Gorditas

Ingredients

• Baking powder
• Baking soda
• Eggs
• Hot water or milk 
• Sugar
• Butter or Olive oil 
• Cinnamon
• Sour cream 
• Salt 

Preparation

Mix dry ingredients: flour (start with 1 cup), sugar (start with 3/4 cup), baking soda (1/2tsp), baking powder (1 tsp) and cinnamon (to taste). Add salt if sour cream does not have salt or to taste.

Combine the liquids (eggs (2), melted butter or olive oil (4 tblsp) and start with 1/2 cup of hot water or milk, add small container of sour cream. Add dry ingredients and mix until dough is soft, but not mushy.

Make small patties and use a flat pan to cook them in.

Enjoy by themselves, or jam and accompany them with milk, coffee, or hot chocolate.

Tres Leches Cake

Ingredients: 

• Yellow cake mix
• Eggs (3)
• 1 cup of Water
• 3/4 cups of melted butter
• Tres leches:
• Condensed milk
• Evaporated milk
• Regular milk (fat free recommended)
• Vanilla (home made!)

Preparation:

Follow directions on cake mix box.
Mix dough with 1 cup of water, 3/4 melted butter and 3 eggs.

 

Mix using an electric mixer or hand whisk.

While mixing ingredients, pre-heat oven to 450 F degrees.
Pour mix into a tin or glass container.

Bake for approximately 40 minutes. Or until cooked. You can identify whether the cake is completely backed by using a fork. Once fork turns out clean, it is cooked.

On another container, use whisk to mix vanilla (home made), condensed, evaporated and regular milk. Add as much drinking milk as desired (based on your preference for sweetness).

Once the cake is baked. Let it cool for 15 minutes. Poke holes with fork throughout the cake. Then, add tress leches mixture.

Refrigerate for 1 hour before serving. Keep refrigerated.

Enjoy with coffee, tea, milk or by itself!

Stay tuned for another tres leches cake-made from scratch. 

Flan

Something to sweeten your day - main ingredients - eggs, condensed milk, evaporated milk, regular milk and sugar! Before anything else set to pre-heat your oven to 375F

Prepare the mix - In a blender add eggs, vanilla (home made!), milk, condensed and evaporated milk.

Prepare the caramelized sugar then pour into a Pyrex pan ready for the oven!