Aneshka's useless rants

We were dining at a Filipino restaurant in Jersey City, when Yiek told me that he wanted to order Brazo de Mercedes and declared it his favorite cake, I know that it's a very sweet cake and he's not partial to overly sweet desserts so it took me by surprise that it was his favorite. Goes to prove that you'll never know everything about your spouse (9 years of togetherness including time as GF/BF). I told him we can't buy a whole cake, how will we ever finish the whole thing and I found it expensive at that time so I just told him that I'll bake it sometime in the future.Well 4 months have passed and I still haven't baked it, I did take a look at the recipe and found the ingredients to be too much (10 whole eggs!) and promised Yiek that we will just buy it from Red Ribbon.

As we haven't gone back from Red Ribbon because its too far, 30-40 min drive from our place, Yiek haven't had his fill of Brazo. Something changed, when I bought a cheesecake from our grocery store, he is now hankering for dessert every dinner time. So far we've only have cheesecake and pianono. I promised "again" that I'll bake Brazo de Mercedes.

I'm working from home today, my task is all complete and bored shitless so I baked.I only did half the recipe though since this is just a trial run. I did half of the meringue and filling, come to think of it, I'm suppose to do half of the filling but I put in one whole can of condensed milk instead of 1/2. Ngeks! I've tasted the filling and it wasn't too bad in fact I liked it so much that I kept on licking the ladle, I just hope Yiek does not find it too sweet. This is my first time to bake this dessert ya know, so cut me some slack, I don't even have an idea what its suppose to taste like since my Mama don't bake this at home.

I had a sneaking suspicion that its going to turn out like this. I was doubtful that I would be able to roll the cake, since its meringue, the texture would be different. I should have trusted my instinct to just bake it at a shorter time as I really had a hard time rolling the said meringue, it stuck to pan and I had to use a lot of resources just to make it roll.

P.S.

Now, that I have a point and shoot camera, I can now fill my blog with pictures. Woot! woot! Expect pictures in my entries from now.

Labels: Baking escapades