Orange and Almond cake

Posted on July 4, 2014 by thebloodyfrog

I love cakes for the afternoon snack with a cup of tea.

This recipe is inspired by a recipe found in the following book “Easy cakes & Cookies“.

Serves 10

50g ground almonds
150g flour
4 eggs
100g orange marmalade
1/2 glass of orange juice
90g sugar
2 tablespoon baking powder
100g butter

Preheat oven at 170ºC.

Put the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat until the mixture is creamy. Then add gradually the orange juice and the marmalade.

Beat the eggs with a fork in a bowl. Add them into the butter mixture but one tablespoon at a time. Finally, add gradually the flour, baking powder and ground almonds.

Pour the mixture into a cake tin and bake for about 45 minutes.

Let the cake cool down before serving.

Coconut muffins with melted chocolate heart

Posted on May 14, 2014 by thebloodyfrog

Coconut and chocolate forms a tasty union of flavors.

I like muffins because they are easy and quick to make. You can serve them for breakfast, snacks or dessert. You always sure your guests will be happy.

For 6 muffins

6 squares of chocolate
2 eggs
80g butter
2 teaspoons of baking powder
90g sugar
150g flour
50g of desiccated coconut
5 tablespoons of milk

Preheat your over for 15 minutes at 180°C.

In a bowl, mix the eggs, butter and the sugar together.

Then add gradually the baking powder and the flour.

Add the tablespoons of milk.

Once everything is well combined, add the coconut and stir well.

Fill the muffin tin with the coconut mixture by helf . Put one chocolate square on the top for each muffin. Then cover it with coconut mixture.

Bake for 25 minutes. Check the time because it depends as well of the oven.

These muffins are delicious is served tepid because if they are cold the heart won’t melt…

Coffee and Chocolate chips muffins

Posted on May 1, 2014 by thebloodyfrog

I was craving for something with coffee flavour but unfortunately I didn’t have much left in my cupboard to bake something. This is a simple recipe of muffins but it is a nice treat!

For 12 muffins

100g chocolate chips
2 eggs
80g butter
2 teaspoons of baking powder
90g sugar
150g flour
3 tablespoons of coffee extract

Preheat your over for 15 minutes at 180°C.

In a bowl, mix the butter and the sugar together. Add the eggs and stir until well combined.

Then add gradually the baking powder and the flour.

Once everything is well combined, add the chocolate chips and stir but not too much.

Fill the muffin tin.

Bake for 25 minutes or until they are brown.

Let the muffins cool down before turning them out of the tin.

Banana and chocolate chips cookies

Posted on March 30, 2014 by thebloodyfrog

Hmmm, cookies with banana and chocolate. Two of my favourite flavours joined together to get a yummy cookie. I definitively love Sundays!

For 15 cookies

125g white flour
75g brown flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
120g white sugar
100 g de butter
1 egg
100g chocolate chips
1 ripe banana

Preheat the oven at 180° C.

Mash the bananas in a mixing bowl. Then add butter and sugar. Mix well to get a creamy mixture. Then add egg, flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix everything well before adding the chocolate chips. Stir the mixture but not too much.

On a baking sheet, drop by heaped teaspoons or tablespoon if you want to have big cookies.

Bake 8 minutes. When they are done, let them cool for a minute on the baking tray, then cool on a rack. If you want to have crunchy cookies, bake them a little bit longer.

Banana and Blueberry muffins

Posted on March 23, 2014 by thebloodyfrog

I had two bananas left over and they were beginning to rot so I decided to try use them in my blueberry muffins. Actually I am really happy with the result as the mix of bananas with blueberries is really tasty.

For 8 muffins

2 rotten bananas
90g white sugar
140g flour (I used 90g white flour and 50g wholewheat flour)
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 egg
125g of blueberries
50g butter (for low fat muffins, replace the butter by 50g of low fat yogurt)
1 tablespoon of low fat yogurt (it is to make sure that the muffins are not dried)

Preheat oven at 180°C.

Make the butter melt in a pan.

Mash the bananas in a mixing bowl. Add sugar and egg and mix well.

Add the baking powder and the flour. Then add the melted butter and the tablespoon of low fat yogurt or only the 50g of yogurt for the low fat version of this muffins. Stir until well combine and add the blueberries. Mix well but gently.

Pour the mixture in muffin tins and bake for 20-25 minutes.

Yogurt cake

Posted on March 14, 2014 by thebloodyfrog

This recipe of “gateau au yaourt” as we call it in France is a chilhood memory. Every kid in France has done yogurt cake at school or with their mum or grand mother. This is a fun recipe and easy to do with kids as all you need to measure the ingredients is a yogurt pot! This cake is good in the afternoon with a juice for the kids and a cup of tea or coffee for the parents!

Ingredients (10 minutes preparation)

1 pot (125g) of natural yogurt
1 pot of rapeseed oil
2 pots of sugar
3 pots of flour
3 eggs
2 teaspoons of baking powder
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract (optional)

Preheat your oven at 180°C.

In a bowl, empty the yogurt pot. it is better to use natural yogurt but a fruit yogurt can do the job if you have only this. It will give some fruity taste to your cake!

Then add all the ingredients measuring them with the empty yogurt pot and mix everything with a whisk until you get an homogeneous mixture.

Pour the mixture in a tin and bake for at least 30 minutes.

Chocolate fondant

Posted on January 19, 2014 by thebloodyfrog

My boyfriend’s mum gave me this recipe which is really simple and quick to make.

For 6 persons

150g dark chocolate and 6 squares of dark chocolate
3 eggs
150g butter
100g sugar
50g flour

Preheat your oven at 240°C.

In a bain-marie, melt the chocolate and the butter.

In a bowl, mix the eggs and the sugar. Then add the flour and the melted chocolate.

Once everything is well combined, pour the mixture into small tins.

Add one chocolate square on the top. It will melt while in the oven.

Bake for 9 minutes. Let the chocolate fondants cool down a bit before serving.

For the decoration you can add icing sugar or some almond flakes.

Apple Muffins

Posted on November 30, 2013 by thebloodyfrog

Lately I have been participating to a course about the New Nordic Diet. I have been trying new recipes based on this diet. The main requirement of the New Nordic Diet is to eat a lot of grain, wild berries, vegetables and fish. You have to favor locally grown products. Based on this I decided to replace my white flour by wholewheat flour in most of my dishes. The recipe below fits perfectly in this diet.

For 10 muffins

1 chopped peeled apple
2 eggs
2 cup wholewheat flour
1 tablespoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
3/4 cup milk
1/3 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup butter

Preheat your oven for 15 minutes at 180°C.

In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg. Make the butter melt in a pan. In a small bowl, beat egg lightly and stir in milk and maple syrup.

Add the milk mixture to the dry mixture, then add the melted butter. Mix until the dry ingredients are moistened. Then stir in the apple pieces.

Pour the mixture in the muffins tin.

Bake for 20 minutes or until they are brown.

Let the muffins cool down before turning them out of the tin.

These muffins are perfect for breakfast or for a snack.

Chocolate and pear charlotte

Posted on October 6, 2013 by thebloodyfrog

It has been a while since my last post. Here again a traditionnal dessert whom preparation is quick. It is a good recipe when you have a lunch or dinner to prepare as it can be done the previous day.

For 6 persons

24 sponge fingers
1 can of pear (80g)
50g sugar
4 eggs
200g milk or dark chocolate
30g butter
a pinch of salt

Pour the pear syrup from the can into a small recipient and soak the sponge fingers one by one in it. Line up the biscuits in a charlotte mould. Once done, put the mould in the fridge.

For the chocolate mousse I took the inspiration from my dark chocolate mousse recipe doing a few amendments. I know, I am lazy sometimes! Below is how I made the chocolate mousse.

Make the chocolate melt in a bain-marie. Once the chocolate is melted, add the butter and sugar.

Divide the yolks and the whites and add the yolks to the chocolate. Stir until well combined.

In a mixing bowl, add the pinch of salt to the egg whites and whip them up.

Mix one third of the chocolate with the eggs very carefully. Then add the remaining chocolate, mix well but very slowly to have a nice mousse. Add the pears previously cut in small cubes.

Now pour the chocolate and pear mixture into the mould lined up with the soaked bisuits. Keep in the fridge at least five hours before serving.

Crème renversée or Caramel pudding

Posted on August 17, 2013 by thebloodyfrog

This is an easy and quick recipe although it is traditionnal. In my recipe you have to do the caramel yourself but for the lazy cookers you can also use ready to use caramel.

For 4 servings

3 eggs
50cl milk
80g sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
50g cubes (for the caramel) with 3 tbps of water

Preheat your oven at 170°C.

Butter four ramequins.

Let’s prepare the caramel heating slowly the sugar and the water in a pan. Stir regularly with a wooden spoon. As soon as the sugar is golden brown, pour it in the four ramequins so that spreads to fill the base.

In a bowl, beat the eggs and add the vanilla extract.

In a pan, heat the milk with the sugar. Once the sugar is melted, pour onto the eggs while stirring energetically.

Pour this mixture, on the caramel in the ramequins.

Arrange the ramequins in a baking pan filled with water up to 2 cm like a bain-marie.

Bake for 45 minutes.

Let the caramel puddings cool down and refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving.

When serving run a knife around the edges of the ramequins to loosen a bit then invert the ramekins on the serving plate.

The Bloody Frog

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