Egg Sandwich Spread

My mom gave me after Eastern /almost/ homemade eggs from our neighbours and they look and taste amazing. Normally, I don't buy everything bio, but with eggs I was always careful to buy bio eggs knowing that those chicken have somewhere probably and hopefully better life and wanted to support that. But still, the bio eggs from a shop were never that yellow and tasty like the eggs from our neighbours. Judge yourself, look at the egg spread that I prepared: 

Strawberry jam

Finally, I managed to cook my own jam! Last summer I bought some beautiful jars but never found time. Until the last weekend. Our local grocery shop was offering big packages of strawberries and I bought two of them. One part I used for the strawberry sponge cake (recipe here) and the second part ended up in this wonderful, chemistry-free jam! Another plus is - its really not rocket science :) After tasting this jam, you will never ever buy it in a shop!! :) I guarantee that :) 

Strawberry sponge cake

There were first good-looking and -smelling strawberries in the shop so I though it might be the right time for the traditional sponge cake of my mum. I swear that there is not simpler cake to bake than this one! And there are no limits in terms of fruit, choose another type or mix everything possible together. 

Ingredients

• 2.5 cups of flour 
• 1.25 cup of milk
• 1 cup of sugar
• 0.5 cup of oil
• 1 package of baking powder 
• 1 package of vanilla sugar 
• 300 - 500g strawberries (or other fruit)

Directions

Mix all the ingredients together (flour, sugar, milk, oil, baking powder and vanilla sugar) and keep mixing till everything is well combined. Pour the mixture into a round baking pan (can be also squared) and throw on the top the fruits cut into small pieces (try to push them also inside). Bake at 180°C for around 45-60 min, doublecheck with a toothpick whether the cake is dry.

Carrot Cake

Its been long time since my last recipe, hope you didnt miss me too much :) Here I am again, with the most delicious, healthy and not-too-dry carrot cake recipe. If you try this one, you will never want to eat anything else in your life :) 

Ingredients

• 6 middle-size carrots
• 1,5 cups of spelt flour (you can use normal flour as well)
• 0.5 cup of brown sugar
• 2 handfuls of chopped hazelnuts and pistachios
• 4 eggs
• 1 bag of baking powder
• 3 teasppoons of cinnamon
• 0.5 cup of almond milk (can be normal milk)

• 200g of creamcheese/curd cheese/mascarpone (something solid)
• 1 bag of vanilla sugar
• 2 spoons of brown sugar

Directions

Mix in a bowl the eggs with sugar. Add the dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, cinnamon and mix well. Add the carrots and nut, and in the end also milk. Mix well. Preheat your oven at 180°C, and put your mixture into the cake round form. Bake for at least 1 hour, check the cake with a tooth-pick, if its dry enough. Wait until it cools down. Prepare the white cream in the meantime by mixing the creamcheese with sugar and vanilla sugar. Cut the cake horizontally into two halves and spread the white cream in lower part, cover it with the other half and spread the cream on the top as well. Keep it in the fridge for a while. 

Coconut Treat

OK, for this one, you need to love coconut, because there is almost nothing else :-) But on the other hand, there are many ways of serving, you can just keep it in your fridge and eat it, if you feel like having a sweet treat and the best part, there is no sugar, no butter, no flour, so kind of healthy :)

And here is our version for breakfast - with strawberry marmelade and kiwis!

Zopf (Vianočka)

This weekend was again quite successful in terms of baking and I tried to prepare the traditional "Zopf". Sorry for the German word, but I seriously have no idea, what would be the english word and since it is typical in German speaking countries, I decided to leave it this way. Here in Switzerland, it is typically salty but in Slovakia, is more in the sweet direction. Tastes great just with butter (and jam) and is typical breakfast food. 

Healthy crêpes

The last weekend was full of new recipes and meals. As you probably noticed, the spelt flour is recently very 'in' and everyone says it's supposed to be healthier than normal flour. So I bought one 1kg and here is my version of healthy crêpes: 

Banana Shake

I know that everyone knows how to prepare banana shake, but I have an upgraded version :) which tastes like heaven and you should definitely try it, even kid can prepare this! :) and as a plus, as there is no cow milk, its perfect also for people with lactose intolerance. Below mentioned amounts are sufficient for 2 people (2x 300ml).

French Toast

Dear readers! This time, I would like to introduce my version of French Toast or "Pain perdu". Not sure how many of you know this meal already, but I actually knew it only in salty version (i.e. only eggs with salt, which is also lovely, especially made by my mom :) ). I discovered in New York and it was sooo delicious :) that I had to try to prepare it at home. Last Sunday I planned to do the big spring cleaning and needed to motivated my man to help me, hence a perfect opportunity to prepare some french toasts :)

Croissants with bacon and cheese

Are you preparing an apero? Or just something quick for the road? Try these wonderful crosissants I am going to show you today. It is super fast, simple, cheap and delicious (of couse only if you are not a vegetarian because we are going to use some bacon!). With the following dose you will have around 16 pieces.