So here I am backed up with draft posts but I know I just have to push this one through. We have a small family business called Cake Garden here in Tagbilaran City, Bohol. It's a delicious mix of cakes, pastries and good food - more than the usual. Sounds like DOT's previous campaign. Anyway, we had been pounded with tons of orders during the holidays from family and friends. Now that hype slowed down a bit and we got a wee bit of time to improve our products and the Cake Garden Blog.
New Sticky Buns
Sticky Buns
The new sticky buns are bigger, gooey-y, buttery, caramel-y and imbued with more cinnamon. Last year, we included these babies in our price list but we did not really market them for the reason we're still experimenting on the different types of dough to be used. We even tried using Brioche dough in one occasion. For the final product, we'll be using sweet dough for your sticky bun cravings.
Here's another very simple bar recipe that also predates college days together with Brownies. Butternut Chewies is much more simpler yet the taste is so exquisite that you think it requires supercalifragilisticexpialidocious baking power!
Butternut Chewies
You're going to need:
2 eggs
2 cups brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup margarine, melted
1 1/2 c all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup cashew nuts, finely chopped
Yep, that's it! Now some very simple directions.
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Grease a 13"x9"x2" rectangular pan. Set aside.
Combine flour with baking powder and salt. Set aside.
Beat eggs until light and foamy.
Beat in sugar, vanilla and margarine until creamy.
Add flour mixture to egg mixture. Mix until well-blended. (Fold!)
Stir in nuts.
Spread evenly in the prepared pan.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until top is light brown.
Cool then cut into squares.
That simple? Yes simple as that! Oh yeah? Yeah oh yeah! Here's some shots lest ye stray away from the directions.
I love breakfasts. It's not that I don't like lunch and dinner it's just that a lot of people don't wake up that early to eat breakfast. I do. I look forward to it every single day! As a family we love to eat but I really do love breakfast (yeah, I know you know by now, but still). I'm a morning person even at night. I love to watch the sunrise while having devotion while having a cup of coffee. We, breakfast lovers are oftentimes get into a fit if you try to disrupt our morning ritual. If I were going to miss breakfast it's better you tell me the night before than surprise me that we're not having breakfast! Or if you plan on ruining my breakfast tell me in advance so I can have set my mind that I'm not having breakfast the day after.
I think it runs in the blood. As a family we love to eat and eat we must! Not only that I think each member of our family has his or her own ability to conjure up his or her own meal specialty. Mum and Dad are great cooks, mum has her Cake Garden and Cake Garden Place (if you're in Bohol y'all should try it here). Dad sometimes will have his own version of Hokkien Mee, Chili Crab and the occasional bread and cakes.
I love burgers and burgers I love! There's nothing more rewarding than consuming a 6-feet tall hamburger. Anyway, I can handle the heat in the kitchen very well. Mum said I have the ability of creating food out of almost nothing when our resources are on the low. My creativity for cooking is further heightened when accompanied by hunger. Some little flour, eggs and milk, the sky is the limit.
My sister Lace loves to make potato salads, which in turn she just devours them herself. She just loves her own meal that she'll just have it for herself. Lace also has her own unique version of the mango float. It literally floats! Why? It's called mango float, why shouldn't it float? She also forgot to steam her leche flan (which is the most important part of the recipe) that we end up sipping it in cups. Still very delicious though.
