Month: March 2025

“You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.”P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves

Ingredients (for 12 delicious muffins):
– 1 and 1/4 cup flour (1 cup=200ml);
– 1/2 tsp baking soda + 1/2 tsp vinegar;
– dash of salt;
– 1 egg;
– 2/3 cup cane sugar;
– 8 g vanilla sugar;
– 1/4 cup sunflower oil;
– 1/2 cup milk;
– 1/3 cup chopped walnuts;
– 1 cup grated carrot.

Topping ingredients:
– 1/2 tbsp butter;
-2-3 tbsp cane sugar;
– 1/2 tsp cinnamon.

Method:
1 Preheat the oven to 180C.
2 Butter muffin form.
3 Bowl 1: mix flour+salt+baking soda+vinegar.
4 Bowl 2: whisk egg with sugar and vanilla sugar, then add oil and milk and whisk until smooth.
5 Combine dry ingredients from Bowl 1 with ingredients from Bowl 2 and mix well until smooth.
6 Add chopped walnuts and grated carrot: mix well.
7 Pour the batter into 12 muffin forms.
8 Bowl 3: mix melted butter with sugar and cinnamon and spread this mixture on the top of each muffin-to-be.
9 Bake the muffins for 25 minutes at 180 C. Let them cool down and enjoy with a cup of milk, kefir or black tea!

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Batter ingredients:
– 4 eggs;
– 110 g sugar;
– 8g vanilla sugar;
– 120 g flour;
– 1tsp baking soda + 0.5 tsp vinegar;
– 1.5 tbsp cocoa powder.

Filling ingredients:
– 120 g sugar;
– 400 g sour cream 30%;
– 3 bananas.

Method
1 Preheat the oven to 180 C.
2 Whisk sugar with eggs for 10-15 min.
3 Add baking soda + vinegar and carefully mix in.
4 Add flour and cocoa powder and carefully mix in.
5 Transfer the batter to the round baking form (28cm diameter), on the baking paper and bake for 20-25 min (check if a cake is ready with a toothpick) at 180C.
6 Prepare cream: whisk sour cream with sugar.
7 Slice the bananas.
8 Cool down the cake and separate with a knife into 2 layers.
9 Add half of a cream on the first cake layer and all banana slices, cover with the second layer, spread the remaining cream.
10 Put the cake in the fridge for 2 hours.
11 Serve with fresh blueberries and enjoy!