Cookie Cake

Cookie Cake

the name sounds good to me,

we had baked some sugar cookies

 which to be honest turned out a little brown,

 so I decided to do something with them,

a cake made out with cookies!!!

INGREDIENTS

CAKE

4 cups crushed sugar cookies

2 cups whole milk

3/4 cup sugar

1 cup flour

1 Tbsp. baking powder

1 Tbsp cornstarch

1 1/2 Tbsp. vanilla

3 eggs

FROSTING

1cup powder sugar

1 Tbsp. vanilla

1Tbsp. evaporated milk

HOW TO:

Preheat oven to 325°F

 break the cookies  if you want to use the food

processor its fine

Add the milk and vanilla

Add eggs, sugar, baking powder, cornstarch and

flour, beating well in between each addition

Bake for 30 min or until you insert a toothpick

and comes out clean

Ready!

FROSTING:

mix all the ingredients, you may add some more drops

of evaporated milk if necessary

cover the cake 

 Enjoy!!

Easter Chocolate Cake

I did this chocolate cake today and thought it would be nice if I decorated it for Easter, in a simple way, just adding some m&m´s and sugar decorations.

I divided the dough into 2 pans a round one and a flower one

FOR THE CAKE

200 grs. butter

200 grs. sugar

150 grs. flour

200 grs. semi-sweet chocolate (or milk chocolate) melted

65 grs. milk

6 egg whites 6 egg yolks

FOR THE GANACHE

250 grs. semi-sweet chocolate
150 grs. milk

20 grs. butter

Preheat oven 350 degrees.

1.cream the butter untill it has a lighter color , then add the sugar, egg yolks,beat for one minute, then the chocolate, give this 2 minutes and add milk

2.In another bowl whisk the egg whites untill stiff, then add it to the cake batter with soft revolving movements.

3. Grease a pan, this is a medium cake, so any medium to big cake pan will do.

4. Put the cake batter in the oven and bake for 35 to 45 min. or untill it's done.

FOR THE GANACHE

1.Heat the milk, and add the melted chocolate beat for 2 minutes and add the butter.

Cover the cake .

DECORATIONS

I just did a simple but fun Easter decoration

Tarta de Santiago

I was looking for an almond cake, and after the help of my friends I got this excellent recipe.

Tarta de Santiago is a very popular cake in the north west part of Spain, I love it not just for its simplicity but it goes with almost every ice cream like maybe vanilla, cinnamon, rum, chocolate, coffee or cognac, which is my favorite, so now you have a verstatile and delicious cake, enjoy!

INGREDIENTS

1 cup sugar

1/2 lb almonds, finely ground.
7 eggs (separated)
3 Tbsp. Amaretto liquor
a few extra slivered almonds for garnish
powder sugar for decoration

Cream sugar, and egg yolks until light and fluffy.

HOW TO

Cream sugar, and egg yolks until light and fluffy.
Stir in almonds and amaretto.
Beat egg whites until fluffy but not dry.
Stir in Egg whites into almond mixture slowly.
Pour into 1 greased 8 inch pans and sprinkle some slivered almonds.
Bake for 35 minutes at 250c.


Cake should be lightly browned. Cool breifly.


DECORATION 
The traditional decoration consists in paper cutting a sword, placing it on top of the cake then sifting the powder sugar over it. 

Cinnamon Doughnut Pound Cake

When I first thought about doing something like this I laughed, because it seemed like just crazy, but doing crazy things is what may lead you to great things, in baking world I mean :)
Well it all starts like this, I had some leftover cinnamon doughnuts at home so I decided to have them crushed and see how I could fit them into a new creation

So here they are, little cinnamon doughnuts, about 12, just have them crushed

Place the crushed doughnuts all over the base of a buttered and floured mold, then pour the batter carefully

Bake it for aprox. 40 min at 375F or 190C

CAKE

1/2 cups unsalted butter softened Preheat oven to 350º.butter and flour a 9 by 5 inch loaf pan.

2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 

1 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 large eggs

1/2 cup plain cream 

FROSTING 

3 Tbsp. butter

3 Tbsp. evaporated milk

1 Tbsp. vanilla extract

1 1/4 cups powder sugar

CHOCOLATE DECORATION

if desired you can use either one:

100 grs. semi-sweet chocolate ganache

or 100 grs. melted semi-sweet chocolate

HOW TO

Arrange the crushed cinnamon doughnuts on the base of the pan.

Mix flour and baking powder and set aside.

Cream butter, add sugar and vanilla and beat for 4 minutes, then add the eggs one at the time, and continue beating,add the cream and then

 add the flour mixture until well combined.

Spoon batter on top of crushed doughnuts

Bake for 40 min at 375F or 190C 

Let cool on a wire rack, 10 to 15 min

Let cool completely

DECORATIONCombine all the ingredients and cover the cake

if you like you can make little decorations with chocolate ganache or just melted chocolate

E N J O Y!

Moist Orange Ring Cake

This is a very simple orange cake, the kind you are in the mood to enjoy anytime, I decided to add a little creative decoration to go with it, I made it for a family reunion and everybody liked it, hope you do too

ready to be baked

just out of the oven

sift powder sugar over the cake and the wax paper lines

take away some lines of paper and sift some powder cinnamon READY!
CAKE

1cup of sugar 

1/2 cup of butter melted

2 eggs beaten

1 1/4 cups sifted cake flour

1/4 tsp. salt

2 tsp. baking powder

2/3 cup fresh orange juice

Decoration:

powder sugar

cinnamon

HOW TO

Stir butter and sugar.

Add eggs and mix well

Add sifted flour, salt, and baking powder alternately with 1/3 cup orange juice , mixing until blended.

Pour into a ring mold, line on the bottom with wax paper

Bake in preheated moderate oven, for about 30 minutes

Remove to serving plate and peel off paper, let cool.

DECORATION

Cut a few lines of wax paper and then sift the powder sugar, then take out 2 or 3 and sift cinnamon.

A Recipe for Friendship

A good friend is very hard to find,
when you do find one
be sure not to let them go,
they´re treasures in our life.

You know I love recipes, there aren´t recipes to finding friends,
but this recipe is a good one for being a good friend.



A Recipe for Friendship

You will need:

a pinch of happiness
1 handful of kindness
2 spoonfuls of gentleness
1 litre of sharing
a teaspoonful of helpfulness
3 heaped tablespoons of laughter
100g of smiles
a sprinkling of cheerfulness
100g of love

Method:

Mix all these together. Then you will have the perfect friend.



The only way to have a friend is to be one



So this Valentine´s cake is for you all, my dear friends