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.

Figs with chocolate

For: 4 persons
Difficuty: low

INGREDIENTS:

• 800 dried figs
• 150 g almond
• 2 cloves
• 70 g candied citron 
• a bit of cinnamon
• 100 g dark chocolate grated
• 75 g sugar

 PREPARATION :

  Take dried figs ,open them and place in the middle sighly tosted almond in the oven,a bit of cloves crushed and few bits of candied citron.
Close them  with the fingers and bake on plate.Just beginning to gold remove them from the oven and still warm roll them in a mixted of dark chocolate grated and sugar.
Acording to a most common method you can also soak the figs right out of the oven ,in a saucepan in whom the chocolate was melted with little water and a pinch of cinnamon.
The figs chocolate are kept in wooden boxed or in tin lined with greaseproof paped.

Crisp desert

For :10 persons
Difficulty : low


INGREDIENTS:

• 500g almonds with the skin
• 500 g sugar
• 300 ml water

 PREPARATION:

  Chopped the almonds, put the sugar on fire  with 3 spoon of water, and went it's melted add the almond until they will take a dark gold color.Roll out hot dough on a greased  marble, cut into squares and alllow it to cool.

Soup chocolate

For : 4 persons
Difficulty : low




INGREDIENTS:

• 8yolks
• 270g sugar
• 1 l milk
• 200 ml fresh cream
• 300g dark chocolate of 70%
• 300 g puffed rice
• saffron

  PREPARATION:

  Melt in a double boil the dark chocolate with 100 g of fresh cream. In a mixer whip the yolk and the sugar, In part, united in a pot the milk with 100g of fresh cream and saffron, and bring it to boil.Mixed the hot milk to the egg yolks sugary and put it back to the fire, bringing the mixture to a temperature of 70/80 °C. Stir in a ice cream maker.

In a flat bottom put the hot chocolate and lie down on a saffron ice  cream spoon, sprinkle with crisped rice.

Panna cotta

For : 10 persons
Difficulty: medium

                                                          

 INGREDIENTS:

• 1 l of fresh cream
• 200 ml of milk 
• 200g of sugar
• 4 sheet of gelatin
• 2 vanilla pods

 PREPARATION:

       Soack the sheet of gelatin in cold water for 10 min. Caramelized a large mold or smaller molds by cooking 100 gr granulated sugar. Put the panna , the milk and the rest of sugra in a saucepan  over medium heat,stirring and bringing almost to boil;add the vanilla and squeezed gelatin from the water. Put the crem into the mold or mold well caramelized. Let it coll in the fridge for a few hours before serving. To unmold, pass a moment the mold on the flamme making pour the caramelized sugar on the pudding.

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.

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