Tres Leches Cake For All

This weekend I visited my friends Sara and Nick at their new home in the hills. No literally, their home is pretty much embedded in the Montecito Heights Hills of Los Angeles. Like a bonehead I didn't take any pictures of their new abode, but I'm sure to visit there several times in the months to come and have plenty of opportunities, so I will save the details of the house/property until then.

Bigger news than even the visit to the house, was the other reason I was visiting...for Sara and Mateo's annual Tres Leches Cake/Joint Birthday Celebration!

Each year, Mateo (Sara's good friend she met through the Norte Dame Alumni Club...a fact I just learned this weekend), drives down to Tijuana and goes to the same bakery and picks up the Tres Leches Birthday Cake. While this seemed perhaps a little more sane when both Sara and Mateo lived in San Diego, Mateo is a stickler for tradition, so he still makes the trek and just brings the cake to Los Angeles instead. And everyone thanks him for it.

The tradition has been going strong for at least 6 years I'm guessing (probably even longer) and is growing in popularity. Perhaps partially due to Sara making some rockin' Lasagna and Mac & Cheese for dinner!

Here's the birthday trio (Oh it ended up being their other friends' birthday as well...so he got a shout out during the Birthday Song). Notice the aptly adorned Birthday attire (Sara's actually bday is on St. Patrick's day!)And Mateo posing with his cake and friend Nicole And the Birthday Girl herself....(Little Known Fact: Sara and I have been friends for almost 30 years! Yeah...we're old...but wouldn't have it any other way)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCH BIRTHDAY PEEPS...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!