Nut marmalade Roll Cake

 This roll cake is very easy to make and it's wonderful!
You can make the cake without nuts if you are allergic or don't love nuts. For the cream filling I used  apricot marmalade that my mother made! Delicious! You can use whatever you like but using any kind of marmalade it's fast and yummy!
For kids you can make nut free sponge  only vanilla taste and strawberry marmalade filling, they will love it!
OK, so for this roll cake you need:

• 5 eggs
• 100 gr of sugar
• 1 tsp of vanilla
• 3 tbsp of oil
• 4 tbsp of water of milk if you prefer
• 2 tsp of baking powder
• 3 tbsp of grounded nuts, you can use almonds if you like
• 2 tbsp of flour 
• or you can use 5 tbsp of flour if you want to make it nut free)
• marmalade for filling

Preheat the oven to the 390 degrees.

Beat the eggs and sugar to make a foam. Add oil, water (milk), vanilla, flour, nuts and baking powder.

Prepare baking pan and line it with baking paper. Pour the batter into the pan and bake for a 15 min!

Soon as you peel of the baking paper from the sponge, put the sponge on the kitchen rag and roll while it's hot! And leave it to cool down.

Roll out the sponge carefully and spread out the marmalade, roll in again. You can decorate or leave like that.

Enjoy! 

German cake Kommissbrot!

This cake is very common for my country, for coffee and tea, or for a breakfast. It's simple and in a same way delicious. It's that kind of cake that can be good for a long time. My sister loves when it's toasted and I have to admit, I like it too! The main ingredients for this German cake is egg white. So let's begin:

• 4 egg whites
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of dried cranberries, raisins, chopped nuts, caramelized fruits etc
• 1 cup of flour
• 2 tsp of baking powder
• 3.5 oz of oil
• If you like lemon or orange zest

Preheat oven to a 440 degrees.

For this cake you will need a mold, for bundt cake, bread mold etc...

Beat the egg whites with sugar, until you make a stiff foam, then add oil, flour, baking powder, on the end add raisins, cranberries etc.

Place the batter into the mold and bake for a 35 min.

On the top you can put melted chocolate, powdered sugar...

Enjoy!

Cupcakes with white chocolate frosting 💙

 You can't be wrong with cupcakes 💙 Everybody loves them! Today I m sharing recipe for cupcakes with white chocolate frosting and cacao base. Very decorative and tasty! From these ingredients you can make dozen cupcakes!

 Ingredients:

• 150 gr of flour
• 3 eggs
• 150 gr of sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 75 ml of oil
• 75 ml of milk
• 2 tbsp of cacao 

For frosting:

• 150 gr of butter
• 150 gr of powder sugar
• 115 gr of melted white chocolate

Preheat oven to 360 degrees. Put the butter on the room temperature.

Prepare muffin pan, coat it with oil to prevent sticking or use non stick spray. Or as I use baking cups.

In one bowl mix all dry ingredients, flour, sugar, baking powder, cacao. In another bowl beat the eggs, add slowly oil into the eggs. 

Then add dry ingredients slowly mixing. On the end add milk and mix it to combine batter.

With ice cream scoop place the batter in muffin pan. Bake maximum 15 min! Do not over baked them. They will be dry. It's OK for them to be little soft on the top when you pull them from the oven.

Leave them on cooling rack.

With mixer prepare butter and powder sugar together, melt the white chocolate, pour  it slowly into the butter-sugar mixture and mix it nicely. Leave it in the fridge for 15-20 min.

Put the frosting into the piping bag or if you don't have it, you can put it into the zip lock bag and cut of one end of the bag. Pipe it as desire onto the base.

You can decorate them with any. 

Enjoy!

Marble Bundt Cake

This cake is my husband favorite for now 😊 

Not to sweet and heavenly moist 👌 Very easy to make and it's quite decorative. And on the top you can decorate it as you like! I decorate mine with a white chocolate, dried cranberries and lemon zest.

You  need a bundt mold for this one. Ok, here are ingredients for this beauty! 

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cup of flour
• 3 tsp of baking powder
• 1 tsp of baking soda
• little sprinkle of salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup of brown sugar
• 1/3 cup of oil
• 2 1/2 cup of milk
• 1/2 cup of Greek yogurt 
• 2 tbsp of cacao powder    

 Preheat oven to a 420 degrees.

Mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In small bowl mix sugar and eggs, beat it with mixer until there is smooth mixture. Add oil, yogurt and milk inside. Slowly add mixture of flour stirring it nicely with a whisk.
Separate batter in two equal part, in one put cacao and stir it well to combine.
Coat  cake mold with oil to prevent from sticking.
Pour some of batter with out cacao, then pour some batter with cacao, and continue to do like this until you run off batter.
With a wooden skewer or with a fork, deep it into the batter and make circles from bottom to top of the mold. Do it all around the mold. You are making a marble pattern with this movement.
When you are done, place the mold with batter into the oven.
Bake it between 45-60 min. You will know that cake is done if you place the skewer into the cake if there is no batter when you pull it out, the cake is done!

Enjoy 💖💜👄

Lavender lemon cookies!

 I have to say these lavender lemon cookies are my favorite one! Love the lemon scent and then lavender comes to scene! Something very special is with these cookies. You have to try it! Sweet and lovely crackling with cup of tea! Heaven 😊 Don't be suspicious..just try it, and after you can judge if you want 💜 This recipe is for about 16-20 cookies, depends from shape of the cookie cutter.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of flour
• 1/4 tsp of salt
• 1/3 cup of brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp of dried lavender
• 2 tsp of lemon zest
• 1/2 cup softened butter
• 1/2 tsp rum
• sugar for sprinkling 

Mix dry ingredients. Mix lavender, sugar and lemon zest, grind with the mortar. Mix all ingredients together with hands. Roll the dough between two baking paper sheets, roll it about 1/4 inch thickness. Leave in the freezer for a 10 min.

Preheat the oven on 350 degrees.

Draw the rolled dough from the freezer, pull the top paper sheet and put it on the baking pan.

 Use the cookie cutter that you like and start making the cookies. From left over dough, make a roll dough again and make more cookies. 

Sprinkle little bit of sugar on the cookies top.

Bake 10 min, do not over baked them! They are done when there is a little bit of golden around edges. 

Enjoy in these special cookies! And I will be writing about the Marble pound Cake in the another post! Because the Marble Pound cake deserve own post! Until next time...

XoXo 💓💋

Ricotta bread without yeast!

Sometimes my family ask for quick and fresh bread from our oven. And I made one recipe that I use in that cases. Because the dough is with baking powder, we have fresh and delicious bread in one hour (kneading + baking)! When I don't have ricotta cheese in my fridge I use mayo and Greek yogurt! It sounds weird but trust me, you will be delighted with fresh bread in one hour making! So let's begin with the ingredients.
Ingredients:

• 250 gr + 50 gr (2  + 1/4 cups) of flour
• 1 egg + 1 egg
• 4 tbs of ricotta cheese or if you don't have ricotta cheese you can do 2 tbs of mayo and 2 tbs of Greek yogurt. 
• 50 ml (1.7 oz) of milk
• 3 tsp of baking powder
• 1.5 tsp of salt

Preheat oven to a 430 degrees.

Mix dry ingredients, 2 cups (250 gr) of flour first, you can add more flour after, if you  need to.  Then add ricotta, egg, milk into the flour.  Kneed well, until you make a lovely ball shape. The dough suppose to be soft and airy. Roll the dough into a circle 1 inch thick. Then roll the circle from one end to another, making a loaf.

Place the loaf into a baking pan with baking sheet.

Break down the egg with a fork, and coat the loaf with it.

If you want sprinkle course salt, sesame and flax seeds on the top of the loaf.

With kitchen scissors snap the top of the loaf  several times. 

Bake the bread 20-25 min! 

The brad is very nice the day after baking, or like a toast. Just keep him covered with the dome or in the air tight container.

Enjoy 💖👄🥖🍞

Spring is here 🎕🥀

No matter how long winter, the spring is sure to follow! Celebrate the birth of nature! 

Healthy no flour brownies with avocado

These little treats are life savers 👼 One piece is enough for satisfying  cravings during the day. Very easy to make, to storage and can help when you need something sweet but yet not so bad. After lunch one of these loveys  with cup of coffee and you are set.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup of almond flour
• 1/2 cup of cacao powder
• 1 avocado mashed
• 1 banana mashed 
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 tsp of baking soda
• little bit of brown sugar if you find not enough sweet from banana 

I made a avocado frosting, but you can sprinkle cacao powder of icing sugar on the top.

 Avocado frosting:

• 1 avocado mashed 
• 1/4 cup cacao powder
• 1/4 cup of Greek yogurt
• 1/3 cup of honey

Preheat oven to a 350 degrees.

You need 8x8 inch baking pan, line it with baking paper.

Mix together avocado, banana, eggs. Mix it well. Add flour, cacao, baking soda pour it in the pan and bake for a 20-25 min.

For Frosting, mix honey, avocado, Greek yogurt and add cacao powder mix it well. Leave it the fridge.

After the brownies are cooled, cover them with  Avocado frosting.

Divide  into 12 pieces. You can store them up to 1 week in the fridge.

 Enjoy with just a little bit of a guilt. 💖👄

Blueberry cake with Greek lemon yogurt frosting

I had some blueberries in my fridge and I decided to make something sweet with them. Cake for breakfast or in the afternoon with cup of tea, coffee and maybe glass of milk for youngest one. My little boy adore blueberries! He love this cake as his father 😉 Anyway, here is the recipe for lovely Blueberry cake:

• 2 cups of flour
• 1 cup of milk
• 2 eggs
• 4 tbsp butter or 1/4 cup of oil
• 1/2 cup of  brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder
• 1/2 tsp of baking soda
• 1 tsp of ground nutmeg
• 3/4 tsp of salt
• 1 tsp of vanilla 
• 1 cup of blueberries

Strudel topping:

• 1/2 cup of ground nuts
• 1/3 cup of brown sugar
• mix it together, set a side

Frosting: 

• 1 cup of Greek yogurt
• 1 cup of confectionares sugar
• 1 tsp of lemon zest or if you like it can be orange zest, lime zest..

Blueberries are optional, you can make a cake without them and add them when serving the cake. Lemon Greek yogurt is optional too, but I like the blend of the cake and freshness from the frosting!

Preheat the oven on 425 degrees.

In mixing bowl add flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, salt. At the end add milk, eggs, butter or oil, vanilla. If you are putting the blueberries in the batter then add them on the end when you mix well other ingredients.

I use the medium cheesecake pan with spring form. Oil the pan on the bottom and on the side all the way up. Sprinkle with flour all around to make nonstick coat.

Pour the batter into the pan and sprinkle it with strudel topping. Bake the cake for 45 min. You will see when the cake is done. The cake  edges will separate from the sides of pan and the cake will rise and be golden. You can use the long toothpick, wooden skewers  to see is it done, when you pike the cake you can see if there is unbaked batter on the skewers. If there is batter then you need to bake the cake more. 

The cake needs to be completely cool.

Mix together 1 cup of Greek yogurt, 1 cup of confectionares sugar and lemon zest. Mix it with a spoon not with mixer. The frosting need to be in the fridge.

When you serve the cake, pour the Greek lemon yogurt frosting on the top of the piece. You can sprinkle with lime zest and add more blueberries on the top for nicer appear.

Enjoy 👄💓

Irish Soda Bread! Inspired by Harry Potter

I need to confess..... I'm Harry Potter fan! 💕 I know, I m adult and a mother of a little boy 👀😊 That is my secret 🙈 No need to say that books are wonderful, movies are very good and that I think  Harry Potter is not only for children. So in the story, mother of Harry's friend Ron is an excellent cook! And her Soda Bread is famous! I tried to make recipe that I found in the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook. It was very delicious but I altered with some of mine ingredients to be even better!

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of flour
• 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda
• 2 tsp of salt
• 2 tsp sugar or honey
• 4 tbsp of butter
• 1 egg
• 1 cup of milk + few drops of lemon juice
• 1/2 cup of Greek yogurt

Preheat oven to 425.

Mix together flour, baking soda, salt and sugar or honey. In a microwave safe bowl pour 1 cup of milk with lemon juice and add 1/2 cup of Greek yogurt. Microwave it for 1 min. You will notice lumps in the milk from yogurt and lemon. That is what you need!

Add butter in the bowl with flour, and press it with fingers to resolve. Add egg and milk mixture. 

Now knead the dough and form it in the ball. Dust the baking pan or a pot with flour, lay the dough and dust it with flour. Make an X on the top. And it's ready to bake! 

Bake it 45 min on 425 degrees, and after that reduce the temperature on 300 a bake another 10 min! It will form a very thick and nice crust!

The bread is wonderful and can stand a long time and be good.  It is delicious if you toast it the days after baking for nice breakfast.

Enjoy 💗

Oats-almond flour berry cake!

Sometimes I just need something nice to eat with my morning cup of coffee, and to be my breakfast to. This cake is quite delicious and moist, I keep it in the fridge and it's nice cold for this hot weather! 

As always I m trying to eat healthier! So this cake were made with mixture of oats and almond flour, no oil, no butter... You can make it with any kind of berry or without! Here is the recipe:


Ingredients:

• 1 cup of oats flour
• 1/2 cup of almond flour
• 1 tsp of baking powder
• 1/2 tsp of baking soda
• 2 bananas
• 1/3 cup of honey
• 1/4 cup of greek yogurt
• 1 cup of berries or more depends of your taste

Preheat the oven on 400F. Mix first dry ingredients, and in the other bowl mix wet one. Slowly add the dry ingredients in. Grease the baking pan ( I usually use medium cheesecake pan) pour the batter in and bake for about 40 min, more or less you will see when the edges will start to detach from the pan. And you can always try with toothpick is the cake done! You have to leave it to rest and get cold, about 30 min before you serving this beauty. 

If you have guests you can put some vanilla ice cream on the top for nicer look and taste! 

Enjoy 😍💕💕💕💕

Blueberry muffins!

Sometime we need to be little bit bad 😊 I love this recipe for blueberry muffins! So I have to share with you! They are very nice for breakfast and coffee, or as a dessert after lunch! 

Ingredients for 12 muffins:

• 2 cups of flour
• 1 tbsp of baking powder
• 1/2 tsp of baking soda
• 1/2 cup of oil
• 1 cup of  sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup of milk
• 1 tsp of vanilla
• 2 cups of blueberry

Preheat oven to a 450F. 

Mix oil, sugar, eggs, vanilla then add dry ingredients, after that add blueberry.

Place and divide batter into a muffin pan, almost to the top of the baking cups! They will rise very nice. Bake them for 5 min on 450F, then decrease the oven to a 370F and bake for another 12 min, you want a golden brown color! 

Leave them to cool it off and the are ready to eat! 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Only 80 cal, no flour, no fat brownies!

After pregnancy I love to eat chocolate sweets 💗 And if you combined that and wishing to get in shape, you have to bake healthy and skinny treats 😊 Before I share this recipe I will warn you...the ingredients are little bit strange for brownies, but believe me they taste pretty good, you have to try it! NO flour , No fat!!! They are nice combo of healthy, skinny and indulge in 💘

So here are ingredients for 9 pieces:

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup of ground zucchini  ( don't be afraid, you will not even know that they are in!)
• 1/2 cup of cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp of baking soda
• 1 tbsp of honey
• 1 banana
• 1 tbsp of almond butter
• 1/3 cup of chocolate chips
• 1 tsp of vanilla 

Preheat oven to 350 F. Grind one medium zucchini in food processor and squeeze the water from it with hand. Mix all ingredients together in food processor. In 8x8" baking pan place the baking paper and pour the mixture in. Bake about 20 min, do not over bake it, then they will not be moisture! Left the brownies for 15 min to cool, and then cut it on 9 pieces.

And when you need something sweet and chocolaty, they are there without feeling you are doing something bad to your body 👍💁

Pineapple almond cake!

You can put any kind of fruit puree in this recipe, there is a beauty of this cake. Today I choose to put pineapple puree, you can do it with apple, pear, clementine, banana, mango, peach. Just blend the fruit and there is a puree 😉

Ingredients: 

1/2 cup of pineapple puree + 4 slices of blanched pineapple 
2 eggs
4 tbsp of honey
1 cup of almond flour
1/2 tsp of baking soda + 1/2 tsp of baking powder
1 tsp of vanilla
1 cup of heavy cream (optional)

Preheat oven to 360F. Mix all ingredients. In greased baking pan sprinkle some brown sugar and place slices of blanched pineapple, on top of that pour the mixture. Bake around 30 min, or until you see golden brown color! Place it on cooling rack for 15 min. Place the plate on  pan and revert upside down the pan, now slices of pineapple are on the top! If you want you can decorate the top with whipped heavy cream! 

It was delicious! You have to try it!

Enjoy! 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Skinny butter nut cookies!

These are super easy and fast! And there are multiple variations of this recipe 😉 I made them this morning, they are great to nibble them when you are craving for something sweet. But no guilt here 😙💙 

I will share recipe for dozen (12 cookies), they are small like three, four bites. You can double the recipe if you want it! Here we go:

Ingredients:

• 1 banana or egg (I used banana)
• 2 tbsp of nut butter ( I used almond butter)
• 1/2 cup of almond flour, or coconut flour, or oats flour
• 1 tbsp of honey
• If you want you can use a cocoa, half of cocoa, half of flour

Preheat oven to 380 F. Mix all ingredients together. With a teaspoon divide mixture in twelve little balls. Squash them with a fork, bake them around 15 min. Let them cool before serving them 💟💟💟😊😊😊

Oats cookies without fat 🍪🍪🍪

I m trying to be fit this summer... Well there is 2 month left until vacation...👀🙈 And after pregnancy I loveeee to eat sweet treats 😋 That why I m trying my best to make some healthy treats. So here is one recipe for cookies, they are really good for breakfast. They have 88 calorie per piece.  And they are made without fat and white flour.

Ingredients for 10 of them:

• 1 egg
• 2 smaller bananas or 1 big one
• 1 tsp of vanilla
• 2 tbsp of honey - or you can do it without
• 2 tsp of baking powder + 1/4 tsp of baking soda
• 1/2 cup of oats flour ( I grind my rolled oats into flour)
• 1 cup of rolled oats
• 1 tbsp of cocoa, optional
• I used 1/2 cup of chocolate chips and some diced strawberries (but strawberry give them little bit of moisture, not bad, but next time I will try something else), you can use what ever you like nuts, raisins, coconut, you make your own mix.

Preheat oven to a 340 F. Place baking paper on the pan.

As always mix first wet ingredients, start by mixing banana with egg, vanilla, honey, mix nicely then add dry items. With ice scoop apportion mixture into little balls placing them on the pan. After dividing them, use the tea spoon to flat the cookies into thickness around 1/2 inch.

Bake them about 12-15 min if you want them to be chewy, or couple minutes more if you prefer not to be chewy. 

Place them on cooling rack to rest 20 min. 

And they are ready to eat! 

Not so dense and rich, but nice to nibble something healthier with coffee or tea in the lovely summer mornings! 💗🍪☕☕🍪

Energy bars 💪💪💪

I love healthy snacks that you can bring with you where ever you go, to work, to picnic, while traveling, going to a park. These bars are very good for your kids too, like a snack in the middle of day. They are like false chocolate 😊 

And very easy to made. I pack two of these to my husband for work, every morning. He really likes it. Here is the ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup of dates
• 1 1/2 cup of nuts (what ever you like)
• 1/4 cup of pure cocoa
• 1/4 cup of nut butter ( peanut or almond)
• If you want you may add some honey, depends how sweet you like it to be!
• some cocoa or coconut, or more nuts for the coat

First grind the dates . Add the nuts in the  grinder with already chopped dates, add cocoa, and nut butter. Mix it until the is a nice consistency of mixture. Put the baking paper on the counter top, put the mixture, and on the top another baking paper. With a rolling pin, roll the mixture until there tick about a 1/4 of inch. Cut the mixture into a bar. Coat them with cocoa (like me)or coconut (I would do this but my husband is allergic to coconut - I love it 😔) or coat it with more chopped nuts! 

I keep them in the fridge 💙💙💙💙💙

FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE! 😍

Well, summer time is near...so we have to get in shape! 😇 That why I find and make this delicious chocolate wonder! We adore it! Such a rich and moist texture! You have to try it! Here is a recipe, very easy.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of almond flour
• 1/4 cup of cocoa
• 1/4 cup of honey
• 1/2 cup of melted chocolate + some for top (optional)
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp of baking powder
• 1/2 tsp of baking soda

Preheat oven on 350 F. Mix first wet ingredients, then mix in dry one. Grease the pan, I use the pan for cheesecake! Pour the batter and bake it about 25/30 min! Use a toothpick to see is it done! 

 Leave it to cool it of, melt the chocolate with a little bit of oil, pour on the top. Its optional, or you can only put some icing sugar instead of a chocolate.

And the fruits are optional, I put them  because looks very nice 💜

And there is only left to enjoy in this perfection... 💟💟💟💟💟💟

Something savory

I love these savory muffins! The are easy, quick and very nice for breakfast to go or if someone is suddenly coming to visit you  💁
And you can put inside whatever you want or have in the fridge, some leftovers etc.

Ingredients for 12 muffins:

• 2 1/2 cup of flour
• 1/2 cup of oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup of sour cream
• 1 tsp of baking powder
• 1/2 tsp of salt
• bacon (ham, sausage...), cheese, peppers, olives, etc you can put how much you want to. Chopped in cubes.

Mix all ingredients, and the cubes add last one. Here is the picture how it looks before baking ↓

 On the top you can put some flax seeds, poppy seeds or sesame seeds. Preheat oven on 420 F, bake around 25 min until golden brown!

ENJOY! 💖💖💖💖

Sweet potato-oats muffins 👌👌👌

I decided to make this recipe because I had sweet potato pure leftovers. And I made great decision! 👊😉

 They are healthy and great for breakfast, or if you wanna indulge without sin in something sweet😋 

Ingredients for a dozen:

• 2 1/2 cups of oats
• 1/2 cup of honey or sweetner of choice
• 1 cup of sweet potato pure
• 1 tsp of baking powder + 1/2 tsp of baking soda
• 1 tsp of cinnamon
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 1 egg
• 6 tbsp of smooth nut butter, I used peanut butter

Preheat oven to a 410 F. I always use ice cream scoop for pouring batter in the baking cups, one per a baking cup. If you want you can put something on the top of the muffins like I did, it's your choice 😉 Bake them for about 30 min. Leave them to cool before serving them! They are moist inside and with a nice crust outside. In every case very delicious and healthy recipe! Enjoy 😍💝😙😘

With love, Miss Muffin 💜