We inherited flans from many cultural influences. Back in Roman times people would make savory flans from the surplus of eggs and other ingredients in their “pantry” (spices, spinach, honey, eel, etc.). Centuries later in Spain and France, sweet flans started to flourish with caramel syrup as well as with other spices and nuts like…
Category: Desserts
Ale's Whipped Cream
My favorite desserts when I was a child were “Natillas”, Cheesecakes and Strawberries and Cream. I guess taste buds are genetic because my son loves cheesecake and my daughter loves strawberries with whipped cream. Ja! A few weekends ago my daughter became fixed on having strawberries with whipped cream as a snack, so we washed…
Bittersweet Brownies
Bittersweet chocolate is a form of sweetened chocolate that does not have milk in any way shape or form. It is mainly chocolate liquor, sugar,cocoa butter and vanilla. Often, lecithin is added as an emulsifying agent. In the United States of America the Food and Drug Administration requires that bittersweet chocolate has at least 35% chocolate…
Pear Bliss
Sometimes I open the fridge and start improvising with the ingredients and/or leftovers I happen to find. I don’t like to throw away food so I am very creative with my everyday cooking. I can humbly say most of the time the outcome of my experiments are pretty good. I got the inspiration to make…
Birthday Cake with Meringue Frosting
On Monday, it was my son’s 8th birthday so I made this delicious cake for him and our family to celebrate! This is a traditional vanilla birthday cake with meringue frosting. My father calls it “drunken cake” because I make the cake syrup with Amaretto di Sarono or Licor 43. To make the frosting, which…