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. :)

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. :)