Custom Cake: 80's Theme Cupcakes

 

Have a party theme? Let us make you some fun custom cupcakes! Pick a flavor, any flavor and we will gladly dress them up for you!

Custom Cake: Basketball and Jersey

Knicks Jersey and basketball 40th birthday cake. Jersey cakes is 2 layer yellow sponge cake with strawberry and vanilla custard filling. Basketball is vanilla bean cake with 1 layer pineapple filling and vanilla buttercream.

No-fat No-cholesterol Brownies

Did you make a New Year's resolution to eat better? Struggling with your sweet tooth? Have we got a treat for you! Brownies made without oil, and without the cholesterol of eggs, yet moist and delicious like you have never tasted before. Indulging in chocolate does not have to bust your diet. These 2x2 squares are pop-em size ready.


(Caloric Information to be Posted in Coming Weeks)

48 piece brownie box...$9

Custom Cake: Snow-Lady First Birthday Block

40 slice snowman cake, pink and purple chocolate marble w/ chocolate pudding on 1 layer, and vanilla creme on the next. Hand painted snow "lady" chocolate molded cake pop. Hand painted white banner, white, pink and lavender fondant with silver snowflakes. (Completely edible)

(24) Pink fondant w/ silver snowflakes vanilla cupcakes tinted pink and purple cake with vanilla creme in the middle, white cardboard Snowflake collars.

(24) Lavender fondant w/ silver snowflakes chocolate cupcakes w/ chocolate creme in the middle, white cardboard snowflake collars.

Chocolate Bailey's Cupcakes/Bailey's Cake

Yes alcoholics! - We are answering your prayers!

Can't decide if you want your calories from dessert or alcohol?

Want your alcohol with cake and you want to eat it too?

Let's think about this, rich dark chocolate cake infused with your favorite alcohol...mmm...mmmmm...

How about Chocolate Baileys Bundt cake with Baileys buttercream? OR A Dozen Chocolate Baileys cupcakes with Baileys buttercream?

You choose for the same price $35 Each

Custom Cake: Initial Q

Strawberry cake w/ vanilla buttercream - serves 20.
Pink and white fondant, w/ pink polka dots.

Custom Cake: Shoe Cake

 

2 tier (serves 80) handpainted sugar shoe.

Top layer - quilt design wrap with lipstick and bow. Gold trim wafer. Bailey's cake with chocolate baileys buttercream and chocolate cheesecake.

Bottom layer - marble cake with chocolate pudding.

Fondant through-out.

Custom Cake: Tiffany Box

2 tier - (serves 40)
Top layer present marble cake with chocolate cheesecake filling.

bottom layer round baileys cake with plain cheesecake

Custom Cake: Butterfly Cake

2 tier (serves 80) White Cake w/ Dulce de leche filling and dulce de leche buttercream, Fondant with sugar butterflies and flowers. Dark Chocolate and pink milk Chocolate butterfly on top.

24 cupcakes -
12 - Chocolate choco chip w/ vanilla buttercream tinted lavender and daisy sugar cookie pop. sticking out.
12 - tres leches w/pink tinted fresh cream and xtra large daisy sugar cookie.

Custom Cake: Tres Leches

Tres Leches cake with whip cream and sweet cream icing.

Custom Cake: Harley Davidson

Happy Birthday chocolate cake w/ chocolate chips and vanilla cream.

Cheeeeeeese Cake!

Chocolate cheesecake with fresh whip cream and milk chocolate and white chocolate chips

Looking for a rich and decadent dessert you can't find just anywhere? How about some delicious cheesecake? Try some for a birthday, dinner party or even a give away for a holiday gift!

Cheesecake - Baby Watson not enough for you? Junior's just a little too far? Why not try our rich and smooth cheesecake? Dense and rich in flavor this 9 inch classic is laid in a bed of graham cracker or double chocolate crumbs...9 inch - $25


Strawberry Cheesecake - decked out with oodles of fresh strawberries and a graham cracker shell. ..9 inch - $25

Chocolate Cheesecake - The silky richness of chocolate combined with the creamy texture of cheesecake, laid in a bed of brownies and drizzled with chocolate...9 inch - $30

Recipe #001 - Butternut Squash and Crab Bisque

When I worked in the city there was nothing I loved more on cold wintery days than to sample the soups at places like Hale & Hearty and Hot and Crusty. Their soups had made me feel shame for ever claiming to have had soup before. Rich and flavorful, they were always super thick and filling and on really cold weekends when I could not bring myself to schlepp into the city for a bowl of soup, I tried HARD to mimick what I tasted and guys, I think I may have finally come close! This is my version of a super yummy butternut squash and lump crab meat bisque.

For Starters You Will Need:

2 to 2.5 lbs of butternut squash (peeled, cut and cubed into 2 inch pieces)
1 - small onion finely diced                                                                    TOOLS:
1- celery stalk finely diced                                                                     4 qt pot
1 cup of heavy cream                                                                            Large Spoon
1 lb of the best lump crab meat you can find                                           Ladle
1 can of Chicken Gravy (low sodium)                                                    Hand mixer
salt                                                                                                        Sharp knife for peeling and chopping
pepper
1 stem of curly parsley (for garnish)
1 stem of mint (Garnish)
1 pack of Sazon con Culantro

1. Take the 2-2.5 lbs of butternut squash, peel and slice into 2 inch cubes. Place into a pot to bowl in 1.5 quarts of water. Add the can of low sodium chicken gravy to this and let the butternut squash stew down.

2. While the squash is boiling dice the small onion and celery and add it to the boiling butternut squash.

3. Coursely chop the parsley and the mint and set it aside.

4. When the butternut squash is completely soft, (a lot of the water should be evaporated), there should be more squash then sauce in your pot. If the squash is still swimming in water and chicken gravy pour half the liquid out that is still in the pot.

5. Take a hand mixer and puree all the contents of the pot until you have one smooth looking orange mush. Add the 1 pint of cream, the envelope of sazon and the crab meat. Let that continue to simmer on low heat for another 10 minutes.

6. At this point the soup is very flavorful, but we all have different palates so use the salt and pepper to adjust it to your liking if it is needed.

7. Serve hot, and garnish with a pinch of celery mixed with mint. (Smells amazing!)

TIPS:
- The more you let the soup cook after the cream and meat have been added the thicker it gets, stop boiling when you reach the consistency you want.
- Don't feel like buying sazon for just 1 packet? Don't! You can use salt and pepper. Your soup might be a little lighter in color than mine without the extra added seasoning, but it will be tasty just the same!
- This soup with fresh french bread - O.M.G. A-MAZE-ZING!


Questions, comments or concerns anyone? Reach me at placemyyummyorder@yahoo.com

Enjoy! Stay Thirsty My Friends... (Hahahaha that line always cracks me up!)

Sweet Potato Cupcakes - The Unusual Suspects

As the minutes wind down to the day of reckoning for our dear friend The Turkey let us reflect on the very many accompaniments that will visit at his delicious funeral. Mr & Mrs Stove Top Stuffing has already RSVP'ed to the festivities, our spinster aunt Cranberry and Grandpa Gravy. The usual suspects will pay their respects...but let's indulge in the unusual.

How about some delicious sweet potato cupcakes with marshmallow buttercream? Haven't tasted them yet? You really just do not know what you are missing! Not quite pumpkin pie, not exactly carrot cake these cupcakes give you the delicious cinnamon and sugar infusion your sweet tooth needs to combat the tryptophan that will course through your veins. Bring a bunch of these warriors to your family table this Thanksgiving.

Take a bite and let the battle begin.

$15 A Dozen

Allow Me To Re-Introduce Myself

Hello everyone! It's me, The Culinary Conquistadora blogging to you live from the confines of my bed. No, no, nothing is wrong at all. I am just trying to touch base with all my messages before I get up and start the day. I have been really busy thanks to so many of you ordering, tasting, and more importantly ordering ;).

I have decided to take this website a different route than initially intended. I was going to just make this a hub for e-commerce but I think that I prefer a friendlier approach. Pretty soon I will be posting recipes, culinary adventures, and tagging you along when we get special requests and parties.

A little about me? I am currently a domestic engineer who like Brian from Family Guy has been writing a book forever! (More on that later), but once upon a time I got really tired of the same ole slop for dinner, so I decided to play restaurant and began to COOK. I wanted food I served to look just like what I pay for in restaurants, complete with all the bells and whistles of presentation. As friends and friends of friends came to visit more often because "they heard I could make such-and-such really slammin'" my food bill began to rise. I have gotten requests from cooking lessons to cooking daily dinners. While I would love to do it all, being a domestic engineer does not pay very well, and AT&T does not want to be paid in good intentions. In the immortal words of Kelis: I could teach you but I have to charge. So here I am, and there you are. My growing menu is off to the left there for you to check out.

For those of you who still check on this page - God Bless you! For those who are just tuning in - have you come to the right place.

It is 1 week until Turkey Day - get your orders in!!!

COQUITO - 750ml bottle - CALL OR EMAIL FOR PRICING

Email us at PLACEMYYUMMYORDER@YAHOO.COM to inquire about our stockpile of coquito.

Sugar Cookie Pops

What are better than cookies?

Wait. What?

There are nothing better than cookies! 

I digress. What is the best way to have a cookie?

Warm, in a stack with loads of chocolate and an ice cold glass of milk.

Smart ass.

Let's just focus on sugar cookie pops, shall we?

I think the best way to hand a cookie off is on a stick. Regardless of where your fingertips have been your mouth can enjoy every morsel at any time without the guilt of whether or not you have any hand sanitizer ready. In a variety of sizes, shapes, colors and flavors cookie pops can be made to order for any occassion.





Starting at $12 per dozen email us and order some today!

Coquito Cupcakes

What is better than sipping cold coquito after Thanksgiving dinner?

Sipping cold coquito and munching on a moist and delicious coquito cupcake!

A sprinkle of cinnamon...

The slight scent of clove...

And the savory taste of creamy coconut are now baked into moist little mounds of goodness and topped with coquito flavored sweet cream for you to enjoy. Pair it with a glass of our signature drink and you will have found love on a two street!


(There are rum in these!)

SALE PRICE = $24 Per Dozen (While supplies last)

COQUITO - 750ml bottle

The tropical coconut concoction no winter holiday celebration should be without! Instead of EggNog, take a swig of  this rum spiked cream drink that will send your taste buds on a sweet vacation while warming away the winter chill from your toes. With coconut, cinnamon and an array of sweet spices, this will quickly become your newest holiday indulgence. Ask for it by strength:

Mommy’s version– MILDEST - LOADED with rum but this is the kind where the alcohol sneaks up on
you...$17.00 per bottle

Titi Cuca’s version – MEDIUM - packs the Bacardi kick....$20.00 per bottle

Abuelo’s bottle – STRONG - Packs a punch!  Don't breathe on anybody, their eyebrows might singe! Just like abuelo likes it!...$20.00 per bottle

Get it while supplies last! When the holidays are gone, so is the coquito!

Custom Cakes

Whether it is made with fondant or made with delicious piped cream design your own fantasy cake!! Call us today at 718-496-5174 or email us at PLACEMYYUMMYORDER@yahoo.com to arrange a free consultation to discuss your fantasy cake, and sketch a design.

We specialize in all kinds of flavors, (something you want but don't see? JUST ASK! We are always up for a challenge.)
- Vanilla
- Chocolate
- White Cake
- Red Velvet
- Carrot
- Sweet potato
- Chocolate Chip
- Chocolate/chocolate chip
- Devil's Food
- Rocky Road (filled w/ chocolate chips, mini marshmallows and nuts)
- Dulce De Leche
- Tres Leches

Fillings:
- Vanilla
- Chocolate
- Butterscotch
- Tapioca
- Arroz con Dulce
- Dulce de Leche
- Cherry
- Peach
- Apple
- Cannoli
- Reeses  sweet Peanut butter creme

Have a request you don't see? Reach out to us!!!

Pumpkin Loaf

The warm scent of cinnamon. The sweet taste of pumpkin. The world is a better place with a slice of homemade pumpkin loaf. Packed with juicy raisins, chopped nuts, and gooey chocolate chips this delicious pastry has something for every one. Whether served warm and eaten with a cup of coffee or sliced thick and smothered in a sweet cream cheese frosting, this delicious treat is great for anytime! Breakfast, "get-togethers", or an after dinner dessert!

Ask for our "healthier" version which is our flax seed infused recipe!

$5/per loaf

Banana Bread

Store brought banana bread always smelled better than it actually tasted...
Coffee would abandon the cup before accompanying banana permeating cardboard on its way to scrape down your throat....
Not even the flys want the stuff in the roach coach...

Lucky for you, you have just found THE MOST INTERESTING BANANA BREAD IN THE WORLD. You don't eat banana bread everyday, but when you do - you should eat The Culinary Conquistadora's. It's not quite pastry, not quite bread. But the cinnamon walnut grit and the fresh taste of bananas won't disappoint. In fact it will take your tongue on a joy ride.

Stay Hungry My Friends.

$8 a Loaf

Cookie Baskets

The stiff breeze of Fall in the air sways the leaves to swirl about and thoughts to wander to the holiday season. So many people to get for, so little money to ever use. Sending a little "thank you" basket to special people who have made this year a good one is always a great way to bring a smile to their face and to show your appreciation. But where do you go? Harry and David are nice but if you are like me you are tired of the fruit and nasty butter cookies, or that Baklava you aren't sure is fresh or just really funny tasting for the trip. Call/email us when you are looking to send a tasty basket or platter to show your appreciation! For as low as $25 you can have a cookie platter AND have it delivered with a brief note to show your appreciation. Delivery is limited to NYC area only. For an extra fee there can be shipping! Check out our various displays and choose a combo that is right for what you would like to express. Cah mon, why should you be the only one gaining weight over the holidays? Share the love, send a cookie/treat basket today!

$23 - Cookie basket - 24 assorted mini cookies, (butter cookies, macaroons, chocolate chip, italian cookies, petit fours and or mini brownie cookies. (Variety subject to availability). Note Local  delivery in NYC area is included. Outside of NYC requires additional shipping charges. A confirmation delivery email is sent upon confirmed delivery. (Good for individual gift, or small office.)

OR

COOKIE or CAKE POPS - $25 Why don't you try sending 24 individually wrapped cookie pops or festive cake pops? A no-fuss gift giving idea that can have a small personalized note attached to each. (Delivery in NYC area is included, outside NYC is subject to additional shipping charges.)

$45 - With Love Platter - 24 mini size assorted cookies. (butter cookies, macaroons, chocolate chip, italian cookies, petit fours and brownie cookies, truffles, cookie pops, cake pops and other sweet treats artfully placed in a festive basket. (Variety subject to availability). Note and delivery is included. w/ confirmation delivery email. (Feeds 5-9 people) Good for small office gift. Small family get togethers or dinner parties.

$60 - Impress Them Platter -  5 dozen regular and mini sized assorted treats, including cookies, cupcakes, candies, cookie pops, cake pops, italian cookies, petit fours, brownies, truffles, chocolate chip cookies, and or chocolate dipped fruit. Beautifully wrapped in festive cellophane with ribbons in either a basket or platter. Variety subject to availability. Delivery is included w/ confirmation delivery email. (feeds 12-20 people) excellent for office, family get togethers, business meetings etc.

$100 - Whoa Baby  - 1 cake of your choice (Subject to terms and conditions), 2 dozen regular size cupcakes, 2 dozen cookies, 1 dozen assorted sweet treats, 6 cookie pops, artfully assembled and beautifully wrapped in a tiered basket/ platter assortment. Wrapped in cellophane paper and ribbons with a note and free delivery. Delivery confirmation email sent upon request.

Want to come up with your own? Reach out to us and let's assemble something unique! As always we strive to remain affordable and as long as it is in the New York City area, delivery is free!

Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Yes, we are one of the enablers that keeps cookie monster an addict. We know it is truly wrong to be a pusher, but how could we not? When we need homemade nostalgia to gracefully walk across our tongue we conjure up the sugar gods to bestow upon us Chocolate chunk cookies! -Or as we affectionately like to call them Triple C! A sacred recipe with pecans and a little something special (espresso) that we add to our cookie to make it great! It comes in 3 sizes, and without nuts upon request. Ask for it in a holiday tray!

(Okay gotta go - ME THINKS COOKIE MONSTER COMIN'!)

Teenie-weenie (about 2-2.5in)- $15/per 3 dozen
Regular size - (avg size cookie) - $20/per 3 dozen
Cookie Monster/JUMBO COOKIES - $30 per 3 dozen

Homemade Banana Pudding

You'll never find...(dum dum dum dum dum)
No matter where you search (dum dum dum dum dum)
A pudding that waters your mouth, like ours do...

Okay, maybe Beyonce won't be having any sleepless nights on our account. But seriously, this banana pudding is the kind that all other banana puddings are measured by.

Just imagine the nilla-ey taste of Nilla wafers married to chunks of fresh banana that are smothered in the smooth and rich taste of homemade pudding, (not that store bought junk!). And just to put your taste buds in overdrive, how about some meringue? Lots and lots of thick and fluffy white blankets of meringue to cover your banana treasure.

Our mouths water just thinking about it! Think about introducing it at your next function. Beware, grandma will be asking how we stole her recipe!
  
$30/ 9x13 tray 

As the holidays approach don't go searching for desserts to bring to your party - check out our growing menu!

Chocoholics, Amateur Culinary Connoisseurs and Sweet Tooth Fiends Lend Me Your Ears!

Can we have your attention, please?

Super heros come in all forms and we at Culinary Conquistadora  like to think of ourselves as one of the caped crusaders from The Sweet Tooth Hall of Justice.

Culinary Conquistadora is your one stop shop for all things scrump-ditty-umptious! From specially made cakes, cupcakes, cobblers, and pies to intricate cakes and special dietary desserts--we have heard the cries of your belly and are here to answer the call.The gorgeous crumby goodness of buttery sugared cake should not be confined in plastic packages for weeks on end!

Don't waste your time on store brought knock offs that fill you with a transfat and perservative filled shadow of your heart's desires. Fill your belly with the likes of FRESH buttery and sugary goodness made with love! (And when necessary dietary substitutes to keep you healthy!)

Place your order via email:  placemyyummyorder@yahoo.com or phone 718-496-5174 

The sidebar boasts the conquests of our ever growing menu, so keep track of us and check back often!

Coming soon... Office Catering!

Best,
La Conquistadora

King Kong Bundt Cake

Who said Drake's is the only place to get a cake with a candy shell? King Kong climbed the Empire State Building to get a hold of this! The more adult dessert for you big kids to enjoy is our chocolate bundt cake: moist chocolate loaf seasoned generously with delectable chocolate morsels and then topped with a hard white chocolate candy shell. Yea... take a bite, you'll know why we call it King Kong...
you'll know...

$20 Bundt Cake

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

What's better than scrumptious vanilla cake with sweet cream icing? Scrumptious vanilla cake with sweet cream icing and chocolate chunks!?!? No sweet is complete without chocolate and these cupcakes are choc-full of 'em! These cakes satiate even the most demanding sweet tooth! You get 12 hand sized moist vanilla cupcakes riddled with lumpy chocolate chunks-topped with homemade sweet cream icing for the low price of $18 per dozen 

(mmmm mmmmmm! Mouth waters just thinking about it!)

Feeling a bit gluttonous? How about getting a Chocolate chip bundt cake?

Only $20

Vegetarian Pasteles

Let's face it - the world has changed. With Mad Cow, Bird Flu and a slue of other diseases that have sprouted through the years some of us have turned away from the Carne. We at Culinary Conquistadora forgive you. Introducing the Vegetarian Pastele! Seasoned like a pastele with the carne substituted with tofu or portabella mushroom. This pastele is packed with peppers, chick peas, raisins, olives and capers. To keep that authentic flavor with a nouveau twist! Try them today!

Sold by Dozen (ONLY)... $20.00 per dozen

Pasteles de Yucca y Pollo (Chicken)

Pasteles made of Yucca, or cassava are based on the original pastele carribean recipe. The pasteles made from hand grated Yucca are a delicacy, and good ones are a rare find! Yucca Pasteles have a lighter flavor. It takes a lot more work to put together to succulent perfection than other pasteles made in our kitchen, but they are so worth it! We pack this yucca base with pollo/chicken, olives, capers and the typical pasteles herb and spices to compliment the Yucca in flavor. They come frozen and ready to cook in a pot of boiling water with a little salt.

Sold by Dozen (ONLY)... $20.00 per dozen

Order the Sampler!

So many wonderful flavors – don’t know what to choose? Why not have them all! Get 12 pasteles or 2 of each kind and try them out to find your fave! That is right – you get 2 of each! 2 Vegetarian, 2 Old World Style, 2 Masa & Chicken, 2 Masa & Pork, 2 Yucca & Pork, and 2 Yucca and Chicken!

Sold by the Dozen ONLY - $20.00 per dozen

Pastele de Masa y Pollo (Chicken)

Pasteles made of Masa, or bananas are examples of our great grandmother's ingenuity. When Yucca crops were bad, our fore-mothers did what they did best - improvise! On tropical islands bananas are abundant, and to feed your family you make do with what you have. The same recipe your great-grandmother had in her head to pass down to your abuelita and perfected in the mother-land of Puerto Rico. Only hand picked herbs and spices, homemade Sofrito, and carne seasoned with extra care to compliment the genao masa. This handmade pastele is filled with chicken, (no pork products), olives and capers.

Sold by Dozen... $20.00 per Dozen

Pastele de Yucca y Cerdo (Pork)

Pasteles made of Yucca, or cassava are based on the original pastele carribean recipe. The pasteles made from hand grated Yucca are a delicacy, and good ones are a rare find! Yucca Pasteles have a lighter flavor. It takes a lot more work to put together to succulent perfection than other pasteles made in our kitchen, but they are so worth it! We pack this yucca base with cerdo/pork, olives, capers and the typical pastele herb and spices to compliment the Yucca in flavor. They come frozen and ready to cook in a pot of boiling water with a little salt.

Sold by Dozen (ONLY)... $20.00 per dozen