Merry Christmas!
We’ve been blessed to have had an incredibly busy holiday season so far with lots of friends, family and good food. We hosted our first party in our new home and were excited to see those who came from near and far. Marvin and Angelica drove up from Los Angeles the weekend after our Christmas party and were so sweet to bring goodies from Porto’s Bakery. I had never been there before in all my years living in LA, so I was excited to try it.
They brought potato balls which I forgot to take pictures of… they are mashed potato balls with ground beef in the center of them. It’s a Cuban dish that I had never tried before but I’m searching for something similar in our area. They were quite amazing and filling! I’m sure I’d order potato balls just about every other weekend if I lived in the vicinity.
For dessert they brought this ginormous and beautiful chocolate cake (also from Porto’s) to share with us. It looks amazingly rich and decadent but it was surprisingly light, if you can believe it. TM and I shared the cake with dinner guests the next night and then ate the remainder of the cake for days and loved every single bite!
Merry Christmas!
Porto’s Bakery in three locations: Glendale, Burbank and Downey, CA
Tags: Burbank, chocolate cake, Christmas, dessert, Downey, Glendale, Porto's Bakery, potato balls
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January 26, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Man those potato balls were good. We should try to see if we can find a Cuban bakery up here that sells something like that. If we can’t find them, I guess we’ll just have to get Marvin and Angelica to come and visit more often. The cake was pretty awesome too, but it’s easy for me to enjoy chocolate cake.