Apple and Almond Cake, The A & A Cake


Lately I've been really into cakes, which is quite strange since we are in the month of june. Let me explain. 
At this time of the year it should be nice and hot, so that the only threat that you could give yourself should consist of ice-cream. But this year it hasn't been neither summer, neither spring weather.
So I had to rely on those traditional filling desserts which are cakes.

I decided tot make an Apple and Almond Cake (I am going to call it the A & A Cake). I just made my basic yogurt cake (which is a family recipe) and added apples and almonds (to enrich it a little bit).




For the A & A Cake you will need:

1 pot yogurt (125 gr)(obviously)
1 pot vegetable oil
2 pots white sugar and vanilla sugar
3 pots all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
3 eggs
2 apples, peeled and sliced
40 gr almond flakes

Preheat your oven at 170°C.

Whisk the first 5 ingredients together. Separate the eggs. Add the egg yolks. 
Beat the egg whites until they're nice and fluffy. Add them slowly to the first mix.

Butter and flour your tin (23 cm) and pour half of the mix into the tin and put the half of the apples in it. Pour the remaining mix on top of the apple-layer. Add the remaining apples, make sure to make a beautiful layer. Sprinkle the almond flakes on top.

Bake it in the pre-heated oven for 45 to 50 minutes.

Take it out. Let it cool on rack.

Serve



I also made a mini one and that's how it looked like at the inside ...





Tasty isn't it! The next recipe will be a little bit more salty and fishy. On that final note.

Goodbye



XO

Super Chocolate Cake from Leila Lindholm


This week I had a massive dessert "order". I had to bake cakes for a party.
I was pretty sure that we couldn't miss a chocolate cake.







That's why I decided to make this cake from Leila Lindholm, which she describes on her website as 'My Sticky Chocolate Cake'

And do I still have to tell you that this cake was Utterly delicious? No, I don't think so (just LOOK at it!).

You will need:

50 gr butter
50 ml vegetable oil
2 eggs
170 gr caster sugar
70 gr brown sugar, I used blond sugar (cassonade)
150 gr plain flour
4 tbsp cocoa powder
2 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla sugar
1 pinch of salt
Butter and flour for the tin 
50 gr dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
icing sugar (optional)

Mix together the eggs and (white, brown and vanilla) sugar until the mixture "lightens up". Add the hot melted butter and the vegetable oil. 

Mix in a separate bowl the (sifted) flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. 

Add it slowly to the first mixture. 

Cut your chocolate in little pieces and add them to your mixture.

Butter your tin and pour some flour over it. Put in your mixture into the tin.

Place it in the oven that has reached 150°C.

Bake it for 30 minutes.
Let it cool down and sprinkle it with some icing sugar (optional).

Serve and EAT!



XO

Mutabbaq from Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi


Let's hop right into this oriental dessert.









I saw it in the the BEAUTY-FULL book Jerusalem from Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi.

For this addictive dessert you will need:

130 gr unsalted butter
14 sheets of filo pastry
500 gr ricotta
250 gr goats cheese (I used the one from Chavroux)

90 ml water
250 gr sugar 
3tbsp lemon

Butter your mould in.
Spread seven sheets of filo pastry in the mould, making sure to brush some butter between each sheet.
Mix the ricotta and goats cheese together and spread it 'evenly' onto your seventh sheet. Brush some butter on it and spread the other seven sheets of pastry like you did with the seven first ones.
Tuck in the edges.

Put it in the oven, that was pre-heated to 210°C. Let it sit there for about 25 minutes.

Make the syrup by putting the water and sugar in a pan and by mixing in it. Once it boils turn down the heat and add the lemon. Let it simmer for about two minutes. 

Take the mutabbaq out of the oven and pour the syrup all over it.

Serve immediately! But don't burn yourself!




It's really, really good!


Thank you Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi for letting me discover such a superb dessert.

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