This fine, sweet and a bit sour dessert is perfect for winter, but also for summer days. In winter it is good because you can eat it as soon as you take it out of the oven, and in summer you can have a refreshing dessert from the fridge. If you like fruits of the forest, you should try this.

INGREDIENTS :

250 g of frozen fruits of the forest (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries etc. … )

150 g of Amaretti biscuits or (Pettit beure biscuits, Plazma biscuits etc. … )

250 g of Mascarpone or cottage cheese

250 g of solid yogurt

4-5 spoons of honey

45 g of brown sugar (you can use white sugar, too)

1 tea spoon of cinnamon

PREPARATION :

1 . heat the oven to 220 degrees …

2 . mix Mascarpone and solid yogurt …

3 . mix sugar and cinnamon separately …

4 . put 1 spoon of ground biscuits into small moulds, to make the bottom well covered, put fruits on the biscuit and one spoon of honey over the fruits…

5 . pour Mascarpone, which is mixed with yogurt, almost to the top of the mould, cover the fruits with cheese completely …

6 . sprinkle with mixture of sugar and cinnamon abundantly, so that cheese cannot be seen any more …

7 . put in the heated oven for 7 – 8 minutes …

8 . serve immediately and enjoy the hot dessert, and if you do not like it hot, you can have it cold as well …

 

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Soft, juicy, aromatic – how delicious our Braided Easter Bread is! Each year I am glad to prepare it for my family. It spreads wonderful smell around our kitchen, creating special and beautiful Easter atmosphere in our home.

INGREDIENTS :

FOR DOUGH :

½ cube of fresh yeast

1 package of baking powder

45 g of solid yoghurt

45 ml of oil

¼ tea spoon of salt

½ tea spoon of sugar

165 ml of warm milk

lemon peel

FOR FILLING :

2 packages of vanilla sugar

100 g of nuts

100 g of carob

1 tea spoon of cinnamon

2 big apples or 3 small ones

1 spoon of rum

15 spoons of milk

100 g of sugar

COATING :

4 spoons of water

egg white

sturdy sugar

PREPARATION :

1 . dissolve the yeast in warm milk with sugar …

2 . put flour, baking powder, salt, lemon peel, solid yoghurt and dissolved yeast into a bowl…

3 . stir the ingredients shortly and add oil…

4 . make smooth, soft dough and then form a ball with your hands …

5 . put some flour on the bottom of the bowl, put dough on it and flour it …

6. cover the dough and let it double its size …

7. in the meantime prepare the filling ….

8. peel the apples, and grate them …

9 . put all the ingredients except apples into a bowl and stir them well …

10 . mixture must be homogenous and creamy …

11 . add apples to the mixture and stir well …

12 . then knead the risen dough long and narrow …

13 . fill the dough, leaving some 2 cm of the dough empty on the top to avoid leaking when

rolling …

14 . roll the dough, then cut it into two pieces, from the half, to avoid breaking up …

15 . wind the two pieces of dough one over another gently ….

16 . repeat the same with the second part of the dough …

17 . form a circle to make a wreath, then plait the ends …

18. put baking paper into the baking tray and lay the braided bread into it gently …

19 . if you want to, you can butter a glass jar and put it in the middle of the braided bread to

avoid narrowing of the inner circle during baking …

20. mix egg white and water until white bubbles appear …

21. glaze the braid bread with a brush and sprinkle sturdy sugar on it …

22 . bake the braided bread in the formerly heated oven at 190o C for about 30 – 40 minutes …

23 . take out of the oven and let the Braided Easter Bread cool …

 

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Lava cake

Lava cake is extremely soft and juicy, it is rich in  flavour of chocolate pouring out of the cake.

It is the right choice for all chocolate lovers. In winter days at your warm home you can’t miss with lava cake.

 

INGREDIENTS:

4 eggs

200 g. butter

200 g. dark chocolate

70 g. flour

100 g. sugar

1 tea spoon of cinnamon

pinch of salt

 

PREPARATION:

1. Warm the oven up to 200ºC …
2. Melt butter and chocolate over hot water …
3. Let the chocolate cool, so that it is just warm (chocolate mustn’t be hot)
4. Mix eggs and sugar to make a nice cream
5. Add melted chocolate, mixing all the time
6. Mix till the mixture gets homogenous …
7. Add sieved flour and cinnamon to put a pinch of salt …
8. Go on mixing lightly till all ingredients are homogenous …
9. Pour the mixture into oiled and floured moulds … if you use silicon muffin moulds, you do not have to oil them …
10. Put the moulds on the baking tray to carry them into the oven more easily …
11. Put lava cakes in the formerly warmed oven …
12. Cakes are baked for 7 minutes if you use silicon muffin moulds, and if you use a bit larger porcelain moulds, then the cakes are baked for  9 -10 minutes …
13. Be careful not to overbake the cakes, because chocolate cannot pour out then …
14. Serve the lava cake hot to let the chocolate pour out … a scoop of vanilla ice cream suits lava cake perfectly…

 

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