Originally uploaded by Daniele Muscetta

Found the recipe on the internet, adjusted it a little bit because did not have all the ingredients in the house. They turned out pretty good, and are very easy to make.

Ingredients:

3 banana’s smashed
150 ml sun flower oil
1 egg
100 gr of sugar
1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
1 theespoon of bakingpowder
250 gr flour

Mix all the ingredients untill smooth. Well doe not need to be perfect, but untill you can not see in lumps of flour anymore.
Fill the muffin cups and bake them in a preheated oven 200 degrees celcius for about 20 minutes.

Let them cool off a little, melt 100 gr of dark chocolat and cover them with chocolat and decorate the way you like. Let them cool down and completly and enjoy!

I found this recipe searching for a good recipe for a cake without eggs. As my mother in law in allergic for them.

3 tsp lemon juice 
1 1/4 cup milk
2/3 cup sunflower oil
3/4 Cup sugar 
3 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/12 tsp cinnamon powder
1 1/2 tsp ginger powder
1 1/2 cup grated carrots 

Preheat the oven on 170 degrees Celsius. Butter the cake tin of you choice. These ingredients are enough for a round cake of about 20 cm.

In a small bowl mix the lemon juice with the milk, let it rest for 5 minutes.
Mix the flower with the baking powder, cinnamon, ginger and salt, put aside.

In a big bowl mix the oil with the sugar, until the sugar is dissolved. Add the milk mixture, mix it again. Add the flower mixture and mix well so there are no lumps left. Add the carrots and pour the mixture in the baking tin, and bake for about an hour.

enjoy  

The first time I made this cake I made it several ones and made Lucas first birthday cake from them.

Ingredients

For the dough

240 gr flour
180 gr butter or margarine
120 gr sugar
1 tsp salt

For the filling

1 kilo apples peeled and cut in little pieces
50 grams of sugar
1 tsp of cinnamon
1 tsp of ginger
100 gr raisins
lemon juice

2 spoons of milk
2 spoons of jam (ideally apricot jam, but here i used home made plum jam)

round cake tin of about 24 cm
preheat the oven on 160 degrees Celsius

Mix all the ingredients for the dough until you have a firm ball. cover with clingfilm and let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes. Roll about 2/3 of the dough out until it is about half a cm thick and put in the cake tin.

Mix the apples together with the sugar, raisins, cinnamon, ginger and lemon juice.

Put the apple mixture on the dough.

Roll out the remaining 1/3 of the dough and cut it in long stripes, put the stripes over the apples like a sort of net. Brush some milk over the dough stripes.

Put the pie in the oven and bake it for about 45 minutes or until it is golden brown.

Take it out and spread some jam over the top.

Let it cool down and enjoy

So I went looking online for recipes, this is one of them.

6 plum tomatoes cut in thick slices
1 package of puffpastry
about 300 grams of grated cheese ( I used a mixture of Gouda, parmesan and pecorino)
1 tablespoon of mustard
1 tablespoon of dried basil

Put the puffpastry in a low pie shape. spread the mustard on the bottom. Lay down the tomatoes in a circular way. cover it with the grated cheese and the basil.

Then put the pie in the oven for about 30 minutes on 200 degrees Celsius. Or until it looks done. Take out and let the pie cool down. Enjoy  

Is a variation on normal brownie recipe. Because did not have all the ingredients of the original recipe and Luca was begging me to make a cake . Also I had to use some of the chocolate from all the Easter eggs the boys got given for Easter.

Ingredients:

180 grams dark chocolate
180 grams of margarine
250 grams of sugar
2 eggs
120 grams of flour
100 grams of grated coconut

Melt the chocolate and the margarine together in a pan.
Beat the eggs and sugar together. Mix the chocolate margarine mixture through the eggs, then add the flour and the grated coconut.

Bake in a preheated oven on 180 degrees Celsius for about 35 minutes.

Let it cool down a little and cut in little pieces…

pastry

50 gr of margarine

50 gr of sugar

150 gr of flour

1 tablespoon ground almonds

Filling

50 gr of margarine

100 gr of sugar

100 gr of ground almonds

1 egg

1 large apple peeled and sliced

To make the pastry mix all the ingredients together in the foodprocesor until it is a ball, wrap up and let rest in de fridge for an hour or so.

Preheat the oven on 180 degrees Celsius. Roll out the pastry and dress a 24 cm greased baking tin with it.

Put a bit of baking paper in the tart en fill it with baking beans. Cook for about 15 minutes or until it starts to color at the sides. Remove the beans and let it cool of.

To make the filling mix all the ingredients apart from the apple until smooth. Spread this over the tart and arrange the apple slices on top of it. Bake for about 35 minutes or until golden brown.

Let is cool down and enjoy.

First i baked 2 heart shape cakes, The recipe i used for that is

225 g flour

2 tsp baking powder

225 g sugar

225 margarine

4 eggs

Grease the baking tins

preheat oven on 200 degrees celcius

Mix all the ingredients together until smooth.

divide evenly over the 2 tins and bake in a preheated oven for about 50 minutes, or until well risen and golden.

Let cool down and add jam or cream as a filling on one layer and place then the other one on top. Lightly cover with apricot jam to make it sticky so the decoration stays better.

For the decoration i used fondant, which you can buy ready made but i choose to make it myself. There are different recipes you can find on the net on how to make it. I usually make it this way.

450 g icing sugar (zucchero a velo of poedersuiker)

1 1/2 tsp gelatin powder

2 tbsp water

1 1/2 tbsp liquid glucose

2 tsp glycerin

Dissolve the gelatin powder on low heat in the water, add the glucose and the glycerin, and mix well.

Take of the heat and start adding the icing sugar, and when you cant stir anymore with a spoon start kneading it in with you hands until you have a firm ball. Then roll it out until it is big enough to cover the cake.

The original recipes all say to cover the cake first with marzipan but we find that to heavy so i do not do it like that.

When the fondant is on i start getting creative and decorate the cake. For this one i used markers with food coloring inside. I really like the result and on how easy they where to use. I bought them here.

Or you can use the leftover fondant, or make some new and color it with with food coloring and make shapes out of it like i did for the birthday of Daniele last year.

Ingredients

250 gr flour

200 gr margarine cut in little pieces

8 teaspoons of icewater

pinch of salt

1 1/2 kilo apples

80 gr sugar

2 teaspoons of lemon juice

2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon of ground ginger

1 egg yolk

baking tin of 30 cm

Mix the flour,salt and margarine then add spoon by spoon the ice water until you can make a firm ball. Wrap the ball up in cling film and leave it to rest in fridge for an hour.

While the dough rests peel the apples and slice them in thin slices, mix them with the lemon juice, sugar, cinnamon and ginger.

Preheat the oven on 200 degrees Celsius.

Butter the baking tin.

Take about 2/3 of the dough and roll it out big enough to dress the baking tin and dress it.

Put the apple mixture in the dressed baking tin.

Roll the remaining 1/3 of the dough out to make a lid and close the pie with the lid.

Roll up a little piece of aluminum foil to make a kind of chimney out of it. Place the chimney in the middle of the pie.

Decorate if you like with left over pieces of dough. Brush the cake with egg yolk and place it for about 45 minutes in the oven.

Enjoy.

Ingredients

500 gr of marscapone
200 ml cream
150 gr sugar
500 gr strawberries washed and cut in half
a pack of savoiardi
2 cups of coffee
a glass bakingdish

First you mix the marscapone with the cream and the sugar untill smooth.
Then you dip the savoiardi one at the time in the coffee and make a layer in the bakingdish.
When you have one layer finished cover them with a thin layer of the marscapone mixture.
Then you lay another layer of savoiardi dipped in coffee, then marscopne mixture adn on till the marscapone mixture is finished.
The final layer should be of the marscapone mixture. Then you spread the strawberries over the top and you put the dish in the fridge for about 6 hours. I normally take it out of the fridge half an hour before serving.

Enjoy