Yeast cake Denmark - Netherlands

It is European Football Championship time! The plague struck me. Football!
It is better to never ask about anything .Keep the mouth shut!
 And during breakfast,because I want to be nice, I ask: Are these gaming events fun? Then it started ...  " do simple things in the hard way" - as my dad says. It took a long time since I was dealing with a true football fan. So I had to wade through the history of European national teams and individual biographies, rules of games and many, many details ... I ended up with a big diagram on the fridge, so I did not forget what and how, and to no misunderstand the matches.  Due to the 6 hour time difference between us and Europe, most matches that are played out are in hours when Luke is at work. So it brings him to the question:Can you please watch the game for me, and fill me in on whats happening? Please ...

I'm utterly lost! I cannot watch the whole game no way! I thought of something useful. Yeast cake! Kneading the dough unloads my excitement! I still have my last jar of strawberry jam. Good fit for the cake.

Yeast cake: Denmark - Netherlands

 4 cups flour 

100g butter, melted 

2/3 cup sugar 

4 eggs

 glass of milk 

25g fresh yeast 

vanilla extract

 pinch of salt

 additions at discretion :) 

 Today I have strawberries, left over from juice production.

With 3 tablespoons flour, 1 tbsp sugar, crumbled yeast and 5 tablespoons of warm (not hot!) milk. We leave it to ferment and rise. Pour into a bowl the flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, eggs and milk and pour the yeast slurry. I took a mixer and poured slowly dissolved and cooled butter. I let the mixer run  the until dough is smooth and shiny. Cover with bowl and leave it to rise. The dough has doubled in volume. Then remove the floured pastry board and slightly form by hand :). Transfer to a buttered onto a smeared paper plate. Add the strawberries on top spread beaten egg and bake in temp.320 degrees about 30 minutes.

Well-kneaded dough (with a huge load of my  emotions) grew like crazy! I had to bake in the two baking pans.

Mrs. Peach

The Peach is a fruit which Laura loves.

 When she was 3 years old, she made a funny name for "peach" in her childhood language.

 It was a wonderful children's language which was full of music. I remember her invented  words and stories.  I'm waiting until I see what Johnny is going to tell me..  Once the season starts on peaches, I buy them every day. We eat and remember the stories she told me

"a  man who was try collecting a snow" and  "About fools  from the salt planet." The power of childhood imagination :) Today is the Peach day!

Light peach dessert

 2 peach jelly 

2 boxes peach yogurt 

2 peaches

biscuits 

Dissolve the jelly in a smaller amount of water about 350 ml each. Take half of the solute, and already cold jelly, and mix with yogurt. Pour into cups, add crushed biscuits, and refrigerate to harden. Wash and slice peaches, then put on top of dessert and pour the remaining jelly. Allow them to harden.

Peaches Cake

200g butter, softened

150g of sugar 

zest of 1/2 lemon 

pinch of salt

 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 

4 eggs

 1 tablespoon cocoa 

300g plain flour

 50g potato starch

 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

 2 pounds of peaches

 Butter, sugar, lemon zest, cinnamon, and salt until light and fluffy. Then add one egg and beat it. All ingredients should be at room temperature​​.Then  add  baking powder, wheat flour,  potato starch, and thoroughly mix together. One/fourth of dough remove and mix with 1 tablespoon of cocoa. Grease the baking tray with butter and spread on the cake. Wash peaches and cut them in half, then put it on the cake. On each peach put tablespoon cocoa. Bake about 30 minutes at 180 degrees.

Green apple

The season now is more about Strawberries, than anything else. And yes every day I prepare something strawberry . But today what tempted me was the green apple. Sour and juicy. And furiously green. So I thought about apple cake, a little awkward because of adding the vanilla pudding. I remember eating a lot of it in my childhood (especially my aunt's parties). Apple, apple green apple ...

Ingredients

2 cup off flour

1/2 cup sugar

2 egg

1 teaspoon baking powder

2 tablespoons sour cream

250 g of butter

2 kg of apples

2 vanilla pudding (for 1/2 liter of milk)

5 tablespoons of sugar

750ml milk

1 teaspoon cinnamon

icing sugar for sprinkling

sugar to the apples at the discretion

Quickly knead the dough, divide into 2 pieces and store in refrigerator. Peel apples, cut them, throw into the pot and cook to soften slightly. Add the cinnamon and sugar to taste (optional). Cook the pudding with 5 tablespoons of sugar in 750 ml. milk. Half of dough to spend on the plaque, prick with a fork and bake about 10 minutes at 180degrees. Remove from the oven, put on them and custard apples. Then grate on top ofthe rest of the dough. Put in the oven and bake another 40 minutes.  Cooled  cake sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Mother's Day 2012

Today, a Mother's holiday, is spent in a beautiful, sunny, summer day.  I pack treats for our picnic. We go to greet the sun and May. Hurray!

The first one is our favorite tart with caramelized onions and Saint Agur blue cheese. I ate a tart once like this in one of the wineries on the Lower East Side in New York. It has an unforgettable flavor, and that's because it really was delicious, and I was so madly in love, so the memory of that evening is familiar to me. However it is also the recipe I found on the beautiful  blog www.beawkuchni.com 

Cut the onion in small pieces, put them in the pot with a little olive oil and simmer over low heat until soft. Then add the balsamic vinegar and sugar, stirring until the stew on the sauce has evaporated and onion just begins to caramelize. We must be careful not burn the onion.Add egg with cream  to the onion. Add salt and put on the crust. On the top, sprinkle generously with cheese and fresh thyme. This time I used St Agur cheese that is creamy and slightly spicy however,  caramelized onions, matches any type of cheese. Tart baked in a of a removable bottom for about 40 minutes at 175degrees. With red wine, it creates the perfect duo.

The cake for the picnic shall be mandatory. I chose, simple, light cake with fruit, which always works, and is prepared in a few minutes. Recipe from Dorothy of www.mojewypieki.blox.pl
Ingredients:
5 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
2 cups flour
150 ml of oil
1 teaspoon baking powder
You can use any fruits to choose from, today I used strawberries and blackberries.
Whip eggs and sugar until fluffy, then slowly add the oil and flour, mixing the powder all the time. Pour into the batter and put fruit on top. Bake for about 45 minutes at 180degrees.

And these is the most beautiful flowers in the world from the greatest daughter and son in the world :)

The easiest cake in the world, oh yeah!

When the moment comes, you have to act quickly. With every minute, it gets worse.

I want something sweet now!

Cake! that's it!  Cake made with cheese, so to speak: easy, quick and enjoyable. For baking we do not use eggs, and replace butter with oil. It is delicate in its structure is like yeast cake, especially right out of the oven. Its perfect for filling with a variety of fruits.

Cake made with cheese and strawberries filling

500g strawberries
350g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
175g lean minced cottage cheese (I've used cheese riccotta)
6 tablespoons milk
8 tablespoons of vegetable oil
75g sugar
vanilla sugar
1 egg, but not necessarily
Mix all ingredients for about a minute.Ricotta mixer makes the dough is light and spongy,has a consistency similar to dough. If the dough sticks to the hand must be added a little flour. Put it into a mold and bake with any fruit.

Smells so good! It's ready ...