Happy New Year and Bonbon project 2.0

The New Year has come. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday with their beloved ones, friends, colleagues, whoever, with whom you could cook, bake, eat perfect foods together and had a great time. For Xmas this year since I am a gourmand and have this gastro blog, I didn't have another chance but only prepare eatable presents for everyone, my family and friends also. I prepared a lot of delicious things already before xmas, in all December but from all I loved making bonbons. It has endless number of variant and who doesn't love...

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Colourful tiny cakes in winter - vegetable-cheesy quiche

I prepared these colourful small quiches for a Saturday breakfast since I needed to try my newly bought pie forms. For the dough I used again the recipe of, Michael Roux from his book Pastry: Savory and Sweet. You can make 6 quiche (baking in 10 cm round shape form)  from the below ingredients. Ingredients: For the dough:  250 g flour 1 egg 150 g soft butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 pinch of sugar 1 tablespoon cold milk (I used yoghurt instead of milk)  For the filling (what I prepared this time): 2 db triangle cheese 2...

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Kladdkaka - The famous Swedish chocolate cake

We arrived at the next stop of our series about Swedish desserts, the kladdkaka. The Swedes has many national day around the year when they celebrate the day one of their national desserts such as kanelbullens dag (the Swedish cinnamon rolls) on 4th October or Fettisdagen (the Fat Tuesday) when the whole Swedish nation eats semla or like today, on 7th November when everyone bakes kladdkaka at home.  The word "kladdkaka" means sticky cake. This cake is the first dessert what the Swedish...

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Bonbon project 1.0 - Bonbon filled with lemony white chocolate cream and sour cherry jam

The long weekends always give a handle to try those dishes, cakes and recipes we have deferred for a long time. I also devoted partly my weekend for this vagary. On the one hand these wonderful bonbons were prepared on Saturday, and yesterday ginger-cinnamon Williams pear jam. Wowowowow!! Even I made both for the first time but I wanted to create something special and unique and to be "very unpretentious" I think they turned out well.   I stated that I still need to improve related to bonbon (I would like if my bonbons...

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Apple-cinnamon muffin with walnut crumb

I'm already in Christmas mood, especially when the cinnamon apple started to flavour from the oven. These muffins are simple (the recipe can be sum up in 3 steps) but delicious, soft and very Christmasish :) Ingredients (6 pieces): 1 egg 1,5 dl yoghurt 3,5 dkg butter or marge 12 dkg flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon pinch of salt 8 dkg sugar 10 g vanilla sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 middle-sized apple For decoration: 1 handful walnut + 1 tablespoon sugar 1. In a big bowl mix the egg and yoghurt. In another one mix the flour...

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