sweets

Tom and I are still recuperating from our wedding. I don’t know how couples have the energy to go on a full pack honeymoon after the wedding. The first 2 days all we did was sleep – we had no energy to do anything else, except sleep and just huddle together in our house and not make any decisions.

We were totally exhausted. Our brainpower is still in total shut down and slowly rebooting itself.

For the past week we have eaten sandwiches, salads, cereal and nothing else, we figure those were the easiest things to do under our clouded mind.

Yesterday, I decided that I would bake my new husband (it sounds good to say it and to type it!) his favorite cookies. It also helped that the temperature