Finding Nemo... eating cake!

Guys I just realised I haven't posted this cake from when I was in Como at the end of this summer. So here it is now! Luckily enough I found the recipe again; the net can be tricky with this stuff.

Ingredients:

180 gr. flour

180 gr. sugar

65 gr. butter

100 gr. grated coconut

150 ml. milk

1 egg

1 tablespoon baking powder

Grated peel of 1 lemon

Juice of 1 lemon

Confectioner's sugar

Procedure:

Beat the butter and the sugar until light and fluffy, then add the egg. Separately mix the flour and baking powder with the milk trying to eliminate lumps. Now blend the two mixtures gently and add the coconut, lemon peel, and juice. Spoon the batter in a cake mould and bake at 180•C for about 15 minutes or until golden brown. When cool sprinkle with confectioner's sugar and, if you wish, decorate wit some fondant. I decided to go for a fishy which reminded me of Nemo, one of my favourite Disney/Pixar characters and movies.

Enjoy

Martina

If life hands you lemons...

make a lemonade? No! Bake a cake! It´s light, fluffy, and refreshing. This amazing recipe is perfect for hot summer days when creamy cakes are simply too heavy and it is also ideal for using the egg whites yo might have left over from another recipe.

Ingredients

300 gr. of sugar

150 gr. oil (not olive oil)

300 ml. water

400 gr. flour

30 gr. baking powder

6 egg whites 

the peel of lemon

confectioner´s sugar

(for a smaller cake you can halve the amounts)

Procedure

In a mixer beat the sugar, water, and oil. Then add the flour, baking powder, and lemon peel. 

Separately beat the egg whites until stiff and then add them to the other mixture.

Spoon the batter in a cake mould and bake in the preheated oven at 180°C for 30 minutes. When ready let it cool, then sprinkle with confectioner´s sugar and garnish with candied lemons, which can be easily done at home. Just take a small pan, pour in the same amounts of water and sugar and heat until well incorporated. Then add some lemon slices and let them candy for about 15 minutes. Last but not least decorate your cake and enjoy enjoy enjoy!

♥ Martina ♥

Autumn leaves

If I were to say that this weekend has been intense I would say too little about the past days. It would be like saying that the autumn leaves are orange and red although all together they create a blaze of colours.

Surprising, hectic, dynamic, crazy, funny, sweet, flowery, sunny, warm, friendly, weird, unexpected, so it was been. Ending up in a weird cave club, sightseeing and showing my friend around Salzburg, eating Sacher Torte by the river, enjyoing the autumn sun in the Allee, feeding horses whilst fighting allergies, and of course baking; nothing more, nothing less than a lovely couple of days. 

Furthermore over the weekend the HsB has been very much appreciated and I really hope to get more positive feedback about my baking activity. So I'm sharing with you these tasty autumn muffins with lemon peel, ginger, and cinnamon, glazed with maple syrup.

Enjoy ♥
Martina

 

P.S. Thankyou for the flowers...

P.P.S. here's the recipe!

Ingredients:
150 gr. butter
125 gr. brown sugar
175 gr. flour
2 eggs
1 tablespoon of milk
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 pinch of salt
the peel of 1-2 lemons
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon ground ginger
&
maple syrup or honey for the glaze

Procedure:
Put all the ingerdients in your mixer to obtain a smooth mixture. Put the batter in the paper cases and bake in the preheated oven at 160°C for about 20 minutes.
Glaze your muffins with the syrup/honey and enjoy with a cup of apple and cinnamon tea.