Category Archives: dessert

aish el saraya (bread of royal castle) – a flavoursome lebanese bread pudding

Posted on April 2, 2014 | Leave a comment

A palatable lebanese deli, flavored with orange blossom. Very light, easy to prepare and your toddlers will love it .

Ingredients:

Pudding:

1 1/2 cup milk full fat
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp corn flour
1 1/2 tbsp orange blossom

sugar syrup

1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp orange blossom

Enough toast to line the plate you will be preparing the dessert in.

Crushed pistachios to sprinkle over, or if you prefer almond or walnuts. They all taste wonderful with it.

Method:

Line the toast in the plate
Make the syrup: combine water, sugar and lemon and place over medium heat to allow the sugar to melt, then add the orange blossom and pour the hot syrup over the toast to let them soak in it. Put aside
Prepare the pudding: mix the milk, sugar and corn flour together and place over medium heat and keep stirring until the mixture becomes viscous then add the orange blossom and pour it over the soaked toasts.
When it cools to room temperature put it in the fridge for at least 5 hours, better for overnight.

Don’t forget to sprinkle the pistachios, almonds or walnut over before serving!

Absolutely yummy

sfouf – a lebanese toothsome delicacy (a healthy egg free cake)

Posted on March 26, 2014 | Leave a comment

Sfouf is one of the traditional lebanese sweets. Considered as the eggless cake. Super delicious recipe to be noted:

Ingredients:

2 1/4 cups semolina flour
3/4 cup flour
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup corn oil
2 tbsp powdered milk
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 1/2 cup water

Method:

Very simple and easy! Combine semolina flour, flour, sugar, powdered milk, baking powder and sieved turmeric. Mix well together and add the oil then water.

Pour batter into greased pan, sprinkle with pine seeds and walnuts.

Bake for 35-40 mns, until the skewer comes out clean.

The best companion of coffee or tea and a healthy homemade dessert for your kids!

General knowledge:

Turmeric comes from the root of the Curcuma longa plant, is a powerful medicine that has long been used in the Chinese and Indian systems of medicine as an anti-inflammatory agent to treat a wide variety of conditions, including flatulence, jaundice, menstrual difficulties, bloody urine, toothache, bruises, chest pain, and colic.

how to make quick, easy and delicious coconut balls

Posted on March 18, 2014 | 1 comment

A pleasure to the palate of coconut lovers. Originally comes from Balkan, it’s a traditional dessert in Croatia.

You find so many recipes, but this one is simply the best!

Ingredients:

11/2 cup coconut flour
200g butter
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
1 tbsp vanilla
2 cups powdered milk

Method:

Combine water, butter and sugar and bring to boil. Put it aside and add the powdered milk, vanilla and 1 cup of the coconut. Mix well until they become consistent. Shape into balls, rolling them on the remaining coconut flour. Meanwhile turn on your oven on 175°C. When the balls are ready, place them on parchment paper, and bake on middle shelf for only 10 minutes just to have a light golden color on the surface.

Eat one and you can never stop!

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NO bake oreo choco pop

Posted on March 13, 2014 | 4 comments

You can’t beat chocolate! Especially these choco pops.

It’s a pleasure for the palate, simply the best!

No bake
3 ingredients
super easy

Roughly crush 6 packs (24 pieces) of oreo, add 3 tbsp of cream cheese (i use philadelphia cheese), 3 tbsp of nutella and mix until u get a consistent batter.

Let it rest for half an hour in the fridge, take it out and shape it into balls and dip it in melted dark chocolate.

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banana cake

Posted on March 10, 2014 | 3 comments

I am sure if you have kids, means you always have a lot of bananas at home!

Bananas get ripe quickly especially in Doha it’s too hot! Whenever I see some getting too ripe I use them for cake. I tried too many recipes and this one came out the best. Why? because it’s not too sweet, it allows me to use chocolate. I love to pair bananas with chocolate! This cake is a pleasure to make!

Ingredients:

200g flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
100g toasted walnut
5-6 bananas (500g)
125g butter
125g brown sugar
2 eggs
a pinch of salt

Toast the walnut in the oven for 5 mins and keep aside to cool while preparing the batter.

Cream the butter and the sugar in a processor or by hand then add the eggs one by one. Chop the walnut medium size and add it with the mashed bananas to the batter, usually I mash them with a fork when too ripe.

Mix well and start to sift in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Mix everything together until you have a nice smooth batter.

Preheat the oven to 170°C and bake for almost an hour in the middle shelf. Test the cake by poking a skewer into the middle, if the skewer comes out clean, it means your cake is ready.

It’s up to you if you want to add chocolate syrup. I melt 200 g of dark chocolate with 1 tsp of vanilla in a bowl and that’s it.

Now the fun part for my baby is when i prepare for him the banana skewers to eat with the cake. it’s a nice way to decorate the cake and please your kids.

I am sure you will get a lot of smiles and mmmm and yumms when you serve this cake