Easy Cheese Cake

Ingredients

400g Quark cheese

400ml milk cream

200g sugar

6 eggs

8 portions of The Laughing Cow cheese

1 pinch of salt (optional)

Preparation:

1.- Mix everything together

2.- Bake in pre-heated oven at 160°-180°C for about 45 min (until the centre is not fluid anymore)

3.- Cover with fruits marmalade

Biscuits with chocolate cover

Preparation time: 45min

Baking time: 15min

around 20 units (but depends on the used biscuit form)

Ingredients:

200g flour

1 enveloppe baking powder

1 enveloppe vanilla sugar

80g sugar

100g butter

1 egg

1 pinch of salt

some chocolate for the decoration

Preparation:

Mix the flour with the baking powder and the vanilla sugar, add the sugar, the egg and the butter after letting it soft a bit.

Mix all the ingredients in the mixture carefully until a homogeneous dough is builded.

If needed add more flour so that the dough does not stick to the fingers or the table.

Let the dough stay for about 30min in the fridge.

Afterwards, roll the dough into a plank of about 0.5cm wide and cut the biscuits with a biscuit form (we use one of the Neuschwanstein castle).

Bake them in the oven for around 11 min. After they cool down, paint them with the molten chocolate and let it solidify again.

Beschwipster chocolate cake

Preparation time: around 15 min

Baking time: around 40 min at 160C in a modern air oven preheated also at 160C

Ingredients

115g butter

140g dark chocolate (around 70% cacao) in pieces

2 spoons brandy

85g brown sugar

6 eggs (yolks and egg white apart from each other)

50g coconut powder

425g whipped cream to decorate

Preparation:

Warm up the chocolate to melt it and mix it with the brandy. Wait for it to cool down a bit.

In another recipient, mix the butter and the sugar with a spoon or a wooden instrument, cutting the butter previously in small pieces helps. To this mixture and under continuous mixing with a electrical mixer, add the yolks one after each other.

Afterwards, add also the chocolate mixture.

Finally add the coconut.

Whisk the egg whites hard until peaks, then add them slowly to the previous mixture with continuous mixing.

Put the mixture inside of a 23cm round mold (we used a hearth form of the same size). Bake it until the inside is dry (test with a needle or a fork) and let it cold down inside of the form.

As final touch, decorate at will with the whipped cream.

Muffins double chocolate

This recipe is a modification of one from a cooking book concerning only chocolate recipes :)
We changed a few things and tried it yesterday, here the technical data.
Final units: around 14-15 muffins
Preparation time: around 15 min
Baking time: around 20 min at 175°-200°C in a modern air oven, preheated at 200°C

Ingredients:

200g flour

25g powder cacao

1 little envelope of chemical baking powder

1 little spoon of cinnamon

120g brown sugar

50g black chocolate (around 70% of cacao)

2 eggs

100ml sunflower oil

230ml milk

 

Preparation:

Recipient A:

mix well the oil with the eggs, then add slowly the milk to the resulting mixture of the eggs and oil, mixing well those ingredients.

 

Recipient B:

put the flour, the cacao powder, the baking power, the cinnamon and the brown sugar and mix them together with a spoon or wooden instrument. When the powder-like mixture is more or less homogeneous, add the dark chocolate in small pieces and distribute it in the mixture.

Add the liquid mixture of recipient A into the solid powder-like mixture of recipient B, mixing it slightly with the spoon or wooden instrument. Do not mix too much to avoid that the muffins become too hard in the oven.

Distribute the mixture in the muffin forms and put them into the oven.

Back until they are dry inside (puncture one with a long needle or a fork to check it).

Enjoy !

No Cheese Inside ???

A recipe I tried last week at a Chinese photo session.

Background info: A Polish friend of mine was in China for the Olympic Games, enjoyed a very nice time there, was having a couple of pictures to share with us an, of course, a bunch of stories and anecdotes to amuse us.

Mission: The requested task was to provide with some food for the evening, namely the (in)famous Bode Cheese Cake (I will post another date about it) but as it needs to be prepare one day in advance and to stay inside the fridge for a night I decided to try a different one.

Code: Quesada Ester which should be something like Esther's Cheese Pudding.

INGREDIENTS

• 75g butter
• 2 eggs
• 125ml Yoghurt (use the container for the measurement of the other ingredients)
• 250ml Sugar
• 250ml Flour
• 500ml Milk
• a grated lemon's peel
• powder cinnamon

Preparation

1. Warm up the butter a few minutes to liquify it a bit
2. Mix afterward with the rest of the ingredients except the cinnamon (the two eggs, the yoghurt, the sugar, the milk, the flour and the lemon's peel).
3. Once the mixture is ready, transfer it into a mold and bake it in the oven.

Temperature and time inside of the oven depends on the actual technical specs of the oven used. A medium temperature (around 180° - 200° C in a traditional European oven) should give the best results.

There is not need to open the oven and poke into the pudding to see if is already done. Just look to it through the window of the oven.

The pudding should start to rise up until it gets a uniform golden colour. Just take out of the oven at this point and let it cold down. The pudding sink down again.

It should be keep inside of the fridge as it should be cold at the moment of bringing it to the table.

Just take it out of the fridge, add some cinnamon powder onto the surface of the pudding, and... Ready !

Dexter

not Morgan but Jettster.

Probably the most famous cook and dinner proprietor of Coruscant, Dexter will take over this space to share with us some of the more exquisites recipes of the Galaxy, tailored to all tastes, or so we hope...

Every journey has a first step, every saga has a beginning.

The saga is called in this occasion "Ulrich Chococake" also just Ulrich and the first step is the list of ingredients.

INGREDIENTS

• 200g Chocolate 50% cocoa (at least)
• 100g butter
• 100g sugar
• 4 eggs
• 3 big spoons flour

Preparation

1. Melt the chocolate together with the butter by gentle heating (microwave 50% power, around 3 minutes or a few moments on the flame)
2. Separate the egg whites from the egg yolks or yellow portions.
3. Beat the egg whites to produce a buoyant foam (remember the century we are, use electrical tools)
4. Add the egg yolks (and don't stop the stirring)
5. Add the sugar (keep stirring until you don't feel the sugar grains anymore)
6. Add the melted chocolate-butter mixture (don't need to be cold)
7. Add the three normal size spoons flour

When the mixture is ready, transfer it into a circular mold and then bake it into the oven.

Temperature and time inside of the oven depends on the actual configuration and technical specs of the oven used.

In a classic or traditional european oven 20 minutes at 200°C (pre-heated oven) should be fine. However with an induction powered oven, 5 minutes at 170°C (pre-heated oven) followed by 15 minutes at 150°C should yield a nice result.

Just take your cooking notebook (If you don't have a cooking log book, out of my kitchen ! ) and make sure you take good notes about the results and the time/temperature.

Enjoy !