Mama Sanchez's Cookbook

Mama Sanchez’s famed Carrot Cake.

Ingredients

1 cup vegetable oil

1 1/2 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 lb carrots (grated)

1 can 8 oz crushed pineapple drain

1/2 cup walnuts

1 3/4 cups flour

1 1/2 T cinnamon

1 1/2 T baking powder

1 1/4 T baking soda

1/2 T salt

1 package of 8 oz cream cheese (softened)

2 1/2 tbsp margarine (softened)

1/3 cup powdered sugar (sifted)

Step-by-Step

Cream oil, sugar and eggs.

Add carrots, drained pineapple and walnuts.

Sift together then fold in the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, soda and salt.

Pour batter into pan.

Bake at 350° for 40 mins (use small mold).

Frosting

Cream together cream cheese and margarine.

Beat in sifted powdered sugar.

Mama Sanchez's signature cupcakes made with chocolate, cream cheese and pecans.

Ingredients

1 1/2 (8 oz) package of cream cheese, softened

2/3 cup sugar

2 eggs

3 cups all purpose flour

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

2 cups water

2/3 cup oil

2 tbsp vinegar

2 tsp vanilla

3 tbsp sugar

1 cup chopped nuts

Step-by-Step

In a small bowl mix cream cheese, 2/3 c of sugar and eggs mix well set aside.

In large bowl combine flour, 2 cups of sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt Add water, oil, vinegar and vanilla.

Beat 2 minutes fill prepared muffin cups half full, top each with tablespoon of cream cheese mixture. Sprinkle with sugar and nuts.

Bake at 350° for 20-30 minutes or until cream cheese is light golden brown.

Fun Fact: This cake is famed to be impossible due to the separation of the flan half and the cake half while baking. Enjoy!

Make flan, make cake, put it together.

Flan Half

1 can of sweetened condensed milk

1 can of evaporated milk

4 eggs

1 tbsp of vanilla extract

Cake Half

1 box of chocolate cake (any brand)

Step-by-Step

Make cake following instructions on box

Put flan ingredients in blender and blend

Prepare the bundt pan by lightly spraying butter flavored Pam and spreading warm Dulce de Leche on the bottom of the pan to taste

Pour cake into the bundt pan

Pour the flan after the cake

Cover with tin foil

Bake 45 mins - 1 hr at 350° in a bath of water (or until toothpick comes out clean)

Let it cool, flip over and enjoy.

Mama Sanchez's Tips:

Use half of the cake batter for 1 Impossible Cake

Mama Sanchez uses half of the cake mix to make 1 Impossible Cake, therefore she makes 2 Impossible Cakes at a time