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 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.

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 :)

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.