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Orange and Chocolate Muffins (Cupcakes)

Orange and chocolate muffins are so delicious that I cannot resist to stop preparing them. I love the smell when baking and incredible taste of orange mixed with white chocolate when having my morning coffee. Best thing about muffins is that you can be really creative and you can bake your own designed muffins.  

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:                                       

• 1 glass of sugar - I use powder sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 glasses of plain flour
• 200 ml fresh orange juice
• 400-500 ml butter milk
• 100 g butter
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 250 g orange jam
• 100 g white chocolate
• 100 g candied orange
• 100 ml cointreau liqueur
• 20 g vanilla sugar
• 1/3 tsp salt
• chocolate for decoration 
• decorate your orange muffins as desired - be creative 

Method:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 200 C (top and bottom heat).

2. Cut the chocolate into small pieces. Mix the flour with sugar, salt, baking powder and vanilla sugar.

3. Beat the eggs, then add orange juice, cointreau liqueur, buttermilk, melted butter and orange jam. Then add these ingredients into flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Mix well.

4. At the end add candied orange and white chocolate into the mixture.

5. Fill the muffin (cupcake) baking moulds to approx. 2/3 full. Do not overfill. Am using silicon moulds for that as I think they are best. Do not forget to springle some oil over the moulds so your cupcakes won't stick when baked.

6. Place the muffins into the center of a pre-heated oven and bake for approx. 20 minutes. 

7. Muffins are ready when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

8. Cool 5 minutes then remove cupcakes from the moulds and place on wire racks to cool completely.

9. If the muffins are not coming out, carefully move a blunt blade along the rim.

10. Decorate with dark chocolate. Remember to be creative.

ENJOY!!!

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Italian Tiramisu For Everyone (in Polish: Wloskie tiramisu dla kazdego)

There are many recipes and versions of Tiramisu but the basic and original ingredients are: mascarpone cheese, eggs, espresso, some sugar, amaretto liquor and lady fingers of course. This recipe will be the purest version of real Italian dessert. I have tried Tiramisu many times in restaurants all over the world and still I like the most the one I prepare at my own kitchen.

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Wait Time: 120 minutes 

Ingredients:                                       

• 2 packages of lady fingers (sponge fingers) - approx 300 g
• 6 pasteurized eggs
• 3 Tbsp sugar
• 500 g mascarpone cheese
• 8 small (8oz) espresso cups 
• 4 shots of amaretto liquer (can be also brandy, cognac or rum)
• 4 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa to dust

Method:

1. Prepare espresso shots and pour all into a shallow flat bowl. Add three shots of amaretto and 1 Tbsp of cacoa. Leave aside to cool down.

2. Beat egg yolks with sugar until thick and pale, about 5 minutes. Add mascarpone cheese and 1 shot of amaretto (can be also brandy, rum or cognac). Again keep mixing until creamy.

3. In a separate mixing bowl, beat egg whites.

4. Pour beaten egg whites into mascarpone and mix only a bit in order to blend all the ingredients. Do not over mix.

5. Dip lady finger biscuits in the espresso mixture just long enough to let them absorb enough espresso and amaretto mixture (approx. 5 sec). Remember to do it with sugare side up. Make sure all biscuits after espresso bath look completely dark.

6. Place the soaked ladyfingers on the bottom of a 13 by 9 inch baking dish, breaking them in half if necessary in order to fit the bottom. Remember to lay biscuits with sugar side down.

7. Once the first layer of biscuits is ready, put the mascarpone mixture across. The layer should be about 1 cm thick. So with that amount of mascarpone - egg mixture it should be about a half of the mixture. 

8. Dip another layer of espresso moistured lady fingers on the mascarpone mix. Lay them sugare side down.

9. Spoon last layer of mascarpone across the biscuits. The layer again should be about 1 cm thick.

10. Dust remaining cocoa on the top of mascarpone mixture. 

11. Cover ready Tiramisu with a wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, up to 8 hours.

ENJOY!!!

Amaretto Peach Heaven (in Polish: Podniebna rozkosz Amaretto)

Amaretto Peach Heaven is light and so easy to prepare. Once you try you will love it - same as my friends and neighbours. Simply Delicious. 

Prep Time: 15 - 20 minutes

Ingredients - 6 servings:                                       

• package of amaretto biscuits 
• Greek yoghurt - approx. 600 g
• 150 ml amaretto liquer
• 350 g sliced peach from a can
• chocolate chips to decorate 

Method:

1. Crush 2 amaretto biscuits into each dessert glass.

2. Pour a bit of amaretto liquer on the top of crushed biscuits.

3. Add a layer of greek yoghurt and a layer of sliced peach. 

4. Repeat the siquence adding one crushed biscuit onto each yoghurt layer until all the yoghurt and fruits have gone.

5. Crush one more biscuit on the top of each glass.

6. Decorate with chocolate chips or anything else you wish.

7. Serve chilled. 

ENJOY!!!