Cake filled with eggnog and strawberries

For: 6 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS:

• 600 g "bread of angels"

for the eggnog:

• 4 yolks
• 100g sugar
• 10g flour
• 450 ml white wine
• 400ml whipping cream
• 30g cocoa powder
• 300g strawberries
• 1 banana
• 1/2 lemon(just the juice)
• 50g icing sugar

PREPARATION:

For the "bread of angels" you nedd 10 egss whites mixed with 200 g icing sugar: when the compound become foamy add a teaspoon of baking powder and 120 g flour little at the time. At the end add vanilla essence.

Pour the mixture into a round mold and bake for 60min at 165 degrees.

For the eggnog: whip the 4 egg yolks with the sugar in a bowl for 5 min.After that add the flour a little at a time and the white wine and cook in a double boiler for 15 min. Remove from the heat and let it cool, stirring constantly.

Mounted in another bowl the whipping cream and combined with the cream little at a time from the bottom upwards.Take 1/3 from the compound and mix it with the cocoa powder.

Cut into slices the strawberries and the banana on which pour the lemone juice to keep it blacked.

Cut into 3 -4  shares the "bread of angels" . Place the base on the plate and spread 1/2 of eggnog dabbimg the strawberries slices , place the 2 shares and spread the chocolate cream on which put the banana slices: add the 3 shares spreding the other half of eggnog cream and the strawberries slices. Finally add the last part of "bread of angels"and cover with icing sugar and with slices of banana and strawberry

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Cake with chocolate figs and cedar with white chocolate sauce

For: 8 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS:
for the cake:

• 130g butter
• 230g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 185 g flour
• 40 g cocoa powder
• 185 ml fresh milk
• 120g dried figs
• 60g candied citron
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder

for the sauce:

• 100g white chocolate
• 50 ml fresh cream
• nutmeg

PREPARATION:

Mount 120g soft butter and the sugar, add the eggs one at the time, the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and the milk until you get a smooth, soft dough.Cut the figs and the candied citron and put them in the compound . 

In a buttered mold pour the cake and bake it for 45 min at 180 degrees.Meanwhile , heat the fresh cream and remove from the heat, add the white chocolate and slam to  homogenize.

Unmold the cake , let it cool and cut it into slices. 

Serve with the white chocolate sauce .

Chocolates with hazelnuts

For : 6 persons
Difficulty : low

INGREDIENTS:

• 50g white chocolate
• 150g milk chocolate
• 50g hazelnuts

PREPARATION:

Blanched the hazelnuts in boiling water, remove the peel and toast them in the oven for 5 min.Meanwhile  melt the 2 chocolates in a double boiler.Take a pastry bag , fill it with little white chocolate.Take a mold for chocolate that you prefer and fill it, let it to cool in the refrigerator for 10 min.Pour the milk chocolate to fill each mold and inserted in each one the toasted hazelnuts.

Then put them it in the refrigerator for another 10 min and once the chocolates have solidified, you can seve.

Chocolate and pears delight

For: 4 persons
Difficulty : medium



INGREDIENTS:

 for the pastry:

• 165 g flour
• 125 g butter
• 30 g sugat
• 30 g almonds

 

for the stuffing:

• 4-5 pears
• 90 g butter
• 45 g cocoa powder 
• 200 g brown sugar
• 45 g flour
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

 for decoration:

• icing sugar

PREPARATION:

Pour into a bowl the flour, the sugar, the chopped almonds, 3-4 tablespoons of water and the butter and knead until the mixture is very crumbly.Wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 min. Roll out the pastry, lined a baking pan and let rest in the refrigerator.

Peel the pear,remove the seeds and cut them into 4 pieces,Prick the dough with a fork and sprinkle with sugar.Put on the pears and bake it for 15 min at 180°C.  Meanwhile melt the butter and the cocoa mixing well.Mounted the egg and the brown sugar , add the butter and cocoa and sift over the flour. Stir everything and  add the vanilla extract.Pour it on the pears and bake it for anther 15 min.Leave to cool and sprinkle the cake with icing sugar 

Cake with citrus fruits and milk chocolate

For : 6 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS
   for the cake:

• 150g milk chocolate
• 90 g almonds
• 60 g flour type "00"
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder 
• 1 lemon
• 1 orange
• 4eggs
• 125g sugar
• 2 spoon milk
• 20g butter                                                                                                    

                                             

 for decoration:

• 170 ml fresh cream
• icing sugar

PREPARATION:

Grease a mold and cover the bottom with parchment paper.Chop 100g chocolate with a tablespoon of grated citrus zest. Add the flour and the almonds and blend them briefly.Beat the eggs yolks and the sugar,and then add the previous mixture and the warm milk,Whip the eggs whites with a pinch of salt and stir everything with the aid of a spatula and making movements from bottom up.Add the baking powder and pour the mixture in the mold. Bake it for 45 min at 180°C. When the cake is cooled, cut it into 2 pieces.Melt the chocolate in a double boiler remained and spread the base of the cake.Stuffed with whipped cream and cover with the top of the cake,Let on the fridge for 20 min and add on top the icing sugar and chocolate flakes.

Strawberry Sorbet

For : 4 persons
Difficulty : low

                                                          

 INGREDIENTS:

• 250g strawberry
• 250g water
• 185 g sugar
• 1/4 lemon

  PREPARATION:

  Clean the strawberry.Wash the lemon and cut into 4 pieces ans squeeze the juice. Whisk the strawberry with the sugar and water, add the lemon juice. Let it rest in the fridge for at lest 3 hours, then puor it into cream maker. Let the whisk running until the sorbet has a  uniform consistency.

Cream of oranges

For : 4 persons

Difficulty : low
                                                    
                                                                 INGREDIENTS :

• 500 ml milk
• 30 g starch
• 4 yolk of eggs
• 100 g sugar
• 4 orange (juice and grated rind)
• a bit of  cinnamon

    DECORATION :

• 50 ml whipping cream
• orange peel

   PREPARATION :

     Into pie dish mixt whit a whip the yolk ,sugar and strach, after that you put the warmed milk and mix
ted it until it's all incorporated
Put the pie dish with all ingredients to boil . When the cream is thicken , close the fire and put the juice and grated rind.Wait until the cream is cooled.
Serve this fragrant orange cream in decorated cups with whipping cream and a slice of candied orange ,powdering cinnamon.

Bonet

For : 10 persons

Difficulty : medium

INGREDIENTS :

• 500 ml milk
• 300 g granulated sugar
• 120 g macaroons
• 70 g cocoa powder
• 3 eggs
• 1 yolk
• 3 g of rum 

For the caramel :

• 300 g granulated sugar 
• 100 ml water

PREPARATION :

      Put into a casserole the sugar and water on medium heat ed let it until has a brown color, after that put the caramel in the shape you want and let it cool.
    The egg goes in the pie dish whit the granulated sugar and mixed until the sugar is dissolved. After that you add the ccoca powder and mix it very good, then add the crumbled macaroons and rum. Put in the milk, but not before it is heated, stirring constantly with the aid of a wip. You can put the mixture into the molds in caramel made before.
Put the molds into a griddle containing hot water and baked it in water bath at 150°C for 40-50 min.

Chestnuts spoon

For: 4 persone 

Difficult: mediu 

Preparation : 25 MIN

INGREDIENTS :

• 600 g chestnuts
• 150 g dark chocolate chopped
• 120 g butter
• 120 g sugar 
• a bit of sale

PREPARATION :
   
   
   Boiling the chesstnuts in salted water.When they are boiled you have to grind it.
Melt the chocolate and mixed with the chestnuts , still wormed, putting the sugar and butter.
Knead the dought ling and well.Grease and line a rectangular mold of wax paper,spill the compost  and cover it whit wax papper.Put it in the fridge for at lest 4 hours.After you can cut it in the shape you want (heart ,flowers ,square).Serve whit the cream separately