Finished with an hour to spare before shower and exit to supper club.
Mini mantecadas (buttercakes) are small but not tiny. I love the versatility of them, since I'm not a baker, not a batter mixer, not a dough roller, none of that, and box cake mixes just are not that great.
So I've made many things with these: fruit and whipped cream, or syrup and nuts, or just on the side of scrambled eggs.
I wanted to give a lot of love tonight to those who rebelled with me when people were driving with masks on, alone in their own cars with windows up, who let themselves be locked down (a prison term), when the sadness of people who were not allowed to visit their seniors in nursing homes was heartbreaking, when weddings were postponed, when your cousin's small batch bakery had to shut down but the Walmart bakery was allowed to keep operating. Life was on hold for a massive transfer of wealth from mainstreet to Wall Street, for a bug that had less than a 1 percent rate of death. That was when I started our supper club, for us to gather together, listen to music, laugh, watch movies, and share our best recipes as a measure of our love. We meet less often these days, but when we do it's still very special.
So I made what I hope everybody will think is a special dessert. Mini mantecadas in an assortment of love cakes. As you can see, they come out of the package with a little topknot on each one:
It's best to scoop that out with a spoon, then your toppings and fillings go in better. Here they are finished, left to right:
Cinnamon roll----------------Ma cherie amour---------------------Soda pop-
The cake drenched---------------The cake drenched---------------Fresh lime and
with cinnamon---------------with maraschino juice,---------------lemon squeezed
butter, topped with---------------topped with pink---------------on the cake,
icing and bronzy---------------icing, pearl sprinkles---------------icing and clear
crystal sprinkles---------------and a cherry.------------------------crystal sprinkles
I made two trays like this one. I don't want the cakes to touch
each other so I have to make wax paper dividers before
transporting. Do you think my friends will feel the love?
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