SKUBANIEC - PLESNIAK - POLISH "MOLDY" CAKE (meringue, cocoa and blueberries)

My favorite Polish cake :)

Ingredients:

200 g unsalted butter
4 eggs
3 cups flour
1,5 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup and 4 tablespoon caster sugar
pinch of salt
2 tablespoon cocoa powder
fresh fruits (I used 250 g blueberries) or jar of your favorite jam

1. Cold butter mix together with flour, baking powder, 4 tablespoon sugar, pinch of salt and 4 egg yolks.
2. Make 3 equal balls from dough. One ball mix with cocoa. Put them to fridge for one hour.
3. Beat 4 egg whites together with 1 cup sugar until well beaten.
4. Prepare tray: grease it and sprinkle with flour or bread crumbs.
5. Pre-heat oven to 160 C degrees.
6. Grate one ball of dough on tray. Put on it blueberries.
7. On blueberries grate another one ball of dough.
8. Spread egg whites on dough.
9. Grate cocoa dough as a last.
10. Bake until meringue on top will be crunchy outside and soft inside (I baked 60 minutes).
11. If you are not very experienced baker you can bake each layer of cake for: grate white dough on tray - bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven. Add blueberries and grate another ball. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven. Add meringue and grate cocoa dough. Bake for 40 minutes or until meringue is ready.

Smacznego!

Mary Berry's chocolate chips muffins

I found this lovely recipe in Mary Berry's book "Ultimate cake book". This is one of the best books at my bookshelf.
Last time while I was in Poland I bought silicone flower trays. I think flower-muffins look beautiful.

Dark chocolate cake with white chocolate mousse

I have baked this cake for New Year’s party. My chocolate temptation.

Ingredients

1 cup milk

2 cups sugar

2 cups plain flour

1 cup sunflower oil

½ cup cocoa

2 eggs

1 spoon vanilla essence

2 teaspoons bicarbonate soda

1 teaspoon salt

300 gram good quality white chocolate

600 milliliters double cream

2 spoons powder gelatin

Cake:

1.     Mix together: milk, sugar, flour, cocoa, eggs, vanilla essence, soda and salt.

2.     When all above ingredients will be well combine add 1 cup of boiling water and mix again.

3.     Bake in 180 Celsius degrees.

4.     I have baked in small square bake tin. Need to be greased and sprinkled with bread crumbs.

5.     Bake for about 40 minutes. Ready cake will come off tin’s edges.

6.     When cake has cooled completely, cut it two times.

White chocolate mousse:

1.     Melt gelatin in 50 grams warm water. Mix until dissolve.

2.     Boil water in saucepan. Put on that heatproof bowl. Melt in bowl white chocolate. When melted take it out from heat. Leave to cool.  

3.     Start whipping cream. When nearly ready stop mixing,

4.     Slowly add to cream gelatin and white chocolate and mix by spoon.

5.     Spread mousse at cake.

Nara by E.S. Posthumus

Walnut schnecken

I found recipe for schnecken in "How to be a domestic goddess" by Nigella Lawson. I have changed ingredients for filling. I love eat schnecken for the evening snack with hot chocolate.