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 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 :)

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.