Dried Cherry Buns

Dried Cherry Buns

Smell of roses and cherries... is it possible to find a better combination?




















"Dried Cherry Buns"

- 250 ml natural yogurt
- 100g dried cherries
- 120g butter
-180g sugar
- 2 eggs
- 5 ml rose extract
- 200g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp soda


Mix yogurt with cherries and put apart.

Cream a butter with sugar until light. Add eggs , flour, powder soda and rose extract. Mix well. In the end add yogurt with cherries.
Grease 1 16 bun tray or use paper cases. Fill the prepared cups two-third full.
Bake in the hot oven 190 st C  for 20 min.

Coffe Sponge Drops

Coffe Sponge Drops

For a lazy afternoon...20 min of work together I suppose.





















"Coffe Sponge Drops"

- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp soda
- 6 tbsp custar sugar
- 1 tbsp instant coffee

For feeling:

- 1 cup of fat cheese
- 50g coconut
- 1 tbsp icing sugar

Whisk well eegs whits, add sugar and yolks. Mix well. Add the sifted flour with instant coffee, baking powder and soda.
Spoon the mixture on a baking sheet making 4 cm rounds. Bake for 10-12 min at 200st C. Cool.

In a meantime mix cheese, sugar and coconut strips.

Sandwich together cookies with a feeling.

Mallorcan Ensaimadas

Mallorcan Ensaimadas

It looks more complicated than it is in fact... Let's have a bit fun preparing these sweet little buns. :)




















"Mallorcan Ensaimadas"

- 230g white flour
- 50g sugar
- 1 egg
- 5 tbsp warm milk
- 1,5 dag fresh yeast/1 1/2 tsp dried/
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp olive oil


Sift a flour and salt into a bowl. Cream yeast with milk and pour into the center of the flour. Add sugar and wait a few minutes. mix well, add an egg and oil. Knead for a few minutes. Leave in a bowl and wait about one hour.
Turn out the dough on to a floured surface. Divide into 14-16 equal pieces. Shape them into a thin ropes. Melt a butter and dip the ropes into the butter to coat.
On the baking shit curl each rope into a loose spiral. Leave to rise in a warm place for 30-40 min.
Bake in a warm oven 190stC for 15 min.
Cool and dust with icing sugar.

Sweet sesame Loaf

Sweet Sesame Loaf

Easy to prepare... I baked it for breakfast because I was to lazy to go to the shop :) I used for decoration also pumpkin and sunflower seeds.




















"Sweet Sesame Loaf"

-300g plain flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 5 dag butter
- 300ml milk
- 100g sugar
- 2 eggs
- 5 tbsp sesame seeds

Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Stir in the sesame seeds, reserve 2 spoon for later.
Mix well sugar, butter, eggs and milk. Pour the milk mixture over the dry ingredients and blend well. Pour into greased tin and sprinkle over the reserved sesame seeds.
bake in a warm - 180stC - oven for about one hour.

Sultana and Orange Traybake

Sultana and Orange Traybake

Simple, easy, a bit boring...





















"Sultana and Orange Traybake"

- 220g butter
- 4 eggs
- 220g sugar
- 275g selfraising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp orange jus
- 200g sultanas
- grated rind of 2 oranges

Icing sugar+a bit orange jus for icing.

Mix well butter with sugar, add other ingredients, sultanas in the end.

Grease well a tray-bake  and turn the mixture into tin and level the top.

Bake in a pre-heat oven to 180stC for about one hour.

Cool decorate with icing.