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. :)

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. :)

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 :)

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.