And yes we have New Years Eve. Maybe some of you have allready celebrated the new year and some of you are still waiting... I wish you all a wonderfull and sweet new year.
Happy New Year!
Happy 2015 !
Happy New Year!
Happy 2015 !
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Greek "Diples"
The Greek "Diples" are a traditional greek sweet for events and religion days. They are with syrup and honey and decorated with walnuts. Try them and you will love this sweet!
What you need for the doug:
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup of coffee or ouzo mastic
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup orange juice which douse ½ teaspoon soda
- 800g. flour
For the syrup:
- 2 glasses of water (500ml)
- 1 cup sugar (230gr)
- 1 cup honey (400g)
For sprinkling:
-2 cups of tea walnuts
- some cinnamon
Preparing folds ...
Put in blender eggs one by one and beat on high speed. Add then ouzo or mastic and continue stirring. Then pour the orange juice and where we go off half teaspoon soda, and finally add and tablespoons oil while stirring. Finally add all the flour and continue beating. Remove dough from mixer and knead with hands throwing if needed and a little flour until it becomes fluffy and soft.
Cut pieces from the dough and roll into a thin sheet each with a rolling pin to give a rectangle shape. Then with pulley cut strips of dough. Take one strip to pour the hot oil with the help of a fork immediately give the next roll of the characteristic shape. We leave for a few seconds in hot oil and then withdraw it and put them on paper towels to drain.
Brewing syrup ...
In a saucepan boil water with sugar for 5-6 minutes. Then add the honey and let the mixture boil for some more time.
Completing our folds ...
Dip the cold folds for a few seconds in warm to hot syrup. Finally, pour a little honey, sprinkle with chopped walnuts and cinnamon and serve.
TIPS:
- Sunflower oil should covers the folds and is very hot when fried.
- The folds must be cold and the warm syrup to warm not to soft.
- Allow the dough to rest for about half an hour.
What you need for the doug:
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup of coffee or ouzo mastic
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup orange juice which douse ½ teaspoon soda
- 800g. flour
For the syrup:
- 2 glasses of water (500ml)
- 1 cup sugar (230gr)
- 1 cup honey (400g)
For sprinkling:
-2 cups of tea walnuts
- some cinnamon
Preparing folds ...
Put in blender eggs one by one and beat on high speed. Add then ouzo or mastic and continue stirring. Then pour the orange juice and where we go off half teaspoon soda, and finally add and tablespoons oil while stirring. Finally add all the flour and continue beating. Remove dough from mixer and knead with hands throwing if needed and a little flour until it becomes fluffy and soft.
Cut pieces from the dough and roll into a thin sheet each with a rolling pin to give a rectangle shape. Then with pulley cut strips of dough. Take one strip to pour the hot oil with the help of a fork immediately give the next roll of the characteristic shape. We leave for a few seconds in hot oil and then withdraw it and put them on paper towels to drain.
Brewing syrup ...
In a saucepan boil water with sugar for 5-6 minutes. Then add the honey and let the mixture boil for some more time.
Completing our folds ...
Dip the cold folds for a few seconds in warm to hot syrup. Finally, pour a little honey, sprinkle with chopped walnuts and cinnamon and serve.
TIPS:
- Sunflower oil should covers the folds and is very hot when fried.
- The folds must be cold and the warm syrup to warm not to soft.
- Allow the dough to rest for about half an hour.
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
TIP: Cookies Christmas Trees
If you want to make something special then take some of your cookie dough of your choiceand make some stars. They have to be in different sizes one big and then bit smaller till you have the samllest one for the decorating star on top of your tree. You can decorate them with fondant in any colour you want. The fondant you can stick with heated marmelade. And ready are your beautiful trees, which are a beautiful decoration idea for your Christmas table.
Have fun! ♥
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Christmas Marmelade Cookies
And Christmas is here. The last days to make some delicious sweets for Christmas. Some of my favorite sweets are Marmelade Cookies with chocolate.
What you need is:
- 200gr flour
- 100gr sugar
- 1 vanilla bean
- 250gr butter
- 1 egg
- Marmelade and couverture for garnish
Beat the sugar with the egg and the butter until it becomes creamy. Add the flavor and work with the hand. It becomes a combined dough, so you can make Christmas cookies with a cookie form.
Preheat your oven at180C and bake your cookies 10- 15 minutes. Let them be cold before you combine two cookies with the marmelade of your choice and the melted chocolate.
Have fun and bake delicious sweets for Christmas! <3
What you need is:
- 200gr flour
- 100gr sugar
- 1 vanilla bean
- 250gr butter
- 1 egg
- Marmelade and couverture for garnish
Beat the sugar with the egg and the butter until it becomes creamy. Add the flavor and work with the hand. It becomes a combined dough, so you can make Christmas cookies with a cookie form.
Preheat your oven at180C and bake your cookies 10- 15 minutes. Let them be cold before you combine two cookies with the marmelade of your choice and the melted chocolate.
Have fun and bake delicious sweets for Christmas! <3
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Monday, December 15, 2014
Greek Melomakarona
In Greece we have many different sweets for Christmas. I have shown you last year the "Kourampiedes". So this year an other idea for Christmas, I will show you "Melomakarona". These are traditional greek sweets with honey syrup and many spices.
What do you need:
- 240gr. cotton seed oil
- 240 g. olive oil
- 50 g. cognac
- 160 g. fresh orange juice
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 200 g. sugar
- 1 tsp carnation
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- Zest of 2 oranges unwaxed
- 900 g. Flour for All Crystals Uses
- 2 tsp Mpeikin Powder Crystals
For the syrup:
- 400 g. sugar
- 400 g. water
- 400 g. thyme honey
- ½ lemon juice
- ground pistachio or walnut
Sift the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Put the oil, seed oil, brandy, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, orange zest. Dissolve the soda in the juice and pour the mixture. Mix with wire, pour in the flour and mix gently to get the mixture.
Not pester the mixture too. The dough should be soft and oily. I get dough into walnut size and conjure small melomakarona. The array on trays. Light make plans with a fork on the surface and bake for about 25 minutes in a well preheated oven at 160o C air, well browned and crisp. Let cool thoroughly, completely.
For the syrup Put all ingredients in a saucepan and by the time you come to a boil, boil 3 '. Skim foam. Allow the syrup to a low temperature at 1 and members melomakarona. The dip in syrup about 20 'on each side. Sprinkle with peanut or walnut.
Tips
- Mold melomakarona very small, so that not much time chreiazonati myeloma. If creatures large, need more time cooking and more myeloma.
- The dough should be soft and oily. Once you add the flour and get into the dough and does not appear, then just stop kneading!
- For Syruping: airing well melomakarona, the dip in syrup simmering (the lowest temperature of the kitchen) and immediately sprinkle with nuts or peanut.
What do you need:
- 240gr. cotton seed oil
- 240 g. olive oil
- 50 g. cognac
- 160 g. fresh orange juice
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 200 g. sugar
- 1 tsp carnation
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- Zest of 2 oranges unwaxed
- 900 g. Flour for All Crystals Uses
- 2 tsp Mpeikin Powder Crystals
For the syrup:
- 400 g. sugar
- 400 g. water
- 400 g. thyme honey
- ½ lemon juice
- ground pistachio or walnut
Sift the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Put the oil, seed oil, brandy, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, orange zest. Dissolve the soda in the juice and pour the mixture. Mix with wire, pour in the flour and mix gently to get the mixture.
Not pester the mixture too. The dough should be soft and oily. I get dough into walnut size and conjure small melomakarona. The array on trays. Light make plans with a fork on the surface and bake for about 25 minutes in a well preheated oven at 160o C air, well browned and crisp. Let cool thoroughly, completely.
For the syrup Put all ingredients in a saucepan and by the time you come to a boil, boil 3 '. Skim foam. Allow the syrup to a low temperature at 1 and members melomakarona. The dip in syrup about 20 'on each side. Sprinkle with peanut or walnut.
Tips
- Mold melomakarona very small, so that not much time chreiazonati myeloma. If creatures large, need more time cooking and more myeloma.
- The dough should be soft and oily. Once you add the flour and get into the dough and does not appear, then just stop kneading!
- For Syruping: airing well melomakarona, the dip in syrup simmering (the lowest temperature of the kitchen) and immediately sprinkle with nuts or peanut.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Christmas Cupcakes
Something usual, but at the same time we love them: Cupcakes. I will show you a simple recipe with vanilla and chocolate flavor and beautiful decoration ideas. For Christmas are the Cupcakes a beautiful idea, because you can mix and decorate them if you want.
What you need is:
- 250gr butter
- 500gr all purpose flavor
- baking powder
- 300gr sugar
- vanilla
- 250gr milk
- cocoa powder
- salt
-4 eggs
Mix the butter with the sugar until they combine. Then add one egg after the other. When it becomes one add the flavor and the milk. Put some salt and vanilla flavor in it and the dough is ready. To get a chocolate dough take the half of it and mix cocoa in it. So you can put vanilla and chocolate dough in one Cupcake, to get a delicious result.
Have fun my friends! <3
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