Pastel (Cake)
1 1/2 cups non-dairy milk
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tbsp cornstarch
1 cup cane sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 sea salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 tsp pure almond extract
Coco cool whip (for icing)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9 x 13 inch baking pan with coconut oil.
Combine non-dairy milk and apple cider vinegar in a small glass bowl. Set aside.
In a large glass mixing bowl, sift together the; AP flour, cornstarch, cane sugar, baking powder, and sea salt.
In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together the vegetable oil, vanilla extract and almond extract. Stir in the non-dairy "buttermilk".
Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients and stir until fully combined.
Pour batter into prepared baking pan. Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes.
Remove from oven and set aside while you prepare the tres leches sauce.
Tres Leches (Three Milks Sauce)
1 can (320 g) sweetened condensed coconut milk
1 can (360 ml) evaporated coconut milk
1/4 cup soy milk or creamer
Whisk all three milks together. Poke holes all over the top of the baked cake. Slowly pour the tres leches sauce over top of warm cake. Allow to cool completely on counter then transfer to fridge to cool completely, at least another hour.
When cake is fully cooled, top with coco whip. Spread to coat the cake evenly, as you would an icing. Dust cake with cinnamon.
Serve cold.
Does it still count if I’m baking the tres leches cake AFTER I’ve finished the fic?! Because it’s done, it just needs another edit and a beta and then I’ll post it 😬😬😬
Sooo I wanted to ask for your MCs / Pairings what is something they like, some favorite colors and such. Anything you feel comfortable with sharing 🥰 I just want to know more about your characters 😍
Hope you have a wonderful day 🩷
Hi hi sunshine!! I hope you are having the most fabulous day!! 🧁🌸🌷💕 sorry it took me forever to answer this lol
Here's a few favs for the Starlight trio 🥰
LUCA
Favourite Colour:
It changes a lot — at the moment it is red and orange, but they often like foresty, green, earthy palettes
Favourite Food/Drink:
Black and/or iced coffee, energy drinks, Skittles, salty snacks
Favourite Hobbies & Ways To Relax:
Dance (esp. Ballet, contemporary, and urban)
Drumming
Balisong flipping
Re-watching movies they’ve seen before, snuggled up with Cas and Gabe
Yoga w Gabe
Driving places with Cas in his ugly little car lol
Collecting little trinkets
(Luca will absolutely steal stuff from his friends lol. With Cas and Gabe (and his best friend Viktor), he’s sneaky, bc he knows they don’t actually care, but with other friends he normally asks permission by holding up the thing he wants and going “I’m stealing this” lol)
GABRIEL
Favourite Colour:
Autumnal palettes (like burnt orange, burgundy, deep gold, etc), as well as soft, muted hues
Favourite Food/Drink:
Chamomile tea, pistachio ice cream, coconut milkshakes, alfajores, coquito tres leches cake, any of his father’s recipes for home-cooked meals. Gabe isn't vegan but he does often eat a lot of plant-based food!
Favourite Hobbies & Ways To Relax:
Cooking (especially for other people)
Cleaning (lol, I know, but having a clean and well-organised home is like good self-care for Gabe)
His 5 step-skincare routine
Reading, especially long fantasy novel series
Playing his guitar and singing
Yoga w Luca
Muay Thai
Recently, photography!
CAS
Favourite Colour:
Black, red, purple, blue — dark colours with a night aesthetic
Favourite Food/Drink:
Galbi-tang, banana-mat uyu, red bean bungeo-ppang with vanilla ice cream, hot sauce! (he puts hot sauce on everything lol)
Favourite Hobbies & Ways To Relax:
Taking long, hot showers
Hanging out with his Venandi/Flagstone Cove buddies at the fighting ring, sparring, boxing
Sketching or painting, spraypainting
Driving places with Luca in his totally awesome car
Getting little adrenaline hits by doing things like cliff diving
Also - I associate Cas with the Moon, Gabriel with the Sun, and Luca with the Stars ✨✨✨
if there's one thing you're not good at, it's anything in the kitchen. cooking, baking, prepping; you're bad at it all. so bad in fact that you require supervision when you want to cook or bake! but it's sero's birthday and you want to make it special..
you enlist the help of your mom (by begging with big puppy dog eyes for her help) and spend the weekend working on the cake. the first one was a fail but thankfully, the second one was perfect! you carefully put it into a container and walk so cautiously back to the dorm.
it doesn't take long for you to find him, smiling wide as ever with braces on full display as you hold out the box for him to take. inside is a tres leches cake with a variety of fruit on the top and everything was made using gluten free products out of caution. even the fruit was organic and the chocolate curls were vegan!
once he takes the box, you sing a very out of tune rendition of the classic happy birthday song while clapping. reaching out, you pinch his cheeks and make obnoxious kissy noises as you do. "happy birthday! i-i won't smash your face into the cake, e-even if i kinda want to. it's a tres leches cake t-that me and my mom made. i-i hope that it's okay.. if you d-don't like it, i'll buy a cake! um."
you pull out a small notebook from your pocket. the notebook has a sweet note on the first page written by you. "here's this too. it's j-just to have on hand in case you want to use it. i-it, well. it feels a bit silly now but i-i don't know.. i guess i wanted us to match. i-it's a bit nerdy, huh?" [birfday ask from izuku mwah i love u both
Sero's Birthday Bonanza!!!
@4heart with Birthday Wishes!!!
Hanta was used to having rather chill and uneventful birthdays. Not to say that his dads and his brother didn't put in effort to making the day special, but it was always something lowkey. A store bought cake and a little celebration in the kitchen with some of his favorite foods. Maybe going out to dinner at a restaurant of his choice with a nice gift waiting at the end. They were intimate and special moments, always a gentle kind of experience. It's what he loved most about them.
Living at the dorms, he thought to himself, that other than the well wishes, it was going to be much more quiet than he was used to even with how lowkey celebrations always were. He was chilling in the common room, taking up a majority of the couch with his lanky figure and reading a manga he had borrowed from his dorm neighbor.
When Midoriya walked in with a box, he sat up to offer some help but before he could even say anything he had deftly realized the box was for him. He grinned, his own bright orange braces peeking out from behind his lips and shining in the shared light of their joy. He peeks under the lid and his smile somehow becomes impossibly wider seeing the cake and despite the out of tune singing and the quite painful (watch your strength Midoriya) pinches to his cheek it doesn't at all damper his happiness and excitement. Midoriya had put in all this effort to do something so kind for him, a homemade cake of all things, and how could Hanta ever be anything but filled with an overwhelming glee and adoration for his friend?
The notebook is the last straw and Hanta can't help but, carefully as to not harm the cake, practically throw himself over the back of the couch to wrap his friend in a hug, even pulling him down slightly into the cushions as a barrage of kisses to the top of his head strikes down.
"It's perfect! The cake is perfect, the notebook is perfect. Thank you!"
This is a triple gelato with ferrero rocher, dulce de leche, and chocolate pretzel! After this I had another one, only this time it was (vegan) dark chocolate, coconut, and stracciatella!
I was starving and still wanted more, so I got a cream eclair, a plain croissant, and tiramisu!
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Not pictured: Half of a tres leches cake slice! Super yummy, it even had choccy chips on top!! ♪ \(^ω^\ )
Cookies, brownies, pies, bread…try out some new recipes, or revisit your old favorites to have a little fun in the kitchen and end up with tasty treats.
Crunchy cookies, chewy brownies, decadent tortes, cute cupcakes, crusty baked bread…baking is an art this world would just not be the same without. Do you even know anyone who could honestly say they don’t have deep, unconditional love for at least one of the above? We thought not! This World Baking Day, it’s time to dig out that rolling pin and prepare something delicious! Surprise a friend, coworker, neighbor or relative with a delicious sweet or savory treat to let them know how much you care, or just make something to enjoy in your own home. However you decide to celebrate this day, make it deliciously unforgettable!
History of World Baking Day
World Baking Day was created to spread the joy of baking all around the world, especially to those who perhaps don’t bake too often and are not particularly experienced at it. This day is meant to show people just how much fun it can be to make a cake or some cookies, and baking can be a great way to spend time with family and friends. Not to mention how much fun it is to eat what you’ve made once it’s done!
It’s incredible that we’ve managed to go so long without a World Baking Day. We discovered evidence that baking has existed for over 14,000 years, proving that we simply can’t live without it! In fact, the first bakers in Jordan created flatbreads, which they then wrapped around meat – potentially the first-ever sandwich in existence. Roman times saw the birth of the artisan baker. Lovers of all things decadent, Romans prized the pastry chef, and those that brought new baked goods to the worlds were ever-popular at feasts and banquets.
In the United Kingdom, by the Middle Ages, baking went commercial, with many trading regulations and rules governing how to bake and sell bread. But everyone’s got to eat, so anyone with an oven was baking bread to feed their families. The delicious, mouth-watering cakes we eat today started to emerge for the upper echelons of society from the middle ages onwards.
Technology also helped upgrade the ovens to help bring better-baked goods to the masses, especially in the nineteenth century. Food was easier to preserve, too, so many people could order in meats and milk from across the country rather than relying on their backyard cows or chickens. Cans also cultivated a new innovation for baking, as meats and veg could be canned and exported from places like Australia.
New baking innovations arrived during WWI and WWII. In America during the wars, baking thrived as people moved to the US, and rationing saw the need for increasingly crafty creations. In America, different flavors from across the world arrived, from Italian cannolis to Mexican Tres Leches. When people couldn’t find fat or eggs during the wars, Applesauce Cake was baked into existence, which is still made today and used as an alternative to eggs and fat in vegan baking.
The increase in prosperity after the war allowed baking to flourish into the foods we love today, all culminating in this event. Enjoy the chance to bake, eat, and be merry with friends and family during this day.
How to celebrate world Baking Day
You don’t have to be a pastry chef specializing in fancy tortes to celebrate this holiday. All you really need is a little flour, sugar and butter and a sense of adventure! One of the best things about baking is that there are thousands upon thousands of recipes to choose from, so everyone is sure to find something to suit their specific tastes. Are you a fan of all things chocolate? Why not make some brownies? Rocky Road Brownies, for example, combine the richness of chocolate with the crunchiness of walnuts and the softness of marshmallows. But perhaps the best news about brownies is that almost all brownie recipes can be made in just one bowl!
If you’re more of a health food buff, there’s no reason for you to feel left out—there are plenty of baked goods that are decidedly good for you, like apple-cinnamon bran muffins or date and oatmeal muffins, and many more. Do you have a rambunctious child who is curious about the world? Why not share the magic of baking with them by making some creatively decorated cookies? Chocolate cherry thumbprint cookies, for example, are both easy and fun to make. Sugar cookies are also very simple to make and lots of fun to decorate with colorful icings and sprinkles. Or are you a bit more experienced at baking? If so, there are also many torte recipes that you could hone your skills making. Apricot Almond Torte, for example, requires you to make your own marzipan. And who wouldn’t want to know how to make their own perfect marzipan?
Or are you a fan of baking but prefer savory to sweet? Why not bake that bread, or create those mouth-watering pies and pastries that we all love so much? Fill your creations with delicious savory treats, like cheese or meat. Vegan or vegetarian? Browse your favorite recipe books for inventions made with flour, salt, applesauce, and sunflower oil. If you’re a budding savory baker, crustless quiches are the perfect way of incorporating delectable fillings in a quick and easy way.
If you don’t have time to bake, you could visit a local bakery instead of buying yet another package of mass-produced, sugary cookies filled with preservatives but devoid of flavor. Nothing is quite as relaxing as sitting back with a cup of coffee or tea and perhaps a book, enjoying a piece of pie.
If you want to share the baking joy with your nearest and dearest, why not invite some friends over for a baking party? It’s the perfect excuse to share your cakes and cookies (or at least the recipes). You can ask them to bring round their favorite cookie cutters and recipe ideas and you can all whizz up a storm in your kitchen. Or you can order in from your local bakery, put on a cooking competition and binge-watch and eat at the same time.
However, you decide to celebrate this day, make sure you and your nearest and dearest enjoy this day and all of its sweetness to the fullest.