Monthly Archives: December 2014

Cake - Cake Santa Claus
A festive cake - cake with sugar paste and buttercream. It is made with carrot cake, but may be by any combination of cake - stuffing! From radicio.com.
5.0 stars rate, from 6 people

Preparation time: 1 hour 20 minutes | Cooking: 60 minutes | Total time: 2 hours 20 minutes
Recipe for: 12 servings

Nutrition information per 1 medida
Calories: 480 Calories | Fat: 12 g.


Materials for sugar paste:
Sour cream: 85 ml
Dust gelatine: 2 tablespoons
Glucose: 1/2 mug
Butter: 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon
Glycerin: 1 tablespoon soupaskai 1 teaspoon
Vanilla: 1 teaspoon extract or 2 vanillin
Icing sugar: 6 mugs (670 gr.)
Coloring: red and little blue, gel, not wet
Materials recipe for cake:
Walnuts: 1 mug
Eggs: 3 large
Sunflower: 1 mug
Brunette sugar: 1 mug
vanilla: 1 teaspoon extract or 2 vanillin
Grated carrots: 1 1/2 mug (200 gr.)
raisins: 3/4 cup
White flour: 1 and 1/3 mug
Wholemeal flour: 1/3 cup
Baking powder: 2 teaspoons
Salt: 1/2 teaspoon
Crumbs cinnamon: 1 teaspoon
Grated ginger: 1 teaspoon
Grated nutmeg: 1/2 teaspoon
Ingredients for the buttercream:
tough margarine: 1/4 cup
Cold butter: 1/4 cup
Icing sugar: 4 mugs (520 gr.)
Water: 75 ml
Salt: 1/2 teaspoon
Vanilla: 1 teaspoon extract or 2 vanillin

Directions:
For sugar paste:
1. Put in saucepan the cream and add the gelatine. Stir and put on low heat and stir to melt the gelatin. Add the glucose, butter, glycerine and aroma. Mix melted butter and mix the materials. Remove from the heat.
2. In the mixer bowl sift the 7 from the 9 cups powdered sugar. Add the mixture of gelatin and kneaded at low speed with the hook. When omogennopoiithoun materials, add and other 2 caster cups.
3. Knead absorbed icing and become omoimorfo mixture. Stop hitting and empty the sugar paste lightly greased plastic food film. Wrap well and put in 2 - 3 food bags thicker. Leave it 24 hours at room temperature "rest".
The sugar paste should be prepared at least 1 day before. If it is too tight before the use, the heat a little, either microwave or in very warm oven. If it is still tight, add little milk. If it is too soft, add a little icing.
For the cake:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Butter and flour a form heart shape, 25 X 30 from. about.
2. Place the nuts on baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes. Take them, the empty to clean kitchen towel and rub (thus leaving enough of their skins). Discard the skins and chontrokovete nuts.
3. Sift together flour, Baking, salt,cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Keep it aside.
4. Beat in the mixer oil, eggs, sugar and vanilla 3 - 4 minutes. Stop hitting and add all remaining ingredients. Stir to mix.
5. Pour in the mold and bake for 50 minutes. Remove from oven and when cool slightly, xeformarete cake and place on a rack to cool.
For the buttercream:
1. Put all ingredients in the mixer and beat at medium-low speed until to get a uniform and smooth mixture, 10 minutes. the buttercream, better to prepare just before use, because once prepared has an appropriate hardness, to spread right. If you prepare in advance, you must remove it from the refrigerator and the bit again switches to again become soft.
Synarmologisi:
1. Put the cold cake onto the base to be used. Cut strips of wax paper and put them around the bottom of the cake. This will keep clean the base of the cake.
2. Cover the cake with a thin layer of buttercream, round. Straighten as much as possible. Put it in the fridge, to prepare the sugar paste.
3. Member of the sugar paste a small piece, like marble and blue paint. On the rest of the cut 1/3 and paint red. Leave the rest white.
4. Open the red sugar paste into a sheet. Cut straight one side (it suits the cutter pizza) put on 1/4 to the pointed end of the heart (this is the cap of Santa Claus). Lay on as best you can and cut as much excess.
5. Open white sugar paste into a sheet. cut straight to one side and spread to the rest of the cake, touching the red sugar paste. The set and cut as much excess around. If you want a little red sugar paste you a mouth and put a little more than dent the heart, unlike the cap.
6. Put the left over buttercream in a piping bag and do the eyebrows, the eyes, nose, whiskers and beard of Santa Claus. Also cover the union of red and white glaze and do the tassel on his nose skullcap. Divide the sugar paste on blue 2 parts, make the balls and put them in the eyes.
7. Remove the parchment paper and store the cake in the fridge until you serve.

Prepared in 31 December 2014 by Luise

Biscuits with sugar
Recipe for crispy, butter biscuits, sprinkled with colored sugar! From radicio.com.
4.5 stars rate, from 4 people

Preparation time: 40 minutes 2 hours standby | Cooking: 10 minutes | Total time: 50 minutes 2 hours standby
Recipe for: 56 small cookies about

Nutrition information per 1 biscuit
Calories: 64 Calories | Fat: 3.5 g.


Ingredients:
Butter: 1 mug (at room temperature)
Icing sugar: 1 1/2 mug
Vanilla: 1 teaspoon extract or 2 vanillin
Egg: 1 large
Flour: 2 1/2 mugs
Soda: 1 teaspoon
Kremorio: 1 teaspoon
Painter sugar: little for sprinkling (optional)

Directions:
1. Beat the butter with the sugar, vanilla and egg, fluffy well. Add the flour, stirring, soda and kremorio.
2. Make the dough ball, the membrane is wrapped well and refrigerate for 2 hours.
3. Preheat oven to 190 degrees and Layer pans with wax paper baking.
4. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and open a lightly floured surface into a sheet 1/2 from. thickness. With cuts stalemate cut cookies and place in pans.
5. Bake in the preheated oven for 8 - 10 minutes, begin to brown. Remove from the oven and when little drop the temperature , taking them on a rack to cool. The store in an airtight vessel.

Prepared in 31 December 2014 by Luise

Pasta Flora Christmas
Tasty, crunchy, presentable paste Flora with festive look and jam of your choice! From radicio.com.
5.0 stars rate, from 6 people

Preparation time: 20 minutes 1 hour wait | Cooking: 40 minutes | Total time: 60 minutes 1 hour wait
Recipe for: 8 servings

Nutrition information per 1 portion
Calories: 463 Calories | Fat: 24 g.


Ingredients:
Butter: 3/4 cup (230 gr.)
Ζάχαρη : 3/8 cup (75 gr.)
Salt: 1/2 teaspoon
Baking powder: 1/2 teaspoon
Egg: 1 large
Cold water: 1/8 cup
Flour: 2 mugs (250 gr.)
Jam: 1 mug (eg. strawberry, peach, cherry or any other you like)
Icing sugar: little for sprinkling (optionally)

Directions:
1. Sift the flour with salt and baking powder. Add the sugar, butter cut pieces, egg and cold water. You work with your hands until you get a dough omoiogenni. Make the ball, the wrap well and refrigerate for 1 hour.
2. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Prepare a tart 22 - 24 from: the Butter and sprinkle with flour. You can instead use a tart molds in festive shapes eg. Stars oppss photo.
3. Keep a little dough for the decoration and the rest of the open sheet and Lay on the bottom and sides of tart. Spread in the jam dough. Since the dough kept cutting stars and distributes over the jam.
4. Bake Flora cake in oven 35 - 40 minutes, browned around the leaf and crispy.
5. Remove from the oven and when cool the xeformarete. If you want to sprinkle with icing sugar.

Prepared in 30 December 2014 by Luise

meringues festive
elegant, light, bright, sweet and festive meringues! From radicio.com.
4.5 stars rate, from 4 people

Preparation time: 15 minutes | Cooking: 1 hour 30 minutes | Total time: 1 hour 45 minutes
Recipe for: 30 meringues about

Nutrition information per 1 meringue
Calories: 27 Calories | Fat: 0 g.


Ingredients:
Egg whites: 4 large eggs
Cream of tartar: 1/4 teaspoon
Ζάχαρη : 1 mug
Vanilla: 1 package
Food coloring: little, in gel form, optional
Tiny confectionery: little decoration (optionally)

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 95 degrees. Lay 2 large baking trays with greaseproof paper baking.
2. Beat the egg whites with the possible kremorio mixer speed. Add the sugar gradually, teaspoon - teaspoon (It will take a long time, almost 7 minutes). Add the vanilla and. When the meringue shake and make noses standing, stop hitting.
3. If you want, add a little food coloring (eg. green if you want to trees) and stir gently. Put the meringue in a pastry bag with a piping bag with a pretty wide nose.
4. Make small trees within the pans you prepared. If you sprinkle a little colored candy.
5. Bake in the preheated oven for 1,5 time. Turn off the oven and open the door. leave 15 some minutes in the oven (with open door) and remove a rack to cool. The store in an airtight vessel.

Prepared in 29 December 2014 by Luise

Shortbread with almonds

a nice, delicious recipe for fluffy buns with crunchy almonds. Our recipe sent the member radicio.com delicacy, from Crete.

ingredients:
hard margarine: 1 of 250 g. (eg. Rama) at room temperature.
Ζάχαρη : 1 mug
Egg: 1 large, only the yolk
Oil: 1 mug
zest 1 orange and 1 lemon
Raki (raki or Tsipouro without anise): 1 dram
Flour: 5 – 5 1/2 mugs
Baking powder: 1 sachet
Cinnamon: 1 teaspoon
Almonds: 250 g
Powdered sugar: lots for sprinkling

Implementation:
If the almonds are raw, roast, putting in a sheet and baking them in a moderate oven for a few minutes. Be careful not to burn! When cool the chontrospame (blender just 1 – 2 bends)
Beat margarine to mixer fluffy, add the sugar and a – a remaining ingredients, last leaving the almonds and flour. These add to the mixture, stirring gently with a spoon or by hand. Add flour as, in order to obtain a malleable dough.
Make the dough ball and wrap well with food film. On refrigerate for 1 time.
Preheat oven to 180 degrees and lay sheet with wax paper.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator and opening in a thick sheet. Cut with Christmas cup touch button geor shapes and dish on plate.
Bake the buns in the preheated oven for 30 – 35 minutes, begin to brown.

Remove from the oven and let them cool down. Sprinkle with plenty of icing sugar.