Microwave Cookies

               Ingredients:  

-       1 tbsp. butter

-       1 tbsp. white sugar

-       1 tbsp. brown sugar

-       Splash of vanilla extract

-       Pinch of salt

-       1 egg yolk

-       3 tbsp. flour

-       Chocolate chips or M&M’s (optional)

           Method:

1.     Place butter into a ramekin or microwavable bowl and mix with a spoon to a thick cream consistency.

2.     Add the white sugar, brown sugar, vanilla extract, pinch of salt and egg yolk to the butter and mix until combined.

3.     Add the flour 1 tablespoon at a time stirring in between.  When all the flour is mixed in add your chocolate chips or M&M’s to the cookie mix and microwave for 1 minute or until cooked. Enjoy! 

Vanilla Cupcakes and Buttercream

Ingredients:

Cupcakes:

-140g caster sugar

-300g self-raising flour

-1tsp baking powder

-1/4 tsp salt

-1 egg

-150ml vegetable oil

- 200ml milk

-1tsp vanilla extract

 Butter cream icing:

-5 cups sifted icing sugar

-250g softened butter

-1tbsp milk

-1tsp vanilla extract

Method:

1. Place the caster sugar, self-raising flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and mix together.

2.  Add 1 egg, milk, vanilla extract and oil to your flour and combined making sure not to over mix.

3. Place mixture into cupcake pane and place into an oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes or until cooked.

4. Let the cupcakes cool for at least 15 minutes.

 Butter cream Icing:

1.     Place butter into a bowl and cream with an electric mixer.

2.     Add icing sugar 1/3 at a time and mix with the electric mixer.

3.     Add milk and vanilla extract and once again mix it together (add food colour if you wish)

4.     Pipe a butter cream swirl on top of the cupcakes and enjoy! 

Potato Leek Soup

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon olive oil

20g butter

2 leeks, pale section only, halved, washed, dried, and thinly sliced

2 garlic cloves, crushed

1kg desired potatoes, peeled, coarsely chopped

1L (4 cups) Campbell’s Real Stock chicken

 750ml (3 cups) water

250ml (1 cup) thin cream

Optional:

Fresh chives finely chopped or dried chives, to serve

Method:

1.    Heat butter and oil in a saucepan over a medium heat. Add the garlic and the leek to the pot and toss or stir. Reduce to medium-low heat, cover with lid and leave to cook for 18-20 minutes or until soft stirring occasionally.

2.    Add the potatoes, stock and water to the pot. Cover with lid and bring to a simmer over a medium-high heat. Then reduce heat to median and cook, partly covered for 25-30 minutes or until potatoes are soft. Put aside to cool for 10 minutes.

3.    Blend the soup together until smooth and place the soup over a medium-low heat, add the cream and cook once again stirring for 5 minutes or until heated through. Season with salt and pepper.

4.    Ladle in bowls and serve with chives on top.

Rainbow Cake Recipe!

This cake is delicious and colourful treat sure to please everyone! With a rainbow inside and out it is perfect for any party or just for a treat.  

Ingredients

-cake batter of your choice (make sure the batter is white or a little colour)

-white butter cream frosting

-Gel food colour paste (colours of your choice)

Method:

1. Divide 1.5 batches of vanilla cake mix into 6 bowls and place food colour of your choice into each bowl (one colour per bowl) and stir.

2. Line baking pans and place one colour in each pan. If you only have one pan, bake one cake at a time.

3. Bake for 25 minutes or until cooking right through and take out to cool. 

4. Make three batches of butter cream frosting and divide it into six separate bowls. Colour each bowl of frosting and place each colour into separate piping bags with a large round tip on it.

5. Make one more batch of white butter cream. Place one of your cakes onto a cake board and put a layer of white butter cream on top. Then place another layer of cake and repeat this step with all of the cake layers. 

6. Once you get to the top layer frost the whole cake with the white frosting making sure the sides are strait.

7. Now get one of your colours of butter cream and pipe a small dot on the bottom of the cake. Stop squeezing and pull back on the piping bag and the dot is smeared. Repeat this around and up the cake using your different colours.

Enjoy!  

Welcome to my Blog!

Hi! Welcome to my blog dedicated to food! 

Add some sweet food, savory food and some recipes and you get Denisa’s hobby. Mix in a bowl some milk, 2x7g packets dry yeast, 1 cup caster sugar, a pinch of salt, 4 1/2 cups plain flour, 220g butter, 3 eggs, lightly beaten, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, vegetable or light olive oil and you get cinnamon doughnuts. I’m Denisa by the way and I’ve been cooking for almost all of the 14 years I’ve been on Earth.

As you can tell , my main passion is cooking. If you don’t like food and cooking don’t even talk to me. I chose this topic because it is my life.  I do it every day. It can get annoying at times when my mum makes me cook dinner, but I love it. Before cooking my life was super boring. All I did was watch T.V and go on my phone. The only other interest I had was gymnastics.  Don’t get me wrong gymnastics is great but… cooking is better. It all started when I was about 8 years old, and I made rainbow cupcakes. They were delicious! YUM! They had three different colours on the inside, (pink, blue and yellow). They also had a rainbow butter cream swirl on top. Those cupcakes were the best things that I had ever made… until I discovered fondant (purchased from Susie Q). Now my best creation was a two tiered vanilla cake covered in black fondant with sugar pearls on the bottom cake. The top cake was decorated as a black and white box and I was very happy with the end result. I have loved cooking ever since. My purpose is to transform anyone that hates food or cooking into food geniuses. 

So that's all about me... Now enjoy my blog!