Zima, zima, zima je, e pa neka je.

Al samo što nije.

Nema snijega, nema hladnoće, ne ciče djece i nema grijanja prstiju na vrući burek iz pekare.

Božićni bor obasjan suncem izgleda nekako žalosnjikavo.

Prašina se bolje vidi, a bogme i mrlje, pardon, njuškasta umjetnost moga psa na balkonskom staklu.

Mandarine baš i nisu fora za jesti dok jedem sladoled kako bi se razgalila nakon dolaska iz vana s proljetnog vremena.

Isprobavanje teksture

E pa zimo gdje si?

Ako neće zima meni, ja ću zimi.

Ili ću je prizvati keksima od mandarina.

gotovi keksići

Recept je ekstra jednostavan, ali ja sam bila mnogo komplicirana. Žonglirajući između psa koji se tepe pod nogama jer obožava putar i bebe koja visi u nosiljci i obožava dodirivati neobične teksture,

Pomagač

Pa evo mjerila:

SASTOJCI
100 g omekšalog maslaca

100 g kristal šećera

1 razmućeno jaje

250 g pšeničnog brašna

Malo praška za pecivo

1 vanilija šećera ili mahuna vanilije

Malo soli

3 neprskane mandarine srednje veličine (sok, meso i korica)

1 žlica kakaa

Vrhovi prekriveni snijegom :D

ZA KAPUTIĆ
Šećer u prahu
Kristal šećer


PRIPREMA
Maslac i šećer izradite sa viljuškom. Dodate vaniliju, razmućeno jaje s malo soli, te umutite.
Zatim dodajte brašno s praškom za pecivo. Sve dobro izradite rukama, pa dodaje sok, meso (ono što vam ostane na šiljku od cjediljke, ne opnu, već samo meso) i koricu. Ako je tijesto prevodenasto, dodate još malo brašna. Dobro izraditi - klapa druga. Zatim razdijelite na dva dijela. U jedno dodate veliku žlicu kakaa i izraditi. Oba tijesta zamotajte u prozirnu foliju i stavite u hladnjak (ili na balkon ako je nula stupnjeva i ako nemate ptice, pse ljubitelje kolača i slično :D) na pola sata. Nakon pola sata od tijesta pravite kuglice koje uvaljate u kristal šećer pa šećer u prahu i slažete na pleh obložen papirem za pečenje. Neka loptice budu dovoljno udaljene jedna od druge, jer će tijesto malo rasti. Peći oko 15-20 minuta u prethodno ugrijanoj pećnici na 180 stupnjeva.

prvi snijeg

 Keksi su jako fini i hrskavi izvana, mekani iznutra, lijepi oku, ugodni želudcu i fini nosiću i kao vrhunac: prizvali su snijeg!


*Iako mislim da ću probati stavit recimo bademovog brašna slijedeći puta kao mali eksperiment, odnosno nadogradnju*

Prizvali smo snijeg

You've probably heard of Grumpy cat already.

I'm in love ♥

When I saw this picture on the Internet & thought I'd share with you :)
Maybe one day, if I'm not grumpy enough, I will bake them :)

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 :)

No, You didn't read it wrong. And yes, you are on a right page! The name of this dessert is little strange, but the dessert is fantastic: it looks great and tastes fantastic :)

Don't worry, it's not some witch potion where you need to cut off your grandpa's mustaches. The cake is named like this, because when you slice up the cake, you get pieces that looks like mustaches :) Interesting, right? :)


You don't believe it? Look for yourself!

Dough 


350 g of flour 
150 g margarine or butter 
7 tablespoons of milk 
1 tablespoons of sugar 
4 egg yolks 
4 teaspoons baking powder 
2 tablespoons of sour cream

Place the flour and baking powder onto a flat work surface and shape it into a well. Pour the milk, sour cream, egg yolks,  margarine or butter, sugar and a pinch of salt into the center of the well and work into a ball of dough. Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough into a square block. You will get 3 blocks out of this recipe. 

 


Filling 


4 egg whites
200 g ground walnuts
vanilla sugar
1 - 2 tablespoons of cocoa 
150 g sugar

With electric mixer beat egg whites, add sugar and vanilla sugar and continue mixing until egg whites are firm enough and all sugar is dissolved. Then add ground walnuts and cocoa, and carefully mix it with spoon.

Now you will need:
some jam 
some ground walnuts for sprinkling
some cocoa and a little bit of cinnamon


Spread jam over the roll out dough leaving the middle of dough empty. Sprinkle ground walnuts, cocoa and cinnamon over the spread jam ,

and now roll the dough on both side (left and right) equally, so that you leave a little empty space in a middle. 

Put the dough into a pan. Fill the empty space with filling and put it in a preheated oven.

Bake until lightly golden. Take out of the oven.


plus
50 g  milk chocolate 
A little icing sugar

When the cake cools, sprinkle sides with icing sugar (white whiskers ;) ) and in the middle spread the melted milk chocolate. 

Čičini brkovi

Za tijesto:

350 g brašna

150 g margarina ili maslaca

4 žumanjka

1 prašak za pecivo

7 žlica mlijeka

1 žlica šećera

2 žlice vrhnja

Za posip:

Mljevenih oraha

Cimeta

kakaoa

Zamijesite tijesto i razdijelite u tri dijela. Tanko razvaljajte i namažite pekmezom lijevu i desnu stranu, ostavljajući sredinu praznu. Pospite pekmez obilato s orasima, cimetom i kakaom. Zamotajte lijevu i desnu stranu, ostavljajući malo mjesta u sredini. U njega ćete staviti fil.

Fil:

4 bjelanjka

200 g šećera

200 g oraha

1 žl kakaoa

Izmiksati bjelanjke s šećerom dok ne dobijete čvrsti snijeg, Umiješajte orahe i kakao. S tim filom popuniti sredinu kolača.

Staviti peći na 200 stupnjave i peći dok ne dobije lagano smećkast. Izvaditi. Posuti kolač a strane šećerom u prahu, a sredinu premazati s rastopljenih 50 g mliječne čokolade.

Pri rezanju dobijete kekse koji nalikuju čičinim brkovima =)

 

No, there is no wine in this cookie. Probably they got their name, because you should eat them with wine. I don't know. But I know that they would go very well with milk, juice, chocolate, coffee, tea, or just plain. So if you don't have wine in house, but you have cookie cravings, go for this recipe. They are similar to lady fingers, their texture is crispy, but soft in the same time.

 But don't relay on my words, go, try for yourself!

Dough:

500 g of flour
3 teaspoon of baking powder
130 g softened butter or margarine
240 g of sugar 
1 vanilla sugar
2 eggs 
1 egg yolk 
sugar for sprinkling

Sift the flour and baking powder on the table. Add the softened butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and eggs. Knead dough until all ingredients are combined. Than roll out the dough.

In a small bowl or cup, lightly beat egg. Brush dough with beaten egg. Sprinkle with sugar. Take your cookie cutter, cut the dough and place it on a baking sheet.

Bake for 8-10 minutes in preheated oven. If you like them more crispy you can bake them for view minutes longer until they are golden brown. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely. 

Vinski kolačići

Sastojci

500 g brašna

240 g šećera 

1 prašak za pecivo

1 vanilin šećera

2 jaja

1 žutanjak

šećer za posipanje

Priprema

U brašno, pomiješano s praškom za pecivo, udrobimo maslac. Zatim dodamo sve ostale sastojke i umijesimo. Razvaljamo na debljinu noža (ja ih i malo deblje – onda budu mekaniji, a ako su tanji – prhkiji) i narežemo u oblike štapića. namažemo žutanjkom i pospemo grubim šećerom, stavimo u tepsiju i pečemo. Voila! :)

Posluživanje

Ja ne čekam da potamne, već ih još bijele vadim, jer moji vole mekanije :)