Are you prepared for Olympia? Well, you do not have to be a sports fan to watch the opening programme in London. If you want to prepare something which shows your support to your country, then try this: Patriotic cookies. I found the recipe at Krissy’s Creations. The cookies come our great :).
http://www.krissys-creations.com/2012/05/brown-butter-brown-sugar-cookies.html
Follow the instructions on Krissy’s blog to prepare them. After 6 minutes of baking, take out the cookies and quickly place m&m’s on top. Place back in the oven for 2 more minutes. Done!
Summer holidays have begun and I love it. The first two days I was sceptical whether these are really the SUMMER holidays or the autumn ones, but since yesterday I am certain that it is still July and not October or something. See how it started!
But now we can enjoy the sun and the warm weather just like it should be :). According to this, I made some Ice Pops, which are not only delicious, but also not too sweet, fresh, without fat, easy and vegan. You won’t be needing a lot of time, they are put together very fast. I do not want to detain you any longer, you’d better prepare these pops, put them in the freezer and go outside. So here is the recipe:
Honeydew Ice Pops:
(makes 4 pops à 100 ml (= 4 fl oz))
160 g (5,5 oz) cantaloupe
160 g (5,5 oz) honeydew
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp lemon juice
Put both kinds of melon in two different bowls and add one tablespoon of brown sugar and lemon juice to each sort. Mash the fruit with an immersion blender. Place one of the mixtures into the ice pop molds and try to fill in the same amount of liquid into every mold. Place in the freezer for one hour. Leave the other mixture in the fridge.
After 60 minutes, put out the molds and add the other liquid. Place in ice sticks. Let set in the freezer for 4 more hours.
Recipe adapted from „Women`s health“ magazine.
I already told you that I was on a class trip last week. Our youth hostel was in a beautiful town surrounded by a river – the Trave. It takes only 20 minutes by bus to get to the beach which woud have probably been more fun if the weather had been nicer :(. It did not only rain, it was cold as well and at the and of the trip half of the students had a cold. Perfect, eh?
It was fun, though. The first day we went through Luebeck and spend some money on summer sale shopping, especially at Yves Rocher’s http://www.yves-rocher.de/control/main :P. The second day we went to a theme park. This Hansa Park was great, luckily it did not rain. On wednesdey we were at the beach, it was cold and warm and then cold again and it rained. At least we had a bit of every kind of weather. The last day we went to Hamburg, one of the biggest German cities at the coast of the North Sea. We just got a glimpse of the town, but I liked what I saw. I want to go there again!
Luebeck is not quite big, but not very small, either. The town is famous for its marzipan creations. Well, I do not like marzipan that much, but I simply had to try something from there. So I bought marzipan chocolate sticks with berry prosecco flovour and I was stunned. That almond flavour of marzipan was not strong at all and the berries and the semi-sweet chocolate fit perfectly together. After you have tasted all this, a fine note of prosecco flavour completes the combination. Yum!
http://www.niederegger.de/
The first day I was at home, I wanted to include this sweet in a treat. Well, at least I tried.
Some weeks ago, I had planned to try out an eclairs recipe. Everything was good, my dough was as it should be, the eclairs did not stay flat… But unfortunately my oven window is very dark and the light inside has stopped working some time ago… So I opened the oven to check if the eclairs were done already 5 minutes before the time was over. They came out flat. Crap. Because the cream was already prepared, I did not want to throw all the ingredients away. So I put it on top of the eclairs (which tasted good, though). Here is the frosting recipe:
240 ml (1 cup) heavy cream
8 tsp. strawberry jam
1 tbsp. powdered sugar
60 g (2 oz) Niederegger marzipan berry prosecco flavour
Beat the heavy cream with a mixer until it is stiff. Add the strawberry jam and sugar and beat until incorpotated. Add the marzipan and mix just a little.