Creamy Caramel Flan

"This recipe is a cross between egg custard and cheesecake. Rich and delicious."

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 5 eggs
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Procedures:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a small, heavy saucepan over medium-low heat, cook sugar, stirring, until golden. Pour into a 10 inch round baking dish, tilting to coat bottom and sides. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until well incorporated. Beat in condensed and evaporated milk and vanilla until smooth. Pour into caramel coated pan. Line a roasting pan with a damp kitchen towel. Place baking dish on towel, inside roasting pan, and place roasting pan on oven rack. Fill roasting pan with boiling water to reach halfway up the sides of the baking dish.
4. Bake in preheated oven 50 to 60 minutes, until center is just set. Cool one hour on wire rack, then chill in refrigerator 8 hours or overnight. To unmold, run a knife around edges of pan and invert on a rimmed serving platter.

Source: AllRecipes.com

Angel Food Cake

This is one of my son's favorite cake; found this recipe at Allrecipes.com and I decided to give it a try since then, this very moist and light angel food became a family's favorite at my house. Since the snow is still not melted, I am pretty sure that there will be no school again tomorrow! I will make one for my son tomorrow.
For a fatless dessert, serve angel food cake topped with fresh fruit.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups egg whites
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 1/4 cups white sugar
• 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 1/4 cups cake flour
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract

Procedures:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).

In a medium bowl, mix confectioners' sugar, cake flour, and cocoa. Sift together 2 times, and set aside.

In a clean large bowl, whip egg whites, salt, and cream of tartar with an electric mixer on high speed until very stiff. Fold in white sugar 2 tablespoons at a time while continuing to mix. Fold in flour mixture, a little at a time, until fully incorporated. Stir in vanilla. Pour into a 10 inch tube pan.

Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for approximately 1 hour, or until cake springs back when touched.

Yummy Leche Flan!

I have been craving for this dessert for a long time. I think the last time I made Leche Flan was back in Texas. So, I once again searched for a recipe because I lost the one I used before. I haven't try this recipe yet, but I am sure it will be yummy the way it shows on the picture above as long as I follow the recipe exactly!


Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 tbsp water
1 can Carnation Condensada
4 cups Carnation Evap
9 yolks
3 eggs
1/4 tsp grated lime rind (optional)
1 tsp lime juice (optional)

Procedures:
Place sugar and water in a heavy-bottom saucepan and cook over low heat, swirling pan every so often to prevent sugar from “crystallizing”, DO NOT MIX. Cook until golden in color, this will take about 10 to 15 minutes and pour on 3 leche flan molds. Set aside.

Place Carnation Evaporated, Carnation Condensada and the rest of ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Pour over caramel and cover with foil. Steam in barely simmering water for 30 to 45 minutes. Making sure the water doesn’t boil so as to have a very smooth flan. Let cool and chill before unmolding.

Easy to Bake Apple Pie

What good would all these recipes be without a fantastic finale? Here's the quintessential comfort dessert in one of the easiest forms we could muster. I haven't tried it yet, but I will next time :-)

2 pre-made 9-inch pie crusts
1 can apple pie filling
1 pinch cinnamon
1 pinch brown sugar

Fill one crust with the apple pie filling. Add cinnamon and brown sugar. Cover with second crust. Bake for 350°F degrees for 40 minutes. For an even sweeter variation, stir in about 12 melted caramel candies for a candied apple pie.