Muffins with chocolate and puffed rice

Ingredients:

190 gr butter

150 gr sugar

1 pinch of salt

vanilla sugar (1 envelope)

100 gr dark chocolate

200 ml milk

3 eggs

13 gr baking powder

320 gr flour (type 400)

80 gr bitter cocoa powder

30 gr puffed rice

Put the butter in the food mixer and mix for a few minutes, then add sugar and continue to mix until it's smooth. (Leave the butter at the room temperature before using it.) Add the eggs and mix well. Slowly add the lukewarm mil and afterwards the flour with the baking powder, salt and vanilla sugar. At the end add the cocoa powder and when you have a smooth paste, add the chocolate in small pieces and the rice mixing very gently. 

Bake the muffins at 180°C for approximately 25 minutes. I made 18 muffins. :)

Brownie in a mug

 I remember a sheet in our lounge when I was living in Sangam World Centre in Pune (India). There was  a description how to make a brownie in a cup. I actually forgot it until a few days ago, when I saw a picture on Pinterest, describing the exactly same thing. Since now we've got a microwave in our apartment (which I recon it's not that healthy), I just had to try it.

At your left the picture of the mug before the microwave and down here after the microwave. I might have it overcooked a bit, but it was still delicious. (No, I didn't count the calories, who does it??)

Ingredients:
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 pinch salt
2 tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp water

I used a little less sugar and needed more water to make it smooth. At the end I put some dark chocolate on the top. It melted and was delicious!
Mix all the ingredients until smooth (see picture above). Put in the microwave for 1 minute 40 seconds. Our microwave is a little weaker, so I needed 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

Enjoy your brownie mug!

Chocolate & apple cake

For my cousin's birthday I decided to make her a cake and after searching through lots of recipes, I decided for this one with chocolate and apples.

Ingredients:
500 gr of apples
200 gr of butter
225 gr of sugar
50 gr of cocoa powder (without sugar)
5 eggs
350 gr of flour
1 envelop of baking powder
1 glass of milk

Melt the butter just a little bit, to get it creamy. Add sugar and mix. Add one egg at time and continue to mix. Add cocoa powder and mix. Slowly add flour and baking powder. Add some milk from time to time. Make it smooth and put it in a model for cakes. Cover with slices of apple and bake in a preheated oven on 180°C for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Leave it to cool down. You can serve with some whipped cream. :) Hope you like it!

Chocolate cupcake

I've never been in the States, but I definitely like cupcakes, so I just had to try to make them. I found a lovely recipe for the cake here.

Ingredients (for 12 cupcakes):

butter (120 gr)
cocoa (2 tablespoons)
chocolate (80 gr)
flour (120 gr)
baking powder (1 teaspoon)
egg (2)
sugar (120 gr)
chocolate cream for cakes powder
milk
colourful sugar bits

Mix butter with sugar, add the eggs and mix in a smooth paste. In the meantime melt the chocolate, when it is cool add to the mixture. At the end add flour, baking powder and cocoa powder. Mix in a smooth paste. Put it in 12 cupcake papers and bake for 20 minutes in a preheated oven on 170° Celsius. When they're cool, do the cream with a chocolate cream powder for cakes and milk. Put it on the top and add some colourful sugar bits. Does it look good?