CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES OR LEMON: (dessert)

As the boys and girls are on holidays and we have to give them a snack ... I propose a recipe very easy to make chocolate muffins and lemon...

Ingredients:
With these amounts you will make 8 chocolate muffins:

- 4 eggs
- 8 tablespoons flour
- 8 tablespoons sugar
- 8 tablespoons ColaCao
- 1 teaspoon baking powder Royal
- 8 tablespoons olive oil
- 12 tablespoons semi-skimmed milk

The solids are heaping tablespoons.

To make lemon cupcakes, you will replace the ColaCao by a whole lemon zest, putting the same amounts and ingredients to make chocolate.

You shall put all ingredients in a bowl and will beat with blender until fluffy dough.
Then you will fill molds muffins halfway, with the paste.

Hot the oven to 200 degrees and once hot, it will lower to 180
Cooking time: 15/20 minutes.
Once baked, cool them and you put over a little icing sugar.

BANANA PANCAKES OR APPLE (dessert)

Today it is a dessert that will please all the children.
My grandson Albert 15 years, has surprised me this week, sending the recipe for a banana pancakes, which has cooked himself. 

Ingredients for 4 people:
- 1/2 kg. of bananas, if possible mature, Canary Islands.
- 3 tablespoons of sugar
- 3 whole eggs
- 1 cup of milk
- 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
- 1 lemon
- 1 pinch of fine salt
- 250 grams. of flour
 - olive oil

To go fast we will take a large bowl and we will put all the ingredients on it:
Bananas peeled and cut into pieces, sugar, 3 eggs, previously beaten, glass of milk, lemon juice, a pinch of fine salt, cinnamon and 250 grams. of flour.
Beat all the blender so that you stay a smooth, thick and smooth paste.

Then you catch a pan with olive oil. When the oil is hot,  adds one tablespoon of dough and fry let. With a spatula you give back, to be cooked on the other side.
You go down a little fire so that do not burn them.
When the pancakes are ready, you put to a paper towel to remove excess oil.
You can also add to the dough a half glass of anise (optional).

They can also be made with apples instead of bananas.
At the end you can add sugar glass or honey above.

The photos are the originals sent me by my grandson.

MONA EASTER (dessert) - homemade -

Since Easter Day is next Monday, day 28/03, I propose a recipe for "mona" home that will delight of your godchildren, grandsons or granddaughters.

1. Ingredients for the sponge cake:
We will make first cake that will be the basis of "mona"

- 18 tablespoons milk
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
- 200 grams of sugar
- 400 grams of cake flour
- 1 and a half yeast, brand Royal
- 1 lemon (scrape)
- 3 whole eggs + 1 eggwhite 
- a pinch of salt
- sweet cow butter for mold

In a saucepan you put the milk, oil and sugar and stir until sugar remains dissolved. Then you add the egg yolks and mix
their well until a paste thick. 
Then without stop stirring, you add the flour gradually.
I usually pass the mini-pimer so smooth and put then scrape lemon.
Besides you beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until
to soft peaks. You add them a pinch of sugar to make them tougher. Put yeast to the dough with egg whites and lemon scrapings.
In a baking dish, it rubs with butter, sprinkling with a little flour. Put the dough into the mold and let stand 1 hour. And afterwards, with hot oven, you kook the dough for 3/4 hour in a medium oven.
When it is ready,  you leave it to cool.

2. Ingredients for decoration:

- 1 tablet of black chocolate cover about 400 grams.
- a pinch of sweet butter cow
- peach jam, apricot, orange or strawberry ...to choose ...
- 1 large animal chocolate
- 1 egg chocolate for everyone
- dusters colors
- chicks

Besides black and chocolate coverage, unmake water bath, adding a little milk, butter fresh cow and reserving...
Once cold the cake, you split the cake horizontally and put jam in the middle.
The jam can be of peach, apricot, orange or strawberry ... according to the tastes ...
Then and after the jam covered with another layer of cake, adds couverture chocolate over it, letting it cool.
Normally I usually buy chocolate eggs and a larger animal  (a rabbit, a dog, a clown, a cat, also chocolate) and I place in the middle of the cake with the eggs around, with dusters colors and chicks, as you can see in the picture...
Put it in the refrigerator a couple of hours, so that the chocolate hardens and test passed ... !!!
I wish you a happy Easter Day and all children enjoy ... !!!

You can also decorate the "mona Easter" with plastic figures, according to the preferences and ages of children ...

FRITTERS: dessert

We have already started the Easter and like every year one of the favorite of children and adults desserts are fritters.
Here are three recipes that will delight all ...

1. fritters Emporda:
Ingredients:
- 250 grams. of flour
- 100 grams. of sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 small glass of anise
- a pinch of salt
- oil
- cumin

Beat the eggs and mix with flour, sugar, pinch of salt, anise and cumin.
Let stand 45'
The paste must be dense without being too much.
Heat oil in skillet (in abundance) and they are throwing the spoon, small amounts of paste, fry on both sides until well browned.
Drain on paper towels.
Donuts are placed in a fountain and watered liberally with sugar.

2. Apple fritters:
Ingredients:
- 250 grams. of flour
- 4 liters of milk
- 1 small glass of rum
- 3 eggs
- 100 grams. of sugar
- cinnamon
- a pinch of salt
- half a kilo of apples
- 1 tablespoon olive oil

Flour is poured into a bowl and gradually with milk and rum gets wet. When well crafted, they are added the egg yolks and beaten egg whites to form a snow.
It puts salt and work until well smooth and fluid paste. It also puts cinnamon.
Peel the apples, the center of each is emptied and cut skinny wheels, leaving them a moment to soak in rum, water cut.
Below is a taken to apples and smeared with dough, frying in either hot, plentiful oil until golden brown fritters. Drain on paper towels and serve hot, sprinkled with abundant sugar.
Rum can be replaced with brandy or kirsch.

3. Wind's fritters:
Ingredients:
- 200 grams. of flour
- 6 eggs
- 1 lemon
- 35 grams. of lard (pork fine)
- 1 heaping tablespoon sugar

It is catching fire a saucepan with a quart of water,
the rind of a lemon, sugar and butter. This boils
for five minutes, then he is added gradually, flour. Stir constantly until the dough is strong and well cooked.
That done, allowed to cool and added one after another six eggs, whisking vigorously.
Small portions of dough are then taken with a spoon and fry over low heat.
Drain on paper towels.
Finally they sprinkled with sugar and served hot.

APPEL PIE WITH CREAM (dessert)

It is a very easy and quick recipe to make ... while you make the food ... the cake is done in half an hour in the oven.

Ingredients:
- pasta breeze
- 2 thinly sliced ​​apples
- 2 custard Danone brand
- juice of half a lemon
- cinnamon powder
- gelatine with sugar (Tartafix Dr. Oetker brand) 

You put the dough breeze in a round baking tray and prick it with a fork. Then put it in hot oven at 200 degrees, 10 minutes.
You cut the apple into thin slices and put them with the juice of half a lemon and a little water in a bowl in the microwave 3 minutes.
Then you put up the dough breeze custard, extending them with a shovel. Then you place the slices of apple on top and dust the apple with a little cinnamon.
Place the baking tray in the oven at 200º, for 30/35 minutes.
Once the golden apple do, you take out of the oven. While you will have done a glaze with 250 ml. boiling water, Tartafix Dr. Oetker brand.
Mix their fine dust on the water with a manual stick and a spoon you add the gelatine over the cake until set. This fixed liquid fruit cake, in this case apple and brightens.
Let it cool and you keep in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.

HOMEMADE PANELLETS (dessert)

Yesterday afternoon, with my daughter Mireia, we put batteries ...
First, we went to buy all the ingredients and then about 17 o'clock, we started developing our panellets for all family ... end at 20.30 h. approx.

Panellets are typical of Catalonia, Aragon, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. Eaten for All Saints: November 1 and is a traditional dessert which is accompanied with chestnuts and sweet potatoes, as well as with sweet wine, Muscatel type, Mistela, Jerez ...

Ingredients for making pasta ... Calculator leaving about 60/70 panellets approx.

- 1050 grams. almond flour
- 650 grams. of sugar
- One boiled potato or sweet potato with skin
- The skin of a lemon, grated
- 2 whole eggs
- Paper tray oven (change every time that you put panellets to cook)
- Take apart icing sugar (for sprinkling) panellets coffee, hazelnut, chocolate, etc. for instance...

The dough:
potato with its skin is boiled and allowed to cool.
It peels and potato with a fork is crappy.
Mix everything well with other ingredients and made into a paste. It has to be worked very well to make it consistent.
Let stand about 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 220 ° -

Pine nut panellets:
Then you put flour in your hands so the dough does not stick ... you go taking the paste and doing balls, not very large.
Once made, you spread it with lightly whipped clear ... then going pasting sprockets.
Before you put them in the oven, using a brush, you paint with egg yolk.
Cooking time: 5 minutes (when you see browned, is already on the point ... and can get ...)
In the baking sheet you place special role at the base and then panellets.

To make coconut panellets:
The paste is the same, only add 50 grams. shredded coconut, giving an irregular conical shape.
Cooking time: 3 minutes.

Coffee panellets:
Add to pasta 2 tablespoons milk Nescafe coffee. Removed well with wooden spoon.
Then, with yours hands, you give the form you want.
Typically balls are made with a knife and proceed to make a cut above (as if it were a coffee bean)
Cooking time: 3 minutes.

Hazelnut panellets:
Smooth balls and put toasted hazelnut in the middle of each.
Cooking time: 3 minutes.

To make almond panellets:
As with the pinion and finally, instead of adding pine nuts, chopped toasted almonds do them done. After you paint the egg yolk and baked.
Cooking time: 5 minutes.

To make Chocolate panellets:
It should be added to the paste 2 tablespoons powdered chocolate without milk, stirring it well with a wooden spoon and give them the way you like it at the end ...
Cooking time: 3 minutes.

To make quince panellets:
Gather quince and you cut lengthwise, making strips about 15 cm. approx. almost square.
Put up a table to cook a piece of paste, smooth it and do a box of about 16 cm. long by 10/12 cm. wide.
In the middle of  the flattened dough, you place a strip of quince ...
Then you roll it as if  should be a sluice. You can cut with a knife the cannelloni, smearing previously ever clear mounted.
Cooking time: 3 minutes

In the end, you can sprinkle some panellets with icing sugar ...

CATALAN CREAM FOR THE DAY OF SAINT JOSEPH, (FATHER'S DAY) - dessert -

For days I'm not in touch with you. The reason is that I have moved house and now I'm living in Vilassar de Mar instead of Cabrera de Mar.

Tomorrow is St. Joseph, Father's Day and here in Catalonia is typical taste like dessert Catalan cream.

I send you the recipe if you want to enjoy this special dish ... !!!

Ingredients for 6/8 persons:

1 liter of milk

6 egg yolks

140 grs. sugar

1 cinnamon stick

4 fur-lemon

40 grs. starch for either cornstarch or cream.

In a saucepan put yourselves at the fire -all in cold- milk, egg yolks, sugar, cinnamon stick (split into 3 or 4 pieces), lemon skins and 40 grs. starch or cornstarch.

A simmering what you remove wheel without stopping until thickened, taking care not to boil.

Hot you lay on a tray and you leave it to cool.

Before you eat you put sugar on top and a good warm ... and ready burnest with a round plate ... you can serve it... and bon appetit ... !!!

APPEL TART TATÍN OR PINEAPPLE (dessert)

Today's recipe is a dessert. You can do it with apple or pineapple, bringing more you like it ... !!!
It is simple, economic and delicious ... and very appropriate for dinner or lunch eve of New Year ...

Ingredients for 4 people:
- 1 sheet of puff pastry
- 1 peeled pineapple or 4 large apples golden
- 200 grams. of sugar
- 4 tablespoons of "crème fraîche" cream
- A few drops of lemon juice
- A little water

Preparation:
First boil 200 ml. of water and 100 grams. of sugar over low heat 30 minutes, until it has the consistency of syrup. Let it cool and would you add 4 tablespoons of cream. Stir well.
With the remaining sugar candy making, with a splash of water and drops of lemon juice.
Then what do you pour into a round baking pan
-this is the base-
Then you cut the pineapple into slices or wedges and apple distributing as based on candy, pouring syrup on top.
What do you cover with pastry sheet, tucking it around so that it is tightly closed.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and you leave it for about 30 minutes.
When browned, you unmold the cake so that the pastry will stay down and pineapple or apple on top.
Serve slightly warm.
You can put cream over warm...tepid.