Cake

Pear Upside Down Cake

8 comments November 1, 2010

Baking has never been my strength, maybe it’s because I have a very hard time following directions when I am cooking. When it comes to pastries, where following a recipe is the key to a good dish, I leave that job to the experts, but I do alright with cakes like this one I had [...]

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Chocolate Molten Cakes

34 comments July 7, 2010

My husband has always been the one with a passion for chocolate desserts. Me? I am not a chocolate lover, I prefer fruit desserts. For the longest time chocolate cake was never really on my list of favorites. If choosing between a banana cake and a chocolate cake, I would not hesitate for a second…I’ll [...]

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Banana-Pecan and Dulce de Leche Upside Down Cake

39 comments June 10, 2010

Hola everyone, If you are searching for that one great banana cake recipe, the one that will always impress people, taste great, is easy to throw together yet so hard to mess up, then this is the cake for you. A couple of weeks ago I was feeling guilty about the ripe bananas sitting on [...]

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Torta Maria Luisa (Maria Luisa Cake)

41 comments March 16, 2010

As I’ve mentioned before, I get a lot of e-mails from my readers asking me for traditional Colombian recipes, Maria Luisa Cake being one of them. Well, after some phone calls to my family and friends in Colombia, I finally have this recipe for all of you that have requested it. Here is the Torta [...]

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THREE MILKS CAKE (TORTA DE TRES LECHES)

88 comments April 7, 2009

Torta de Tres Leches or Three Milks Cake is a popular dessert in Colombia and Latin America. This cake gets the name from the three milks we use, condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy cream and it is what makes this cake so moist and delicious. Every country has their own version for the frosting [...]

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