Chocolate day

Today I finally managed to meet up with some of my friends. We spent the whole afternoon on cooking, baking and watching TV series. We made chocolate brownies from this recipe. 

It was just one of many silly days in my life, I think I've never share one on the blog before though.

NOTE: All of these happy faces are caused by chocolate!

Chyba jeszcze ani razu nie napisałam posta o zwykłym dniu z życia. Zdjęcia chyba mówią wszystko. Upubliczniam je dlatego, że pokazują co najmniej dwie rzeczy, które lubię - pieczenie i kwiaty (dużo kwiatów w różnych postaciach!). I oczywiście czekoladę;) Brownies z tego przepisu.

Have a beautiful day,

Julia

Today in pictures

Cookie Monster cookies with chocolate in the morning - best thing in the world.

Room redecoration in progress - this wall is not painted yet, but I already adore it! 

Wearing white and sheer tunic was the only right solution to survive today. Lace and the little frame are my recent flea market finds. Deer and pansy (sketched on the rubber) will be stamps soon:) 

Favourite small pansies in full bloom (seeded this year).

How about your day?

Julia

Chocolate liqueur

Did you notice the vast amount of brown colours here this week? This will be the next brown post. (Maybe I should start to categorize posts by colours?) Chocolate liqueur is something that I wanted to make for many long months. It is also a position on my summer to do list.

You'll need: 1 litle of condensed milk (not sweetened), 1 cup od sugar, 10 teaspoons of cocoa, 1/2 cup of 40% vol alcohol, 10 cloves, cream (for serving). Makes about 1 litre of liqueur.

On the low heat boil the condensed milk with sugar and cloves for about 2 hours (until it starts to be brown and dense). Turn off the heat. Pour the coca through stainer and add to the mixture, mix together well. When it's cold add alcohol and pour into a bottle.

Did you notice my beautiful bottle? It is a special liqueur bottle bought in the flea market.

Coming back to the recipe, serve the liqueur with 30% cream.

Note that this is the recipe which will be used in my e-book about chocolate, which is still in progress!

Chocolate cloud cake

The best chocolate cake without flour. I called it 'cloud cake', but it is rather muddy than cloudy. This cake is even better than chocolate itself because of soft and moist consistence. It almost melts in mouth.

Ingredients:

• 4 egg yolks
• 4 egg whites
• 300g of dark chocolate
• 1/4 cup of milk
• 200g of butter
• 100g of sugar

If you prefer to have weight in ounces, simply use this converter.

Preheat the oven to 180C. Melt the chocolate and butter in a pot, add sugar, leave untill it's colder. Beat the egg whites and egg yolks in different bowls, mix together. When the chocolate is in room temperature, mix everything very carefully. Add milk. Bake in a round baking tray about 12-15 minutes.
























Cake grows while baking, but flattens later. For the decoration I used a stencil and icing sugar. I decorated it in this way because the cake is as soft as kitty feet.

It is my own recipe so I'm curious if you'd like it too! Tell me if you tried it :)

Julia