Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Chocoflan: Whether you're feeling life is bitter or sweet today

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Buenos Dias, America the free and the brave.

Whether your candidate won or lost last night, I hope you're celebrating the fact you had a choice. If your team won, I hope you carry that energy and joy forward to unite and better your community and if your team lost, take that energy and work for the change you want to see.

Today's post is about food -- because really both sides of the aisle can agree that food makes it all better, whether you're out of your gourd with joy or despair.

So, check out this Chocoflan recipe I discovered. I had no damned idea one could combine flan with chocolate cake until Kraft sent me a freebie mag this week filled with Latino holiday recipes. I do believe angels sang when I opened the page to the chocoflan recipe. I vote Kraft the Winner.

Here's the recipe from the Kraft site in Spanish and another version in English from Recipezaar. Notice that the Kraft version uses dulce de leche as the topping, and not just plain caramel topping. The Spanish one also uses 7 eggs versus 3.  (Here's a Rick Bayless version)

There are differences for sure, but hey, what the hell, you end up with chocolate and flan and dulce de leche together no matter which you use. That is a winner in my book.






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2 comments:

Laura Feo-Fernández said...

Why do I think mi esposo Cubanazo, who I often find in the kitchen with a stream of leche condensada trickling into his mouth, would perhaps find that too sweet?
:@)

Marta said...

GENIUS. I wish I had thought of this!
Dulce de leche and chocolate - absolute GENIUS. I'm thinking CHOCOFLAN should be a food group! (well, at least at my house...)

=D