Tiramisu the Italian way right here in Nairobi

Some friends came over for dinner and were surprised to the original taste of this tiramisu. Here in Nairobi. It costs a little bit to make it the original way, but at the end it is worth it.

Healthy eating in Nairobi: Children's healthy birthday cake

Healthy Kids Birthday cake vs. beautiful sugarly cake

Sometimes as parents when we prepare our kids birthday parties we forget to think healthy, we just go for the cheaper option of picking just any cake from the store just because it is the shape of a car, doll or whatever. What scares me a lot is that Kilo of icing sugar coating that is on it. But, now, not anymore: - We choose to give our kids beautiful homemade cakes with lots of healthy love - Just know if we love healthy food and bites our kids will too - Fizzy drinks for our under 10's...no no no This is what I made last night for a friend whose daughter turns 5 today! Happy Birthday my little girl! With love from Mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See also Keeping healthy in Kenya and loving the food

My secret almond biscuit cake recipe

Secret recipe

If you love easy simple cooking this is best recipe you will get on the internet. Simple cake ingredients: 250g cottage cheese, 150g sugar,100g flour, 150g almond biscuits crushed, 2 eggs, 10g of baking. Mix all ingredients put in oven at 180° for 30 minutes.

Chocolate Cake Recipe: Chocolates are forever

My Chocolate Cake

Ingredients are 200g of dark chocolate, 4 eggs, 180g of flour, 180g of sugar,180g of butter and baking powder 14g

mix yellow with sugar add butter and chocolate(melt butter and chocolate) then baking mixed with a little bit of milk and flour. Add finally beaten whites and bake for 45 minutes at 200°

Easy simple delicious fruit cake..but 'I hate fruit cakes'

I tried the day before yesterday to make a simple apple cake since I had extra apples in my fruit basket in the kitchen. I think it was nice, but my son said that he did not like to eat pieces of fruit in the cake he likes the classic chocolate one better.
My husband said he hated apple cake since he was young....so now I have a cake halfway all being pushed from one side of the table to the other what a waste...If you like to make it then feel free to ask me for the recipe.

Sandra Lee's Cupcakes

Well, halloween is gone but still you can try those cupcakes for any other occasion just changing the theme and decorate differently.

Get Sandra Lee's cupcake recipes here

Simple Italian children party cake

A chocolate chip? turn them into chocolate delights that everyone will beg for more

In my cakes recipes shared with you in this blog you might want to try the chocolate cake. Why? Because it is really easy and incredibly delicious and treat that anyone will enjoy. If you love cake decorations then using that recipe the sky is the limit you can be able to turn it into a chocolate delight work of art
I use the chocolate chips for this cake recipe


What are chocolate chips you may ask?
Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape and Chocolate chips are a required ingredient for making chocolate chip cookies according to wikipedia.

Types of chocolate chips

chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips, mint chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, and white and dark swirled chocolate chips

If you go to family.go.com
here you will find some really nice recipes "25 chocolate delights" and definitely you will find something interesting for your childrens next birthday parties.

Simple easy quick Italian recipes: Pineapple cake easy simple recipe

Ingredients:
For the base:
2 cups flour, 1 spoonful sugar,1/4 spoon salt,1/4 spoon of cinnamon, 1/4 spoon nutmeg, 2/3 cup of butter.

For the filling:
1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup white flour, 1/2 spoon cinnamon, fruit (apple, pineapple etc), 1 spoon butter, 1 spoon sugar, 1/2 cup cream.

In a container mix the flour with the sugar, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add softened butter (can use half butter half margarine) mix well adding a little cold water to make dough.

Divide the dough in half 1 piece bigger than the other. Put the small one in a plastic bag in the fridge. Roll the big piece of dough into a disc like 30 cm diameter and lay in a baking pan that you prepared with some butter

In another container mix the filling ingredients except the fruit. Then when have mixed all other filling ingredients add the fruit and mix well. Pour the mixture in the prepared dough in the pan. After this roll the other dough. Cover the mixture and seal the borders by pressing the 2 doughs. Make some cuts on the top dough. Spread some butter on top and sprinkle a spoon of sugar.

Cover with aluminium foil. Put in an oven preheated at 200° for 35 minutes, remove the aluminium foil and cook further 10-20 minutes or until juice is boiling from the cuts on the crust.
Leave in oven another 5 minutes. Leave it to cool for 30 minutes before serving.

I have misplaced a simplified recipe of the same. After I find it I will share it here

Simple easy quick Italian recipes:Grandma's cake recipe to help you forget about recession

A real simple healthy Italian cake in time of recession
Grandma's cake recipe to help you forget about recession. This recipe is from Romagna area in Italy. I'm not saying nice things about Romagna because Im a citizen there but because this area people love good food and staying healthy.

Here you go:
Beat recession like this

Ingredients

500 gr. flour
300 gr. sugar
200 gr. butter
3 eggs, a glass of milk,
15 g of baking powder
grated lemon rind


Italian simple cake
Mix the flour and butter, eggs, sugar and enough milk. Then add the baking powder and lemon rind. Prepare the oven plate with butter and put in the mixture.
After it is ready in oven plate decorate with beaten egg yellow plus sugar grain. Cook in the oven not very hot at around 170° for around half an hour.
This cake is easy simple and yummy tasty delicious and everyone in the family will definitely love

Please as soon as you get good results you can try different variations of cocoa or chocolate pieces, pieces of apple or even raisins.
Promise me to send in the pictures of the results you get.
I will be posting mine here soon.

Simple easy quick Italian recipes: Now everyone can bake!

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Dinner at friends: What do you bring them?

Italian dinner at friends house

The nice thing about living in Italy is sometime when you have parties or invited and have no time you can always grab a home made cake in many of pastry shops in every town. This particular cake was the cake we bought for a dinner during our last stay in Italy to bring to friends for dinner. Usually when you are invited for dinner you bring something over, like most common is wine or dessert.
PASTICCERIA LA DORICA, we were unhappy to hear they were closing few days after we bought this cake. My husband was going to the same shop since he was like 12 years to buy cannolli a kind of pastry filled with cream. Will share a recipe for cannoli soon. If one day I learn to make this cake I will share it here with you. For now just admire the picture and inspire yourself maybe for a holiday in Forli and the sorrounding areas.
Learn to make some easy simple Italian cakes here

Simple easy italian recipes: Cake with pastry cream in the oven

Here below you will find all the recipes to make this cake. The only difference is here I put the cream and then into the oven.

A whole list of eaasy simple recipes for Italian cakes
For easy simple cake mix from home check out here

Base for 'crostata'this time filled with marmalade or fruit or nuts whatever you choose. Easy simple cake recipe basics here

Simple easy Italian pastry cream recipe with pictures

Artistic dessert from Lenotre

Healthy simple pancake for school snack

Takes few minutes to make.

Instead of letting my son have biscuits and other snacks from the shop I count on making something too from the kitchen can be pancakes, chapati or even mini pizzas.
He loves them and he keeps asking for more

It's true chocolate beats recession

Chocolate beats the recession

Now CNN has the same idea.


chocolate recession recipe here

Latest post on step by step Chocolate tea cake: Anti Recession recipe

step by step simple easy chocolate cake making you follow this and I promise you you have perfect results

Chocolate tea cake: Anti Recession recipe

step by step simple easy chocolate cake making

Heres pictures details of how to mix and make your own homemade simple easy chocolate cake that everyone will love.

The ingredients and recipes will find in earlier chocolate cake mix here

egg yellow mixed with sugar

Melt the chocolate with butter

Add chocolate butter mixture to the sugar mix

Add baking powder melted in little milk

Add flour to the chocolate mixture

Beat the egg whites

Add beaten egg whites to the mixture

Ready for the oven

Please if you cannot make this Im sorry I can't help you more

Recession Simple Italian cake recipe

We were invited for dinner last weekend and like anyone else who has just been hit by recession job shed was not in great cooking mood.

So, what did I do?
Simple Italian recipe basics can come in handy when least expected and this is one of them. I had a simple tea cake and I made some pastry cream and prepared as you can see on the picture. Topped with fruit and finally gelatine. Everyone enjoyed this homemade mixture.

Obama Inauguration special cake: Dedication to President Obama

Secret recipe

Obama almond biscuit cake:

Happy reading! This Recipe is a Hit! Obama inauguration cake
Try President Obama special dedication cake: 250g cottage cheese, 150g sugar,100g flour, 150g almond biscuits crushed, 2 eggs, 15g of baking. Mix all ingredients in order put in oven at 180° for 30 minutes.

All friends who have tasted this cake have gone crazy about it, they want more.

This recipe was passed to me by an Italian Mom of a friend of my Husband.

You love this recipe donate to the blog paypal at marym.marete@gmail.com

Cooking for a birthday girl in recession times

Celebrating birthdays in times of recession is not an easy task. I decided to make my birthday as simple and easy and cheap as possible. Made myself this lovely Chocolate cake recipe here



The decoration was I cut half way put apricot jam and covered it with lots of chocolate. Have a Chocolatey weekend woun't you?

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