I love this dessert. It’s “Gooey chocolate cake” with berries and whipped cream.
I bought the cake this time because this one tastes just as delicious as if you would have made it yourself. The chocolate cake is, like the name says, a gooey cake. It’s chewy and very delicious!
If you want to bake it I think the best thing would be to make a fondant cake. I will make it sometime but if there’s any chocolate addict out there that can’t wait that’s what you can do until then. Yummy!
One of my first world problems used to be hot chocolate. I always have cream in my chocolate and I used to whip it. The problem with that was that the whipped cream never lasted long enough. You had the delicious taste of cream and chocolate in the beginning and then just chocolate.
Now I have found the perfect hot chocolate! I don’t whip the cream. Instead I mix it with the milk in the mug. I get the creamy taste all the way.
My perfect chocolate consists of 2/3 milk and 1/3 cream. I “boil” the mixture in the microwave. Then I add 1 teaspoon sugar and 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder. I think the hot chocolate powder you buy is too sweet. By making your own you can decide how sweet you want it.
Sometimes, food that doesn`t look delicious are just that. This doesn`t look at all as tasty as it was.
I put fresh pasta in an oven proved tin.
I added peppers, tomatoes and onion to the pasta.
I poured tinned tomatoes over the vegetables and pasta.
I know it doesn`t seem tasty.
I had some bought meat balls I added to the tin.
I poured cream over the mix and added salt, pepper and cheese.
I cooked the dish in the oven for 30 min at 200 C.
It was delicious! Sometimes it`s as easy as that.
In Sweden we have a bun we eat during the winter season. We call it “semla”. It’s a wheat bun filled with whipped cream and almond paste. I love it!
It’s a sweet wheat bun that you split in two – a smaller lid and a bigger bottom part. Remove a little bit of the middle part of the bottom bun (hard to explain). Fill the “hole” with almond paste. If I ever decide to make this bun I will buy the paste but it’s essentially almonds crumbs and sugar mixed together.
Whip the cream and put it on top of the paste. Place the lid on the cream. Sprinkle icing sugar in the lid.
Semla!
Thank you very much grocery store!
Thank you for not having butternut squash on the shelves today. I had planned on cooking butternut squash even though I have no idea how to. You saved me from trying to make a meal that would have been……….not tasty.
-Honey there’s only five bananas left!
-There’s five in the freezer.
-That’s right but they are the ones I planned on making a dessert with.
That’s me. I always make plans to bake or cook things I know never will happen. I put the bananas in the freezer because I’ve read recepies where they have to be frozen. I probably never will make the banana dessert and I have to throw them away.
I have peppermint oil and dried fruits “just incase”. I buy crazy spices and seeds and tell myself I will use them. I buy vegetables and fruits I don’t know what to make of. I buy crackers and cheese because I might one day like it. Crazy!
I have to eat in the evening. I can’t skip that meal. They say breakfast is the most important meal but for me evening meals are just as important. With that said I find it hard to know what to make. I almost always eat sandwiches but that bores me after a while.
That’s why I’m happy I have found mugcakes! I have seen mugcake recepies before but they have all been a celebration of all unhealthy things. This mugcake is not the most healthy thing you can eat but it’s healthy enough for me.
Mugcakes are what it sounds like, a cake in a mug. You make the batter in a mug and then you bake the batter in the mug in a microwave. East!
Blueberry muffin mugcake.
Ingredients:
4 tbsp flour
2 tbsp sugar
1/8 tsp baking powder
1/16 tps baking soda
3 tbsp milk
10 blueberries (I used frozen)
Mix all the ingredients in an microwave “proven” mug.
Streusel.
1 tbsp cold butter
1,5 tbsp flour
1,5 tbsp sugar
1,4 tsp vanilla extract (I used powder)
Mix the ingredients in a bowl. “Pour” it over the blueberry mixture and put the mug in the microwave. The recepy said to bake at 1200 W for 1 minute. Our microwave only has 750 W and I baked the muffin for 1,5 minutes.
I hope you had a wonderful christmas! We had a relaxing one. Christmas lately has been about food and family and not so much about gifts. We have reduced the number of christmas gifts drastically and to not have to buy things to everyone has made it easier. For instance I only buy gifts for my mom. My aunts only buy gifts for their husbands and children and so on. I remember how it was before when I raced around town to find things to buy. Some are not the easiest to buy for and more than ones I ended up with buying just for the sake of buying which means crap gifts. I also waited until the last minute which was stressful in itself.
For me christmas has become more of a food event. Before I thought “lets get food out of the way and lets open our gifts”. Now I like the food more. Because I don`t eat many things on the traditional christmas table I have added some foods that I like. I always make porkribs and a brusselsproutstew.
Porkribs, brusselsprouts and red cale.
This year I also made applepie.
Apple and marzipan pie.
Of course I also ate candy!
The best thing about christmas was of course Kajsa dressed as a christmas gift.
In Sweden saffron buns are one thing we eat around christmas. Especially on december 13 when we celebrate St Lucia. Saffron buns are just that, saffron flavoured (wheat) buns. I don’t like saffron in food but these buns are delicious.
Ingredients:
50 g yeast
200 g butter
5 dl milk
1 g saffron (I mix it with a little bit of whiskey, that brings out the taste more)
2 dl sugar
0,5 teaspoon salt
1 egg
17 dl wheat flour
Oven: 250 C
Put the yeast in a big bowl. Melt the butter and add the milk to it. Heat the mixture to 37 C.
Add the butter to the bowl and stir until the yeast has desolved (I don’t know if that’s the right word).
Add the other ingredients and work the dough for a while. Leave it to rest under a kitchen towel for 40 minutes.
Take the dough out of the bowl and work it with a little bit of flour.
Divide the dough into 40 pieces. The shape of these buns are normally like the letter s but I couldn’t get them that way. I just made bun shapes instead.
Leave the buns to rest for 20-40 minutes.
Brush them with beaten eggs and place raisins on top.
Bake for 5 – 10 minutes in the middle of the oven.
In Sweden marcipan is a popular christmas candy. I made a not so good attempt at making marcipan dogs today.
I thought I did well until it was time for the chocolate. I wanted to give the dogs some personality and the chocolate would do that. I would “paint” eyes and fur on them. Haha, it ended up looking like chocolate had exploaded on the poor dogs.
The dogs were fine here.
Poor dogs.
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