No-Oven Sponge Cake



Ever since I've shown interest in cooking and baking, I've always admired those who came up with their own ideas and recipes. That's why - right now - I'm super(!!) proud to tell you that I was able to invent a new recipe on how to bake a no-oven sponge cake! I've almost bursted out in tears when I saw that I've succeeded at my first try (maybe that's exaggerated). Anyway, watch the video down below to get to know the recipe! (Also my first YouTube video!)

 



How to make Cream Puffs

Oh cream puffs...you and I share a painful past...(okay, I'll stop being melodramatic). But it's true: When I was younger, I didn't like cream puffs and as soon as I discovered my passion for baking, I failed horribly at my first attempt to bake them (I think that there is even a proof-shot on Insta!). Either way, after several trials, I've finally got the hang of it and I have to say that there is nothing easier to make than cream puffs! Scroll down for the recipe!

Ingredients (for around 20 cream puffs):
250ml water
60g butter
1 pinch of salt
200g flour (soft)
4 eggs
250ml whipping cream
60g sugar
sugar powder

1. Preheat the oven to 230° and sieve the flour.
2. Boil the water, the butter and the salt in a pot.
3. Pour the sieved flour into the pot and stir it until the dough declamps from the bottom.
4. Put the dough into a bowl, let it cool down a bit and stir it together with the eggs.
5. Insert the dough into a piping bag and form little cream puffs (let enough space between them!).
6. Bake them for around 15 to 20 minutes in the bottom half of the oven.
7. Cut them in half while they're still warm.
8. Beat the whipping cream and the sugar until the mass is stiff. Spread it onto the cream puffs.
9. Sift some sugar powder over them and eat!



Enjoy! 

Crème brûlée recipe

Creamy, crunchy and simply delicious: one of the best desserts from France - Crème brûlée!
Today, I will show you an easy-to-follow recipe on how to make this pudding!

Ingredients:
Heavy cream 400g
Sugar A 50g
Sugar B 30g
Yolk 4
Vanilla essence or sugar
Water 15g

1. Mix the yolks and half of sugar A together.
2. In another bowl, mix the heavy cream and the other half of sugar A together.
3. Now, pour the ingredients together and stir them until they blend in with each other.
4. Put in a few drops of vanilla essence.
5. Pour the mixture into dishes and bake them in the oven for around 40 minutes by 150°C.
6. Microve the water and sugar B in a heatproof dish for exactly 2 minutes and 10 seconds.
7. Spread the caramel over the pudding.
8. Enjoy your dessert!

I think that this recipe is almost foolproof - just pay attention to the heated caramel and that you have to spread it fast or it will harden. Also, you can vary the amount of sugar, with the amount I've used, it turned out to be pretty sweet, but everyone's preference is different, right?

Sweet Tonic Smoothie {Berrys&Fruits}

Winter is always a cold season when we get sick easily and when we hide under our cozy, warm blankets. Sitting at our desks while watching TV series and drinking hot chocolate or tea applies to all of us, right? So why don't we change up the game and try something different?
It's important to have a healthy and balanced diet, especially in winter, so that's why I mixed all the ingredients I had at my reach together and this is the (yummy!) result:

 

What You Need:
a palmful of raspberries
a palmful of redcurrant
3 pears (peeled)
1 banana
1 tbsp cherry compote
250ml orange Juice
a mixer

How to:
Blend all of the ingredients together. Afterwards, sieve the smoothie through a mesh to avoid having a mouth full of little pits. Top it off with some blueberries and you are good to go!

You can pour your smoothie into a bottle too and drink it while being in school or on the way to work. Since this smoothie is also very filling, you can just drink it when you are running late in the morning and don't have time to prepare a big breakfast.

What about it? Simply mix together what is left in your kitchen and experiment around!