GCC: Coconut Rice Fingers

October 24, 2011 by Monica in Baking, Cooking Club, Desserts, Gutsy Cooks Club, Rice, Sweets

We continue the rice theme in the Gutsy Cooks Club. This week it was to “make it sweet “ and the options were so good, that it was very hard to narrow it down to just one.

I’m a die-hard fan of rice pudding – side note: one day I will post my mother’s rice pudding in order to put all the other puddings to shame out there – Of course I will do this as soon as get her to share the recipe.

But, back to rice pudding. If you see the options, all were a variation of rice pudding. And boy did I want to make each and everyone one of them. It really came down between the Rice Pudding ice pops (hello!! Rice Pudding Ice Pops… show me a person that would not be jumping up and down for one of those) and the intriguing Coconut Rice Fingers.

I bet you can guest which ones I went with?

Baumkuchen or Schichttorte

October 22, 2011 by Monica in Baking, Cake, Desserts

I read a lot of my fellow food blogs. I really don’t have any particular preference when it comes to putting them on my reader. But I do tend to gravitate towards those food blogs that have beautiful photography and out of the box creativity when it comes to making recipes.

So, it’s no surprise that when I ran into Sandra Mangas web page – “La receta de la Felicidad” I was immediately in love with her photography and the creativity of her recipes blew me away. She is fun, and wimsy and her recipes are delicious too.

Go visit her right now and see what I mean.

GCC: Horchata

October 19, 2011 by Monica in Gutsy Cooks Club

And the rice theme continues. I have mentioned before how I have wanted to try my hand at one of my favorite Mexican drink – Horchata for a while now. And when “Rice” became the main ingredient in our Gutsy Cook October options, I could not pass up adding it to our repertoire.

Code: I had to make it now!