10 Sweet Recipes with Caribbean Flavor

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10 Easy and delicious sweet Caribbean recipes you can enjoy this spring summer season! Which is your favorite?

1. Banana Mama (photo below) - . An exotic blend of tropical fruits such as strawberries, banana, pineapple and coconut.

2. Coconut Tres Leches Cake - . Exotic, delicious and incomparable. Learn to make a tres leches coconut, follow the step by step and enjoy this rich dessert at home.

3. Soursop Pastry Cream Recipe -  A delicious custard that can be used as a filling or a topping on cakes and cupcakes.

4. Dulce de Coco Tierno (photo above) - . A Dominican homemade dessert made with a tender coconut meat, milk and sweet condensed milk. I know you'll like this creamy dessert.

5. Boniato Pudding (Jalea de Batata) - A known favorite dessert in the traditional Dominican cuisine. Its main ingredient is the batata, also known as boniato, or sweet potato. There are different ways of preparering this dessert, in this post I share the recipe with pineapple or without pineapple.

6. Coconut Macaroons - These coconut macaroons aka coconut kisses in Spanish, taste so delicious you won't believe they are this easy to prepare! For coconut lovers this is one treat you won't be able to control yourself with, you'll definitely eat more than one kiss!

7. Cassava Bread - . This bread has a resemblance to cassava fritters, with the difference that it is sweet, has coconut and is baked.

8. Passion Fruit Scones - These scones make a delicious morning or afternoon snack. I've been baking these scones for many years and I have also adapted it to make a passion fruit scone cake. Find both recipes in this post.

9. Tropical Pavlova (photo above) - Are you a pavlova lover? Why not try these ´personal size tropical pavlovas topped with pineapple, papaya, melon, and sprinkled with coconut flakes. For Mother's Day these will be a special treat in your dessert table.

10. Plátanos al Caldero (photo below) - Sweet caramelized plantains are a traditional Dominican sweet side dish prepared with ripe plantains and served with the meal. He brings that sweet touch to the food you like so much.

Cheers to a happy and blessed day!

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One Direction (1D) Cupcakes

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Fans would dare to do anything for their favorite artist, including eating them in a cupcake!

These unique One Direction (1D) cupcakes toppers were a custom order from a young customer. The photo I was given at time of the order and used as a guide, belongs to Litte Cherry Cake Company.

I enjoyed working on all the hair styles in fondant, they do take a bit of time, but I am more than satisfied with the end result!

For all the One Direction fans here are you cupcakes!

Tracey Rothwell is the creator of these 1D cupcake toppers, and she show us to make the Harry version in a video I share below.

You, Lord, are all I have, and you give me all I need; my future is in your hands. - Psalm 16:5-11 

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Medical and Get Well Themed Cupcakes

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Medical and get well themed cupcakes, another cupcake creation that I made for a client inspired by a photo they sent me from the Internet. Of course it takes a great amount of time to do all the details in themed cupcake toppers, but I really enjoy making them. Have you worked on cupcake toppers before? Do you enjoy making them?

I make my toppers using fondant only and keep them covered for those that do like to eat them. Most of the time they do get eaten and I happy with that. How about you, do you like to eat cupcake toppers?

I believe they make a lovely "get well" gift and also are adequate for events targeted for medicine or doctors.

I love the way the stethoscope came out. I can't wait to make sweet things like these for my daughter when she graduates in a few years from med school. In the meantime I'll keep practicing!

Cupcakes info: vanilla cupcakes, caramel filling, and fondant toppers.

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. - Isaiah 53:5

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Daffodil Cake

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This is a very light lemony marble cake made of a rich spongecake and angel food cake. The following recipe was adapted from McCall’s Cooking School daffodil cake. I thought it would be a great alternative to the customary carrot cake or coconut cake that are served this season.

To serve, sprinkle with some confectioners’ sugar, or accompany with some vanilla ice-cream. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did at home.

Since the cake has a cheerful yellow and white color I made some gumpaste daffodils to add a spring decor to it. A perfect and easy to follow daffodil gum paste flower step by step could be found here: Cake Journal.

In the past I have mentioned that the lemons here are green, that is the reason you see the lemon peel as green. Green or yellow it is fine. We call them lemons, but they realy are limes. "Limón criollo" and "limón persa" are the common variety grown and sold here.

This recipe calls for cake flour. In the notes I have included how to substitute it if you do not have any at hand.

I dedicate this recipe to two of my princesses, Ruby and Topaz, who love angel food cake.

Ladybug Cupcakes

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Spring, warm sunny weather ... get offline and be ONLIVE! Enjoy this day and the rest of the week living life offline. 

I thought these sweet ladybug cupcakes will be great to celebrate this season. Enjoy!

Cupcake recipe: Vanilla Cupcakes.


Have a blessed day!


"The more wealth people have, the more “friends” they have to help spend it. So the rich really gain nothing. They can only look at their wealth.  Those who work hard all day come home and sleep in peace. It is not important if they have little or much to eat. But the rich worry about their wealth and are not able to sleep."- Ecclesiastes 5:11-12 

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Kitchen Tip: Tidy Meat!

The weather is scorching hot here, and I really wasn't feeling up to cooking tonight. However, I ended up making a quick and easy dish for dinner like this delicious rice dish but I made it with sardines instead of cod fish.

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 It's Friday, so why not whip up something simple and savor the evening!

Today, I have a kitchen tip that I'm sure you'll find useful for your food shopping adventures. I've been using plastic produce bags, which you can find for free in the fresh produce area of the supermarket, to package meat. This helps prevent spillage over other products in the shopping cart and keeps the freezer at home much tidier.

What kind of tricks or tips do you have for making food shopping, and storing food products safer and more organized?

Have a blessed weekend :)

Miami Heat Theme Cupcakes

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Hi! Are you ready for spring break? I am, but I feel cheated because two of my daughters only get two days off. I really miss the one-week long Easter break with the family, but I have set my mind to be grateful for the slow pace week that waits ahead. I love the family time and the celebration of gratefulness of our LIVING SAVIOR in Holy Week!

These Miami Heat cupcakes are one of my favorites of all the orders I have been working on the last couple of months. I made these for a client, but first I would like to clarify that the design idea is not mine, I was sent a photo by email of what the client wanted exactly and I tried to the best I could to get the correct shapes and look.

I ran the photo through google images and I believe it belongs to Sweet Charity.

I did all the toppers the night before and set them out to dry away from humidity.

• The fondant I used is Satin Ice.in black and red. The orange color I made using white fondant and adding a few drops of yellow and red.

• For the black outlines I use the following, Americolor Gourmet Writer Food Decorating Pen Black, I truly love and recommend this product!

• The cupcakes chocolate cupcakes recipe. Filling dulce de leche and frosting Italian meringue.

I hope you like them and get inspired to make some nice basketball theme cupcakes for your friends, family, and clients.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you. - 2 Thessalonians 3:16

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