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Tres Leches Cake recipe
This is the best homemade Tres leches cake recipe. It has been the favorite to celebrate birthdays in my family for years, my mom bakes tres leches for everyone’s birthday and we all look forward to it. It’s no surprise that the tradition continues with my own family. My mom tops the cake with French meringue, wich it’s totally dreamy, but it really is too cloying. So I made a variation and I topped the cake with whipping cream. Mi oldest son always asks for tres leches for his birthday, and it has been so challenging for me! (Because if you know me, you know how much I love decorating cakes…
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Low Carb Pumpkin mousse Pie
What’s thanks giving dinner without Pumpkin Pie? We started the KetoDiet about two weeks ago, and thank God we got to host thanksgiving at our house, that way we prepared low carb friendly food for everyone. The hardest thing with gluten free/ sugar free/ keto pastry recipes for me is to find something really tasty. I really hate the flavor of stevia, I can’t handle it. On my search for a Low carb Pumpkin Pie recipe online, I found one at Simply so healthy blog, that really caught my attention because they didn’t used stevia, but a granulated stevia/ erythritol blend. Plus the mousse had a crust just like pumpkin…
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Pineapple sorbet
I can’t find words to describe how spectacular it’s the taste of this sorbet, the cinnamon topping adds a unique flavor! I know! we are just in January and it’s cold, very cold, but over here we love ice cream, especially if it´s homemade. I made the recipe using an ice cream machine but you can do it without a machine. One of the most frequent problems when making sorbets, it’s that as soon as you freeze it, it becomes really hard like a solid brick of ice and loses the soft and smooth texture. I found a blog post “sorbet 101¨ at Zoe Bakes, in which she explains that the…
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Chocolate Chip cookies
There are many versions and recipes for chocolate chip cookies, some are crispy others are softer, this recipe is the soft version but the taste is extremely addictive. On this occasion I made them for valentines day but you can adapt the decoration to any other occasion. 1 to 2 hours before starting the recipe, take out from the fridge the butter and 1 egg. Mix in a bowl 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons cornstarch, 1 teaspoon of baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cream in a mixer 3/4 cup of butter with 3/4 cup of brown sugar and 1/4 cups of sugar. Remember it´s important that the butter is…
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Salted caramel apple pie
I have been craving apple pie for a couple of days, and for my luck this week nobody wanted to eat apples at home, so it was the perfect opportunity to bake my pie as desired. My husband really likes salted caramel, so I started searching for an apple pie recipe that included salted caramel, I found the perfect recipe! it´s not only one of my favorite stores but they also have super delicious recipes!!! Here I share the recipe from Williams-Sonoma
