Romy's Baking and Cake Decorating

 Recently I was in Paris and, after seeing lots of pictures of Flan Parisien online, I really wanted to find a good one.  I tried 3 or 4 of them, I think, and none of them bowled me over. So, I decided to give it a try for my birthday.  Coming right on the heels of Bubby's birthday, and will lots of cake still left in the fridge, I knew I didn't want to make another cake.  I looked at several recipes online and finally settled on  this one  from Cuisine Actuelle.  Most of the recipes I saw online called for both milk and heavy cream. But I wanted my flan to be a bit less rich, and I didn't want to have to buy heavy cream.  So here is the recipe I used: 1 vanilla pod 4 eggs 1 liter of milk 125 grams of sugar 85 grams of cornstarch 1. Grease an 8" springform pan and preheat the oven to 350F. 2. Scrape the seeds from inside the vanilla pod into the milk. Put the pod into the milk also, Bring almost to a boil over medium heat. Remove from the stove a...

  A birthday cake for our recent vacation! It seems unreal that Bubby is turning 22!  Last year we had a big party for his 21s birthday, but it feels like that was only 6 months ago. This year we elected to travel to Grandpa's area and spend the day with him.  So as to not have to cook, we'll eat at a Mexican restaurant and we'll sing happy birthday with a dessert from their menu.  The weather forecast is for hot and rainy weather. Not ideal for traveling over 2 hours with a frosted and decorated cake.  But we can't have Bubby not have a birthday cake!  I came up with the idea of having a "Birthday Eve" cake.   Bubby couldn't think of what flavor cake he wanted.  In the end I suggested an Oreo cake , and he liked that idea. Since I wanted to make a 6-inch cake, for just the three of us, I went with  this recipe  from Sugar and Sparrow. I've made it before, in two 8-inch pans.  It does have a sizable amount of batter for a cake ...