Tres leches is basically a cake soaked in three milks, it is my all-time favorite dessert. For years I’ve tried to make the perfect tres leches and this recipe is the one!! It’s been extremely difficult to create the perfect sponge cake, obtain a balance of all the three milks, and whip up the perfect […]
Merenguitos (Meringue Kisses), are the most delicious tiny spanish treats and are perfect for the holidays! Making merenguitos takes me back to my childhood when I would spend countless hours in the kitchen with my aunt from Texas cooking. She was the one who actually taught me how to make meringue kisses. She would actually […]
I am going to tell you about the first time that I ever tasted a corn creme brulee. It was my wife’s 28th birthday and we went to a steakhouse in New York called Quality Meats (they have one in South Florida as well) and while I was grazing the menu, my eyes landed on […]
I love apple pies, especially around this time of year. They make you feel like you are at home for the holidays with your family. So, it didn’t feel right to not share an apple pie empanada recipe for the blog. It was my first time ever making one of these and let me tell […]
The golden recipe for this Thanksgiving is my guava apple crumble pie! I promise you, you will never have a plain old jane crumble apple pie again! I love apple pies so every Thanksgiving I make one. It’s honestly my favorite dessert for this holiday along with my Pumpkin Creme Brulee (which the recipe can […]
The end of fall is rapidly approaching and it’s only right that we eat as much pumpkin as we possibly can. As a cuban, there is nothing that I love more than a pastelito. As a basic person, there is nothing I love more than pumpkin spice anything in the fall. Combine those two things […]
With Halloween just around the corner, I wanted to share a spooky dessert for all your Halloween festivities. As you all should know by now, I LOVE guava, so I had to incorporate it into this dessert. And what goes paired best with guava? You guessed it, CREAM CHEESE!! Thus, was born the cutest and […]
Making this flan de queso was the most nerve wrecking experience I have ever had while making a dessert. Let me share with you a little story about our second Noche Buena (Christmas Eve) in New York City where my friend Stephanie Bulnes, attempted to make flan for dessert. She tried about three times to […]
Pumpkin Creme Brulee is hands down my favorite fall dessert ever. It used to be apple pies, but once I tasted the goodness of a pumpkin creme brulee I can’t go back. This has become one of the staple desserts every year at our thanksgiving feast back home, so I felt that it’s only right […]
It’s fall time and pumpkin spice is all the craze out there. Actually, I am really surprised on how early they brought pumpkin spice lattes back at Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts. I don’t know about everywhere else, but it was the middle of august and they were already serving pumpkin spice coffee. I thought it […]
