Flourless Chocolate Cake

Spiced and bitter chocolate flourless cake for chocolate lovers, or simply chocoholics:D With cardamom and cayenne pepper! Moist due to the added yogurt. Easy in preparation and eating too:D Happy Baking!:)Serves 4-6Takes 45 mins (prep 20 mins, baking 25 mins) + cooling min. 30 mins Ingredients 3 large eggs1/3 cup (55 g) brown sugar1/3 cup…

Spiced Cake with Plums & Walnuts

A spiced cake again! The extremely fragrant bake for cosy evenings at home:) Moist, crumbly and very easy to make. Replace plums with any seasonal fruit of your choice: apples, persimmon, pears, cranberries etc, or native to your location..:) Happy baking!:)Takes 1 hr 10 mins (prep – 25 mins, baking – 45 mins) + coolingServes 8-10…

Quince Pie ♥

Today I’d like to write about semi-forgotten and unpopular – quince! It’s neither an apple nor a pear. Quince is an absolutely unique and gorgeous fruit! The quince has been a part of many ancient cultures and known as a popular ingredient since medieval times. It has a firm flesh, fuzzy skin and slightly astringent…

Chocolate Orange Tart ♥

A special treat for chocoholics! Rich, bittersweet, chocolatey! Made for my sister Sue who had a birthday this week ♥ This tart is a combination of melting-in-your-mouth souffle-like chocolate filling and a tender chocolate nutty crust. The cooking process takes a while and requires a lot of patience but it’s absolutely worth it! Happy baking!:)…

Blackberry Pie with Walnut Crumble (Vegan)

Say aye for a pie! For a Bramble pie with cardamom-flavored nutty-oaty crumbly topping:) (: I’ve put all my singing-swinging heart while making this Sunday family pie:) For inspiration and incentive to creating this dessert I’m grateful to the awesome food blogger Nicolas [http://www.blogtasticfood.com]. His vegan Lemon Meringue Pie is truly a piece of culinary artwork!:) I’m grateful…

Almond cranberry cantuccini (biscotti)

Since the year started, I’m trying to do more things that have never done before, in cooking too. It’s quite exciting and captivating! These crisp and crunchy, “twice baked” cookies were the first attempt of home-made cantuccini. My lovely friend of Italian descend called them cantuccini, when I usually use a word “biscotti”. He knows it better though:D…

Orange cookies (vegan) (Melomakarona)

For the idea of this recipe I’m grateful to foodzesty.com blog. These Greek Christmas cookies impressed me by the mix of olive oil and semolina. Under the impression I’ve made a couple of variations of vegan cookies with semolina, and these slightly different Melomakarona:) It is suggested to sprinkle the cookies with syrup made of sugar, water, honey and…

Frosted rye gingerbread

A variation of semi-sweet and less fatty than usual gingerbread. The rye gingerbread!:) I’ve been experimenting a lot with rye flour recently. And now can faithfully tell that all the simple baking goods made out of it turn out delicious. Rye can be highly competitive with wheat! There’s some difference in taste, but not crucial. I keep…

Carrot oat rye semolina cookies (vegan)

The top winter cookies – carroty, orange-flavored, spicey and soft-textured:) This recipe was developed after encountering on Foodzesty blog Greek Christmas cookies (melomakarona) recipe. It was such a revelation to find semolina in a cookie recipe!! I’ve never seen and tried to use it this way. First off, I’ve made a modified version of melomakarona (will…

Spicy chocolate rye muffins with candied orange peel

This recipe makes chocolatey cardamom mini-cakes with candied orange bits and hot chili aftertaste. I used rye flour as it’s considered healthier than wheat. Besides it almost doesn’t affect the taste and has good binding qualities. Chocolate muffins remain my top idea for unexpected and urgent daily happenings. A bunch of these were made last week. One of…

Chocolate beet brownies (vegan)

Gooey chocolate brownies for the Sunday picnic time! This is fragrant vegan beetroot-tinged bake. Beets give zest to these brownies, creating a special flavor, texture and color. Flax oil can be replaced by any other. Happy baking!:) Yield: 8-10 servings Ingredients 3 small grated beets (cooked/canned) 1/3 cup flax oil 1 cup water 1/2 cup…

Kheer – Indian rice pudding (sugarless)

India – easy to love, impossible to forget. That’s my personal perception of this wondrous land. Rice pudding is one of my favorites. Absolutely delish kheer I tried in the “Blue City” Jodhpur. It was cooked with so much love, so that I could never forget it:) “Traditional cardamom-scented Indian rice pudding owes its particular richness…