Tres Leches Flan Cake

The following recipe was prepared for my Tamales cooking class. You can read about my class and get other links to recipes HERE.
Tres Leches Flan Cake
Cake:1 (18.25 oz.) box butter/yellow cake mix and ingredients to prepare as directed on box1 (12 oz) can of regular Coke or Pepsi
Topping:1 (10.9-oz.) jar cajeta (caramel topping) or [...]

Bananas Foster Bread Pudding

The following recipe was prepared for my Chef Spotlight Dinner highlighting New Orleans chefs. You can read about it and get other recipes from the event HERE.
Bananas Foster Bread Puddingshared at the event by Joeleninspired by this recipe & adapted from here

4 loaves – French bread, each 1’ long1 qt – Heavy cream1 ½ C [...]

Best Brownies

I prepared the following recipe for my Book/Movie club. You can read about my event and view other links to recipes I made for it HERE.
I found this recipe in a thrift store, believe it or not. I was shopping around for a nice glass pitcher for cheap and there lost with the piles of [...]

Bread Pudding Pleasures

What do you do when you have lots of leftover bread that you’d hate to throw away? You could make breadcrumbs or better yet, bake up some bread pudding! Because it was such a dreary, damp and dark spring day here in Chicago, some comforting bread pudding definitely fit the bill.I used this Butterscrotch Bread [...]

12 Minute Turtle Bundt Cake

12 Minute Turtle Bundt Cake
1 box chocolate cake mix1 small box instant chocolate pudding mix2 cups (16 oz) sour cream1 cup chocolate chips3 eggscooking spraycaramel saucechopped pecans
In a stoneware bundt pan, grease the inside with cooking spray.Combine cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, chocolate chips and eggs in a large bowl.Place thick cake batter into [...]

Chocolate Flan Bundt Cake

Chocolate Flan Bundt Cake

Cake:1 (18.25 oz.) box chocolate or devil’s food cake mix and ingredients to prepare as directed on box 1 (12 oz) can of regular Coke or Pepsi
Topping:1 (10.9-oz.) jar cajeta (caramel topping) or caramel ice cream topping
Flan:1 (14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk1 (12 oz.) can evaporated milk3 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla [...]