French macarons

For those who havent tried them yet, macarons are as light as fluffy clouds, silky texture and full of flavor.

Ingredients:

• 2 egg whites
• 60 gr. of ground almonds
• 35 gr. of sugar
• 165 gr. of powdered sugar
• food color

White ganache: 

• 200 gr. of white chocolate
• 100 gr. of cream
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon

Black ganache:

• 150 gr. of dark chocolate
• 75 ml. of cream
• zest of one orange

Preparation:

1. Mix the egg whites in a large bowl at minimum speed until they become hardened.
2. Add half the sugar and mix on medium speed for 1 minute and add the remaining sugar.
3. Increase the speed to maximum and mix for another 3 minutes.
4. Add some food color and mix until everything is combined.
5. Mix the almond and powdered sugar and sift them twice before you add them to the mixture.
6. Stir the mixture with silicone spatula until all is combined. There shouldn't be any air bubbles.
7. Put the mixture in pastry bag and wring out in the form of small circles on baking tray covered with baking paper.
8. Leave Macarons for about 30 minutes to dry so they don't stick to your fingers.
9. Bake in preheated oven at 140C for 15-20 minutes.
10. Remove them from the oven and take off the paper to cool faster.

White ganache:

1. Heat cream and cinnamom to a boiling point, remove from the heat and pour over the chocolate.
2. After one minute mix from the middle outwards, until the chocolate is melted and the cream is homogeneous.

Black ganache:

1. Repeat the process as for the white ganache and add orange zest to cream.

Mexican hot chocolate

Favorite winter beverage, hot chocolate, provides not only delight to the palate, it helps with stomach problems and cough.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup heavy whipped cream
• 1 cup of milk
• 2 tablespoons of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 85 gr. of dark chocolate
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon

Preparation:

1. Heat the cream and milk over medium heat until boiling.
2. Add the vanilla extract, sugar, cinnamon and chocolate.
3. Stir until the chocolate has melted.
4. Divide the mixture into 4 cups and serve with whipped cream.

Enjoy. :)

Tiramisu

Tiramisu is a traditiolan Italian cake that is very easy to make, since it doesn't need to bake. This is one of my favorite recipes, I hope you'll like it.

Ingredients:

• 5 egg whites
• 5 egg yolks
• 5 tablespoons of sugar
• 500 gr. of Mascarpone
• 400 ml. heavy cream
• 400 ml. of black coffee
• 400 gr. lady fingers (biscuits)
• 4 tablespoons of cocoa powder

Preparation:

1. Make black coffee without sugar and  leave to cool.
2. Separate egg whites and egg yolks. Blend egg whites in firm snow.
3. In another bowl, blend cream into a solid mass.
4. In the third, large bowl, mix the egg yolks with sugar to get a foamy mass, then add mascarpone and mix all with electric mixer. Add blended cream and blended egg whites and mix it all with tablespoon.
5. In deeper baking pan (35x28 cm) put lady fingers dipped in black coffee.
6. Pour half the cream on them, flatten and sprinkle with cocoa powder.
7. Repeat the proces once more.
8. Leave overnight in the refrigerator. It can be used within 4-5 days.

Enjoy. :)

Chocolate Chip cookies

Delicious cookies that are quickly done and go very well with a cup of warm milk or tea.

Ingredients:

• 220 gr. of butter
• 220 gr. of brown sugar
• 200 gr. of sugar
• 2 eggs
• 370 gr. of flour
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons of warm water
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 330 gr. of chocolate
• 110 gr. of chopped walnuts

Preparation:

1. Mix the butter, white and brown sugar with mixer.
2. Add the eggs and vanilla extract.
3. Melt baking soda in warm water and together with the salt, add to the dough.
4. Add the flour, chocolate chips and walnuts.
5. Shape the cookies with a spoon and place in baking pan on a baking sheet.
6. Bake for about 10 minutes in a preheated oven at 170C (until edges are golden brown).

Enjoy. :)

Chocolate Truffles with coffee

Super delicious chocolate truffles that are very easy to make (without baking).

Ingredients:

• 300 gr. of dark chocolate
• 60 gr. of butter
• 25 gr. of sugar
• 50 gr. of cocoa
• 100 ml. cream for cooking
• 4 tablespoons of caffee

Preparation:

1. Melt the butter with the cream and add dark chocolate and coffee.
2. Simmer until chocolate has malted and pour into baking pan in whick you have put plastic wrap.
3. Allow to cool and cut into squares.
4. Mixx cocoa and sugar.
5. Shape balls with hands and roll them in cocoa and sugar.

Enjoy. :)

Nutella Muffins

Who doesn't love muffins?! Whether they are with chocolate, vanilla, fruit, or as in this case with nutella. I absolutely love this recipe because it is very easy to make. From this quantity of ingredients yields 15 muffins.

Ingredients:

• 200 gr. of flour
• 130 gr. of sugar
• 1 vanilla sugar
• 2-3 tablespoons of cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 200 ml. of milk
• 2 eggs
• 8 tablespoons of oil
• nutella

Preparation:

1. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
2. In another bowl, mix all other ingredients. (Except nutella)
3. Combine both mixtures and mix them for few minutes.
4. Fill the molds halfway, then put tablespoon of nutella in the middle, and again cover that with some mixture.
5. Bake in preheated oven at 180C for 20 minutes. (Depends on the oven.)

Enjoy. :)

Poppy Seed Strudel

Poppy strudel is a traditional dessert in South East Europe. It is really delicious and for you, I found my grandmother's old resipe for this strudel whick everyone loves. I hope you'll like it too.

Ingredients:

Dough:

• 400 gr. of flour
• 80 gr. of butter
• 80 gr. of sugar
• 1 sachet of yeast
• 2-3 dl. of milk
• 2 egg yolks
• salt
• lemon peel

Filling:

• 250 gr. of poppy seed
• 250 ml. of milk
• 80 gr. of raisins
• 150 gr. of sugar
• 1 vanilla sugar
• lemon peel, cinnamon, rum
• 60 gr. of butter for greasing
• powdered sugar for decoration

Preparation:

Filling:

1. Pour hot milk on ground poppy, boil, add sugar, raisins, vanilla sugar, lemon peel, cinnamom and rum. 
2. Mix well and leave to cool.

Dough:

1. Mix the yeast, a teaspoon of flour and a teblespoon of sugar with some lukewarm water.
2. Cover with a tpwel and leave in a warm place to rise.
3. Put the flour in a bowl, add the melted butter, egg yolks, sugar, salt, lemon peel and risen yeast in the middle.
4. The dough is soft so you can knead it with electric mixer. When its done, leave it in a warm place to rise an hour.
5. Divide dough into two pieces, roll out each piece on a floured surface to rectangles (20x30 cm).
6. Grease it with melted butter and then with filling.
7. Form two strudels and leave it covered for another half an hour to rise.
8. Brush with egg white and bake in the over at 200C for about an hour.
9. Baked strudels sprinkle with sugar, let it cool and cut into slices.

Enjoy. :)

Walnut strudel

This walnut strudel is very tasty and you can get four rolls from this ingredients. You can make it in short time and eat it for several days, it won't become dry.

Ingredients:

Dough:

• 1 sachet of yeast
• 30 gr. of margarine
• 500 gr. of flour
• 60 gr. of powdered sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• salt

Filling:

• 500 gr. of walnuts
• 150 gr. of sugar
• 2 dl. of milk
• lemon and orange zest
• cinnamon
• rum
• sugar for decoration

Preparation:

Filling:

1. Grind the walnuts and mix them with sugar, raisins, orange and lemon zest, cinnamom and then add hot milk.
2. Briefly boil and then cool it.
3. Finally, add some rum.

Dough:

1. Mix the yeast, flour and sugar with warm water to form a porridge. Leave it in a warm place to rise (covered).
2. Delump margarine and flour. Add sugar, salt, egg, egg yolk and risen yeast and form a dough.
3. Share it on 4 equal parts and roll into rectangle shape (30x20 cm)
4. Apply the filling on each piece and fold into rolls and arrange in a baking pan, one next to another
5. Leave it to rest for 30 min. in a cool place.
6. Bake it in over at 200C for about an hour.

Enjoy :)

Chocolate pralines

Everyone will agree with me when I say that chocolate pralines are perfectly sweet and seductive delicacy that is hard to resist. Here I bring to you one of my favorite recipes for pralines. Hope you'll like it.

Ingredients:

Chocolate layer:

• 200 gr. of chocolate
• 3 tablespoons of oil

Filling:

• 100 gr. of white chocolate
• 100 gr. of ground walnuts
• 100 gr. of ground biscuits
• 150 ml. of cream (for whipped cream)
• vanilla or orange extract (optional)

Preparation:

1. Melf the chocolate and oil for chocolate layer.
2. Coat the molds with chocolate and cool it in fridge (repeat 2 times) -  for making "chocolate molds"
3. Warm the cream, then add white chocolate, biscuits, walnuts and extract.
4. Fill molds with a mixture, then on that pour a teblespoon of chocolate layer.
5. Cool pralines in fridge for at least an hour, then remove them from the mold and enjoy.

Bajadera

Ingredients:

• 700 g. sugar
• 18 tablespoons of water
• 200 gr. margarine
• 300 gr. of ground biscuits
• 300 gr. of ground walnuts

Glaze:

• 250 gr. of chocolate
• 125 gr. margarine
• 1 tablespoon of oil

Preparation:

1. Boil water and sugar for 3 minutes.
2. Remove from heat, then add the biscuits and walnuts.
3. For the glaze, melt all the ingredients (oil, margarine and chocolate)
4. Divide on half mixture with walnuts and biscuits. Put 4-5 tablespoons of glaze in one part of mixture.
5. Put the dark part on the bottom of the pan, then put the bright part on it.
6. Put the glaze on the top.
7. Cool it in the fridge and then cut into sticks (5x2 cm)

Enjoy :)

Valentin Cake

Delicious and easy to make. Cake with butter cream.

Ingredients:

 Dough:

• 250 g. of flour
• 250 g. of honey
• 50 g. of butter (margarine)
• 50 g. sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 vanilla sugar
• juice and peel of half a lemon
• 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
• 3 teaspoons of baking powder
• 2 tablespoons of milk
• teaspoon of ground cloves

Filling:

• 4 tablespoons of apricot marmelade

Butter Cream

• 1 bag of vanilla pudding
• 100 g. of sugar
• 500 ml. of milk
• 200 g. of butter

For decoration

• 50 g. of grated chocolate

Preparation:

Dough:

1. Slowly melt the honey, butter and sugar and place it in a bowl to cool.
2. When cooled, add juice and peel of half a lemon, cinnamon and clove.
3. Combine flour and baking powder and gradually add to the mixture you have made.
4. If the dough is too thick, you can add milk.
5. Pour the mixture into mold (d=24 cm) and bake for 35-40 minutes at temperature of 180-200C.
6. Cut the biscuit in half. Apply apricote marmelade on first half, and grease half of butter cream over that.

Cream:

1. Cook the pudding with 500 ml. of milk and 100 g. of sugar. Leave it to cool.
2. Beat butter until foamy and add it to pudding (butter and pudding shouldn't be too cold).
3. Coat the cake with remaining cream and sprinkle the cake with grated chocolate.

Enjoy :)

Doboš Cake

Doboš Cake (Drum Cake) is one of the most famous cake in the world and also the most famous Hungarian cake. Everyone loves this cake.

Ingredients:

Dough:

• 200 g. of butter (margarine)
• 200 g. sugar
• 200 g. of flour
• 1 vanilla sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• 4 egg whites
• 1-2 tablespoons of rum
• 2 tablespoons of baking powder

Cream:

• 1 chocolate pudding
• 30 g. of cocoa
• 150 g. of sugar
• 500 ml. milk
• 250 g. of butter (margarine)

Caramel:

300 g. of sugar

Preparation:

Dough:

1. Mix the butter until it begins to foam and gradually add sugar, vanilla sugar, egg yolks and rum. 
2. Add flour and baking powder, spoon by spoon. After that, add the snow od egg whites. 
3. Individually bake 7 sheets for cake on 150C for about 10 minutes. (Each sheet 3 tablespoons of mixture)

Cream:

1. Mix pudding powder, cocoa and sugar with 6 tablespoons of milk and let the rest of the milk boil. 
2. Remove from the heat, then add dissolved pudding powder  and put to boil again. 
3. Add that mixture of pudding to the butter that you have previously mixed.  (Make sure the butter and pudding are not too cold because then they clot).
4.  Apply the cream on each sheet and assemble the cake. Leave one sheet for the top.

Caramel:

1. Melt the sugar in a clear yellow liquid and quickly pour on the top sheet of cake. 
2. Immediately cut 12 equal parts and place them one by one on the cake.

Enjoy :)

Cream puffs

Do you know someone who doesn't like cream puffs? I don't.
They are my favorite treats.

Ingredients:

For dough

• 125 ml. of water
• 30g. butter (margarine)
• pinch of salt
• 30g. of corn starch
• 70g. flour
• 2-3 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

For filling

• 500 ml. of milk
• 1 bag of powder pudding (vanilla)
• 50g. of sugar
• 250 ml. of cream

Preparation:

1. Warm the water, butter and salt until it starts to bowl.
2. Remove the saucepan from the heat and add flour and corn starch and mix it constantly.
3. Cook until the mixture starts separating from the saucepan. (about 1 minute)
4. Add the eggs. Mixture should be smooth and shiny.
5. Cool the mixture and add baking powder.
6. Shape cakes in the size of a walnut.
7. Bake them on an oiled baking pan at 220C for 25-30 minutes. ( Do not open the oven first 20 minutes so the dough wouldn't be settled.
8. For the filling, mix the pudding powder with sugar and 4 tablespoons of milk.
9. Warm the rest of the milk until it starts to boil, then remove from the heat.
10. Pour into it the milk with the pudding and bring to a boil.
11. Leave this mixture in a bowl to cool.
12. Mix firmly whipped cream in the pudding. 
13. Fill baked and half-cut cakes with this cream (as shown)
14. Sprinkle them with powdered sugar.

Enjoy :)

Chocolate souffle

Tasty little chocolate surprise which is very simple and easy to make.

Ingredients:

• 220 gr. of chocolate
• 250 gr. of margarine
• 4 eggs
• 120 gr. of flour
• 160 gr. sugar

Preparation:

1. Melt chocolate and margarine on steam.
2. In the other bowl mix eggs with sugar and flour.
3. Mix the margarine and chocolate mixture with eggs mixture.
4. Pour the mixture in baking pan with molds.
5. Bake in preheated oven at 250C for only 7 minutes.

This little surprise is best served with vanilla ice cream.

Enjoy :)

Brownies without flour

These are beautiful brownies without flour. Simple recipe, very easy to make and the most important - they are delicious.

Ingredients:

• 250 gr. chocolate for cooking
• 170 gr. of butter
• 25 gr. of cocoa
• 4 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons of water
• 3-4 tablespoons of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 100 gr. of ground walnuts
• 90 gr. chocolate for cooking
• 60 ml. cream

Preparation

1. Put aluminium foil into baking drip and spray it with oil
2. Put chocolate, chopped butter and water in a small sauce pan and melt it.
3. Add cocoa to that, mix well and leave aside.
4. Mix the eggs, sugar and vanilla extract in the bowl for about 4 minutes. Then add the egg mixture to the chocolate mixture.
5. Finally, add finely ground walnuts.
6. Mix it and put it in the pan.
7. Bake in preheated oven at 150 C around 35-40 minutes.
8. Remove from oven, allow it to cool completely, cover it with aluminium foil and leave in fridge for about 4 hours.
9. Make the glaze from chocolate and cream, pour over cake and put it back in fridge for about 30 minutes.
10. Finally, you can enjoy delicious dessert.

Bon appetitte! :)

American cake

Ingredients:

For biscuit:

• 5 eggs
• 1 baking powder
• 15 tablespoons of sugar
• 15 tablespoons of milk
• 15 tablespoons of oil
• 15 tablespoons of flour
• 5-6 tablespoons of cocoa

For coating:

• Apricot or peaches jam (5-6 tablespoons)

For topping:

• 1 glass of orange juice
• 1 tablespoon of rum

For frosting:

• 250 ml. cream
• 200 g. of chocolate for cooking

Peparation:

1. Separate egg whites from egg yolks. Mix snow from egg whites separately. Oll other ingredinets for biscuit add to egg yolks, mix it, and then add snow of egg whites.
   Bake biscuit at 200 degrees about 20 minutes. Separate (cut) biscuit on two parts.
2. Sprinkle the first biscuit with orange juice in which you addes rum. Spread apricot jam on the first biscuit, then put the second biscuit on it. Warm the cream and chocolate until chocolate is melted and spread it over second biscuit.
3. Cool the cake and enjoy the wonderful taste.

Sand Cake

Ingredients:

• 4 vanilla pudding
• 2 chocolate pudding
• 2 whipped cream or foam (optional)
• 300 g. of ground biscuits
• 300 g. coconut flour
• 300 g. ground walnuts
• 250 g. margarine for creams
• chocolate crumbs for decoration
• 1,5 l of milk
• sugar (optional)

Preparation:

1. First, cook the pudding and leave it to cool
2. In the chocolate pudding mix biscuit and 1/3 of margarine
3. The rest of the margarine put in vanilla pudding. Divide it on two parts. In first put coconut, and in the other walnuts.
4. In the mold first put mixture of biscuits, then coconut, walnuts and finally cream and chocolate.

Hurmašice - Traditional Bosnian dessert

Hurmašice are traditional Bosnian dessert, of course, originally from the Middle East, but domesticated in our country. They are made “clean”, with nuts and with coconut. For these with coconut replace part of the flour with coconut flour.

INGREDIENTS:

• 250g butter
• 200 g sour cream
• 2 dl oil (or vegetable fat)
• 1 baking powder
• flour, 800 g (so the dough is not too hard nor too soft)
• nuts (if desired)

For agda (dressing)

• 1 kg of sugar
• 0.5 liters of water
• 1 lemon

PREPARATION: 

 Of all the ingredients make dough, not too hard, but enough that you can make rollers, about 6-7 cm long, If you want, you can put couple of fourth walnut and press on the grater, so you get the typical “pattern”. Stack on a large plate, usually they are not sticky, but if you are not sure put the paper. They will grow a little bit during baking so do not stack too thick.Bake in preheated oven for about 25 min at 180 ° C, until they are little browned.

For dressing boil sugar with water and lemon washed and cut into slices. Boil until it becomes a syrup. It takes a little practice to do so.spoon drops should slowly fall , and when you blow on the back of the spoon,it must appear ” roses “ . The most important thing is that you pour hot agda (dressing) over the cold hurmašice. Leave them out at room temperature or in an oven, just not in a refrigerator (at least not for the first 24 h).


Bon appetite! :)

Apple pie

Ingredients:

• Pastry for 2 crusts 
• 8 cups sliced, peeled assorted baking apples – about 3 lbs. 
• 2 Tablespoons lemon juice 
• 3/4 cup white sugar 
• 1/4 cup brown sugar 
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 
• 2 Tablespoons butter 
• 1 egg yolk 
• 1 Tablespoon milk 

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, toss the sliced apples with lemon juice.


2. Combine sugars, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg; add to apples and toss well to coat.


3. Fill pastry lined 9 inch pie pan with apple mixture. Dot with butter.


4. Place second crust on top of pie filling, cut slits in top of crust to vent. Seal the edges of the crust with a fork or by hand.


5. In a small bowl, beat the egg yolk and milk. Brush mixture over top crust.


6. Bake at 425 degrees F for 15 minutes.


7. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F and bake 40-45 minutes more or until crust is golden and filling is bubbly.
Tips for coring and slicing an apple for equal-sized pieces:


1. Peel first.


2. Hold the apple upright, try to judge where the core is, and slice off two opposite sides as close to the core as possible.


3. Rotate the fruit and slice off the two remaining sides to get a rectangular core piece and four flat-sided pieces of fruit (two wide and two narrow).


4. The side pieces now lie obediently on your cutting board for slicing or dicing.

Turkish baklava

Ingredients:

For the Filling 

• 2 cups (8 oz) finely chopped almonds 
• 1 cup (4 oz) finely chopped walnuts 
• 1/4 cup (2 oz ) caster (superfine) sugar 
• 2-3 tbsp bread crumbs (optional. It helps to bind the filling. I dint use it in this recipe. I came to know of this trick later) 
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon 
• 1/8 tsp ground cloves 

For the syrup 

• 2 cups (1 lb) sugar 
• 2 cups (16 fl oz) water 
• 1 stick cinnamon 
• 1 tbsp lemon juice 

For the cover

• 150 grams (5 oz) unsalted butter, melted 
• 12 oz packet filo pastry (375g) 

Method:

Place all the ingredients under ‘filling’ in a bowl.
Combine until blended. Meanwhile place all the ingredients for the syrup together in a saucepan and bring it to a boil, while stirring for the sugar to dissolve. Simmer for 10 minutes and leave it to cool.
Brush a 12X10 in baking dish with butter. Brush 10 sheets of filo with melted butter.
Lay them on the dish one by one.
Spread the filling in the dish.
Now top it off with further 10-12 sheets of pastry, buttering each sheet as needed. You can trim off the excess pastry hanging on the side of your baking dish. Now brush the top of the pastry with more butter.
With a sharp knife, score the top layers in large diamond shapes.
Bake in a preheated 160C (325F) oven for 1 hour or until the top turns golden brown. If you find that the top is turning color too quickly, then cover the top with foil.
Remove from the oven and slowly pour the syrup over the top.
Now comes the MOST DIFFICULT part. You have gotta to let it sit for at least 5-6 hours for it to absorb the syrup.