20.1.2019
Chocolate and cherries. I opened my freezer and cherries were staring at me. I was craving for something with chocolate and cherries, and mostly, for a big amount of cake. I was firstly thinking of Black Forest bars with heavy cream on the top, but then I thought that they don´t contain enough chocolate. Therefore, I replaced heavy cream with…
13.1.2019
Since right now I don´t have my university lectures, I can make parfait cups. I really like them, but I don´t do them during my university time because they are difficult to transport and they take a lot of space in my bag. Parfaits are usually light and also easier to make than a traditional cake. A new year is…
6.1.2019
Cakes and cookies from holidays are almost gone and for someone this period is about new year´s resolutions and losing weight. I never really understood the principle of new year´s resolutions and new year´s wishes. One who wants to do some resolutions, he/she can do it anytime during a year, he/she doesn´t have to wait until new year. When it…
29.12.2018
Today, untraditionally, I add a recipe on Saturday. Since I´m going to bake something savoury for New Year´s Eve tomorrow, I thought that today is better – one can be inspired, bake tomorrow and he/she still has some time until Monday 😀 For those who are fed up with Christmas sweets, New Year´s Eve is a rescue, sweet changes to…
23.12.2018
I passed my last school exam, I can finally profit from Christmas atmosphere. Christmas tree is decorated, almost everything is baked (I still have one cake and one filling to do), so the only thing left to do is to put my feet up and not to care about anything, at least not until tomorrow 😀 This cozy Christmas atmosphere…
16.12.2018
Only one week left. I admit that I haven´t baked anything yet, not a single thing 😀 I have my last exam on Wednesday, only then I can fully bake, decorate a Christmas tree, a house and profit from Christmas mood. For the first time in 5 years of my university study, I won´t have to study for anything during…
9.12.2018
Although Christmas baking is mainly about cookies, I´m sure you also bake one or two creamy cakes. Moreover, what´s more Christmas-y than the smell of gingerbread. I combined gingerbread with traditional American recipe for Red Velvet and made Christmas Gingerbread Red Velvet Bars. The dessert Red Velvet is known for its fluffiness, red color and mascarpone or cream cheese and…
2.12.2018
December is here, not only calendar, but also weather, says that. I hope that it will get wiser and there won´t be -15 Celsius degrees during a night anymore, I am not used to this kind of chilly weather. The best thing to do in such weather is to tuck up in a blanket with hot chocolate, a laptop on…
25.11.2018
Some people are already baking for Christmas, but I try to avoid Christmas baking, I still have time for it, at least one week. By this time, the blog will be in Christmas mood too. I noticed mangoes on sale a few days ago, so I took two of them and I was wondering at home what I would make…
18.11.2018
I´m sure it happened to you too. There is a phone ringing, telling you that a visit will come in about two hours. There is no cake in a refrigerator, so you need to work quickly in order it will be ready by then. I had some defrosted puff pastry in a refrigerator, so one problem solved. I decided to…
11.11.2018
Although it is just November, my freezer is full of summer fruit, so it would be about time to use it. The first one to use up was cherries from summer. Of course, you can use fresh cherries instead of the frozen ones, you will just need to use more water. I wanted to make a chocolate cheesecake for a…
4.11.2018
No, I don´t bake for Christmas yet, although it may look like it. Cookies don´t have to be make only at Christmas, if I have some time left, since I always bake more batches (= more baking pans), I like to bake them also during a year. However, the first time I baked these Hazelnut Cookies with Nutella Filling was…
28.10.2018
The combination of poppy seed and lemon hasn´t been here a while so I made Lemon Poppy Seed Cheesecake Muffins. Since I had some mascarpone which needed to be used up, I´ve been tempted to make some cheesecake muffins for a while. Fluffy cake batter in muffins with creamy cheesecake center, well, who could resist that. A muffin taste is…
21.10.2018
Halloween is coming and although I don´t celebrate it, I never refuse an occasion to make some funny dessert. Halloween Frankenstein Tartelettes look funny, they are easy to make and if you don´t want to, you don´t even have to use food coloring. Pistachio custard itself has a green color, so tartelettes will have a slight green color way one…
14.10.2018
So the last this year cake from seasonal fruit is here. Frozen fruits, bananas and similar stuff will have to be used in a while. This Apple Cream Cheese Cake became so popular, that I saw varied recipes for it everywhere, even a week after I made it, it turned up in a newsletter of a shop. Like I say,…
7.10.2018
A chocoholic is here. There is almost no fruit, it is too early for freezer supplies, so here comes chocolate. My inner me is beyond happy when she can make (and then eat) anything with chocolate, winter is good exactly for that, the easiest access is to chocolate. Today, I have a real delicacy for chocoholics – Extra Chocolate Cupcakes.…
30.9.2018
So, fall is here. Yes, I know it is here for a few days now but these temperature fluctuations are relatively new for this year. If it was just warm or cold weather, not changing constantly. I know that fall is here when my body doesn´t want to adjust to these fluctuations and I always get the cold/flu on the…
23.9.2018
It got cold, I don´t even know when, but you can still find a few apples in your garden. And you can make this traditional Slovak Upside Down Apple Poppy Seed Cake Bars with them. Who wouldn´t recognize it, I think it is a must-have in Slovak homes. In my place, when I was little and we had lots of…