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Kringle: cinnamon bread

Hi all!,
I hope you are enjoying the holidays and I hope this recipe a good help to keep on enjoying even more.
Today a simple but very special recipe to celebrate ‘The three kings day’ (or the Three Wise Men) that every 6th of january everybody celebrates in Spain. A nice twist to the tradicional sweet bread (rosco); it fits perfectly as an accompaniment as we open our gifts (or just enjoy during any cold winter evening to share with friends or family).
The kringle bread (kringle means ring or crown) is a popular sweet bread from Scandinavia, normally filled with cinnamon and raisins, but you can also add nuts, chocolate chips…
If you like to follow the Spanish tradition, you could hide a bean inside the bread while you are making it, and the person that finds the bean will have to pay the treat; and secondly, you could hide a small surprise (figurine) and the person who finds it will be crowned as a king or queen of the house.
This time I really like to mix this tradition with a Scandinavian recipe 🙂
Here I present you my version of the kringle, I hope you like it.
Here we go:
Ingredients for the dough:
30 g of butter at room temperature
15 g of yeast
300 g of flour
1 egg yolk
30 g of sugar
120 ml of warm milk
1 pinch of salt
Zest of one lemon
Ingredients for the filling:
2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon
60 g of sugar
50 g of butter
A handful of chopped walnuts (optional)
A handful of raisins
1 pinch of ground ginger
1º) Put the flour in a bowl and add the sugar, milk, yeast, butter, lemon zest, pinch of salt and the egg yolk.
Slowly mix all the ingredients until you get a smooth and elastic dough. Then we make a ball with the dough, put it in a bowl and cover it with a clean cloth; place it in a warm place until you see that it has doubled in size.
2º) Once our dough has grown, stretch the dough on the working table with a rolling pin and form a rectangle.
To make the filling, heat the sugar in a pan at low temperature until it melts, then add the butter, take it off the fire and add the rest of the ingredients: cinnamon,ginger, nuts and raisins.
So when we eat the bread, the sugar is melted and the bite will not have a gritty filling; but if you prefer, you can mix all the ingredients and the melted butter without melting the sugar; it will be just as good.
Extend the filling over the dough with a brush or spatula.
3º) Now start rolling the dough on the longer side, so you will get a tube. Cut open one side but leave one end intact like you see in the next pictures.

Take the two ends and start to make the braid; make a circle and paste the ends well to make it pretty. Cover again with a clean cloth and let it rest (already in the oven tray) for about 1 hour.

4º) Preheat the oven at 180º C and bake for 30-35 minutes. If you like you can decorate with icing sugar, almonds or candied fruit; although I think it´s very nice just without decorating.
Now, eat and enjoy!!!
You can decorate with icing sugar

 

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Chocolate cake for New Year´s Eve

Hi everyone!

I would like to continue with the ‘Christmas time dessert´s series’. A good chocolate cake, simple, elegant and perfect to finish the New Year´s Eve dinner and start de New Year´s celebration.

Hmmm…hmmm… hmmm! careful! you will want more than one piece!! 😉

Let´s start!
Ingredients for the cake:

175 g of butter (room temp.)
175 g of sugar
175 g of flour
3 tablespoons of liquid caramel
40 g of ground almonds
2 teaspoons and half of baking powder
40 g of cocoa
1 pinch of salt



Ingredients for the filling:

225 g pure chocolate
225 g of butter
55 g of brown sugar
5 tablespoons of condensed milk
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
 
1º) First we mix all the ingredients for the filling in a pan; low heat until everything is well melted.

Then, pour the mixture into another bowl and let cool down, cover and place in the refrigerator during 1 hour.

2º) Preheat the oven at 180 ºC and cover the mold with baking paper.
3º) For the cake mixture, first we mix the butter and sugar, once they are well integrated, gradually add the beaten eggs, then the liquid caramel and the ground almonds.
4º) In a separate bowl, sift the flour, cocoa and pinch of salt and add to the previous mixture.
5º) Put the mixture into the mold and leave in the oven at 180º C for about 35 minutes. Then, take the cake out from the oven and let cool down for 5 minutes. Then, remove the mold and let cool down completely.

In this case I´ve made two cakes, you can divide the dough in two or make another separate cake with same ingredients and measures, so the cake will be taller (that is what I wanted).

6º) Finally we fill the cake with the chocolate (which you will cut thorugh the middle if you have made just one cake. If you have made two cakes, put one on top of the other after filled).
We also use the filling to cover the rest of the cake.

For the decoration, I used almond cubes, I think it looks pretty elegant, just ready to enjoy during New Years´s Eve.
We need something to drink with the cake!! I made mulled wine or Gluhwein, a traditional drink from Germany and northern countries of Europe, especially around Christmas.

Mulled wine it´s a nice option to drink while enjoying the cake
That´s it! I think it is a simple recipe and you can also use your imagination when you are decorating it.
I hope you try it at home; and really really hope you have a veeery nice week ahead and enjoy every day 🙂
Cheers!
Bea.











		

		
		

		






			

		
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Frangipane Cake
		

				

		


Hi everyone!

Less than two weeks until Christmas… I´m sure many of you have already thought about the dinner menu; but in case you are wondering about what dessert to make, here´s an idea for a simple cake, perfect to start the Christmas celebrations: frangipane cake. This cake is filled with almond cream, which is commonly used in Belgium, especially this time of year.






















Here is the recipe step by step: 



Ingredients for the base dough:

150 g flour

85 g butter (room temp.)

35 g icing sugar

2 tablespoons of milk

1 egg yolk














Ingredients for frangipane cream:

150 g sugar

180 g butter (room temp.)

200 g ground almonds

4 eggs

1 teaspoon of almond essence

150 gr strawberry jam

Sliced almonds for decoration














Preparation base dough:



1º) Sift the flour into a bowl, then, with the help of your fingers, knead the butter into the flour until you get a crumbly dough. After that you can add the icing sugar, egg yolk and the milk.

2º) Knead the dough with your hands (you can add more milk if it´s too dry) and make a ball, wrap the dough in film paper and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes.






3º) Preheat the oven at 180º C. Stretch the dough on the working table and then place in the greased mold.

Before placing it in the oven make holes in the dough with a fork, then, place a baking paper on top of the mold and fill it with dry chickpeas or small balls, so the dough does not rise.

Bake for approximately 15-20 minutes.






Preparation frangipane cream:



1º) Preheat the oven at 170ºC.

2º) In a food processor we put the sugar, butter, flour, ground almonds, eggs and almond essence together; mix until you get a smooth cream.

3º) First extend a thin layer of strawberry jam on the bottom of the cake. On top of the jam extend the almond paste and cover the entire surface of the cake (smoothen the surface with a spoon).














4º) Place the cake in the oven for about 30 minutes. After that let it cool down and decorate with icing sugar and almonds. I also used some pasta from the base dough to bake some cookies with star shape and use it as decoration.














Delicious! Perfect to give the sweet touch to a good family dinner. I hope you enjoy it! 😉

Have a great weekend, 



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Bundt cake with caramel frosting
		

				

		
Hi everyone,




The Bundt cake is one of my favourite recipes, just because the shape is so cool and it tastes really nice; It is perfect for special occasions. The smell of the cinnamon and ginger takes me close to the Chistmas time.








There are many recipes for Bund cake, but the one from today…apple, nuts and caramel frosting… is just delicious!




Here we go!




Ingredients for the cake:




3 apples


125 g butter room temperature


300 g flour


2 teaspoons cinnamon


orange zest


1/2 teaspoon ginger


1 teaspoon yeast


1/2 teaspoon baking soda


4 eggs


60 ml of milk


200 g of brown sugar


150 g of white sugar


1 handful of walnuts


1 pinch of salt












Ingredients for the frosting:




50 g butter


100 g of brown sugar


orange zest


1/2 teaspoon cinnamon


100 ml whipping cream


150g icing sugar










Preparation for the cake:






1) Peel the apples into small pieces, reserve in a bowl where we will add the ginger, cinnamon and orange zest … let it rest for a few minutes.












2) Mix well the butter with the brown sugar until we get a soft dough. Then we add the 4 eggs, one after mixing the other.








3) We add to this mix the apples, white sugar and milk and then we can add the sifted flour with baking powder, baking soda and a pinch of salt. Slowly stir until all ingredients are well integrated.












4) We pour our Bundt cake mix into the mold and when we have it half full, distribute laminated nuts, then pour the rest of the mix. Make sure the entire mixture is evenly distributed.










5) Take it to the oven preheated at 180 ºC for about 45-50 minutes (depending on the oven)




Important: after you take it out from the oven, let cool before removing the cake from the pan.




 


Caramel frosting:








1) Melt the butter in a pan, then, add brown sugar, cinnamon and orange zest … stir well until all ingredients are blended.










2) Now add the cream until it sarts boiling, stirring well, should evolve gradually into a delicious caramel cream.




3) Remove from the heat and leave cool down for a few minutes. Add the icing sugar sifted previously and stir well, you will see that it acquires a creamy consistency.






Now you can decorate your Bundt cake…. in this case I sprinkled on top a few bits of almonds.
















It is delicious, apple gives much juiciness and yummie texture; perfect for a special occasion or celebration! and this time I had to hurry to take the pictures, the cake was gone really quiclky !! 🙂




I hope you enjoyed it and you try to make the recipe. Have a great weekend !!!


Cheers!



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Carrot Cake!!
		

				

		
Hi everyone!

Many times I wanted to bake the carrot cake, so popular in UK and the States, and I thought that this time of the year fits really well to give it a try 🙂




Never did it before, but I think the results are pretty good and delicious. I warn you! take a small piece first because it fills you up quickly 🙂


The combination of all the ingrediets with the carrot, leaves behind an amazing flavour to enjoy!




The ingredients to make the cake are:


360 g all purpose flour

1 packet of yeast

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

4 grated carrots

250 ml sunflower oil

200 g sugar (I used white sugar, but you can also use brown sugar)

4 eggs

100 g of nuts

1 pinch os salt

1 pinch of baking soda




The ingredients for covering and filling are:


1 tub of cream cheese

125 g butter (room temperature)

150 g icing sugar

200 ml whipping cream

Orange zest












The cake:


1º) Sift the flour together with yeast the baking soda and pinch of salt.




2º) Beat the eggs with the sugar, then add the oil and stir well.


3º) Add the grated carrots and the walnuts, mix until the ingredients are well integrated.




4º) In the next step we add the flour and yeast, stir slowly.

5º) Finally pour into the mold and take it to the oven at 180 ºC for about 40 minutes (the time depends on the oven)








Cream cheese frosting:


1º) First mix well the butter with the sugar, we will obtain a nice and smooth cream.




2º) Add the whipping cream, the cheese and the orange zest. Beat well and you will get a consistent cream.


3º) Finally we cover and fill the cake; you can decorate how you like most, in this case, I used chocolate sprinkles that I put on the side of the cake..






And…here we have our delicious carrot cake; It is not difficult to make, so we can bake it to enjoy it in any occasion.










I hope you liked it, I´m sure you have many ways of baking this cake, you can share your pictures on my facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Good-Taste


Have a happy Halloween!


I would also like to share with you some pictures of the landscape of this time of the year that I´ve been enjoying during my staying in Asturias (the north of Spain), I never get tired of looking at them, Incredible!






















Cheers!!


Beatriz.


Just one more thing that I would like to tell you:  many of you have told me that your comments don´t appear here after you published them. I have been trying to find a solution concerning this issue and, since, from my side is configured correctly, this seems to be a kind of problem with blogger program. 

I will keep on trying to solve it, but for now, I apologize and thanks for your understanding. 

If you want to contact you can do it here: bealvidal@gmail.com.

Thanks a lot 🙂

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Brownie!
		

				

		
Hi everyone!

Is there anyone there who doesn´t like chocolate?.

Today a quick and easy recipe for making a delicious brownie; perfect to enjoy and chill during a nice autumn afternoon (my favorite season ::)






Here I share my way of making it…What is your favorite brownie recipe??


Ingredients:


200 g dark chocolate

1/2 cup flour

3/4 cup of sugar

50 g of walnuts

50 g butter

3 eggs






1º) Melt the chocolate together with the butter (low heat and stirring constantly)






2º) In another bowl mix the eggs together with the sugar.


3º) Slowly incorporate the flour, don´t stop stirring.


4º) Next step, incorporate the chopped nuts and then the chocolate.








5º) Finally we pour the mixture into the mold and take it to the oven 210ºC for about 15 minutes.

You can let it cool down or just enjoy it warm with vanilla icecream.


















hmmmm..nice, I hope you enjoy it. Have a really nice weekend!!!

Cheers,

Beatriz.


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Rice pudding
		

				

		
Good morning all!,


I hope you are having a nice summer.


Since I´m spending part of the summer at home, Asturias‘mi casa’, I thought I will take the advantage and try to learn how to make the typical rice pudding recipe from here. The recipe of my grandma, and now my mother is teaching me.


There are thousand recipes and everyone makes it a bit different.


I must say that this time I´m just learning and watching and my mom is the boss, so all the credits are for her 😉




This recipe takes time and you should be watching it, so ..be patient 🙂












Ingredients:


470 gr rice


1can condensed milk


1/2 cup of sweet anise


lemon peel


Cinnamon stick and ground cinnamon to decorate


4 liters of milk


800 g sugar (double the rice)


25 gr of butter




















1) In a large bowl, we put half a liter of water with a pinch of salt and let it boil; then add the rice and the butter and stir with a wooden spoon always to the same side, so the rice wont stick to the bottom.














In another bowl we cook the milk together with the cinnamon stick and the lemon peel, let it boil and add it slowly to the rice. This process of incorporating the 4 liters of milk takes about two hours until everything is well integrated.










2) When the 4 liters of milk are completely added and the rice grain is quite soft we can add the sugar (let it boil and don´t stop stirring); we take the opportunity now to add the anise and condensed milk.




















3) Continue stirring, you will see now that the rice is becoming thicker and the mix looks like a soft cream. Turn off the heat and leave it rest for a few minutes.




After this we can serve and decorate with sugar mixed with cinnamon.


















…and after two hours (more or less), we have our rice puddin!!!!, it should be like a soft cream, with all the ingredients well integrated, the rice grain should not be lost.




I hope you enjoy it, it´s a really nice dessert to enjoy in family reunions, just like we like  it!!






























Thanks for your comments and have a nice day 🙂


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Tea cookies recipe
		

				

		
Hi everybody!




I hope you are doing well;




to prepare this simple recipe, we don´t need more than four ingredients (that we usually have at home) and the result is really delicious.


These cookies are perfetc to enjoy with a nice cup of tea or even just to give them as a present when we visit somebody.
















Here I tell you my version of the this cookies, here we go!




Ingredients:




190 gr of butter (The butter should be at room temperature)


140 g flour


50 gr cornstarch


60g powder sugar














 


1) Mix the butter with the powder sugar until is well integrated.










2) Slowly add the cornstarch (Maizena) and keep on stirring, then, add the flour in two times until you get a smooth dough.










3) Place the dough into the pastry bag and we can start to create our cookies with the shapes we like most :).


























4) Finally, place the cookies in the oven at 150ºC for about 20 minutes.


















As you can see, it´s a very simple recipe, they come out light and soft and you can decorate in different ways: with chocolate, almonds, jam…in this case I just gave to some of them a touch of chocolate and cocoa powder.




















I hope you like this, thanks a lot for your comments 🙂




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Cheesecake
		

				

		


Hi all!


I was looking for a nice recipe, a simple cake for a birthday celebration (and that I didn´t have to turn the oven on :))


I´ve always liked the cheescakes and finally I found one nice recipe that I thought it was easy, fresh and….delicious!!










This recipe belongs to the blog ‘pasen y degusten’: Maria Jose´s blog, where you can find delicious ideas like this one and where you can almost feel the nice smell of the cakes and much more.






Here I show my version:




Ingredients:


For the base:


200 gr biscuits (Digestive or ‘Maria’)


80 gr butter




The filling:


600 gr Philadelphia cheese


300 gr cream


175 gr sugar




First we cruch the biscuits with  the food processor and then add the butter until is well combined. Spread and press the biscuit mixture firmly over the base and side of the mold. This can be done using a spoon.
















Place the biscuit mixture in the oven during 10 minutes at 180 ºC, then let it cool down, but you can also cover it with plastic and place it in the fridge during 30 minutes.




Mix the cheese, the cream and sugar with a mixer until is well mixed (3 minutes more or less).


We can now spread the filling on top of the biscuit mixture and let it cool down in the fridge (you can leave it in the fridge the whole night and decorate next day)




















I just used the seasonal fruits (red fruits) to decorate it and bit of jam, but you can use your imagination here…it´s already delicious without decoration.


Well… I can tell you that you will need more than one bite or two 😉






















 You can find the link to the original recipe here.




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Crispy muffins with red berries
		

				

		


Hi everyone!


we are now in the middle of the summer, and I think  when we make homemade desserts, it´s a good idea to use seasonal fruits.














Today a delicious and healthy alternative to the traditional cupcakes. I hope you enjoy and you can get some good ideas to try at home 😉




Let´s start!




Ingredients:


225gr self raising flour


85 gr polenta


75 gr brown sugar


150 gr butter


Lemon zest


1 egg


The juice of half a lemon


Mixed berries (blueberries, blackberries,…)
















First, we mix the flour with polenta, sugar and butter in a food processor until we get a ´lumpy´dough














Then we add to the dough the lemon zest, the egg and the lemon juice; mix well until all the ingredients are integrated and we get a soft dough.




Next step, we add the fruits that we have chosen (I used in this case, cranberies and blue berries). Mix well with a spoon.














Now, fill the cupcakes molds generously with the dough and place in the oven 200ºC during 20 minutes.




















and…there you are!!!…crispy in the outside and soft in the inside!!, as I said before this is a healthier alternative to the traditional cupcakes: red fruits have many antioxidant properties and polenta is highly nutritious cereal, low fat, contains potassium, manganese and some vitamins like B1 and B2.




























I hope you try this simple recipe at home,


enjoy your weekend!!




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