FROM THE ISLANDS...

The new polymer clay pieces are baked and varnished so as to add some shimmer to the colorful little spheres. 

The polymer clay pieces with inlaid Greek ceramic beads are ready too. I have made some similar disks with air dry clay.

Look closely to see the different textures... The clay pieces are already sanded, then they will get varnished.

Cinnamon Biscuits

Hello hello my friends!!!

I have tried this wonderful my mother's recipe and I have to say that the aromas in my home were simple amazing...smelling Christmas!!! Biscuits that you are going to love, with cinnamon and orange!!!

What we will need:

2 tea cups of olive oil
2 tea cups of white sugar
1 and a half tea cup of orange juice
1 teaspoon of cinnamon and clove
1 teaspoon soda
1 baking powder
1- 1 1/2 kgr flour  

Procedure

In a bowl mix sugar and olive oil. Add cinnamon and clove and keep mixing. 

Add the soda into the orange juice and then put it in the mix.

Finally mix the baking powder with the flour and add it in the mixture. Add as match flour as it takes... 1 to 1 and a half kgr. The leaven is ready when it is not stay on the fingers!

Create your biscuits and bake them for almost 40-45min in 180C in oven.

Great aromas...right???? enjoy them with milk, with your coffee... every single time of the day!!!

Buon Appetite!!! 

       mats mouts 

WORK IN PROGRESS

I'm working on some new, colorful pieces... Polymer clay and Greek ceramic beads.

AND A NEW MEDITERRANEO RING!

... And here is Mediterraneo 10! A new, bright and colorful statement ring, made with a gorgeous piece of Mediterranean beach pottery, collected by me on a beautiful beach on the Italian Riviera. I have painted the original glaze in vibrant hues of orange and tangerine. 

Cupcakes full of Orange!!!!

Hello my friends!!!

I think I am in love with cupcakes! To be honest I've always enjoyed them but I thought they were really hard to bake. But when almost every week I see a delicious recipe and amazing photos in my friend's Natasa's blog, then it is really hard to not try them. So because of my princess birthday I tried to cook a couple of different recipes and I was really surprised when I realized that it was easy to make them and easier to eat them…. Yeap… none left!

So my first attempt to cook a orange filled cupcake is here!

What will you need:

For the Cupcakes

1/2 cup butter

2/3 cup white sugar
3 eggs

1 dash of salt 
50 ml fresh milk

1/2 teaspoon orange icing 
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

80-100gr dried fruits

For the orange icing

180gr cheese cream

140gr fine flour sugar

1 teaspoon orange shaving

The procedure is the usual… in a bowl mix the butter and the sugar and add the eggs one by one until the mix becomes homogeneous.

Add the milk, the orange shavings and keep mixing.

In another small bowl mingle the flour, the baking powder and the salt and add it in the above mixture.

Stop using the mixer, add the dried fruits and keep mixing it for a while with scoop. Your mix is ready. Cook it in a preheat oven in 170 degrees C for about 20min.

When the cupcakes are ready, just mix in a bowl the ingredients for the icing and leave it in the refrigerator for about 15min.  Υou are ready to  décor your small, delicious cakes.

Buon Appetite!

       mats mouts

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….

P.S and do not forget to enter in blog's giveaway!!!!

TERRACOTTA AND PAINTS

Working on new hanpainted pieces... Mediterranean beach pottery and acrylic paints.

TROPICANA COLLECTION

I have officially launched my Tropicana collection! :)

TROPICANA

I had  made these colorful pendants a while ago, using wooden tiles which I painted in bright colors and then topped with gorgeous blue glass cabochons. Now I finally turned them into necklaces, hope you like them :)

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