Making this cake felt like climbing Mt. Everest. It was bit of a beast to develop but I’m so glad I did because I LOVE IT! There is no one that loves Neapolitan anything more than me. I think it started with Breyers ice cream when I was a kid. My dad was an avid ice cream buyer/eater and we always had it in the freezer. Strawberry ice cream was also so heavy in the rotation but I loved chocolate so often times that I’d mix chocolate cream with a scoop of strawberry ice cream. Seriously the best idea evrrrr. I recently started to think about Neapolitan and wondered: “Why don’t we make Neapolitan with other flavors?!?!” This is a Mexican Neapolitan. The flavors are slightly different and use Mexican ingredients. The pink layer (usually strawberry) is aqua de jamaica (hibiscus). If you’ve ever gone to a Mexican restaurant, you most likely saw or had the aqua de jamaica, which is made with hibiscus leaves. Hibiscus leaves are tart! To make this layer more tart and make sure the flavor comes through, I added a bit of lime zest and juice to the mixture. We use the agua de jamaica […]
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