Just for Dear Sandra: From Croatia with Love

Or, do you think love is measurable? I'm currently reading book Hector and the Search for Happiness: A Novel, and it's very cute book, and on an end they are talking about measuring happiness..It makes me think...
Can you measure love? As a kid, when I wanted to show someone how much I love them, I would stretch my hands as wide as possible and said: I love you THIS much!!".

Well, today I'm sending ONE METER of Love to my dear Sandra.

What you'll need:
Round Loaf pan

For batter:
4 eggs
250 g white sugar
150 ml of water

150 ml of oil
250 g  of white all propose flour
1/2 baking powder
2 tablespoon powdered chocolate
1 tablespoon cacao

Cream:
800 ml of milk
2 egg yolks
200 g of sugar
80 g vanilla pudding powder
150 g butter or margarine

• Mix the egg whites. Set aside. Mix egg yolks with sugar until it's smooth. Than add  water, oil, flour , baking powder and egg whites. Divide mixture in two equal parts. In one add powdered chocolate and cacao.  
• Oil the round loaf pan and sprinkle with flour. Pour the white mixture in and put it in preheated oven. When it's light brown, remove from oven. Wash the pan and repeat procedure with  dark batter. 
•  Cut both biscuits into the ribs.

• Meanwhile, for a cream, mix egg yolks with sugar until smooth. Add pudding and 300 ml of milk.  Place 500 ml milk in saucepan over low heat. When the milk starts to boil, add pudding mixture and stir well until it's cooked. Let it cool. In cold cream add butter (or margarine) and mix well until it's smooth.  
• Next, with cream "glue" one rib of white biscuit and one rib of brown biscuit. Repeat until you have used all "ribs". Wit remaining cream coat the whole cake.

• For chocolate glaze, mix 300 g semisweet chocolate, 2 tablespoon milk and 2 teaspoon oil, and stir on low heat until it's melted. Coat the whole cake. Sometimes, I also decorate the cake with the whipping cream. Put it in a refrigerator.  
• Important: When you cut the cake, DON'T cut it right, you need to cut at an angle of 45°, that way you will get interesting structure of the cake. Well, see for yourself, taaadaaa:

Kolač na metre

Biskvit:

4 žumanjka

25 dkg šećera

1,5 dcl vode

1,5 dcl ulja

25 dkg oštrog brašna

½ praška za pecivo

Snijeg od 4 bjelanjka

Umutiti žumanjke s šećerom dok smjesa ne postane glatka. Dodati vodu, ulje i brašno s praškom za pecivo. Miksati. Podijeliti smjesu u dva jednaka dijela. U jedan dio dodati 2 žlice čokolade u prahu i pomiješati. Svaku smjesu posebno peći u prethodno namašćenom i pobrašnjenom rebrastom limu.

Krema:

8 dcl mlijeka

2 žumanjka

25 dkg šećera

2 kesice pudinga od vanilije

150 g maslaca

5 dcl mlijeka staviti na vatru. Žumanjke i šećer izmiksati, te dodati 3 dcl mlijeka i puding od vanilije. Uliti puding smjesu u mlijeko koje je počelo vriti. Miješati dok se proključa, odnosno dok se ne zgusne. U prohlađenu kremu dodati maslac.

Ohlađeno tijesto rezati po rebrima. Spajati jedno svjetlo i jedno tamno rebro s kremom dok ne utrošimo sva rebra. Ostaviti kreme za premazat kolač izvana. Preliti glazurom ili šlagom.

Glazura:

4 žl vode

4 žl šećera

5 rebara čokolade

Malo margarina

VAŽNO: Kolač se ne reže klasično, već ukoso, kako bi dobili sve boje na tanjuru, odnosno zanimljivu mustru kolača.

Or you can simply call it Apple cake, but Upside Down Fairytale sounds much more tempting, and this cake is surely tempting! You take one bite, and you can't stop until it's gone. Than you crave for more. until the whole cake is gone :D

Well, at least this cake is not calorie - bomb, so you don't have to feel much guilt after eating it :)

Ingredients 


8-10 apples (depending on the size of a pan)
8-10 tablespoons of jam
8-10 tablespoons of ground walnuts
raisins (optional) 
Tip: jam, walnuts and raisins depend on the size od apples, if they are bigger you'll need more tbsoons, the trick is to fill them to top.
Biscuit
5 eggs
5 tablespoons sugar
2 Tbsp of flour
2 teaspoon of baking powder 
1 package of vanilla sugar (12 g)

Cream
80 g of vanilla pudding powder (2 packages)
800 ml of milk
6 tablespoons sugar



For decoration, optional
chocolate glaze or whipping cream, or nothing :)

Peel and core apples so you have a whole inside of each apple, like this: 

Oil a baking pan and sprinkle with sugar. Place the apples to each other (tip: in each apple hole place one small peace of an apple, so your filling doesn't leak out) and fill each hole with jam, ground nuts and raisins. Place it in preheated oven.

Meanwhile, place egg whites and yolks in two separated bowls. Mix egg whites. Then mix yolks with sugar and vanilla sugar until it's smooth. Add flour, baking powder and egg whites. Put aside. 

When apples are softened, remove them out of the oven, coat them with the biscuits batter and return to oven. Bake until it's golden brown.
 

 
Take a plate (bigger than a pan), protect your hands 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. The cake should be left on the serving plate with the apples on top.

While the cake is cooling, make a pudding. Place 500 ml milk in saucepan over low heat and in the remaining 300 ml milk mix pudding powder and sugar. When the milk starts to boil, add pudding mixture and stir well until it's cooked. Spread the pudding over the cake and decorate with whipping cream or chocolate glaze.

Place in refrigerator, and wait, it's worth it :)

and i'm so sad
like a good book
i can't put this day back
a sorta fairytale
with you...

Tori Amos 

Torta od jabuka (Naopaka bajka)

 

Sastojci
8-10 jabuka (ovisno o tepsiji) oko 

10 žlica pekmeza 

oko 10 žlica mljevenih oraha 

po želji grožđice

biskvit
5 jaja 

5 žlica šećera 

2 žlice brašna 

malo praška za pecivo

1 vanilin šećer

Fil 1
2 pudinga od vanilije 

7 dcl mlijeka 

6 žlica šećera

Fil 2
2 šlaga
 

Priprema 

1. Jabuke oguliti i izdubiti. Tepsiju namazati uljem i posuti šećerom. .Slagati jabuke jednu do druge. Ja u svaku udubinu stavim komadić jabuke na dno da ne curi fil.

2. Udubine jabuka popuniti pekmezom, mljevenim orasima i grožđicama. Staviti peći. 

3. Kada jabuke omekšaju izvaditi ih van i preliti sa izrađenim biskvitom, te vratiti u pećnicu. 

4. Kada se i to ispeklo, izvaditi kolač van i istresti ga iz tepsije. 

5. Ohlađeni kolač premazati pudingom i šlagom. 

6. Staviti u hladnjak