Chocolate & Jam roll cake

 Hello, 

Today I want to share with you an easy recipe for a roll cake. 

You can use jam, chocolate, cream, pudding to fill it. I used my home made jam - plum jam to be more specific :) 

Ingredients: 

5 eggs 

6 spoons flour 

2-3 spoons of sugar 

vanilla essence or vanilla sugar 

baking paper 

How to:

Pre-heat oven at 180 degrees C. 

Separate the eggs and use a mixer to beat them up. Once this is done, you can mix up the whites and the yolks and add the rest of sugar, flour slowly. 

Lay it on the tray, in a thin layer (not more than 1 cm) on a baking paper. 

Bake it for 10-12min at 180 degrees C. 

Once done, you can leave it to cool down for a while, then spread the filling (jam, chocolate, etc.)

At the end I chose to cover it in chocolate spread and shower it with coconut flakes. 

The result is yummy! 

Greek moussaka - a lighter version

hello! :) 

It's been a while since I wrote here, but it doesn't mean I have not tried a variety of new recipes which I hope to share them here.

Today I will share my recipe for Greek moussaka . Summer time is the best time to try this recipe because you can find fresh aubergines - the most important ingredient of this dish. 

The regular recipe for moussaka calls for sour cream and grated cheese on top. I chose a lighter version: yogurt and just a tiny bit of cheese for serving. 

Ingredients: 

2-3 aubergines

1 onion 

500 gr minced meat (pork  and beef) 

2-3 cloves of garlic

tomato paste

2 eggs

250-300ml yogurt 

First, wash and cut the aubergines in slices of 1cm. Then you can either fry them with just a bit of oil, or place in the oven on a baking paper. 

While the aubergines are getting ready, you can prepare the sauce: onion, garlic chopped and then fried. Add the tomato paste, spices and the meat. 

In a tray, place the slices of aubergines, slightly one under another, like scales of a fish. Depending on how much sauce there is and how many aubergines you have, there can be more levels. So add the sauce and another level of aubergines and so on till ingredients are finished. In a bowl, mix the eggs and yogurt and then add the mix on top of the aubergines and meat. 

Bake in the oven for 45min-1h at 180 degrees Celsius. 

And voila, the final result: 

 Bon appetit! :) 

Creme brulee with a twist

 

A delicious dessert for the times when you don't wanna bother too much with the baking part. 

Here it is my interpretation of the famous creme brulee (Crème brûlée). 

Ingredients: 

- 6 eggs

- 1 glass milk 

- 6 spoons of brown sugar 

 - vanilla essence

- coconut flakes, coconut favoured sugar 

Cooking time: 1h 

Start by mixing the eggs with sugar until they double their volume. Add the coconut flakes and milk. 

The trick of baking the creme brulee is to do it in a bain marie style: pot in a pot with water. 

The oven needs to be set at a lower degree, 150 C. Bake for 45 min. 

The result is: 

it is extremely flavoured and has just the right consistency. I served it with ice cream. Enjoy!