A Passion of Mine...

...is cooking. This week I made a Tres Leches Cake. Jenji and I had this in the Domincan and really enjoyed it, so this was my first try. Today was Benito Juarez birthday, and it's a holiday that some of us at the office celebrate every year, but I digress. This cake took 2 days to make! Yes, 2 days for a cake. So Wednesday night I made the cake, not too hard, very "unique" to create, and then Thursday evening I did the icing and iced both cakes. Everything was done from scratch, the way I like to do things in my kitchen, and it was a really good experience. Ok, so normally this would be the end of the story, the cake went to work, it was eaten, I brought home the cake pan, BUT this made me really happy today. As you can tell from the name, this is a hispanic cake, and we have a few people at the office that are hispanic. One of the hispanic women at the office actually tracked me down outside and asked if I made the cake, I told her yes and she actually RAVED over the cake, it made me feel so good, she is not a US born hispanic citizen, she is quite new to the states. She actually asked if I wanted her to go get the cake pan for me, I told her it wasn't necessary, but she said there was just 1 piece left and she would bring the pan down to me, so she wanted to get the last piece. Anyway, she brought the washed and cleaned pan down to my office, and told me that in her family whoever ate the last thing in a dish had to wash the dish, so I had a clean pan and a warm heart from a woman at the office that gave me a compliment that she didn't know how much it made me feel good.

Anyway, here's the recipe, it's Alton Brown's and when you make it you MUST weigh the sugar and flour, and you MUST use cake flour. This makes the cake.

Alton Brown's Tres Leches Cake