Oooooh-oreo-oooooh balls

These little things are soooo gooooood! And so easy peasy cheesy to do, you won´t be able to do without!!! It´s one of those things you can do with zero effort reaching a 100% result, which everyone will die for. When you bring them to the table you might want to wear an armour, just in case; people might start fighting over who gets the last one... Now here´s the recipe, it´s no magic!

Ingredients:

1 package of Oreo cookies or similar

1 block of cream cheese, such as Philadelphia

1 pack of cooking chocolate either dark, milk, or white

Procedure:

Place the Oreo cookies in a bag/blender and smash/blend until they reach the consistency of sand (bigger crumbs are fine too). Then add the cream cheese and mix well with the smashed cookies. Roll the mixture into balls. Melt the chocolate and cover your balls with it (this is probably the trickiest part, but hey no panic!). Last but not least, leave them to cool then set in the fridge. Finally as I mentioned take a helmet and go for it! Hahaha!

Enjoy ♥

Martina

cHORSEcolate

I think you guys already know how much I love horses (see this post and this other post), nevertheless I simply can´t stop talking, posting, and baking about them. They are special creatures, able to make you feel special within that unique bond you have with them. I like them so much, that the thought of a horse cake makes me happy. I also really like this IKEA cake mould, so I guess this was just a perfect match! This time I made a really simple and fluffy chocolate sponge cake with confectioner´s sugar and melted chocolate. It´s so simple that I did not even bother to take it out of the mould, but I did take pictures instead, hahaha just because it does look nice! Recipe? No special one! I have no secrets to reveal this time; I am sure all of you have a mother, grandmother, aunt, cousin, neighbour, friend´s mother , and so on who bakes such a cake, so ask them ;) or if you really really really want to know and have this tremendous desire to ask me, then please do so in the comments below and I´ll post the recipe. In the meantime I hope you can enjoy this sight and this week.

"Horses are just like people; there are smart ones, dumb ones, miserable ones, honest ones, simple ones, cheats, freaks, leaders, and laggards. They have good days, bad days, and plenty of average days. They can be brilliant one minute, horrible the next. They can remember something that happened a year ago and forget what they learned yesterday. They´ll walk placidly into a metal starting gate that clangs and rings when the doors open, and then be scared of a bucket that wasn´t there yesterday."

The internet believes this was said by Quality Road´s trainer after he would´t load into the gate for the 2009 Breeder´s Cup Classic; doesn´t matter who he was, what matters is that he was right!

Bye ♥

Martina

By the way here is one more picture of him... ♥ Landi

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 ♥