Chocolate cake with running chocolate

Servings 12 cakes

Ingredients
  

  • 150 g Butter soft
  • 150 g Sugar
  • 4 pcs Eggs
  • 250 g pastry flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 6 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 70 g Chocolate
  • 125 g strawberries

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 190°C. Grease the molds with oil or butter. Use two paper molds for each cake for firmness. Beat the butter and sugar with the mixer until creamy. Then beat in the eggs until smooth. Gradually sift the flour and cocoa over the batter and stir in evenly. Fill the molds three quarters full with the batter. Save some for the top layer. Push a piece of dark chocolate into each mold and cover with some leftover batter. Bake the cakes in 12 minutes. Serve as warm as possible and add strawberries to dip in the chocolate.
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Bonbon cinnamon

Servings 24 bonbons

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g whipped cream
  • 3 pcs Cinnamon stick
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 100 g Chocolate dark. 53%
  • 400 g Chocolate white

Instructions
 

  • Bring the cream to the boil with the cinnamon sticks and a pinch of salt. Leave it on gently for 20 minutes. Then remove from the heat and remove the cinnamon sticks. Gradually stir the chocolate into the warm cream until it is a homogeneous mass. If necessary, heat the mixture in a bain marie. Let cool to room temperature. Make circles of white chocolate on greaseproof paper. Fill a piping bag with a nozzle of your choice with the mixture and pipe shapes onto the chocolate slices. Dip the bonbons through the tempered white chocolate. Finishing: mix the cinnamon powder with the icing sugar and sprinkle a little on each bonbon using a small sieve.
    Variation: use some seaweed in stead of cinnamon powder and icing sugar.
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SAUTE DE PORC BRAISE AU CIDRE AUX DEUX POMMES

Course Main course
Servings 10

Ingredients
  

  • 1050 g Porc shoulder
  • 60 g Flour
  • 120 g Onion
  • 120 g Carrots
  • 105 g Celery
  • 3 clove Garlic
  • 1,5 pcs Bouguet garni
  • 45 ml Calvados
  • 525 ml Cider
  • 600 g Veal stock

Glazed onions

  • 300 g Small onions
  • 30 g Butter
  • 1,5 tblsp Sugar

Caremalised apples

  • 3 pcs Apples
  • 22,5 g Sugar
  • 22,5 g Butter

Garnish

  • 0,75 bunch Parsley

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 180 C.
  • Heat oil in a casserole. Cut the pork shoulder in 35 gram cubes. Season with salt. When the oil is damping, add the meat carefully to the pan at an angle so that the oil does not splash onto you. Every meat cube must be touching the bottom of the pan. Do not cook the meat, but let it sear so that it gives more flavor. When the bottom has seared, turn the cubes over. Keep the heat at a high level. Take the meat out of the pan and throw away the fat.
  • Cut the vegetables into brunoise cubes, add to the pan and cook at high heat. Do not add any extra oil! Stir to prevent burning. Add the meat, Calvados and flour, and add the cider so that the meat is covered by ⅓. Keep stirring. Add bouquet garni and peppers. Add the veal stock until the meat is just completely covered with fluid. Bring it to the boil. Place the lid on top of the pan and put the pan into the oven. Let it bake for 1 hour.
  • Peel the onions and heat in a pan together with water, butter and sugar. Wrap baking paper over the pan.
  • Peel the apples in slices of around 2-3mm. Bake in hot oil and add sugar and butter. Allow to caramelize. After the apple slices have caramelized, deglaze with calvados.
  • When the meat is finished, take the pan out of the oven. Sieve the sauce and add to the meat. Add the onions and apples and heat it on the stove so that the flavors can combine. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with mashed potatoes or pommes chateau.
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Baguette

Cook Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours
Course Bread
Servings 4 baguettes

Ingredients
  

  • 650 g Flour
  • 400 g water
  • 20 g Yeast, fresh or 1/3 dry yeast.
  • 10 g Salt

Instructions
 

  • When you use dry yeast, mix the yeast with the flour. When you use fresh yeast, follow the next step. Place the flour in a ring on the working table. Pour the water into the ring. Put the fresh yeast in the water, crumble and blend it with your fingers until it is solved into the water. Mix the water gently with the flour until the result is a rather moisty dough. At this point you add the salt and start mixing the salt into the dough. Then you knead the dough for about 10 minutes. Make a ball and put into a bowl. Let it rise for 35 minutes at a temperature of 23 ºC or 73ºF. Cut the dough into 4 pieces. Make it flat, fold the sides inward and roll until it is a long roll. The endings should be thinner. Place the rolls on floured towels and let it rise for another 35 minutes. Preheat the oven to 250ºC or 480ºF. Cut incisions with a razor blade into the dough and bake for 30 minutes until nice brown looking and smelling.
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Sauce Hollandaise (2)

Servings 300 ml

Ingredients
  

  • 50 ml white vinegar
  • 50 ml water
  • 1 tsp pepper grains, a bit crushed
  • 4 pcs Egg yolks
  • 150 g Butter clarified
  • 0,5 pcs Lemon juice
  • 1 pinch Cayenne pepper

Instructions
 

  • Put vinegar, water and pepper grains in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Reduce to a third on low heat in 1 minute. Remove the pan from the heat and allow the reduction to cool. Sieve it in a fireproof dish or metal bowl. Add the egg yolks and beat everything together. Place this dish on a pan with gently boiling water and do not let the bottom of the dish touch the water. Beat the mixture for 5-6 minutes until it starts to bind, is creamy and smooth and runs like a ribbon off the whisk.While beating, add the clarified butter in a thin stream until the sauce is thick and shiny. Add the lemon juice and season the sauce with salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper. Serve the sauce immediately or keep it in a bain marie for 15-20 minutes. You can also store it in a thermo.
  • For a sauce Bearnaise: add a few sprigs tarragon and chervel to the sauce.
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Carrot gnocchi with saffron cream and langoustines

Course Main dish fish
Cuisine Italian
Servings 4 pax

Ingredients
  

Gnocchi

  • 300 g Potatoes
  • 200 g Carrots
  • 250 g Pasta flour
  • 0,5 tsp Nutmeg

saffron cream

  • 1 Tablespoon Olive oil
  • 2 Pieces Echalot
  • 4 Pieces Langoustine
  • 0,5 Glass White wine
  • 0,5 g Saffrano
  • 1 Dl Cream

Ham

  • 4 Slices Parmaham

Finish

  • 50 g Parmesan cheese
  • 4 Sprig Parsley

Instructions
 

Carrot gnocchi

  • Cook the potatoes and carrots. Grind them in a vegetable grinder or masher.
  • Knead the mixture into a dough with the flour and season with the nutmeg, salt and pepper. Roll the dough with a flour-pollinated worktop into a thin roll with a diameter of 1 cm. Cut the roll into pieces of 1.5 cm.
  • Sprinkle a little flour into a bowl. Press the pieces of dough with the teeth of an inverted fork, so they curl a little. Put the gnocchi in the bowl.

Langoustines and saffron cream

  • Heat the olive oil in a pan. Fruit the finely chopped shallot glassy. Add the langoustines and fry them on high heat until they are beautifulpink. Extinguish the langoustines with the wine, add the saffron and cream and let the mix reduce until half.

Procsiuto di Parma

  • Preheat the oven to 100 degrees C. Place the slices of ham on a baking tray and dry them in the oven in about 45 minutes.

Finish

  • Bring a pan with ample water and salt to a boil. Put the gnocchi in the boiling water. They're cooked when they float upstairs. When cooking in portions, put the cooked in a bowl and keep them warm in an oven of 80 degrees.
  • Then put the gnocchi at the langoustines in the saffron cream. Let this simmer for a few seconds. Put the dish over preheated plates and sprinkle it with the cheese. Garnish with the finely chopped parslye and prosciuto de parma.
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Apple strudel

Servings 10 persons

Ingredients
  

Strudel dough

  • 250 g Flour
  • 2 g Salt
  • 20 g Oil
  • 1 Egg yolk
  • 100 ml Water

Dough preparation

  • 10 ml Oil
  • 100 g Butter

Sprinkles

  • 100 g Breadcrumbs
  • 20 g Butter
  • 20 g Sugar

Filling

  • 100 g Raisins
  • 1 kg Apples
  • 100 g Sugar
  • 75 g Walnuts
  • 50 g Hazelnuts
  • 10 g Cinnamon powder
  • 200 ml Sour cream

Finishing

  • 50 g Icing sugar
  • 1 dl Whipped cream

Instructions
 

Dough

  • First make the dough. Combine all the ingredients and knead into a fairly soft, elastic dough. Shape the dough into a ball, place it on a baking sheet and brush it with oil to prevent it from hardening and let it rest for 30 to 45 minutes.

Sprinkles

  • Melt the butter, add the sugar and breadcrumbs and toast everything briefly.

Filling

  • Peel the apples and remove the core. Cut them into not too small pieces. Put them in a large bowl and add all the other ingredients. Mix everything together until fluffy.

Finishing

  • Preheat the oven to 190 degrees.
  • Place the dough on a lightly floured cloth of about 70 by 70 cm. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to about 30 by 30 cm. Use enough flour to prevent sticking. Then stretch the dough sheet very thinly to a size of about 65 by 65 cm. Use the backs of your hands to prevent your fingers from tearing the dough.
  • Brush the dough sheet with half of the melted butter. Sprinkle the edge, about 20 cm, that is closest to you with the sprinkles. Place the apple filling on top of this. Roll the dough upwards with the help of the cloth. Place the dough on a baking sheet and brush with melted butter. Bake the strudel for 45 to 60 minutes. Brush the dough with melted butter every 15 minutes.
  • Allow to cool briefly, sprinkle with icing sugar and serve warm, possibly with whipped cream or crème anglaise.
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Apple pie

Recipy Holtkamp
Course Pastry
Cuisine Français
Servings 8 pax

Ingredients
  

Dough

  • 125 g butter
  • 125 g caster sugar
  • 3 g salt
  • 0,5 pieces eggs
  • 1 tbsp water
  • 250 g Pastry flour
  • 10 g Baking powder

Appareil

  • 100 g Sugar
  • 60 g Butter melted
  • 30 g Cornstarch
  • 2 pieces Eggs
  • 2 pieces Egg yolks
  • 1 pieces Vanilla pod

Bottom

  • 150 g Almond paste

Gel

  • 150 g Apricot jam
  • 2 tbsp water
  • 1 kg Apples Jonagold

Instructions
 

Dough

  • First mix the sugar and the butter thoroughly, using your hands. Then add the egg, pastry flour, baking powder and salt. Knead into a nice smooth dough, add some water if necessary. Do not knead too long, otherwise it will be too elastic.
  • Make a roll out of the dough and chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Appareil

  • Mix the eggs, egg yolk and sugar together. Add melted butter, the seeds from the vanilla pod, and lastly, add the cornstarch. The eggs allow the mixture to bind together, the cornstarch helps this process. Mix until the sauce is smooth.

Forming the cake

  • Preheat the oven to 180°C.
  • Get the dough out of the refrigerator. Knead until it is smooth again. Then roll it to shape a round slab which is a couple of centimeters larger than the ring. Butter the ring and place the dough in. Make sure to cover the sides of the ring with the dough as well.
  • Roll the almond paste to shape a round slab, the same size as the bottom of the ring. Place on top of the dough. The paste ensures a dry soil, so that the moisture of the apples and the sauce does not penetrate the paste.
  • Peel the apples, drill with an apple drill and cut into cubic blocks of 0,5 × 0,5 cm. Put them in the ring, on a spherical pile.
  • Pour the appareil over the apples with a spoon. Make sure that all the apples are covered.
  • Place the cake in the oven and check whether the baking is not too fast. The apples will become darker, but shouldn't be too dark. If this happens, turn the oven to a lower temperature or place the cake a bit lower in the oven.
  • Bake for approximately 90 minutes. Check after 60 minutes the color. If it's dark already, lower the temperature.
  • After baking, allow the cake to cool down. Heat the apricot jam and water in a small pan with a thick bottom. Gently brush the liquid over the cake. Serve when the cake is fully cooled down.
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Quiche di porri

Course Side dish
Cuisine Italian
Servings 8 pax

Ingredients
  

Dough

  • 250 ml Flour Italian 00
  • 125 g Butter Melted, roomtemperature
  • 1 pcs Eggs Whisked

Filling

  • 500 g Leek
  • 600 ml Milk
  • 165 ml Cream

Instructions
 

Dough

  • Mix flour with some salt and make a well in the middle. Add the butter and beaten egg and knead with the fingertips into a cohesive dough. Mix with a dough cut through the dough and knead a few times until the structure and color are even. Add some water if the dough is too dry. Do not knead too long with the hands, because then the dough will become tough. Wrap in plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Filling

  • Wash the leeks well and use only the white and light parts. Slice them thinly on the mndoline and put the slices in a pan with the milk. Cook over low heat until creamy, like the consistency of beaten egg. Do not mix too much, stir in the cream and season with salt. Cool to room temperature.

Finish

  • Roll the dough between two floured sheets of greaseproof paper into a circle. Remove the top sheet of paper and press 7 cm cake tins with the edge in the dough, gently so that only a light print is visible. Use a knife to cut 1 cm around the edges of the molds. Turn around and press the dough into the bottom of the greased molds. Prick the bottom a few times ni with a fork, spread some of the filling over the bottom. Make circles in the filling with a fork. Bake the quiches for 20 minutes in an oven of 180ºC. Hot serve.
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Madeleine almond

Servings 12 pieces

Ingredients
  

  • 60 g Almond flour
  • 70 g sugar
  • 10 g vanilla sugar
  • 20 g Flour
  • 2 pieces Egg whites
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 50 g Butter melted

Instructions
 

  • Mix the almond flour with half the sugar, the vanilla sugar and the flour.
  • Beat the egg whites with the salt until stiff, then add the rest of the sugar and continue beating until the sugar crystals have disappeared. Then carefully fold in the almond mixture, and finally the melted butter.
  • Place the batter in a piping bag and refrigerate for a few hours.
  • Then preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
  • Pipe the batter into buttered madeleine molds with a piping bag. Bake the madeleines in the preheated oven for 10 minutes.
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