Mango Cocktail

When ever I go to facebook I see my Indian friends mentioning that they went to the market and bought juicy ripe mangoes and here I am with no Indian shop aroung so don't have the opourtunity to get hold of the fresh juicy mangoes.

So I just drool in the pics they post of juicy mangoes.

Few days back I went to the supermarket and I found they had this Mango fruit syrup from Monin and I coudn't resist buying them as we do make a lot of time coktails on weekends or when we have guest.

On the bottle itself they had this recipe for Vodka cocktail and Vodka is one of our favourite drink as till now that never give me headache :-)

If you don't have this syrup I am sure you can make this cocktail with fresh mango pulp which i am sure would be much more tastier.

For a 120 ml glass.

30 mlLe fruit de Monin Mango

40 ml Vodka / Gin / Rum ( I used Vodka)

10 ml lemon juice ( Used lime)

Few cubes of ice

Put everything in a shaker , shake and then strain and serve.

Coffee and Walnut Battenberg Cake

Can you imagine it is the month of May and it is still Cold, Dark, Rainy Dull weather here.
All to all it is really depressing weather.
Every morning when I get up and listen to the weather news I am like oh Noooooooooo again the same dull weather. If there is a mirror in front of me I would even feel pity for myself seeing my depressed face because of hearing the weather news every morning.

I know if you are living in a warm country you woudn't understan what I am talking about as you will be saying huh why she is moaning about the weather.

My nieces who were with us for a month in April coudn't understand when we moaned about the weather in Belgium but now if you ask, both of them will say in Chorous oh yeahhhhh the moaning about weather ,well now we know what they are talking about, as when the kids were here they also had horrible weather.

Ok Now enough aobut all the moaning.
If you are a regular reader of my blog you will know I have made Battenberg Cake before and thag one was with Vanilla flavour, if you want to know more information aobut this History of this Cake and to see the special cake pan hope over to my earlier post.
Now this Battenberg cake is from British Chef Mary Berry.
I just lover her Baking, what ever I have made from her always come out perfect.

Few months back I saw how Cham made easy easy Wood Backdrops and from the time I have been wanting to make one but didn't had time, but then last weekend I was home alone after long so I did one, i didn't get the same effect as I wanted as my wood had a coating on top, but I think it is Ok, till I make another one with the correct wood





And if you are in Europe you would be familiar with the TV Show The Great British Bake Off which I am. And this is one of the recipe from Mary Berry which the contestants had to make.
Ofcourse they had a mich more difficult task than me as they didn't had a Battenberg pan like me, so they had to make their own.
If you want to try the recipe you can try it from BBC website here.