My family tasting chocoflan (with cream cheese)
It is that time of year when people gather to celebrate. They cook, bake and enjoy delicious food people made. This year, I spent Thanksgiving Day helping my grandma bake the turkey, bake ham, do mashed potatoes, and ambrosia fruit salad. The day before, I spent it baking a new chocoflan. This chocoflan had cream cheese based on the recipe I shared from a Mexico City Blogger. I basically did the same recipe, but added 1/4 of cream cheese bar. So what happened to these chocoflans? One batch came out ok (not fabulous) and the other batch the flan did not fully bake. What happened is that I did not equally poured flan mix into each cake. Next time, I will have to divide the flan in equal parts for it to cook evenly. Tasting My family tried the chocoflan and the cakes came out somehow like a cheesecakechocoflan.
Reflection Overall it was a great experience to share something with my family. Maybe this will become a tradition.. Tasting Gisel's Baking Goods. Probably without this project I wouldn't venture in the world of baking or cooking my family's recipe. I will probably continue this online recipe blog for myself and my family. This process is not that hard once you get used to cooking and baking. Since I started this project, I have gone into websites to learn how to cook some meals and also got together with friends to share their recipes. | Questions 1. How do these recipes compare to those found on the internet? Probably watching my mom's video is more interesting, but the ones I found on the internet were quite similar and a variety of the recipe. -Sweet Potato Chocoflan (without the chocolate) -Chocoflan from Scratch -Chocoflan with cream cheese -Vegan Chocolate Flan -Mezcal Chocoflan I also found a High School students' Weebly post of a Chocoflan Assignment 2. Is there an easier or faster way to prepare these recipes? Using the cake mix recipe, using a blender, and a stand cake mixer will save you time. 3. Can I use some of these recipes and create something new? I create mini chocoflans with cream cheese which tastes like flan cheese cake with chocolate cake. I used a different pan that makes 6 mini chocoflans compared to 12 inch bundt cake pan my mother uses 4. How can I preserve authentic recipes? I think the best way to preserve an authentic recipes is having a video of my mom's recipe. I not only gives you a recipe to do, but you have a memory of her voice and presence that a picture or a blog couldn't do. 5. What would happen if each of us create one recipe with exact same ingredients (Would it taste the same)? Probably not because my grandma has never baked one, I use different baking pan, and my mom is an expert. So it all depends on how different you make it and the amount of experience baking this cake. 6. What is the history behind these recipes? Surprisingly the Chocoflan was something that she learned from a friend, not my grandma. 7. Are any of these recipes "family secrets' and why? There is such a variety of ways you can do a chocoflan, there is no family secret. 8. Are there similar recipes in other cultures? I searched for the origin of the cake, and a colombian blogger though it was a colombian dessert because it is so popular, but she found it was actually a mexican dessert. 9. Is it easier to learn from the internet, a book, or a person? For myself is easier to learn from a video o a recipe from a cookbook. I can't learn from just watching. I have to do it. That is a problem with my family. They are more just watch, don't touch and learn (so I don't mess up their cooking) 10. Is cooking their passion, or is it something they had to do for their family? For my mom it is a passion. In her interview she described how her interest in cooking/baking started and she went to takes classes, and read more books on how to make things better. |