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. :)

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 :)

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 :)