Cinnamon Rolls

Hi you! 

That's been a long time I've wanted to do this recipe : The Cinnamon Rolls

Even though it is quiet long to make, it's so worth it, and that's challenging !

What do you need :

• 1 cup of lukewarm milk 
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 4 cups of flour
• 2 teaspoons of instant yeast
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup softened salted butter
• 2 tablespoons of melted salted butter 

For the filing : 

• 1/2 cup melted butter 
• 1/2 cup sugar 
• 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon

For the icing :

• 3/4 powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons of hot water

What you have to do : 

In a small bowl mix the milk and sugar, set aside for later.

In a large bowl pour the flour, add the yeast, then add the eggs and the milk. mix everything with a wooden spatula and progressively add the softened butter. Knead everything by hand on a floured surface. Put the dough into a bowl and chill for 15 min.

Spread the

 pastry dough over a floured work surface to obtain a large rectangle (50*35 cm).

In a small bowl, mix all the stuff for the filing and spread it on the dough. 

Roll the dough to make a 50 cm cylinder. 

Cut 2-3 cm large slices and put them on a buttered dish. Space them and let it cool  1h30 (or until they touch each other).

Bake for 25 min in a preheated oven 180°C or until it get golden brown. 

For the icing, just mix the sugar with the hot water and pour it upon the cinnamon rolls and ..... THAT'S IT ! Enjoy it and tell me what you think about it !!!!

Cinnamon & T Time My Dear ! 

Coffee cake

Hello, it's me again !


Further to previous comment, here is the recipe of the coffee cake with an improvised coffee/chocolate icing. 

The base recipe is a yoghurt cake and we add the flavour at the end. You can change the taste by adding vanilla, orange blossom water or almond extract, whatever make you happy! 

That goes perfectly with your tea or coffee for tea time in the afternoon. You can decline it in several ways, cut it in the middle to add a coffee flavour cream and make it even more tasty !

For this recipe we are using the yogourt pot as measurement for all the other ingredients. 
If you live in a country where they don't sell natural ou vanilla yoghurt in pot you can use a small glass to measure. 
In France these one feet perfectly : 












For the cake, you'll need : 

• 1 natural yoghurt pot
• 2 pots of sugar
• 2 pots of self-raising flour 
• 1/2 pot of oil (neutral taste) (or butter is better)
• 3 eggs
• 3 tablespoons of instant coffee

You'll have to : 

In a large bowl, mix eggs with yoghurt, add flour and sugar and oil (or butter).

If the instant coffee is powdered, mix it straightly to the previous dough.

If it is in grain, add some water drops to dilute it (if your having a sticky dough that's fine) and add that to the previous dough.

Pour the dough into a prepared dish (grease and dusted) 

Bake for 40 min in a pre warmed oven at 180°C, watching it. Remove from the oven when an inserted knife comes out clean.

For the icing, I used 80 g of chocolate, 30 g of butter and some diluted coffee (2 spoon-tables, let's say). Melt everything in a "bain-marie" (put a small saucepan filled of a bit of water on low heat and put the bowl upon the saucepan). 

Once the cake has cooled, you can pour the icing on it and that's it! 

Coffee & Chocolate My Dear ! 

Double-chocolate Brownie

Allo Guyyys ! 

To celebrate Easter holiday, I've decided to bake a brownie.

As it is the celebration of chocolate, among other things, I've decided to make one with a double dose of this wonderful ingredient which is chocolate !!

This brownie is made with dark and white chocolate (I admit, I choose the side "white chocolate is not real chocolate", but my friends like it so i decided to tried). If you're a dark chocolate lover, I advise you to use only dark one ! 

Diabetic people must be careful, this recipe is very very sweet ! 

What you need : 

180 g Butter
150 g Self-raising flour (1 Ikea Mug) 
275 g Sugar (1 ¼ Ikea Mug)
3 large eggs
75 g dark chocolate
75 g white chocolate
100 g hazelnuts (1 handful) 
1 table spoon cocoa powder 


Method : 

Melt butter and sugar in pan over medium heat.
Stir flour and crack in the eggs
Divide between two bowls
Chop dark chocolate and white, without mix them.
Chop nuts 
Mix cocoa, dark choc and half nuts in the first bowl 
Stir the white chocolate and the remaining nuts in the other bowl 

Place alternate spoonfuls into a prepared dish (greased and dusted)  

Bake for 40 min, remove for the oven when un inserted knife comes out clean.

Pictures : Pichara

And you, what did you bake for Easter ?

Chocolate and Bunnies my Dear !

Brookies

Hello everyone ! 

You want a cookie but deep down you're a chocolate lover? 

You don't know what to choose between Cookies and Brownies for tea time ?

Lucky you, here is the answer : the fabulous Brookies !!

You can make it as a large cake or with a cookie-size, what I did and to be true it's a bit easier.

This recipe is for more than 50 pieces, so if you don't have the chance to live with 10 people you can freeze them or juste keep it in a sealed box, but it might get dry. (the best answer is always to eat those 5 min after the baking of course)

Here we are, you'll need : 

For the brownie dough : 

• 140 g melted butter 
• 125 g sugar (1/2 Ikea mug)
• 125 g brown sugar (1/2 Ikea mug)
• 1 egg
• 1 yolk egg
• 210 g flour (1 1/2 Ikea mug)
• 40 g cocoa (1/2 Ikea mug) 
• 1 teaspoon baking soda (if the flour isn't self raising) 

For the cookie dough : 

• 300 g flour (2 Ikea mug) 
• 140 g melted butter
• 125 g sugar (1/2 Ikea mug) 
• 125 g brown sugar ( 1/2 Ikea mug)
• 1 egg
• 1 yolk egg
• 1 teaspoon baking soda (if the flour isn't sefl raising) 
• 190 g chocolate chunk 

Method :

Prepare the brownie dough : 

   mix butter with sugar and brown sugar 

   add the egg and yolk egg 

   add the filtered flour and cocoa and baking soda

Then prepare the cookie dough :

    same steps and add the chocolate chunk at the end 


Then, make small balls with each dough (you can take a melon baller  to have the same measure). Stick then together, roll them slightly, crush it slightly (the dough will spread a bit during the baking) on a parchment-lined baking sheet. 

Bake in preheated 180°C oven, 8 to 10 min according the size of your brookies 
Remove from oven when contour start colouring and middle not baked.

Chill on the sheet for 3 min and enjoyyy !

If you face any problem, tell me in comment and I'll try to help you !

Picture : Pichara

Chocolate and raw dough my Dear !

Grilled Cheese

Hello you !

Today a special recipe inspired by the best food company ever : CAFITI (click to discover their products) 

The point is to make a grilled cheese with an extra. CAFITI is adding its green pepper jelly and also apple. I've tasted it and I can tell you this grilled cheese is DE-LI-CIOUS!!

CAFITI recipes 

I don't have the CAFITI green pepper jelly here in Scotland so I decided to change the recipe with what I found at the supermarket : Jallapeno Chilli Jam

Well, Okay. 

That's not the same at all BUT this recipe is also an other one for grilled cheese to be different from what we are used to ! So here is what you need :

• Bread
• Bacon 
• Peer or Apple
• Jam or Jelly (the flavour you like !)
• Cheese 
• Butter 

Cook the bacon

Spread the jam / jelly on 2 slices of bread

On one put cheese, bacon, some peer or apple pieces (I used a peeler to make it thinner), bacon, cheese again and close it with the second slice of bread. 

On a hot fried pan put a large bit of butter (salted) (obviously) (#BZH) and cook the grilled-cheese-to-be until the cheese is melted. 

Quite simple, it's ready to be eaten!

Bacon & Cheese my Dear !

Picture Credit : Pichara

Pancake

Today's special : The American Pancake 

I want to thank Joséphine for her recipe that I must admit, makes the best pancakes I've ever eaten! 

To prepare 20-25 pancakes you need : 

• 4 eggs
• 300 g of self raising flour (1 IKEA cup and a half)
• 300 mL of milk (1 IKEA cup)
• 3 ½ soup spoons of sugar
• 30 g of butter

First you have to separate the egg white from the yolk 

In a bowl, mix egg yolk with sugar until frothy. Add the filtered flour, then drizzle the milk and the melted butter.

Place the egg whites in a clean bowl and beat them with an electric whisk by using a sauce pan, a whisk and a little elbow grease (that works!) until they form peaks. 

Incorporate the egg white into the first mix but don't crush them. Tricks and tips to see the method.

You can finally pour a ladle of the paste on a frying pan warm enough and where you had previously put butter on. Return the pancake when the border is colouring and the first bubbles have formed on the surface.  

Maple syrup & Nutella My Dear 

Cookies

Hey There !

Today one of the older recipes of snack, the fabulous cookies ! 

That's the very simple recipe to have good cookies, you can do what ever you want with it (add nuts, remplace by white chocolate, make them small or bigger if you want a half baked middle of the cookie) 

To bake 12 large cookies, you need : 

• 125 g of salted butter (BZH RPZ)
• 6 soup spoons of cane sugar 
• 11 soup spoons of self raising flour
• 150 g of chocolate chip
• 1 egg

First pre warm the oven at 180°C

Mix the butter and the sugar with a wooden spatula

Add the beaten egg

Add the flour and the chocolate chip

Make balls with the dough (walnut size) and flatten them on the oven plate covered with baking paper ; space them enough because they will spread during the baking*

Back them for 10-15 min. 

Watch them and when contours are coloured take them out and let them cool down

Enjoy!

* Now the little plus : 

If you want a more tasty cookie : make smaller balls but flatten a bit more, put a tea spoon of Nutella and put an other flattened ball on the top. Take care to stick the contour then Nutella wouldn't escape !

Sweet & Chocolate My Dear!

Picture Credit : Pichara

Tricks and tips

Hey there !

In this article you will find some trick to help you cooking. It will be often update according to recipes which are published. 

Measurement 

If you don't have a kitchen scale, you can still cook and bake. I wouldn't propose highly precise recipes here so it's okay to be approximate. Then, here is some equivalences :

• 1 soup spoon of flour = 12 g
• 1 soup spoon of sugar = 15 g

For the oven : 

Thermostat	°C (Celsius)	°F(Fahrenheit)	Gas mark
Thermostat 1	30°C	85°F	-
Thermostat 2	60°C	140°F	-
Thermostat 3	90°C	195°F	-
Thermostat 4	120°C	250°F	Gas mark 1/2
Thermostat 5	150°C	300°F	Gas mark 2
Thermostat 6	180°C	350°F	Gas mark 4
Thermostat 7	210°C	410°F	Gas mark 6
Thermostat 8	240°C	460°F	Gas mark 8
Thermostat 9	270°C	520°F	Gas mark 10

Source 

Method

How to whisk the egg whites until they form peaks by hand? 

Translation :

Use a very clean bowl (I rather like to use a stainless steel one). Pour egg whites (room temperature). You can add some lemon juice and a pinch of salt to help. Also using a cold bowl might be helpful. Then you have to describe circles with your wrist to put air into egg whites until then form peaks. 

How to incorporate egg white into a mix?

Translation :

Incorporate 1/3 of egg white into the mix. At this stage, the point is to softened the dough. Then poor the mix into the egg white. With the whisk or a spatula, lift the egg white to drop it on the dough. Mix delicately until homogenization.

Pleasure and Firework in your mouth My Dear !

Hey there !

Another Food Blog Seriously?

Hell Yeah! Do you know why ? Because everybody need to eat to live, but the question that matter is : 

Do you enjoy what your eating ? 

If Yes, you are at the right place. 

I strongly believe that food is not just about "feeding your body" but more about taking pleasure in cooking and sharing a moment with people that matter.
Or just enjoying what you are eating, that's a start.  

Tea time matter, but sometimes you want salty snacks ? Fine, no one is judging you.

This blog has only one rule : enjoy your food, nothing else matters.

If your are happy with kale and brocoli that's also great but you won't find a lot of those recipes here... (I can tell you where if you want)

I will propose you several recipes, some easier than other but reachable by everyone.

Bacon&Cheese my Dear! 

And please excuse my English, I am a 21 years old French student based in Glasgow. If you spot a mistake, feel free to correct me.