Chocolate Chips Cake

Is it normal to bake something sweet everyday?

I guess it isn't, but I'm addicted to it and there's nothing I can do.

So I just enjoy every bit.

Today I chose a chocolate chips cake and I don't regret of having consumed thousands of calories, as it's really the tastiest cake I've ever eaten!!!

Chocolate Chips Cake

Ingredients:

3 cups wheaten flour

1,1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cups softened butter

1,1/2 cups white sugar

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

120-150g dark chocolate

Instructions:

1.Combine the softened butter with the sugar and blend for a few minutes.

2.Add the eggs one by one and constantly whisk a dough.

3. Add the vanilla and the mixture of the wheaten flour, the baking powder, the baking soda and the salt and beat very carefully and thoroughly.

4.Chop the chocolate into small pieces, put almost all of them in the dough and blend.

5.Heat the oven to 180 degrees(Celsius). Butter the cake pan, pour a batter in, sprinkle the remained pieces across the top and press them into a dough. Bake 35-40 minutes until the top of the cake becomes golden.

It's really such a tasty cake that I just can't describe it!!!

YUUMMMI!!!

Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Filling

I'm saying hip-hip hoorey one more time, as I just turned 19(actually yesterday)!!!
And I had a wonderful day with my girl!
Thank you one more time!

For my birthday I baked some vanilla cupcakes with a chocolate filling.
The taste of them was perfect(I suppose because of the chocolate, as I really love it).

  

Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Filling(12 pieces)

Ingredients:

paste:

1/4 cup softened butter

3/4 cup white sugar

pinch vanilla

3 large eggs

1,1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1,1/2 cups wheaten flour

chocolate filling:

50g semi or bittersweet chocolate

1/4 cup softened butter

pinch vanilla

1/4 sifted confectioners' sugar/powdered sugar
1 teaspoon instant coffee powder

Instructions:
1.Combine the softened butter with the sugar and blend until it becomes a fluffy dough. Add the vanilla and the egg yolks and beat until smooth.
2.Put the flour and the baking powder to the dough and whisk until well-blended. Froth egg whites, also add them to a paste and blend everything.
3.Chop the chocolate and put it in a place or a bowl. Simmer some cups of water, then put the plate/bowl on the pot in which the simmering water is and wait until the chocolate becomes melted.
4.Take another bowl and blend the butter combined with the vanilla and the sugar until smooth.
5.Dissolve the coffee powder in the hot water. Pour the melted chocolate and the dissolved coffee powder in the mixture of the butter and the vanilla and slowly and carefully whisk.
3.Heat the oven to 180 degrees(Celsius). Put 1 tablespoon of the dough in each of lined muffin/your own made baking paper cups. Divide the chocolate filling 12 ways and pour it in each cup. Then put 1-2 tablespoons of the left paste in each cup. Bake 25-30 minutes until the top of the cupcakes gets a golden colour.

Enjoy the taste!!!

YUUUMMI!!!

Tea

I love drinking tea(I won't lie, coffee is much better, but I drink it more rarely than tea, usually instead of a dessert. And the tea is a thing which warms you, especially in the winter.).
So I decided(actually my mom offered) to stop buying various tea and try to make it at home.

Tea

Ingredients:

mints

lemon-balms

thymes

blueberries

cranberries

lemon/orange zest

Instructions:

1.Dry all the herbal, the berries and the lemon or orange zest(It takes a long time(a few weeks). Put them in the light place and wait until they become dried.)

2.Combine everything and flavour with a vanilla or a cinnamon. You can also add some pinches of ginger(according to your taste).

YUUUMMI!!!

Now you have your own tea, not the one from the shop!

Toasty Sandwiches

When you fall asleep after midnight and get up early in the morning(just after the sun rose up), the only thing you want at that moment is simply and quickly made breakfast.

So I chose the toasty sandwiches, as making them doesn't require any especial skills.

Toasty Sandwiches

Ingredients:

a few slices of bread

grated or sliced cheese

half tomato

a few pieces of paprika

pinch spice

Instructions:

1.Toast the slices of bread in a toaster(1-2 minutes).

2.Grate or slice the cheese, chop the tomato and the paprika.

3.Heat the oven to 150 degrees(Celsius) and while waiting for the right temperature, prepare the sandwiches. Put the grated/sliced cheese, the slices of tomato, the pieces of paprika on the toasty bread and flavour with some pinch of spice(I used the mixture of dried basil and rosemary). Bake about 10 minutes.

YUUUMMI!!!

Make a cup of tea, put a slice of the lemon in it and taste your breakfast!

Pizza

Have I mentioned that my little brother was celebrating his birthday today?

 One of his wishes was a home-made pizza.

I'm a good sister(or just wanted to be good and courteous during his fourteenth birthday), so I like Aladdin made his wish come true.

The result:

A 'Flatbread' pizza with pan-fried chicken and fresh vegetables(olive halves, tomato slices and paprika pieces) flavoured with grated cheese and the mixture of dried herbal.

Pizza

Ingredients:  

Pizza base(one large pizza base):

2 cups wheaten flour

12g leaven

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon white sugar

1 large egg

2 tablespoons cream/softened butter

1/2 cup warm  milk

Pan-fried chicken:

1,1/2 chicken breast without skin

pinch salt

pinch pepper

pinch some spice(whatever you like: chicken spice, basil, rosemary and etc.)

 

Other ingredients:

5-6 tablespoons ketchup

cheese(according to your taste)

1 large tomato

1/4 paprika

 olives(also according to your taste)

2 teaspoons mixture of dried herbal(basil, rosemary, coriander, thymes, garden savory and etc.)

Instructions:

1.Combine all the products that you need to make the pizza base and knead a dough more than 20 minutes(remember: the longer you knead, the tastier the pizza base will be). Then put the bowl in a warm place and keep it there approximately one hour.

2.Chop chicken breast into small squares. Take a pot, pour in some water, put in the chicken squares and add spice. Simmer about 15-20 minutes. Then put them into the frying-pan and pan fry 10-20minutes.

4.Knead a dough once again, then roll until in becomes a really flat base(not more than 5mm).

5.Chop the vegetables, grate the cheese.

6.Put evenly the ketchup, pan-fried chicken, grated cheese, tomato slices, paprika pieces, olive halves on the pizza base. Flavour with the herbal mixture.

7.Heat the oven to 150 degrees(Celsius) and bake about 45 minutes.

Enjoy!!!

YUUUMMI!!!

P.s. Happy birthday dear little brother, happy birthday to you!

French Curd Cake with Apples

         Good morning, girls and boys!!!      

Due to the sun, which shines from the early morning, I'm in such high spirits!

How are you, dears?

 We are baking French curd cake today(actually, I had it for breakfast. I know, shame on me, but diets can wait until the next week, right?).

About the cake:

It differs from other curd cakes, as it contains an apple streak spiced with a cinnamon and sugar mixture.

P.s. To be honest, I don't know if it's really a French cake. I found a curd cake recipe on the Internet website and it was called the French cake. But I wanted something more refreshing so I added some apples. So, I guess, I just borrowed the name of the cake. But still it sounds great(I think so).

Let's get it started!

French Curd Cake with Apples 

Ingredients:

paste:

3/4 cup softened butter

1/2 cup white sugar

pinch vanilla

2 cups wheaten flour

curd streak ingredients:

500g curd

3 large eggs

1/2cup white sugar   

pinch vanilla

apples filling:

5-6 apples

2 teaspoons cinnamon

2 teaspoons white sugar

Instructions:

1.Grate the butter with a grater or a fork. Add the white sugar and the flour and blend until it becomes a crumbly paste(also, you can do the same thing with your fingers). And leave it for a while in the fridge.

2.Combine the curd with all eggs and the white sugar mixed with vanilla. Blend until smooth.

3.Peel 5-6 medium size apples, take another bowl and grate them with the grater. Add the mixture of the cinnamon and sugar and slowly mix for a few minutes.

4.Heat the oven to 200 degrees(Celsius). Take a cake pan, put a baking paper in it. Pour in more than half crumbly paste, then all curd paste, then the apples filling and finally the other part of crumbs. Bake more than one hour until the top of the cake gets a golden colour.

French curd cake's done! Enjoy its taste and have a good day!!!

YUUUMMI!!!

P.s. Don't pay an attention to the time when the post was written(I started in the early morning, but because of some factors it took quite a long time to write this post).

Lemon Cupcakes

Want something sweet?

Lemon cupcakes - perfect idea!!!

                                                
Lemon Cupcakes (12 pieces)

Ingredients:

1/4 cup softened butter

3/4 cup white sugar

pinch vanilla

grated zest of 1 lemon 

3 large eggs

1,1/2 tablespoons baking-powder

1,1/2 cups wheaten flour

Instructions:

1.Combine the butter and the sugar in a bowl and blend on medium speed until it becomes a fluffy paste. Add the vanilla and the grated zest of one lemon. Pour in three egg yolks
and whisk until smooth and well-blended.
2.Put the flour mixed with the baking-powder in to the paste and beat for a few minutes.
Then froth egg whites and add them in the bowl, where other blended ingredients are.
Whisk everything for the last time, but very carefully, as we need the cupcakes to be crumbly.
3.Heat the oven to 180 degrees(Celsius) and while waiting for the right temperature, put two and a half teaspoons of the paste in each of lined muffin cups(I didn't use them this time, as everything was ready for baking, when I saw that I had only three oh these cups left. I had to do something, right? A little bit of the imagination and my own muffin cups were done(of course not lined, but who cares when the cupcakes taste so perfect?)). Bake approximately 30 minutes, until the top of the cupcakes becomes golden and a toothpick inserted in the cupcake comes out clean.
That's all!!! Make a cup of tea or coffee(I definitely choose coffee!!) and delight in tasting the first bit of your cupcake!!


YUUUMMI!!!!!!

And, of course, hip hip hooray, as the first post's already been written!