Easy coconut cake

What an incredibly light and crumbly afternoon cake. Follow the link below for the recipe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kcj-MeONjY&fbclid=IwAR1FPPZvKBvGlLubhCQmV097yIqAZ8fDIH5Wxb9xAmWbFd-F7suxJ1knL8A

Hungarian Crepe / Palacsinta

Since discovering this recipe from No Salty, a Hungarian food and recipes site, I have already made it twice. These are not as thin as crepe but the texture for me is spot on, a bit chewy , just the way I like it!

Palacsinta
https://www.nosalty.hu/recept/edes-palacsinta-alapteszta

Ingredients (at room temperatureÖ
makes : 12 crepes
3 eggs
4 Tbsp sugar (I used only 3)
1 sachet vanilla sugar
a pinch of salt
12 Tbsp of flour
480ml milk
50ml cooking milk


Just follow the video included in the link above for instructions.

Chocolate swirl cookies / Chocolate melting moments

Made these when we had guests over last Sunday. The biscuit / cookie recipe from Tin and Thyme was perfect and it was filled with chocolate butter cream instead.

Chocolate swirl cookies
credit :-
https://tinandthyme.uk/2016/09/chocolate-viennese-whirls/?fbclid=IwAR0ZMq9xPhfnw2QEDWZ5ClMdw3v38rbLQbbzZUa-HDpXEqvssUnqhIbh0Ps

Ingredients

Viennese Whirls

• 200 g unsalted butter - softened
• 75 icing sugar
• 25 g cocoa powder
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 180 g plain flour (140g plain flour+40gm corn flour *will reduce corn flour the next round)
• pinch salt
• 1 tbsp milk

Using Your Spritz Cookie Press

Roasted Peri Peri Chicken (Nando's copycat)

All of sudden I crave Nando's peri peri chicken and of course we don't have Nando's in the country. To satisfy this craving I simply followed this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3LLD5R995s) and boy, it turned out so good!

Roasted Peri Peri Chicken

Chicken - either whole, drumsticks, wings or thigh, your choice

Blend together and marinate :-
Red sweet pepper
Red onion
Garlic, a lot
Lemon juice
Bird's eye chilli , to taste (I used dried)
Smoked paprika powder
Oregano
Salt and pepper, to taste
Sugar
Red wine vinegar (I used apple cider vinegar)
Olive oil

Please watch the link given above for detailed instructions.

Oven roasted five spice Peking chicken

As I search for a Chinese-style roast chicken last minute, I didn't have very high hope for the results as the recipe says marinate chicken for minimum 4 hours and I didn't have time for that.

What I did differently to counter the lack of marinating time was put the chicken in the pre-heated oven together with the marinate liquid. It tasted acceptable to me. I am going to make sure I have time to marinate the next time.

Recipe from https://pupswithchopsticks.com/oven-roasted-five-spice-peking-chicken/?fbclid=IwAR0RfAKOYsKCIhwetT_xcPdoRKRfIvPofwIo6Xn3RUKBItrQwi8AgzXPGGc

Butter cookies with meringue and apricot jam / Non-Plus Ultra

Some people call this poor-man's macaron..haha. Many consider this a retro cookies, it really deserves more love! I will be making these again the coming Christmases and when we have guests over. It is so easy and tasted good! Check out the link to see how it should look because meringue and presentation need some improvement.

Non-plus Ultra
credit : https://receptneked.hu/edes-sutemenyek/non-plus-ultra-5/?fbclid=IwAR33-i2lvAso08m96HPIg5g5Zk-l-RHo6gBE8_q8czJ0UD0jiYLy0ACM6Jo

video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16wD_haYuA

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• Ingredients
• Cookie dough :-
• 200gm All-purpose Flour
• 2Tbsp powdered sugar
• 2 sachets vanilla sugar
• 200gm butter, room temperature
• 2 egg yolks

• Meringue :-
• 2 egg-white 
• a pinch of salt
• 200gm powdered sugar (I find that less sugar works too)
• 1tsp lemon juice

• Filling :
• 2-3 Tbsp jam of your choice, a more tart jam will work better to counter the sweetness of meringue

Method :-

1) In a bowl, put in the flour, powdered and vanilla sugar. Mix well. Next , crumble in the butter, use fingers to work butter in until crumbly texture. Then put in the egg yolks and knead the mixture until it becomes a dough. Let the dough rest in the fridge for 30 mins.

2) Pre-heat oven at 160`c. 

3) After 30 mins , take dough out from fridge, roll dough out , thickness about 0,5cm . Use round cookie cutter to cut into shape and place on a lined baking dish.

4) Make meringue by beating egg white with a pinch of salt. Beat for 1 mins to get the egg white frothy. Then add about 50gm of sugar, start beating again, after another min. add lemon juice and another 50gm of sugar. Beat and add sugar gradually until you reach shinny and thick consistency. not too runny. Pipe meringue onto cookie and bake in the pre.heated oven for 10-15 mins until nice colour.

5) Let it cooled before filling with jam. It better to make these a day before serving.

Or to make ahead of time, keep cookies in air-tight container without filling. Keep in the pantry. Fill with jam before serving.