Chocolate chip muffins

Start your day with them!

A classic recipe that still not so easy to find that works well...
So, here it is my favorite!



Ingredients (For 12 muffins)

250gr flour
baking powder (~ 3teaspoons)
a bit of salt
100gr (or more if you prefer :) of chocolate chips (I prefer dark chocolate)
1 egg
150gr sugar
vanilla
150ml milk
125gr of melted butter

Procedure

1. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees of Celsius and fan.
2. Butter a muffins tray or line with baking cups.
3. Combine in a bowl the following: flour, baking powder, vanilla, salt and the chocolate chips.
4. Mix well using a mixer the rest: sugar, butter, egg and milk.
5. Mix slowly using a spoon, the 2 parts.
6. Pour the final mixture equally in the 12 muffin tray.
7. Bake for about 20min.
8. Enjoy!

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Best cinnamon rolls ever!

Want to try the BEST cinnamon rolls on the planet? Then you have to go to Iceland !
Or just try my

cinnamon rolls!

Just came back from a road trip to discover this beautiful country with the dramatic scenery and our eyes are full of majestic waterfalls, lava fields, startling geysers and so much more :)
But let's concentrate to cinnamon rolls today.

There are several quality bakeries (called "Bakari" in Icelandic) and the two best that I can definitely suggest to try are : Braud&co and Passion in Reykjavik. The first one had the best cinnamon rolls on earth!!! that they are caller "kanil snudur" in icelandic btw.
You can imagine my first thought coming back from my trip:

redo my recipe of cinnamon rolls!

What a best way to start the new school year :)
Not to forget the lamb, btw. You have to try the lamb in Iceland... just delicious!

My favorite restaurant was outside of Reykjavik, close to Kerid crater: Þrastalundur.
I tried their lamb and family their pizzas ... best ever pizzas on earth too !!!
Happy traveling! 
    

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Oat flake and chocolate chips cookies

Great and healthy cookies full of oat flakes but also with chocolate!
Let your children play and make them for you, sooooo easy :)



Ingredients
120gr of oat flakes
100gr of chocolate chunks (or instead 220gr of a ready-made mixture of both as in my case)
240gr of all purpose flour
2 eggs
150gr brown sugar
120gr of butter
baking powder
vanilla flavor

Procedure

1. Preheat the oven at fan and 180 degrees of Celsius
2. Soften butter
3. Mix all ingredients together, but not too much
4. Shape small or big cookies with your hands
5. Bake for about 10min according to the size that you have chosen
6. Share them with your dear ones!
7. You can also join them by pairs using your favorite ice cream and make yummy sandwiches :)

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Vanilla flan

Easy summer recipe discovered through my Spanish neighbor (thnx!) Really fast to prepare but needs to be prepared a day ahead!



Ingredients
1 can of concentrated Nestle milk (397gr)
1 1/3 of the above empty can of milk
3 eggs
vanilla
1/2 cup of sugar (for the caramel)


Procedure

1. Put in the oven and at 180 degrees of Celsius, a wide oven dish filled with water up to 1/3 of it and wait to warm enough.  
2. Prepare the caramel by putting the sugar and a bit of water in a small casserole. Bring it to boil and wait for a couple of minutes until it turns to a nice caramel. Be careful though that it won't burn!
3. Pour the caramel in a cake mold and stir it to cover well the bottom and a bit the edges.
4. Beat well using a mixer the rest of the ingredients and pour the liquid mixture over the caramel.
5. Put the cake mold in the oven as in bain-marie and bake for about 30min.
6. take it out of the oven to cool down.
7. Refrigerate for several hours or better overnight.
8. Carefully un-mold the flan in a nice recipient, pour the rest of the caramel to drip on top and enjoy!

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My first book !

Happy birthday to me!!!

You won't believe what I got as a birthday gift (which was yesterday btw :) ...
my blog printed as a book !!!
If that is not a cooool gift ever ...
It's been a long time that I wanted to do such a thing but it takes so much time editing a book that I was always postponing it.
And my dear hubby did it for me!!!

You cannot imagine my emotions ....

My dear, it's a precious gift, those five years of my (our !) life through cooking and baking in a stylish book. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking all those long hours to do such a thing for me that you kept top secret with kids ...

Have a look at it... isn't it gorgeous??? and it's even better in real :P

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Moist coconut cake

I really love coconut and one of my favorite greek cakes is the coconut Ravani.
Given that it has a syrup, it makes it quite heavy in calories though. So, I was looking for a cake with coconut that is close to ravani but lighter.
Find today this version that I tried and I really liked a lot...

the moist coconut cake ! 

(In french we could call it "gateau moelleux au noix de coco")
If you like coconut, you have to try this easy but tasty version!







Ingredients
3 eggs
185gr of all purpose flour
250ml of milk
125gr butter (melted)
200gr sugar
75gr shredded coconut (and some extra for decoration)
1 baking powder

Procedure

1. You just mix well all the ingredients together for a few minutes and you empty in a buttered baking dish of 20cm of diameter. (Ok, if you want it fluffier, you can incorporate the ingredientd gradually) 
2. You bake for 30min and air at 180 degrees of Celcius. 
3. You can decorate with some extra coconut that you sprinkle on top. 

Enjoy!

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I cannot cook without them !

It's been a long time that I wanted to write an article about it... my favourite cookware!

Today is the day to start...
Here there are my favourite cooking cookware and other tools will follow soon:

• the enamed roaster BEKA, 42cm, for cooking in the oven
• it keeps the oven clean, food is delicious, meat is kept soft, it's easily cleaned
• the pressure cooker Fissler Vitavit, 10lt, 26cm, induction
• for fast, design, high-tech, healthy cooking
• the TEFAL ingenio wok pan, 26 cm, induction
• non-stick, easily cleaned, keeps moisture
• (more to come soon)   

How about yours?

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