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| Brownie Puddle baked with cream cheese, bittersweet chocolate and Hershey's Cocoa. Little puddles of ganache are poured into the brownie |
This year The Palencias as a family, so far, went out of their way in celebrating each other's birthdays. I suppose you could say much of it might be attributed by the recent relocation of one of our family member, Mia Palencia...perhaps as a reminder of how important birthdays seem to her.
So for Nessa Twyla we had a double celebration, her actual birthday fell on Mother's Day and because I had a cooking demonstration happening on that particular day, we agreed that we would have a simple dinner thereafter. Since roasting is the easiest form of cooking, we went with Citrus Roast Chicken with Multigrain Bread, Sauteed Asparagus, Baby French Beans and Carrots in Olive Oil and good old Mashed Potatoes. For her 1st cake we decided to go with a Brownie Puddle because Crepes Suzette and Buku Salad were on our dessert list.
On the 15th May, Nessa invited a group of bestfriends over, we then indulged in a full spread. For starters we had Marscapone Tomato Tarlets and Crisp French Meringues while our mains included Fresh Greens and Fruits in Honey Mustard, Stuffed Roast Lamb and Baked Spaghetti.
She had requested for her latest favourite as her Birthday Cake so I made a Cordon Rose Cheesecake. As it is among my goals to attempt at least 2 new entrees each week, I added a Mango Passion Tart and a Sans Rival for a sweet finish to help me cut down on the workload for that week. Since March, my schedule had been rather hectic!
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| Crisp coconut crust layered with homemade passion curd cream and a scant-half-inch layer of Biscuit Roulade topped with ripe sweet Indian Mangoes fashioned in over lapping circles resembling a Rose |
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| An Aristocrat Filipino Dessert - Sans Rival - Layers of Meringue Cakes filled with Classic Buttercream and crunchy Cashew Nuts |
