Cake

That is my favourite cake made by my mom. Blackcurrant from my grandpa's garden covered with a crumble on a shortcrust pastry.

Polish tradition

Fat thursday - last day before the fast, you just eat as much doughnuts as you can, I love it! I ate only three :(

Baked apples with raisins

While making these photos it was almost dark, it was just after sunset, but my tripod and folding reflector rescued me. I adore these baked apples, as you can see my chocolate rehab is going pretty well!

Semifreddo

Today I went to a restaurant for making photos, there was a menu for valentine's day, for example this delicious semifreddo! I have to make it someday... I am so excited about today's photos! But it's amazing how exhausting this work is. 

Chocolate truffles

This isn't for me! These truffles are a gift :)

Cantuccini

I'm glad this stressful week is over! I adore Tuscany and I want to go there once again so much! That is why I made these special italian cantuccini. 

Coffee with my friend

This is an iPhone photo :)

Gingerbread

In Poland it's snowing now, so charming! Unfortunately at the same time there is not much light, essential for a good food photo, but I'm struggling! My tripod, 1/15s,  f/1.8 and computer are somehow rescuing me ;) I found some delicious cookies that were really 'photogenic' and three photos were enough to make something decent. Tomorrow I'm doing falafels, love that! They are not very easy to photograph, but that's a challenge, isn't it?

Chocolate cake

This is the first part of a cake that I made today for my grandma! There is nothing better than chocolate during these rainy days.

Baking with my granny!

Today it was wonderful, I made a challah or more a yeast-cake with my grandma. In fact that was me that taught her how to bake it! 

It's friday so I have some time to write down a recipe:

You will need:

For the leaven:

15g yeast

100ml warm (but not hot!) milk

2 spoons flour

1 teaspoon sugar

For the rest:

450g flour

2 teaspoons sugar (or more if u like)

2 spoons of melted butter

100ml warm (not hot) water

1 egg

1 teaspoon salt

For the crumble:

60g flour

30g sugar

30g butter

Mix all the ingredients for the leaven, cover with tea-towel and leave in a warm place. I do it in a big cup for coffee, around 5 times bigger than the amount of leaven, because it will expand! Leave for 15 minutes near the heater for example.

Prepare the ingredients for the rest in a big bowl:

 After 15 minutes add leaven, it should look like this:

 Mix everything and then knead until soft and elastic. If it is too sticky add a little bit of flour, bur not too much! 

 Cover with the tea-towel and leave in a warm place for one hour.

After an hour take the dough, knead it a bit and then divide into three parts. Roll them to obtain three rolls and make a simple braid. Hide the ends under the challah. Set the oven for 50 degrees and put the challah in for 15 minutes to rise. 

Now prepare a crumble: just mix everything and it's done!

 Take the challah out after 15 minutes, sprinkle the dough with milk and cover it with the crumble. Put it into oven again for 30 minutes and raise the temperature to 180 degrees.

 At the end it should look like this! For me it tastes best with butter and cold milk to drink.