Beetroot Muffins :)

Rainy days call for some different activities and last week we found a lovely beetroot muffin recipe that we thought we should try out :) 

I wouldn't say the muffins were particularly tasty, but the process of making them was great fun and it seems we have another beetroot lover in the family :) 

Scone and sun day :)

We love scones that were freshly baked and served with fresh clotted cream and raspberry jam :)

So here's our favorite recipe :)

Ingredients:

400g self-raising flour

1 tbsp caster sugar

80g butter

250ml milk

and some flour for dusting

Preparation:

1. Oven on 220C. Line baking tray with baking paper and dust it with flour.

2. Sieve flour to the bowl, add sugar and butter and rub it together with your fingers, 

until it looks like bread crumbs.

3. Add milk and mix everything together until you've got a nice ball ow dough.

4. Roll it to about 2cm thick and cut scones with a round biscuit cutter

 (or scone cutter if you've got one).

5. Put them on the baking tray with 1-2cm gaps between them and brush them with some milk.

6. Bake in the oven for about 15 min or until golden :) 

Serve with raspberry jam and clotted cream or butter 

Mmmmm... Looking all rustic :)

Relaxing with daddy :)

Home made Fruit Ice-cream :)

I saw a photo some time ago of lovely fruity ice-cream somewhere online. So when it got really hot (which doesn't happen very often in Wales) I thought I'll try and replicate it. It came out pretty good actually! The only thin I would change is probably putting cherries instead of strawberries for the red colour. Strawberries had way too much water in them and just didn't taste of anything.  The rest of fruit (banana, kiwi, blueberries) was great, because it had more body to it. I've packed the fruit into the molds and poured Pina Colada juice mix on top, which added a nice tropical twist to it :) 

Here's how it came out :)

  Blueberry Cake

   Perfect served slightly warm, topped with crème fraîche, this     moist cake can be served as a dessert or as a treat at teatime.

  Ingredients

• 150g blueberries
• 125g self-raising flour
• 200g unsalted butter, softened
• 200g caster sugar, plus extra for dusting
• 4 eggs, separated
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• Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line the base and sides of an 18-20cm round, loose-based cake tin with baking parchment. Rinse the blueberries, pat dry and dredge in 1 teaspoon of the flour.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the softened butter and 175g of the caster sugar until very pale and fluffy. Beat in the egg yolks. Sift the remaining flour into the bowl and gently stir in.
3. Whisk the egg whites in a thoroughly clean bowl until soft peaks form. Gradually whisk in the remaining sugar. Using a large metal spoon, fold a quarter of the whisked mixture into the creamed mixture to lighten it a little, then fold in the remainder. Turn into the tin and gently level the surface.
4. Scatter with the floured blueberries. Bake in the oven for about 1 hour or unitl the surface feels firm and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
5. Leave the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then transfer to a serving plate. Scatter with extra blueberries and dust with extra sugar. Enjoy!!!

Project per Day: Apple Cake Baking :)

Today's afternoon project - apple cake :) And it was delicious!!! 

Here's our easy peasy recipe:

3  large eggs (4 if smaller)
1 cup of sugar
1,5 cups of plain flour
1 tbsp baking powder
2 tbsp vanilla sugar
100ml oil (we use olive oil)
2 cups of pealed, cored and chopped apples
1 tbsp cinnamon

1. Whisk eggs and sugar. 
2. Add flour, baking powder, vanilla sugar and stir well.
3. Add oil and stir until smooth consistency.
4. Dust apples with cinnamon and add to the mix. Stir well.
5. Grease a baking tin, add mix and bake in the oven (180C) for about 30 - 40 minutes. Check with bamboo stick if cooked through (poke it and if it comes out clean with no mix on it - it is done).
6. Can be dusted with powdered sugar at the end <3 

Little bakers :)

Apples prepped

Looovely with a cup of tea :)

Enjoy ;)

My No-Bake Cheesecake :)

We made a giant cheesecake yesterday :) And what a tasty treat it was this afternoon! Definitely recommend it for an easy no-bake desert ;) Recipe from here. We've slightly changed it as we did not have any oranges. And we used a different kind of biscuits for base. But nevertheless it was a heavenly light, moist and tasty desert :)