mandag den 1. november 2010
shoot, syg, meet-up, syg syg syg
Lørdag var jeg til meet-up, mere om det kan læses på J-fashion, Kristines blog, Zarsus blog osv... skim igennem i folk jeg stalker. Jeg blev nødt til at smide Kristine og Mione ud tidlidt søndag, og søndag eftermiddag og mandag har smølf passet mig ^^ men nu har jeg siddet op ved computeren og har kvalme.. vi ses
tirsdag den 2. marts 2010
Bacon-cookies with beer
it smelled in the whole house with beer when I cooked the bacon x_x' I always put the bacon on paper after cooking it, so it won't take up all the fat.
And then I made cookies with müsli, where I had crumbled in the bacon. I won't put up the recipe since I think they taste like old feet with a stink of beer. And the weird part is that it is not because of the bacon it tastes bad o.O but because of the sugar. weird shit, huh?
I still have a half kilo of bacon left though, which I think I will use on some bacon muffins another time. Bacon cookies weren't a good idea, but I haven't lost faith in bacon in cake yet!
Response:
"Bacon? good! - beer? good! - cookies? good! - beer-bacon cookies *takes bite* GOOD!"
But, well.. that was the boys' reactions x'b I still think they taste like crap. But all the guys ate up and wanted more o.o' I'm so amazed. They just eat anything, don't they?
And if you dare to make them yourself, the recipe is to be found here (but i would triple up the recipe to get something out of it)
so, here is my conclusion:
tirsdag den 23. februar 2010
Pandacake and skittles cupcakes
so, this week a dear friend of ours had birthday. She is named Panda for a reason, and therefore it was Panda cake :b We used a recipe we have had from a friend because she said it was so awesome, but I believe it got too much time in the oven ^^; It tastes like Brownies I think. Hard Brownies. It is not that big though. It is a chocolate cake with nuts, but with no nuts (seriously, the recipe was named that). On the top it is a white chocolate ganaché, which we think taste like ****, but it is white like a panda, so what can you do. The black things are dark delicious chocolate (85%). For the ears we made an extra muffin and cut it in half n_n
Panda cake, for your delight. We won't post the recipe though, didn't went that well.
Skittles cupcakes
recipe:
- 250 g flour
- 250 g sugar
- 100 g butter
- 1½ dl A38 (natual yoghurt)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar
- skittles of your liking
And there you have it. Let them cool down and enjoy
søndag den 7. februar 2010
macaroons and scones
Macaroons a lá Whisk kid
(we put forestfruit in the cream though, and also husblash to make it stiff)
Chocolate chip scones
(Okay, we took a recipe from our own danish cooking-book, but this looks about the same anygay)
torsdag den 28. januar 2010
Yin-yang marble cake
This time we had Pasta Alfredo and not the Mushroom Risotto I had planned. Oh well...
Since it did not turn out quite well I will not post the recipe, but I just had to put up a picture of a family, enjoying a meal I cooked. Yay me!
But... The cake. This time we decided to try out some yin-yang cake since we had just bought some marzipan that could be used as a cover. The actual cake was a very delicious marble cake.
It was really great and spongy (which was very good, since it was a sponge cake after all)
We do not have many pictures of the making of the cake, but it looked like this when it came out of the oven
- 600 g sugar
- 675 g butter
- 6 teaspoons vanilla sugar
- 9 eggs
- 750 g flour
- 4 tablespoons baking soda (the recipe said 6 and we did that, but afterwards we decided that 4 ought to be enough)
- 1 1/5 cups milk
- 6 tablespoons cocoa
Then take out 1/3 of the dough and mix it with the cocoa.
Put half of the light dough in a form, then the dark and in the end the rest of the light. Mix it gently for that marble look.
Now, the recipe said to bake it at 175 degrees celsius for an hour, but we had to give it at least 30-45 minutes extra. That was the cake.
We then rolled it out as thinly as possible and after the cake had cooled off, we cut it out in yin and yang shapes and put them on the cake. It was pretty awesome, look:
After that we cut out some pieces to put on the side of the cake to get it completely covered.
So our cake ended up looking like this:
People really enjoyed it and gave a lot of complements, though a few were not so crazy about the marzipan - luckily they could just peel it off. We got a lot of questions on what 'the black stuff was' and people were quite impressed with what we had made. As one girl got to take an extra piece after everyone had gotten some it was suddenly very crowded in the kitchen as people were rushing to get one of the last pieces. So, it is easy to say that this cake was a complete succes.
On another account Gwan got her hands on some really interesting books that we are going to take a closer look at. There was a book entirely about cupcakes and it gave us a lot of inspiration. Another on was about decorating wedding cakes and I must say that we are going to try this as soon as we can. It simply looked so beautiful that it was impossible to resist. So (maybe) you will soon see a post of our first attempts in making wedding cakes! Yay us, we are like an old married couple! x'D See you until next time!
tirsdag den 19. januar 2010
Cuffins/Mupcakes and Spaghetti Carbonara
Either way, then they turned out rather great, cute and well-tasting.
- 180 g dark chocolate
- 500 g flour
- 2 teaspoons soda
- 450 g sugar
- 100 g cocoa
- 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups natural yoghurt
- 2 eggs
This is for something around 24 muffins, but we tried to make 36 and ended up with 53. Maybe our forms were just smaller than the usual, but we think that you should count on getting a couple of more cuffins than what it reads. If you just leave out the chocolate and cocoa, it becomes normal muffins, and then you can add whatever you want to make your mupcakes just as you love them.
chop 3/4 of the chocolate, and then mix all of the dry ingredients with the chopped chocolate. Then mix the rest of the ingredients (remember to melt the butter) in a separate bowl, and whip it up. Now mix it all together gently by hans - no machines! Now you ought to have something like this:
Then put it in your form ~ and bake it at 200 degrees celcius for about 15 minutes. If they are still liquid in the middle (check with a stick), they should have a couple more minutes.and after 15-17 minutes:
Cuffins. A lot of them.
- 500 g. sugar
- 3/4 cup whipping cream
- 200 g butter
- 1 small orange
- ½ lemon
This time I decided to cook what have been my very favorite dish for years; Spaghetti carbonara. I must say it was great to finally work in a proper kitchen again and the cooking was made extremely fun and easy by this.
Here is the recipe for 4 persons:
- 500 g fresh pasta (I used fettucine)
- about 250 g bacon
- 1 cup cream
- 4 eggs
- 50 g granted parmesan cheese
- Some salt and pepper
Then boil the pasta with some salt and olive oil. While the pasta is on the stove mix the cream, eggs and parmesan cheese together. Add the bacon and when the pasta is done, pour off the water, put it back into the pot and mix it with the sauce. You can leave it on the stove for about a minute for the sauce to be just right. Now it is supposed to look like this:
You then arrange it on four plates with fresh-grounded pepper on top et voila! It's ready to be served.Gwans family really seemed to like my cooking, asking me how I had made it and how long it had taken me. It was also eaten quite fast, so I am left to believe that maybe I created a new favourite in the family. Next week I plan to make a good mushroom risotto. See ya until then!
CAKESMOOTHIE!
tirsdag den 12. januar 2010
that one, you know..
Anywho, it somehow should've looked like this:
a very simple square cake that reminds me a whole lot of a chocolate version of a danish cake called "dream cake". It didn't contain chocolate untill we made our own version ;3 just a simple simple cake with some nasty stuff on top of it.
BUT!
That was only untill WE decided to make it, and of course we weren't satisfied with something that simple and easygoing :b So therefore, we decided to make it a chocolate-lemon-layered cake instead:
What we did, was that we baked it in two smaller red forms, the one a little smaller than the other. Just the normal cake there, nothing extra. Then we wanted to put some chocolate in it. So we made some chocolate ganaché (to make that, you take ½ ltr. of non-whipped whipped-cream and 200 g. dark chocolate and melt it in a pot. Then you put it in the fridge to make it cool of and stiffen. From there, you can either just use it as glazing on top of your cake, which tastes like god and make a smooth beautiful surface. Or you can do as we did, whip it up after it has been stiffened, so it becomes like a hard whip-cream. But beware, it takes lots of hours to cool of! we puttet it in the freezer for 3-4 hours). And because we still thought it was boring and kind of heavy, we put lemon juice of half a lemon in the ganaché. It tastes awesome, I tell you. I am personally a sucker for lemon-chocolate :b A shame that it costs so much here in Denmark to buy...
Anygay, then we put on the ganaché on the biggest cake (the bottom - and there were a lot of ganaché!), and on with the smaller cake (the top, if anyone is wondering). We then made the glazing, which contains coconut, butter, sugar and coco. We decided to rake the shell of our half lemon and put that in too, to make a fresh taste. Then it cooled for some time, until it was ferm enough to put on, without it just dripping off the sides. And on with it!
Here is the done result:
ingredients:
for the actual cake:
- 500 g sugar
- 4 eggs
- 4 dl milk
- 450 g flour
- 4 tea spoons of vanilla-sugar
- 3 table spoons of raw coco
- 4 tea spoons of baking powder
- 300 g butter (melted)
for the ganaché:
- 200 g. dark chocolate
- ½ ltr non-whipped whipcream (?)
- the juice of half a lemon
for the glazing (just melt everything together in a pot):
- 200 g butter (melted)
- 7 table spoons of done coffee
- 2½ table spoons of raw coco
- 3 tea spoons of vanilla sugar
- 100 g coconut flour
- 375 g crushed sugar (I do not know the english word for it)
To the taste and response of the cake:
It was fan-fucking-tastic. I brought it up to a lot of friends to make them happy and jolly, and to make them out judges and try-out animals. They loved it. seriously, when I tasted the cake myself, I was all like "omg, we ARE good! the chocolate in the middle with lemon goes perfect with the original cake, and you can't eat very much of it 'cause of the heavy-ness, so there will be enough for everybody! WE RULE!". People agreed. Thi-chan is first going to have a taste tomorrow with the piece I saved for her. She'll love it too.
Also, we got a deal with the roleplaying-club (that's where I took it to), that they will finance it with a symbol amount of money every week :3 I got 115 dkr today, so there will be enough to buy us ingediens for next week <3 We are going to make cupcakes.
have fun, until next time ~