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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.

Stir the mixture very gently, incorporating the cream steadily, without overworking. The mixture should begin to appear glossy.

Make sure the cake is completely cool.

Pour ganache over cake

It already started to look fabulous!!

Wash and dry the red fruits and spread them evenly on ganache on top of the cake

Sprinkle icing sugar over

That’s what i call a pleasure for the eye!

Now my cake is ready to welcome my dearest parents. Can’t wait 🙂

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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

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simple cake for your baby

Posted on March 6, 2014 | 5 comments

it’s dessert time! Sometimes you wish to give your kid other than fruits and still being healthy. A simple and homemade cake is an option. Here is a simple recipe that you will never forget and it will be ready even before you finish reading the post.

Ingredients:

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

Mix the butter + sugar and add the eggs one by one, then the flour and vanilla.

Pour the cake batter in a cupcake mold,personally I find it more practical and easy to have them as portions to take them with me in the afternoon when we go to the park

(Bake for 20mns on 170°C)