Chocolate Rocks!!!

An amazing, delicious dessert that can be cooked in a few minutes!

Materials:

   3 bars of dark chocolate

-      Shavings from 1 orange

-      4-5 soup spoon milk

-      Almost 250gr Almonds

-      100-150gr raisins

What to do:

First of all parch the almonds.

Use  a benmarie to melt the chocolate. Add the milk and the shavings from the orange and keep mixing the compound.

When the mixture is ready, add the almonds and the currants and mix it for a couple of minutes again.

Your dessert is ready… just use a spoon and put a spionfull on the large baking pan that is covered with cooking paper.

Leave them for a few hours to chill and you are ready to taste them!!!!

To be honest the classical recipe for the above dessert is just chocolate, almonds and butter. But I wanted to cook it especially for my daughter so instead of butter I added milk and of course raisins and orange. Just use your imagination and create small but sweet bites by adding more nuts and dried fruits or instead of orange just use a few drops of your favorite liqueur. 

Buon Appetite….

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Recipe : Vanilla Cupcake with Buttercream Frosting

{ Guest post from Anne }

Hello My Friends!!!!

I know, I haven't write anything in my blog the past three days, but I had a short trip with my family and we had a great time! As you can imagine, being by the sea it is not something that lets you to chat or do anything in internet.

So here I am again with a sweet full of vanilla aroma recipe from a great lady, a wonderful mama... The pink mama!!!

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Hello everyone!

 My name is Anne and I blog over at The Pink Momma. I'm a stay-at-home Mom to a 16 month old little girl. Besides blogging, I enjoy cooking, baking and crafting as well. I'm also a freelance cake decorator and you can check out all of my creations on my Facebook page called Anne's Little Pink Shoppe. I also have an Etsy shop called Little Miss Athena which I made handmade hair accessories. I'm such a busy mama! Haha! Anyway, I would like to share a delicious cupcake recipe. One of my favorite, vanilla cupcakes. 

Ingredients for the cupcakes:

1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
2/3 cup (130 grams) granulated white sugar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups (195 grams) all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup (60 ml) milk

Ingredients for the buttercream frosting:

2 cups (230 grams) powdered sugar/confectioners sugar, sifted
1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 tablespoons milk


Directions on making cupcakes:

Preheat over to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C). Beat eggs and sugar until fluffy using an electric mixer or a hand mixer. Add eggs one at a time and beat in vanilla extract. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and salt. Alternately add the flour mixture and alternately add the milk. Fill the cupcake pan or a muffin cup with the cake batter and bake it for 17-20 minutes. The cupcakes are done when you insert a toothpick at the center and it comes our clean. Let it cool in a cooling rack. Frost it when it's completely cooled.


Directions for buttercream frosting:

Cream the butter until smooth using an electric mixer or a hand mixer. Add the vanilla extract and gradually beat in the sugar. Add the milk. If you want a colored frosting, tint it with your desired color.

This recipe makes about 12 cupcakes.

Voila! You are ready for a cupcake party!

Don't forget to stop by my blog. Every Friday I'm hosting the Fun Friday Blog Hop and would like to invite everyone. I'll see you there :) Thank you so much Zina for having me.

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Please meet Anne in

etsy shop: LittleMissAthena

blog: iamannekehn.blogspot

facebook : Anne's Little Pink Shoppe

Have a wonderful day!!!!

        Mats mouts!