Extraordinary Cakes: Ivoire Royale

June 04, 2013 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cake, Desserts, EXTC, Fruit

This is the second cake from our bake-a-along of the Extraordinary Cake Book from Karen Krasne.

It took me the whole month to get this going. I did not realized how busy I been until I saw how I keep pushing this cake later and later, until I realized that memorial weekend was going to turn into a baking marathon in order to have it ready to post and discuss, along with the other bakers participating.

First off, the cake is easy, I think it may be one of the easier ones in the whole book, with 4 steps to make the components needed, they are all very simple and quick to make. The drawback is the waiting, and for this one you had to wait.

Extraordinary Cakes: Lemon Praline Torte

May 02, 2013 by Monica in Baking, Cake, Desserts, EXTC

While I love cooking savory food, my passion really is baking. Through the years, without even striving for it, I have become the “baker” of the family. We need a birthday cake. Call Monica. A fancy dessert needed? Call Monica.

Indeed, I am fond of sweet treats. (Psst.. check the blog title.)

But even though I felt comfortable baking, I knew I was not a GREAT baker. There were tons of things out there in the baking world that were so unknown to me—pies, anything with yeast, techniques, certain flavor combinations—I was never gutsy enough to try them. I had gotten comfortable in my regular dessert repertoire.

Until I started this blog and saw what was out there – possibilities. And the baking guru inside of me woke up and tapped me on the shoulder and told me, “Dude, you need to feed me more baking challenges.”

Yogurt and Blueberries Paletas - Guest Post!

April 22, 2013 by Monica in Desserts, Fruit, Ice Cream, Latin, Sweets

You are probably wondering how the picture above of Yogurt and Blueberries Paletas (Ice Pops) have anything to do with this.

Patience my readers…

You know what the best thing about food blogging is? Joining a community that will accept you with open arms. I have meet so many awesome bloggers in the 3 years that I started Sweetbites, and their continue support and inspiration is what keeps me putting time in the small kitchen of mine. And you, my readers are the gas that keeps me going by posting all of those tasty treats that come out of that kitchen. Win-win guys!

Wait.. I’m getting side track.. back to the ice pops.