Friday, July 26, 2013

Fast, easy and delicious fruit+yogurt cake!

My kids don't love fresh fruit very much, so I have to trick them in various creative ways to get them to eat recommended fresh fruit daily intake :) Creative ideas include fruit smoothies-that I call fruit yogurt, making home ice-cream with fresh fruit, etc. This cake is one of their favourite treats that gets me to goal the easiest and fastest way.
Ingrediets:
800 grams petit beure biscuits
1 l yogurt
300 grams sugar
500 grams fresh fruit-best combo with yogurt are bananas, fresh raspberries, blackberries, strawberries...
1/2 l sweet cream
Mix yogurt and sugar. Take biscuit, dip it in yogurt and place on the bottom of large square pan (50x30 cm, approximately). Cover bottom of pan with dipped biscuits and then put a layer of fruits (cut bananas in smaller slices, and berries don't need to be cut). Repeat the procedure, finishing with biscuits. Put in the fridge to allow biscuits to soak in yogurt well. After that, cover cake with whipped sweet cream.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Sandocan Baklava-Baklava with poppy seed

This Baklava is somewhat different than the usual one, made with grounded walnuts. This one is made with grounded poppy seed,  and several other ingredients that might seem off and as an unlikely mixture. However, once you try it, you will love it!
Ingredients:
1 package of phyllo dough
5 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup yogurt
250 grams grounded poppy seed
1 baking powder
And additionally: 1/2 cup milk and 3 spuns vegetable oil-mix together
For syrup: 1/2 l water and 1/2 kg sugar
Mix eggs and sugar. Once the sugar has dissolved and eggs doubled in volume, add oil, yogurt, grounded poppy seed and baking powder.

Lightly grease large cake pan (I use 60 x 43 cm), put 1 layer of phyllo, lightly grease with mixture of milk+oil, put second layer of dough and then drizzle with poppy mixture. Then put another layer of phyllo, lightly oil with milk+oil, then second phyllo and poppy seed mixture on it. Repeat this until you use poppy seed mixture. You should finish with 2 sole layers of phyllo, just oiled with mixture of milk+oil.
You shold then cut cake into triangles before you put it in the oven heated on 180 degrees Celsius.
Bake it to get golden crust, and then soak with hot syrup.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Pancakes!

Pancakes are one of my favourite sweet treats. Big part why is it so lays definitely in the fact that you can prepare them in no time.
Pancakes I prepapre are, obviously, European, so not quite like American pancakes :) But I really love them this way. You can eat them with ice-cream, marmelade, nutella cream, honey, etc. Also, if you prefer salty variations, it is not a problem: just put mayonnaise and some ham, and voila!
Here is my basic recipe for pancakes:
1 egg
1 cup of milk
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups flour
Butter or oil for frying
Mix the above named ingredients until smooth, and then add as much water as you need to get liquid mixture. This way pancakes will be thin and delicate, as they will be easily poured over the buttered skillet and cover its entire surface. Before you begin frying pancakes, make sure to heat the skillet well-it should be hot. Add just a few drops of butter on the surface of skillet, to enable easy turning of pancake, and then pour one measure of pancake mixture to skillet, fry until you notice that edges are lifting. Then turn the panacake over, and fry from the other side. Then put pancake on the plate, butter the skiller and repeat the procedure until you use entire mixture.

What is amount of mixture for one pancake? It really depends on the size of skillet you are using, and how thin you want them to be. This recipe, as I have said, is for European pancakes, i.e. crepes, and they are supposed to be quite thin. You will get the idea from this picture. Enjoy!