Flipper pinballs

This past weekend has been a lovely one: 

picnicking in the sun, falling asleep on the grass, having strawberries with champagne, meeting nice people, and my beloved ones... and also baking for them these cute and colorful pralines which I call "pinballs"! Just like the ones you use to play flipper with.

What you need:

100 gr. mascarpone

50 gr. butter
100 gr. confectioner's sugar

1 egg yolk

50 gr. cocoa powder

·         100 gr. dry cookies such as McVitie’s

·         chocolate sprinkles, colored jimmies, silver pearls, coconut flakes, etc...

Procedure:

Beat the mascarpone with the butter, the sugar, and th egg yolk. When the batter is creamy enough add the cocoa powder and the crumbled up cookies.

Put the mixture in the fridge for about 30 minutes. 

When it is solid enough form little round pralines and roll them in whatever you like:  

chocolate sprinkles, colored jimmies, silver pearls, coconut flakes.

Keep them in the fridge before you serve them; they taste better when they're cold but still creamy.

They are really easy, quick, and fun to make. Try them, you'll love them!

Enjoy ♥

Martina

 

pictures: Giot :)

La vie en rose

Hi all! I'm back, back to my roots, back to baking! I know, I know I haven't been an assiduous blogger lately, but I'm full of ideas for this upcoming spring, so I promise I'll post much more often.

Since the weather still isn't exactly spring-like and I'm longing for the sun sooooo badly, I decided to anticipate the smell of flowers and the taste of them... Yes, the TASTE of roses! 

So I baked pink muffins with rose flavour.

What you need for about 12 muffin:

110 gr. butter

110 gr. sugar

110 gr. flour

1 spoon of baking powder

2 eggs

1 spoon of milk

1 pinch of salt

rose extract

pink or red food colouring

How to proceed:

Preheat the oven at 180° C and prepare the paper cases in the muffin tray.

Mix the butter with the sugar, the eggs, and the rose axtract (as much as you like - I put one spoon). When you get a fluffy consistency add the flour, the baking powder, the food colouring, and the milk. If the dough is too sandy add more milk.

Put the batter in the cases and bake for 15-20 minutes.

Before you eat them wait untill they cool down, otherwise you won't taste the intensity of the rose.

And when you'll savour them you'll see la vie en rose...

Enjoy ♥

Martina

The golden age

Hi all! Sorry I've been absent for a while but uni has got my full attention lately. Anyways today I simply have to tell you about saturday night's celebrations.

This year I'm turning 23 and since 23 is my lucky number (I was born the 23rd of January 1989; 2+3+1+1+9+8+9=23) I decided to give a party! Not just an ordinary one but a theme party: the golden age. From the Roman empire to the 80s' every epoch was allowed... and see what my friends came up with:

 Ivka chose the 50s', I was in the 30s', Anna was a geisha, and my mom was simply golden!

Umberto picked Mozart with a cat face and then turned into Casanova, Egon was a white jungle explorer...

Giovanni came from some oriental desert with his flying carpet!

Fanny & Christian directly from Asia

 Stephan was a rhino!!! Which epoch is that??? ;)

 Nils alias Fonzie! Yeah!

 Karina had a lovely Venecian mask and Romi wore golden shorts!

 

 

 Thankyou all for the lovely presents!

 And thanks to my mom who baked all day long and helped me organize the party. We were all delighted with a birthday Sachertorte and chocolate-nuts-muffins... no leftovers! Thanks also to Giovanni who has taken the pictures and has been the Aperol-Spritz-Master!

Enjoy :)
Martina

And this is how the party ended: fluo bracelets on an empty beer bottle.