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homemade fresh strawberry popsicles – popsicoholic part 1

Posted on May 19, 2014 | Leave a comment

Cool off doha heat! A healthy refreshing homemade dessert! Suitable for kids! 100% natural! Low in calories!…. and i can keep listing many other reasons… Just to say there’s always an excuse to have a popsicle in my mind, am a big fan of popsicles!

Doha summer is already here and the temperature is getting higher and higher to the 40°C and above. Nothing will refresh you like a fruity popsicle.

I would like to share with you my recipes for fresh fruits popsicles and give a piece of my happiness to popsicoholic people like me 🙂

Popsicoholic part1: strawberry flavor

For these delicious popsicles you need to:

In a food processor puree one cup of fresh strawberries with 1 tbsp of sugar.
whisk 1 cup of yogurt and 2 tbsp of sugar

Pour in a mold, alternating between the strawberry puree and the yogurt, make about 3-4 layers. With a skewer or thin-bladed knife, swirl mixtures together in an up-and-down motion. Insert ice-pop sticks and freeze until solid.

You should get 5 to 6 popsicles depending on your mold size. You can freeze up to one week, (but i doubt if they will last more than couple of hours).

To remove the popsicles from the molds, run under warm water until they are easily released. Enjoy!

irresistible sablé aux abricots

Posted on April 30, 2014 | 8 comments

Sablé (a french word meaning sand), is a shortbread biscuit. It’s called “sablé” because of the sandy texture you get when you rub the butter, flour and sugar together before adding the eggs.

These delicious sablés are filled with homemade apricot jam and flavoured with lemon zest. Simply irresistible!

They are so tempting that am sure you’re going to the kitchen the minute you finish reading the ingredients.

Ingredients:

3 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
250g butter
2 whole eggs
2 tbsp powdered milk
1 tsp vanilla
zest of one lemon

Method:

Mix butter, flour and sugar, and rub them until they become like sand. Add the eggs one by one then powdered milk, vanilla and lemon zest. Mix well until you get a consistent dough. I recommend to put it for half an hour in the fridge before shaping the rounds (5mm thickness). Don’t forget to make equal number of rounds with a hole in the middle for the upper part. Place them on a parchment paper and bake for 15-20 mns on 175°C.

P.S: For the people who don’t have the cutters, they can use a glass cup to cut the big circles and the cap of a bottle of water to make the hole on the upper one.

When they cool down to room temperature fill them with any jam of your preference, i used apricot jam that my mom made, then sprinkle icing sugar (or powdered sugar) on the top.

Thesy are so seductive! Don’t you agree?!

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Bird nest cupcake- happy Easter!

Posted on April 20, 2014 | Leave a comment

Christ is risen! Happy Easter to all of you.

May all your days be full of blessings, health and joy.

Lets celebrate with these bird nest cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.

Very easy to do, just follow me step by step:

Cupcake recipe (10 pieces)

170g butter
170g sugar
170g flour
3 eggs
1tsp vanilla

Combine the butter and sugar, then add the eggs one by one and mix well. Add vanilla and flour.

Spoon the batter in cupcake tray already prepared with the paper cases, until 2/3 full

Bake on 170ºC for 20 mns, and leave it to cool before frosting.

Cream cheese frosting:

250g mascarpone cheese
250g cream
1/2 cup icing sugar

Beat all for 5-7 minutes until you get the consistency you need.

If you like to color the cream add wilton icing gel, the quantity depends on the color hue you want to get.

Put in the fridge for half an hour before starting to frost the cupcakes

Pipe the cream using wilton 2A tip to create the nest.

Use cadbury chocolate mini eggs.

I love how fresh it looks, celebrating the spring!

Happy Easter sunday, enjoy your day 🙂

my mom’s mega simple brioche recipe

Posted on April 16, 2014 | 10 comments

“Only your grandchild is dearer to you than your child” is an arabic proverb to express the love of the grandparents to the grandchildren.

Brioche is Nady’s favorite dessert. who’s better than teta (grandmother) to bake it for him?

Baked with love brioche:

500 g flour
80 g melted butter
2 eggs
1 tsp salt
250 ml warm milk
1 tbsp icing sugar
1 tbsp yeast
1 egg for glaze

Mix yeast, icing sugar and warm milk and keep it aside for 10 mns.

Then add eggs, butter and salt and mix well, then the flour.

Leave it to rest for 1 hour until it doubles in size than divide it into 8 parts.

The dough is really sticky, so better grease your fingers with a bit of oil before rolling the dough.

Place it on parchment paper and again leave it for an hour to double in size.

Glaze the top with egg and bake for 16 to18 mns on 180ºC until risen and golden brown.

Allow to cool before offering to your child.

So delicious! Thank you teta Ado.

He wanted to bite all of them 🙂

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spectacular chocolate cake with red fruits

Posted on April 9, 2014 | 14 comments

Today is a happy day! My parents are coming to doha to spend easter holiday. I am so excited! I want everything to be perfect and have a warm welcome.

What’s better than this spectacular chocolate cake with these sexy red fruits and dark chocolate ganache!

It’s a heavenly delicious cake, and i want to share with you the simple recipe and how to decorate step by step.

First to bake the cake, we need:

2 cups of flour
1 1/2 cups of sugar
3/4 cup, unsweetened cocoa powder
11/2 tsps of baking soda
1 tsp of baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 cup of milk
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
1 tsp of vanilla essence
1 1/2 tbsps of instant coffee powder
1 cup of hot water
2 eggs

In a large bowl, sieve the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add the sugar and mix well with the dry ingredients.

Make a well in the center and add the milk, oil, vanilla essence and beaten eggs and mix. Finally add the hot coffee melted in the cup of hot water and mix.

Pour the cake batter into the prepared cake pans and bake in the middle rack of the oven (180ºC) for 40 mins or until a skewer comes out clean. Start checking from 35 mins onwards.

Cool for 30 mins before inverting onto a wire rack.

Meantime lets prepare the ganache:

450g dark chocolate
2 cups of heavy cream

The chocolate must first be chopped into small pieces so that it will melt evenly.

Put chocolate into a large heatproof bowl. Bring 2 cups of cream just to a boil over medium-high heat or put for 3 mins in microwave; pour over chocolate. Let stand 10 minutes.