Sweet Pionono

Pionono is a delicious roll very popular in Paraguay and other South American countries. It is a spongy cake filled with sweet stuff, rolled up and then drizzled with confectioners sugar. This one in particular was filled with dulce the leche. Pionono is a delicious treat by itself or can be accompanied with any type of berries or with a scoop of ice cream for dessert.

Ingredients

4 eggs

4 tablespoon of sugar

4 tablespoon of flour

¼ teaspoon of salt

1 tablespoon of honey

1 teaspoon of vanilla

Whisk eggs together for one minute, then, slowly add the sugar and mix until the batter becomes thick

Next combine together the salt and flour and with the help of a strainer, sprinkle it on top of the mixture. Add the vanilla and honey. With a spatula stir the mixture in circular motions from bottom to top until the flour has completely dissolved the batter

On a tray, place wax paper and pour the batter. Use a utensil to spread the batter evenly. Place it in the oven at 400˚F for 8 minutes. If you bake the cake too long it becomes hard and crispy instead of spongy

Next, remove the cake from the oven and let it cool down for about 5 minutes. Roll it up with the wax paper on and put it in the fridge for about one hour or more. When you are ready to fill the cake, take it out of the fridge and flip it over. Carefully, remove the wax paper and spread the dulce the leche, nutella or any other sweet stuff you would like to use

Roll it up carefully. Lastly drizzle the pionono with confectioners sugar

Grass Jelly drink

Grass jelly is a jello-like dessert found in Southeast Asia. It is made by boiling the aged and slightly oxidized stalks and leaves of Mesona chinensis, an herb related to mint and then cooled to a jello-like consistency. It has a really dark blackish color and if eaten alone, is slightly bitter. In China, people usually eat grass jelly with fruits, or sugar, or made into a drink. When I don't have soy milk in the house, I'll just chop up the grass jelly, put it into a bowl and drizzle with simple syrup or honey. But my favorite way of using grass jelly is in a drink so give it a try and let me know what you think!

Ingredients
1/3 cup of grass jelly (found in any asian grocery store) chopped into little cubes
Sweetened soy milk
ice (optional)

Mix all ingredients together and enjoy!

Nutella Flan

In France we love nutella !!! We can eat it anytime during the day. I personnaly love it directly from the jar :)

Here is a dessert made with nutella. It's very tasty and easy to do. Pay attention it's really addicting!!!!

We'll need:

4 eggs

1/2 cup of suggar

8 teaspoon of nutella

1 cup of flour

1/3 cup of milk

How to do it:

Preheat oven at 360 degres farenheit for 10 minutes.

Stir together the eggs and the sugar, progressively incorporate the flour and the nutella. Then incorporate the milk. Stir well.

Pour the preparation lightly greased 9x13 inch baking dish.

Bake for 50 minutes.

After the flan is cocked let it cool down and then put in the fridge for at least two hours before enjoying it.

Miam miam enjoy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet Tofu

A dessert you can try out at home. Its basically tofu pudding and you can either sweeten with honey or with sweeten ginger like some restaurants do.

Ingredients
-Unsweeten tofu you can find at any asian grocery store
-honey


Directions
Scoop tofu into a bowl and drizzle honey on top.

You may enjoy this hot or cold.

Bread Pudding

    BREAD PUDDING - Dominican Style

Bread Pudding or "pudin de pan" is a very known sweet dessert in my native country the Dominican Republic. It can be done at anytime of the year, but I prefer preparing it during the holiday season. This kind of dessert could be seen in grocery stores mostly Dominican background owners. 

What you need:

1. Five any kind of long bread.
2. 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
3. 3 cinnamon sticks. 
4. 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
5. Can of coconut milk.
6. One can of carnation milk.
7. One can of condensed milk.
8. Pour two cups of milk. (gallon milk only)
9. 1½ Sugar. 
10. Raisins.
11. 2 cups of water.         

Instructions

Step 1: Cut five long breads in little pieces. Note: make sure bread is harder than normal.

 

Step 2:  Mix on top the cut bread ground cinnamon, salt, one can of coconut milk, One can of carnation milk, One can of condensed milk, and two cup of milk.

 

  

Step 3: Add 1/2 cup of sugar, raisins, and mix everything again.

Step 4: Use a pan to make sweet honey by pouring water,cinnamon sticks, 1 cup of sugar and let it boil until it gets thick. After it's done, let it cool down.

Step 5: Once the sweet honey has cooled down, mix the bread and other ingredients with the honey.

Step 6:  Bake it at a temperature of 350 degrees Fahrenheit for a minimum of one hour and thirty minutes.