Adopted from friend :)

Quick and crispy :)

You will need:
1 wafer ( app 28×37cm)
140 g sugar
4 egg yolks
140 g ground walnuts
140 g raisins
4 egg whites
15 grams of sugar

some ground walnuts for sprinkling

Like always, I made some twists and addition. i added chocolate and rum, so if you want to do my way, you will need
rum
and powdered chocolate.

With hand mixer mix yolks and sugar until smooth. Add walnuts, powdered chocolate, raisins soaked in rum and spread cream on wafer. Put wafer into a pan and place it in preheated oven. BE CAREFUL, you need to bake it only for few minutes, about 10 or some..Check occasionally, you will see when it's baked :)
While first part of cookie is in oven, mix egg whites with sugar. When sugar is dissolved, and the first part of cookie baked, spread egg whites mixture on baked wafer, sprinkle with walnuts and place it in the oven. Before that, switch off the oven, so that egg whites are slowly baked while oven is cooling down. When the egg whites are crispy and yellowish, your cookie is finished.

Cut it in whatever form you want, and don't hesitate to make more than one wafer, because you can get easily addicted to this cookie :)

Still, we don't know who is She. That famous Hungarian woman who inspired this traditional, low budget, and unbelievably tasty cake. But who cares, as long we know the recipe. You wouldn't believe how little ingredients you need for this cake, and when you taste it, you will not believe how delicious this cake is.

Dough:
600 g flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs
200 g sugar
8 tablespoons sour cream
140 g margarine or butter

Pour flour mixed with baking powder on the table and chop with margarine. Add sugar, eggs, sour cream and knead the dough. Then divide the dough in 6 equal parts.  roll the dough into a rectangle that is the size of a baking pan ( 32x33 cm). Bake on the reverse side of the pan. 

Chocolate-rum cream:

2 L of milk
20 tablespoons flour
400 g sugar   
100 g dark chocolate 
100 g milk chocolate
3 tablespoons cocoa
3 tablespoons  of rum
1 vanilla sugar

For cream, you need two bowls. Place 1500 ml milk in saucepan over low heat and in the remaining 500 ml milk mix flour and sugar . When the milk starts to boil, add the mixture and stir well until it's cooked. Remove cream from heat and add chocolate, vanilla sugar and rum. 

baked layers

When the first layer of cake is baked, start making the cream. It is important that hot cream goes on hot layers, so that cake is moist and soft right away. So you put first layer, cream it, second layer - cream..and you repeat till the end. Last layer shouldn't be creamed, because on top we will put chocolate glaze.

Chocolate glaze:
150 g dark chocolate
100 g milk chocolate
1 tablespoon sugar
about 3-4 tablespoons milk (add more if you think that glaze is not smooth enough, just don't make it too liquid)

Melt it in saucepan and pour on top of the cake. Working quickly, use a knife or long spatula to smooth the glaze across the cake letting it fall over the sides. When the glazing is completed, let the cake cool on the counter or in the refrigerator until the glaze has solidified.

 Who can wait for chocolate glaze?

No, they don't have a degree in art, but they are great for your art ambition or, for your kids, or for waking up your creative side.
Why?
Because dough for this cookies is great for modelling so you can form this cookies in any shape you want!
And yes, they are delicious too :)

Don't laugh at my art :D Owls, Brooms and Witch hat 

Or if you don't have time for art, you can simply shape it in form of balls

Batter:
100 g margarine, softened
 100 g brown sugar 
 2 vanilla sugar 
1 egg
4 tablespoon powdered chocolate 
2 tablespoon cocoa 
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons sour cream 
2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon rum 
300 g flour

Teddy bears

Mix softened margarine with sugar and vanilla, than add  egg and sour cream and whisk. Add flour, baking powder and knead the dough. Divide it in two parts. In one add chocolate cocoa, rum and cinnamon. Knead well.
Use your imagination. You can make balls for heads, eyes in different colour, arms, tail, broom...whatever you want. When you formed your cookies, carefully put it on baking sheet and put it in preheated oven.

 Black Cat

Bake it and leave it to cool down. Don't take them out too early, because they can crumble.

 Not so good Spider

And then the fig has kept her secret long enough.
So it explodes, and you see through the fissure the scarlet.
And the fig is finished, the year is over.

Oh, Mister D.H. Lawrence, how you were wrong. The year is almost over, but the fig isn't finished. She's waiting in a jar. For you to spread it on a crepes or a bread.When you taste it you can feel Christmas, summer and autumn...all in one.
I live in Slavonia. Sometimes we have cold and snowy winters, so it's not good place for fig to grow. Nevertheless, few years ago we have planted a fig, and now the fig is grown and produce a great deal of fruit.
Enough for make this delicious jam. So here is the recipe:

You will need:

2 kg fresh figs
about 200 g of sugar (I don't like very sweet jam)  
1.5 lemons (just juice)
2 slug of rum 
2 teaspoon cinnamon    
jam express

  

Wash the figs, clean it, trim any hard stems from the fresh figs. If the variety has tougher outer skins, chop them finely. Mix them in blender food processor,or chop it with a knife. Place them into the saucepan over the low heat. Simmer the figs with sugar, lemon, rum and cinnamon for 10 minutes, than add the jam mix (read the instruction). Cook about 30 minutes, until jam is thick enough.

Bottle the jam into sterilized canning jelly jars and close with a lid. Screw it on tight and set aside in a draft-free area to cool.

 

			The proper way to eat a fig, in society, Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump, And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.
			D.H. Lawrence

 I made a cake on Saturday, with a interesting name: Meter cake and I thought it would last till Sunday...but until Saturday evening, the cake was gone and I need to make a new cake for Sunday....but I didn't have enough ingredients for another meter, so I was in trouble.
I searched for edible stuff in my kitchen and I found bananas, butter biscuits and chocolate. And with little creative thinking, it was more than enough.

So here it is, Monkey see, monkey do:

Ingredients:

For "batter"
about 800 g butter cookies (petit beurre)
warm milk (chocolate milk is even better) 

Chocolate cream:

1.5 L of milk
15 tablespoons of flour
10 -12 tablespoons of sugar (more or less, depending on how sweet you like) 150 g dark chocolate 
2 Tablespoon of margarine (butter)
2-4 ml of rum (optionally, I adore rum, so I put a bit more: D)
1 vanilla sugar
bananas 
The more bananas, the better :)

Cream: Combine 500 ml od milk with sugar and flour in a sauce pan and mix together until the sugar and flour are dissolved. In a separate sauce pan, start cooking the rest of milk (1 L) over low heat. Place the pot with the egg mixture over a medium heat. When the milk starts to boil, add the mixture and stir well until a cream becomes thick. Remove a cream from heat and chocolate, vanilla sugar, rum (optional), and margarine.

In a baking pan put an aluminum foil. Soak butter cookies in a bowl of milk (not too much, so they don't fall apart) and arrange cookies in a first layer, covering the plate. Cover the top of the petit beurres with cream, and then a single layer of sliced bananas. Repeat twice, until you have three layers of petit beurres. Spread the last of the cream over the top and swirl it lightly with a spoon.  

Refrigerate for at least six hours, or until the biscuits have softened completely. Take a plate (bigger a than a pan) and hold the plate and pan firmly together, quickly and carefully flip the pan and the plate so that the pan is on top. Tap the pan sharply a few times all round with a wooden spoon, then lift off and take off the aluminum foil. Spread remaining cream over the cake. Decorate with grated chocolate, or a whipping cream.  

Miš Maš


"tijesto" 
oko 800 g petit keksa
toplog mlijeka (čokoladno ili s kraš expresom je još bolje)

Fil iliti papica (posuđen od mađarice)
1,5 L mlijeka
15 žlica brašna
10 -12 žlica šećera (ili više-manje, ovisno kako slatko volite)
150 g čokolade za kuhanje 
2 žlica margarina
2 žlice ruma (opcionalno, ja obožavam rum, pa malo više to stavim )
1 vanili šećer
banane - što više to bolje banana
 

Priprema
U tepsiju stavimo alu foliju. Namočimo petit kekse u mlijeko (ne previše da se raspadaju) i prekrijemo dno tepsije. Namažemo kremom, poslažemo banane isjeckane na kolutiće (oguljene dakako :D). I tako po želji u visinu slažemo, završimo, dakako, s keksima. Ostavimo preko noći u hladnjaku. Sutra dan preokrenemo tepsiju na neku tacnu i skinemo alu foliju, premažemo šlagom ili meni je ostalo fila pa sam s tim. Posipamo naribanom čokoladom.

A fil se pravi tipično, litra mlijeka se stavi na vatru da zavrije, za to vrijeme pomiješamo u pola litre mlijeka brašno i šećer, dodamo u zavrelu litru mlijeka i miješamo na vatri dok se ne zgusne. Dodamo čokoladu, vanili šećer, rum (opcionalno) i margarin.

Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.

Ryan Stiles

Spiral Cookies

300 g of flour
120 g of sugar
100 g of margarine
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 vanilla sugar
4 tablespoon rum
4-6 tablespoons milk
1 - 2 tablespoon cocoa powder
2 teaspoon cinnamon
 

 Preparation

Mix flour, baking powder, sugar, cold margarine cut in small pieces,vanilla sugar, rum and milk into a smooth dough. Knead dough until well combine and divide into two equal parts. One part set aside and add in another cocoa, cinnamon and 1 tablespoon of milk. Knead the dough until equally brown. Roll out each portion of dough to form a rectangle. Lift the brown dough and flip it over onto the white dough so they are stacked. Gently press the two dough pieces together. Roll the dough into a log. Place on a baking sheet. Place it into reheated oven (200 degrees C), for about 15-20 minutes, until lightly brown. Do not over baked cookies, they are much softer if you leave the dought a little bit moist (or raw). Evenly slice the roll and sprinkle your cookies with powdered sugar :)
Dok je moja mama bila još mlada curka, našla je ovaj recept na poleđini praška za pecivo…ona i baka su ga malo modificirale i tako su ovi jednostavni crno bijeli keksići postali dio moga djetinjstva…s godinama puno priča se nakupilo oko keksića, tako da kad ih danas pravimo, ne kušamo samo keksiće, već i lijepa sjećanja..nadam se da će tako biti i s vama :)

Sastojci
300 g brašna
120 g šećera
100 g margarina
2 male žlice praška za pecivo
1 vanili šećera
2 -3 žlica ruma
4-6 velike žlice mlijeka
2 velika žlica kakaa
2 mala žlica cimeta

Priprema

Umijesite glatko tijesto od brašna, šećera, margarina, praška za pecivo, vanili šećera, ruma i mlijeka. Tijesto dobro izraditi i podijeliti na dva dijela. U jedan dio dodati kakao plus još 1 žlicu mlijeka i cimet. oba tijesta razvaljati. Staviti jedno tijesto na drugo i zarolati. staviti peći na 250 stupnjeva, oko 15-20 minuta. Mi volimo da su malo sirovije, jer kad se tijesto ohladi, bude mekše :) Izvadit na dasku i rezati. Posuti sa šećerom u prahu i papati :)