Jaffa Cakes

I have noticed again and again, that I usually don't do bloghopping on weekends, sometimes I think it is unfair to the bloggers who blog on weekend ( even i do sometime post on weekends) as each monday morning when I open up my google reader and se so many blogs to read I usually delete all of them as I did today morning as I know if i have to catch up with all that blog I will have to sit in front of my computer for few hours. I know i know it is unfair, but then that is me beeing lazy and inconsiderate.

Now to the recipe, I accidently came across this blog while I was searching for Jaffa Cakes, and the moment I saw the picture in the MojeWypieki blog with these cakes I knew I was going to make, the minus point was it was in Polish and as I don't have no knowledge of the this language, I used google translator which as you all know sucks, but still I could use my little brain cells and make them.

Just that I didn't used the home made jelly method which i would have loved to do as that looked so good, but with translation dificulties I thought I will just use jam.

But have to say we loved it,I think the first day itself we ate few with our coffee, but have to say it is a tad too sweet maybe becaus I used for filling jam.

3 eggs seperated

80 gm sugar

75 gm flour

Couple of big tbsp of any kind of jam.

For the chocolate glaze

180 gm dark chocokate

one and a half tbsp of oil ( tasteless)

Beat the eggwhites,stiff, Slowly adding the sugar ( don't pout all the sugar at the same time). Add to this mix the egg yolks, blend. Slowly sprinkle the flour and foil in. Making sure you mis it all gentley.

Add the mix into a pipping bag with a thick round cap and pipe them it round size leaving space betweek each of them.

Preheat the oven to 180° c and bake the small cakes for 10 minutes.

Melt the chocolate with the oil in the MW  mix well making sure all teh chcolate is melted and leve it aside for ( the recipe said 15 minutes I cooled it for some 7 minutes)

Cool on a wire rack.

When the cakes are cooled; add a tsp of jam on top of each cake and using a tbsp pour melted chocolate one top of each cakes and leave the chocolate to hard on top.

Enjoy this sweet Jaffa Cakes.
I do have step by step ocures of the making the cakes, will add them when I finish editing the pic.



Cream of Mushroom Soup

I think soon my blog is going to be over flowing with soups, here the weather has really truned cold, today it was 2°C which is so cold that I am happy to stay inside home if I don't have to go out, which is what I did anyway today, Hans came back home saying it is so cold, his face was even reddish.

Summer or Winter we have a cup of soup for lunch before the main dish. That is a must for Hans, it is like if there is no soup he would say given me tinned soup, which I think is not good at all.

I don't need soup for summer etc.... but when the weather is so cold I am always happy to have a cup of soup.

This is a easy soup and we love it here well H and I love Shyama dislike mushroom but then she is only comming on weekeds from her colleage so there is no need to think if she likes it or not when I make this soup.

When you make this soup just make sure you make it in a big pot as when thesoup starts bubbling up it boils up like milk as there is flour , so if you use a small pot it will over flow.

250 gm Crimin Mushrooms choped ( you can use the normal white ones, but i think this one has much more flavour)

1 medium onion finley chopped

65 gm butter

65 gm flour

1500 ml vegetable broth

200 ml cream

pepper and salt to taste

Heat in a big pan the butter and when it is melted add the onions fry for few minutes, then add the  flour and stir for 2 minutes , so that you remove the flour taste, add the broth mixing vigorously so that you don't get any lumps, then add the chopped mushroom and bring everything to boil, when it starts to boil, lower the heat and let it bubble for 10 to 12 minutes.

Add the cream, pepper and salt and serve with a sprinlikling of parsley.