Now, Watson, there is cocoa ready in the next room. I must beg you to hurry, for we have a great day before us.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ingredients (4 servings): – 1 cup (1cup = 250ml) wholegrain flour – 100g butter – 1/4 cup sugar – 1/4 cup cocoa – 30g orange zest
Method: 1 Preheat the oven to 180C 2 Dough: mix flour, butter, sugar and cocoa 3 Form cookies from the dough & put them on a baking parchment 4 Decorate the cookies with orange zest 5 Bake for 25 minutes at 180C and enjoy with a cup of strong black coffee 😉
Method: 1 Make Mascarpone cream: mix Mascarpone with sugar & 33% cream: don’t make it too liquid ! 🙂 2 Brew a really strong black coffee ! 3 Pour brewed coffee in a plate and let it cool down 4 Now put in the glasses layer by layer (you might use less or more Savoiardi biscuits depending on how high Mascarpone layers you would like to have): 4.1 Savoiardi biscuits dipped each side for 1 second in a coffee-plate 4.2 Mascarpone cream, return to 4.1 if the glass is not full yet 😉 5 Decorate with cocoa on top 6 Put Tiramisu in a fridge overnight 7 Enjoy Tiramisu with a nice old-style black&white movie !
Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness, dear, my happiness will remain, in the moist reflection of a street lamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal’s black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness.
Vladimir Nabokov, Selected Letters, 1940-1977
Ingredients: – 125g peeled grated parsnip – 200g peeled grated apples – 250g wheat or spelt (spelt flour is tastier for this recipe!) flour – 125g full cane sugar – 1 teaspoon cinnamon – 1/2 teaspoon cardamom – 1/2 teaspoon baking soda with 1/2 teaspoon vinegar – 4 tablespoons cocoa – 50g ground hazelnuts – 50ml water – 40 ml olive oil – 1 egg
Topping ingredients: – 2 tablespoons hazelnuts
Hint: Parsnip-cocoa combination gives a really dense and delicious taste: try the cupcakes yourself, the recipe is super-easy !
Method: 1 Preheat an oven to 180C 2 Wash, peel and grate apples and parsnip to a large bowl 3 Add to the grated guys: flour, sugar, cinnamon, cardamom, cocoa, ground hazelnuts, water, olive oil and egg: mix them well 4 Add to the bowl baking soda with vinegar and mix well 5 Put the dough in the buttered muffin form and bake cupcakes for 50 minutes at 180C 6 After 30 minutes of baking add 3 halves of hazelnut to the top of each cupcake 7 Serve cupcakes with a cup of green tea and have a great Sunday !
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