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Dared to Bake: Cafe au Lait Cheesecake with Caramel
The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge. According to Jenny, her friend Abbey T. has tweaked this recipe to it’s now almost perfect state. The basic cheesecake recipe is adaptable to various flavors so you could be making this cheesecake for a long time if you want to try out all the flavors. For my version, I went for the coffee cheesecake with caramel topping otherwise known as Cafe’ au Lait Cheesecake with Caramel. Visit the Daring Baker website for the original recipe with the different flavor suggestions. Here is my version (my notes, as always, in red). … Read entire article »
Filed under: cakes, Daring Bakers, desserts
Bunny Baos
Did you have a good Easter Sunday? It was another excuse to feast for us, so we ended up having a cooking weekend. My daughter Asi had a couple of friends over last Saturday. They were going to go on a picnic to celebrate her birthday which is next weekend, but it rained pretty hard on Friday night and we just knew the park was going to be too soggy to have a picnic. Instead, we stayed home and cooked, and at and cooked and ate some more. One of the things we cooked up were these steamed buns (siopao or sieu bao). I made steamed pork buns before (siopao adobo) and it’s always a hit with the girls. When I came across these bunny shaped baos from Just Hungry, I … Read entire article »
Black Bottom Pie
I ran across this recipe for Louisiana Hotel Black Bottom Pie while surfing the web one night. Wouldn’t you know it, I would stumble across a luscious recipe like this in the middle of the night. I almost couldn’t sleep thinking about it! The very next day, I made sure I got all the necessary ingredients when I went to the store. … Read entire article »
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LaPiS: MELTed Bliss
The theme for this week’s Lasang Pinoy Sunday is MELTed Bliss. When I think of anything melting, I can’t help but think of Chocolate. Our latest kitchen creation with melted chocolate was this Black Bottom Pie (recipe to be posted later). This dessert was so blissfully sinful, it really is shameful. The crust is crushed gingersnap cookies and butter, a chocolate mouse layer, a rum mouse layer and a whipped cream topping. Yummy!!! As usual, we couldn’t wait long enough for it to chill so the top layer was still not quite set and a little MELTy, but the flavors were all there and oh so delicious! Happy Sunday, everyone! Click here to visit other LaPis Melted Bliss participants. To join this weekly food photo blogging event, visit the Lasang Pinoy Sundays About Page. … Read entire article »
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Steak Diane sans Flambe’
OK, so this is the sans Flambe’ version of this months Recipes to Rival because I don’t have any liquor in the house besides red wine and I wasn’t sure if my husband will let me experiment to see whether I can set his wine on fire or not. Flam·béed or not, this made for a great weekday meal. I usually reserve my challenge recipes for the weekends so I have more time to cook them but this was so easy and fuss free that I was able to have this great looking meal on the table in less than an hour! … Read entire article »
Filed under: beef, Recipes to Rival
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