Carrots and chocolate bundt cake

Good morning! How are you?

I bring you today a super easy recipe but delicious for the tea time, breakfast or the coffee break.
To be honest, I have a semi-bundt mould because it doesn't have the typical flower shape, but still it is thanks to the middle ring.

So, here we go with the recipe!

20 min + 40 min (cooking)
12 servers
Super Easy

Ingredients:

• 250 gr flour
• 50 gr cornflour
• 150 gr butter
• 4 eggs 
• 150 gr icing sugar
• 50 gr sugar
• 1/2 sachet of baking powder
• 150 gr dark chocolate
• 50 ml cream 
• 3 grated carrots
• caramel (optional)

Method: 

1. Preheat the oven (180º). 
2. Mix the butter and the sugar in a bowl. As you already know, the butter must be soft. As soon as you check that this mixture doesn't have a grainy texture, then you can add the eggs, one by one. Mix well all the ingredients. The result: a bright and pale cream. Now, let the dough to stand for some minutes. 
3. Melt the chocolate into the cream in another bowl. Add this mixture to the dough. Stir well. 
4. Peel and wash the carrots, grate them and add them to the dough. Stir well all the ingredients. 
5. In a different bowl, mix the cornflour together with the flour and the baking powder. With a bolter, sift these dry ingredients and add them to the dough. Stir well again. 
6. Grease the mould. 
7. Pour the dough all over it and put it into the oven for 40 minutes. 
8. Then, take the mould off the oven and let the cake stands until it gets cool. 
9. Afterwards, turn the cake out of the mould. If you want to prepare some caramel as decoration, follow these steps: put a cup of sugar and the juice of half lemon in a frypan. Don't stir. Once it has turn into a syrup, it's time to cover the cake with the toffee. Leave it to stand until it gets cool. 

And that's all! It's ready to serve! 

Hope you have enjoyed the recipe!

Spiced Apple Cake

Hello!

Here I'm again with a new recipe!

It's my version of the Gordon Ramsay Spiced Apple Cake, but I think it's between a dessert and a cake. 

 
40 minutes

4 servers

Easy

Ingredients:

• 4 apples 
• cinnamon (as desired)
• sugar
• 50 gr butter
• 150 gr sugar

Ingredients for the cake:

• 125 gr flour
• a pinch of salt
• an egg (large)
• 110 ml milk 
• tsp. vanilla extract 
• 50 gr butter
• 2 tbsp. sugar
• a handful of peanuts and some icing sugar 

Method:

1. Cut the apples into wedges and put them in a frypan together with the butter over low heat. Once the apples are lightly browned, add the sugar. Caramelize the apples. 
2. Add the cinnamon and stir well. Leave it to stand. 
3. Preheat the oven (180º) 
4. Mix the flour together with the salt and the sugar in a bowl. 
5. Beat the egg in another bowl. Add the milk and the vanilla extract (if you don't have vanilla extract you can use vanilla beans) Once the egg, the milk and the vanilla extract are well mixed, add the dry ingredientes little by little. Beat them. 
6. Let the dough to stand. 
7. Choose two mouldes to pour the apples. In my case, I've chosen two clay pots. 
8. Now, pour the dough in the pots. 
9. Chop the peanuts and spread them all over the dough. 
10. Put the pots in the oven for 22 minutes. (After these minutes, check it with a toothpick if the dough is cooked, if not, give them 5 more minutes. 
11. Once turned golden, take the cakes off the oven. 
12. When they are cool, sprinkle some icing sugar on them. 
13. You can serve them together with some vanilla icecream as Ramsay suggests. 

And that's all! Hope you have enjoyed the recipe! 

Here you have the original recipe if you want to check it: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/gordon-ramsays-f-word/articles/all/spiced-apple-cake-recip

Chocolate brownie in 5 minutes

Hi again!

This is the perfect recipe for those moments in which you are seized with eating chocolate. This is the so easy, fast and utterly delicious chocolate brownie in five minutes.

5 min + 1 min cooking
6 servers
Super super easy

Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 6 tbsp. milk
• 3 tbsp. olive oil
• 4 tbsp. sugar
• 4 tbsp. flour
• 4 tbsp. cocoa powder
• halzenuts, almonds, nuts... (optional)

Method: 

1. Mix the egg together with the sugar, the milk and the olive oil. 
2. Add flour and the cocoa powder. (If you add dried fruits and nuts, sink them in the dough) 
3. Divide the dough up into the mugs. I recommend you to fill them until three fingers of dough in each mug. 
4. Put the mug into the microwave for a minute (I've a 800 V microwave; take this into account, so you need to adjust the cooking time according to your microwave or your preferences; that is, if you prefer it fully cooked or not) 

And that's all! Super super easy!

I hope you have enjoyed it! 

Chocolate and custard éclairs

Hello! Here I'm again!

To be honest, I've tasted different types of éclairs in different textures and flavours, but I always end up with the classics. For this reason, I bring you the classical recipe you can find in every bakery of Spain.

In this case, we'll be working with the same dough to prepare prodiferols and, as happen in both cases, well need a pastry bag to form vertical lines (2cm wide and 13 cm long).

So, here we go!

15 min dough cooking + 30 min éclairs in the oven
Average
15 servers

Method for the dough:

•  250 ml water
• 50 gr no-salt butter
• 170 gr flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 5 large eggs

1. Dough preparation and cooking: in a pot, pour the water, add the butter and the salt until it starts to boil. Once it has boiled, pour the flour all at once and turn down the heat. Don't stop stiring for six or seven minutes. The result: the dough will be easily removed from the pot. Now, add the eggs one by one. In this step, the first and the second egg won't be easily added to the dough, but it's normal. Add the rest of the eggs without stop stiring. Once you have added all the eggs, leave it to stand for some minutes. 
2. Now, put the dough into a pastry bag. It's better to use an open tip because we need the éclairs to be thick. 
3. Preheat the oven (180º). On the baking tray, place some baking paper and start making the éclairs. Once they are done, put them into the oven for 20 minutes. Then, turn down the heat (150º) and leave them in the oven until they are dry. In order to check it, open an éclair. If it is empty, they are ready to fill. 

Ingredientes for the custard:

• 1 L milk 
• 2 eggs
• 200 gr sugar
• 2  full tbsp. flour
• vanilla extract

Method: 

1. Pour all the ingrendients into a pot until they start to boil without stop stiring. Stir until it gets thicked. 
2. Remove the pot from the heat and put it in the fridge without covering it. 
3. The custard must be cool to fill the éclairs. 

Ingredientes for the chocolate topping: 

• Half plain chocolate bar
• 50 gr butter

Method: 

1. Put both ingredients into a bowl in the microwave for 90 seconds. Then, stir well. Fill in the éclairs. In order to do so, you can open them. Instead, you can do the following: make a hole on the top of the éclair with a toothpick. The hole needs to be big enough in order to allow the tip to be in and fill the éclair.
2. Now, pour the chocolate topping over the éclairs. 
3. Put the éclairs in the fridge until the chocolate is harden.

And that's all! I hope you have enjoyed the recipe! 

White chocolate and condensed milk pie with cherries coulis

Hi again!

I know the title of this pie may sound a little bit oversweet but I promise it doesn't thanks to the cottage cheese. Both condensed milk and white chocolate are the perfect couple for a pie like this. So, take a bowl and a beater and go for it! 


50 min + 12 h freezer
8 servers
Super super easy


Ingredients: 

• 250 gr white chocolate
• 250 gr condensed milk 
• 500 gr cottage cheese
• 2 sachets of powder to prepare curd
• 200 ml pastry cream
• 2 sweet-meal biscuit wrappers

Ingredients  for the cherry coulispara el coulis de cerezas: 

• 500 gr cherries
• 50 gr sugar
• 1 lemon juice

Method: 

1. Grind the buiscuits and mix them with soft butter. Mix them  until forming a wet sand. Pour it all over the mould (it should be a detachable mould). Now, form a base with the palm and the fingertips. Once it's done, cover it with clingfilm and put it on the fridge. 
2. Pour the cream into a pot over low heat. Meanwhile, dissolve the white chocolate in the cream. Mix it well. Now, add the condensed milk. Stir all the ingredientes. It's time to add the cottage cheese. Stir well again. Turn the heat up, and add the curd. Take the mould off the fridge and pour the mixture all over it. Keep into the freezer for 12 hours. 

Cuolis method: 

1. Wash up the cherries and remove the seeds. Put them on a frypan over a low heat together with the sugar and the lemon juice. Stir well once at a time. When the cherries are melt, remove the frypan from the heat. Grind the cherries, strain them and put them into the fridge. 

After the 12 hours, take the pie off the fridge and let the pie stand for an hour. Then, the pie will be ready to serve with some coulis! Hope you have enjoyed it! 

Cheesecake with homemade cherries jam

Hi!

I'm sorry, I know I'm late! I've left behind this part of the blog a little bit, but here I'm again for you to enjoy some of the new recipes I've been posting in the Spanish version of the blog.


Today, I bring you a delicious and soft cheesecake with homemade cherries jam. No bake!!!

Ready to note down the ingredientes?  Here we go!

40 min + 2 h jam +12 h  pie in the fridge + 6 h jam in the fridge
12 servers
Super easy

Ingredientes for the base:

• 3 plain cookies wrappers
• 100 gr butter

Ingredients for the pie: 

• 750 gr soft cheese
• 1/2 glass of skimmed milk
• 6 tbsp. of icing sugar

Ingredients for the jam (if you don't want to cook it, you can buy it. In this case, you'll need 200gr. You can choose any red berry jam) 

• 500 gr cherries
• 100 gr sugar
• 2 tbsp. lemon juice
• 4 gelatine leaves

Method: 

1. Base: grind the cookies and mix them with the soft butter that we had put it previously in the microwave for 30 seconds. Once it is done, spread it all over a mould. Then, squash it with your palm until creating a solid base. Cover it with clingfilm and put it on the fridge. Now, it's time to prepare the filing. 
2. Filling: dissolve the gelatine leaves in the milk on a pot and put it on the heat. When it starts to boil, mix it with the cheese and the icing sugar. Take the mould off the fridge and pour the milk mixture into it. Leave it in the fridge for 12 hours. 
3. Jam: wash up the cherries and remove the seeds. Once it is done, put the cherries on a big pot together with the sugar and the lemon juice over low heat for two hours. Then, strain the jam and mix it with the gelatine leaves. Take the pie off the fridge and pour the jam all over it. Again, leave the pie on the fridge for 6 hours. Now, it is ready to serve!

Hope you have enjoyed it!

Cocoa mince pie with custard and yellow plums

Today's dessert: something easy and light but delicious!


55 minutes  + 1 h the dough in the fridge
10 serves
Super easy

Ingredients for the cocoa mince base:

• 225 gr flour
• 50 gr cocoa powder
• a pinch of salt
• 150 gr butter 
• 150 gr sugar
• 2 egg yolks 
• custard
• 8 yellow plums 

Method: preheat the oven at 180º C. In a bowl, put all the dry ingredients together: the flour, the sugar, the pinch of salt and the cocoa powder. Mix them very well. Then, incorporate the butter but it must be soft in advance. Now, mix the butter with the other ingredients making a sandy dough. After this step, make a hole in the middle and put the beaten yolks. The result: a soft dough that must rest in the fridge for an hour. 

After this hour, cut the dough into two parts. Pour some flour in the worktable or over the rolling pin and knead the doughs a little bit. Distribute the doughs all over the moulds that have been previously basted. You can do it  in two 20 cm diameter moulds or  in a 25 cm diameter mould. Distrubute very well the dough all over the moulds. 

Now, put some baking paper on the doughs and put some legumes over it in order to prevent that the doughs don't reach volume once in the oven. Bake them for 10 minutes. Remove the doughs from the oven and let them get cooler. Then, fill the doughs with custard. 

Wash the plums and peel them. Cuth them into wedges and put them all over the custard. Now, you are ready to enjoy!