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Black Forest Pancakes

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Hi guys!

No, this recipe from Milkandbun has nothing to do with Easter. But it doesn’t always has to be about Easter these days right… All I could think when I saw this amazing recipe was this: ‘I. Need. These. Pancakes.”
Really, my head couldn’t think of anything else and I secretly hope yours can’t either because that’s exactly why I wanted to share this pancake recipe with you!

Oh I know what you’ll be eating next Sunday… ;)

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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 When I decided to make chocolate pancakes, I didn’t expect them turn out so good and delicious: a pure indulgence! I wanted to serve them only with a black-cherry jam. But when I stumbled upon a pack of mascarpone in my fridge, that I wanted to use somewhere else, the decision came itself – use it as a topping! Mascarpone worked perfectly as a cream and cherry syrup (I mixed jam with some water to make it thinner) sucked into pancakes very well, like into a sponge cake. All ingredients worked more than good together, dark chocolate and fresh cherry on top added a nice and charming touch as well. Plus, the taste reminds the famous cake – “Black Forest”. It’s my husband’s favorite cake, so he was on a nine cloud! Honestly, these are highly recommended pancakes!Schwarzwald Pancakes

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Easter Oreo Cupcakes

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Hi guys!

I told you I’m in my Cupcake period, right :) These Oreo Cupcakes are so good, you’ll want it before, during and after Easter ;) The best part of this Cupcake probably is the Oreo/Milka chocolate egg on top. It’s soooo good!

What we need:

Cupcakes

  • 85 g self-raising flour
  • 15 g cocoa powder
  • pinch of salt
  • 125 g caster sugar
  • 135 g butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1,5 tbsp milk
  • 1/4th tsp vanilla extract
  • Cupcake wrappers

Frosting

  • 125 g butter
  • 250 g icing sugar
  • vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • piping bag
  • oreos
  • milka/oreo chocolate eggs
  • 1M piping tip

Easter Oreo Cupcakes

How to:

Cupcakes

  1. Preheat the oven at 180°C.
  2. Sift your dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
  3. Add butter and eggs and mix until it all combines.
  4. Add milk and vanilla and mix until the batter is smooth.
  5. Put 1 oreo cookie on the bottom of each cupcake wrapper.
  6. Fill the wrapper for 3/4th with batter.
  7. Bake for about 22 minutes.

(This recipe is from Cupcake Jemma)

Frosting

  1. Beat the butter soft.
  2. Add half of the icing sugar and mix until it combines.
  3. Add the other half along with the milk and the vanilla extract.
  4. Beat long enough until the frosting becomes fluffy and well combined.
  5. Beat the some oreo cookies to make crumbs.
  6. Sift the crumbs. The crumbs that fall through the sifter are perfect for your frosting, the others will go on top.
  7. Blend the crumbs into your frosting, set the larger ones aside.
  8. Take a 1M piping tip and a piping bag.
  9. Pipe beautiful roses on your cupcake.
  10. Sprinkle the larger crumbs on top of the roses to make some sort of ‘nest’.
  11. Cut milka oreo chocolate eggs in half and put them on top.
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Oreo Cupcakes

Enjoy!

Easter Oreo Cupcakes with Milka Oreo Easter Egg

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Salted Caramel Easter Surprise Cupcakes

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Hi guys!

Easter is coming close. I love Easter. The colours, the beginning of Spring and – of course – the chocolate :) When I was a kid, I used to go to my grandparents and look for eggs in their gardens. And at home as well of course. I LOVED it! I believed in it for a very – very – long time because of my parents. I guess they loved me believing in the stories because one year, they painted bunny paws on the floor to make me believe Easter Bunny had been inside our house to deliver the eggs to us. What great parents I have!

You may have noticed it before but I’m really into Cupcakes these days… So Easter is coming in the size of Cupcakes this year! I’m not planning on making any other Easter recipes besides Cupcakes :p They are just so cute and fit the holiday perfectly :)

So, on the outside it looks like a normal Salted Caramel Cupcake:

Salted Caramel Cupcakes

BUT on the inside hides a surprise!

Surprise inside Salted Caramel Easter Surprise Cupcake

What do we need:

Cupcakes

  • 50 g cocoa powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 175 g self-raising flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 225 g caster sugar (fine sugar)
  • 175 g unsalted butter
  • 175 ml milk
  • Caramel easter eggs

Buttercream frosting

  • 250 g unsalted butter
  • 500 g icing sugar
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • vanilla extract
  • salted caramel sauce
  • little easter chicks

Salted Caramel Easter Cupcakes

How to:

Cupcakes

  1. Preheat the oven at 180°C.
  2. Put the dry ingredients in your mixing bowl.
  3. Add the softened butter and mix. It’s okay if the mixture remains a bit dry and does not become creamy yet.
  4. Add the milk to your eggs and whisk them so the eggs and the milk blend.
  5. Add the milk-egg mixture to the batter by slowly pooring it in whilst mixing on medium speed.
  6. Add vanilla extract and mix until the ingredients are completely combined.
  7. Fill your cupcake wrappers for 3/4th and bake for about 22 minutes.
  8. Let them cool and put a Caramel Easter egg in the center of every Cupcake.

Frosting

  1. Beat the butter soft.
  2. Add half of the icing sugar and mix until it combines.
  3. Add the other half along with the milk and the vanilla extract.
  4. Beat long enough until the frosting becomes fluffy and well combined.
  5. Add a little bit of salted caramel sauce and mix it in the frosting. Make sure the caramel sauce isn’t warm when you add it because that makes the frosting split.
  6. Take a 1M piping tip and a piping bag.
  7. Fill the bag and pipe a double rose => this piping tip makes a rose so you just add a second layer and top it off at the top.
  8. Drizzle some salted caramel sauce on top and add a little chick.

Salted Caramel Easter Surprise Cupcake

Original recipe from The Scran Line.

p.s. It’s International Women’s Day! Here’s to all women: take an extra Cupcake, you’ve earned it ;)

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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February Favorites 2016

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Hi guys!

Did you enjoy yesterday’s leap day? Did you do something special or was it just another working day for you? I didn’t do anything special besides choosing the February Favorites!

#1: Nutella Espresso Cheesecake with Raspberry Swirl

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This awesome Cheesecake was made by my namesake Sarah from The Gold Lining Girl. I think she did an amazing job! I want to eat it all… Don’t you?

#2: Strawberry White Chocolate Mousse Parfait

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Most of you know the very talented Lily from Little Sweet Baker. If you don’t, please go visit her blog because she makes such yummy and gorgeous things. And this dessert is yet another stunning and delicious recipe. I love it!

#3: Chocolate Chip Cakemix Cookies

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Your leap day didn’t go so well? You feel like watching tv all night in your pajamas? Then – and if you’re just really into cookies – this recipe is perfect for you! Mandi from Moments with Mandi made these and I must say they look and sound awesome! The perfect comfort cookie if you ask me…

#4: Cotton Candy Cupcakes

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Aaaah, cotton candy… It brings back so many childhood memories. And that’s exactly what these adorable Cupcakes from The Weekend Sugar do! Thanks for sharing them Shani. P.s I LOVE that colour!

#5: Raspberry Swirl Pound Cake

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Vanilla and raspberries… Two of my favorite flavors! I mean, can that EVER go wrong or would you EVER get tired of that combo? I won’t! It looks so delicious. Great choice by Julie from Hostess At Heart!

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Devil’s Food Cake

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Hi guys!

If you love chocolate, this might become your FAVORITE dessert! You won’t be able to live without it, you’ll dream about it, you’ll want it every day all day long. Even for breakfast… It’s the Devil’s Food Cake!

I never really knew why they called it like that. Oh boy, how stupid could I be. It is so delicious it becomes evil. I’m not kidding!

The recipe I used is from – who else could it be – Laura in the Kitchen. Did I meantion how easy this recipe is?

Devils Food Cake

What do we need:

  • 300 g self-raising flour
  • 75 g cocoa powder
  • 400 g sugar
  • 240 g butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 80 ml milk
  • 2 cups of coffee
  • pinch of salt
  • 320 ml cream
  • 420 g dark chocolate
  • 2 9 inch pans

Devils Food Cake Recipe

How to:

First we make the frosting

  1. Heat the cream. Don’t let it boil.
  2. Chop the chocolate.
  3. Poor the cream over the chocolate and let it sit for a few minutes.
  4. Stir the chocolate-cream mixture until it becomes a dark and rich ganache.
  5. Set aside for a couple of hours until it gets the right structure.

Now for the cake

  1. Preheat the oven at 180°C.
  2. Mix together butter and sugar.
  3. Put the milk and the coffee in the saucepan you used to heat the cream and heat it.
  4. Add eggs and vanilla extract to the butter-sugar mixture.
  5. Put flour, cocoa powder and salt in one bowl and blend a bit.
  6. Put half of your dry ingredients in the mixer, together with half of your coffee-milk mixture.
  7. Mix until it’s combined.
  8. Put the other half of the dry ingredients and coffee-milk mixture in the mixer.
  9. mix until your batter is smooth. Don’t worry if the batter is very thin and liquid, that’s normal :)
  10. Divide the batter over 2 9 inch pans.
  11. Bake for 30 – 35 minutes.
  12. Let the cake cool completely.

Let’s build ourselves a cake!

  1. Put frosting on the bottom layer.
  2. Stack the 2nd cake on top.
  3. Frost the whole cake.
  4. EAT THE CAKE!

Devils Food Cake by Laura in the Kitchen

Here’s the video if you want to bake along with Laura

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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The Original Red Velvet Cupcakes

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Hi guys!

Who doesn’t love Red Velvet Cupcakes? In 2014, I made some Red Velvets but with a mascarpone-cream frosting. Now I made them with their ‘signature’ cream cheese butter frosting. I didn’t really know what to expect since I never manage to make delicious buttercream frostings. They just taste too much like butter…

But these Red Velvets with their original frosting are AMAZING! I don’t think I’ll ever make my ‘old’ frosting again. I had to keep myself from eating the frosting before putting it on my cupcakes :o Is that bad?

I know it sounds silly but I’m in love with these ‘original’ Red Velvet Cupcakes ;)

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What we need:

Cupcakes

  • 235 g self-raising flour
  • 15 g cocoa powder
  • 250 g sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 270 g soft unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 4 eggs
  • 3 tablespoons of buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon of red food colouring (powder or paste)
  • Cupcake wrappers
  • Cupcake trays

Frosting

  • 150 g soft unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 240 g cream cheese
  • 840 g icing sugar
  • Piping tip
  • Piping bag

 

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How to:

Cupcakes

  1. Preheat the oven at 180°C.
  2. Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa powder and salt in your mixer.
  3. Add the butter and the eggs.
  4. Mix until the batter is smooth.
  5. Combine buttermilk, food colouring and vanilla extract and poor it in the batter.
  6. Mix until the batter gets a nice red colour.
  7. Finish the batter by hand because you don’t want to overmix it.
  8. Place the cupcake wrappers in the cupcake trays.
  9. Fill the cupcake wrappers for 2/3th and bake them for about 22 minutes.

Frosting

  1. Put butter, cream cheese and half of the icing sugar in the mixer.
  2. Mix on minimum speed until it combines, then mix at medium to high speed.
  3. Add the other half of the icing sugar.
  4. Mix until the frosting gets stiff and pale. Don’t make it too stiff though.
  5. Let the cupcakes cool completely before frosting them.
  6. Put the piping tip in your piping bag and frost! :D

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I’ve also found a new YouTube channel to share with you because I absolutely LOVE Jemma from the London based bakery Crumbs and Doillies. (I HAVE to get to London soon..) She made these Red Velvets and her video is just awesome! I hope you enjoy :D

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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January Favorites

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Hi guys!

January is waaaaaaaay past now but we still have some recap to do ;)

#1: Karleksmums

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Can I please have this for Valentine’s Day? :D

#2: Baked Chocolate Doughnuts

Chocolate Baked Doughnuts

I have to get myself some doughnut molds and make these baked doughnuts! I’ve never made doughnuts because I didn’t have a large frying pan but now I don’t have to :D

#3: Savoury Macarons: Smoked Salmon & Horseradish

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How about these awesome appetizers :D Sweet, but not that sweet ;) And without a doubt 100% delicious!

#4: Red Velvet Waffles

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YES PLEASE! :D Do I really need to tell you why I love these awesome Waffles?
I thought so too :)

#5: Cheesy Snowgie Snacks

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If you’re still waiting for that first real snow or if you just love snowmen but think snow is a bit too cold, this is the treat for you! :D

If there’s anyhing you liked here, go pay the awesome people who made it a visit :) I’m sure they would love that ^^

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Carnival Cupcakes

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Hi guys!

It’s Carnival or Mardi Gras today! Unfortunately that does not mean funny costumes for me… although I really think they should introduce that into working life as well. Why let the kids have all the fun?

But we adults have the ability to make food! Or at least some of us ;) And that’s exactly what I did :) I used my favorite source in the world – Pinterest – and found the perfect kind of cupcakes for Mardi Gras: Funfetti Cupcakes! You know, the ones with the colourful dots inside the cake. But I guess I didn’t use the right ingredient or not enough of it because there are no colourful dots to be found in my cupcakes :( Oh well, next time :)

Carnaval Cupcakes

Although the colourful dots were missing, it was still super delicious and fun to look at!

What we need:

  • 220 g butter
  • 220 g self-raising flour
  • 220 g sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • +- 120 g powder sugar
  • 400 ml heavy cream
  • 500 g mascarpone
  • cupcake wrappers
  • edible confetti
  • piping bag + piping tip

Mardi Gras Cupcakes

How to:

  1. Preheat the oven at 180°C.
  2. Mix together butter and sugar.
  3. Add the eggs and mix until the batter becomes smooth.
  4. Sift the flour and mix until the batter is smooth.
  5. Add a bunch of confetti and blend well.
  6. Place the cupcake wrappers in the mold. Fill them for 3/4th with batter.
  7. Bake for about 25 minutes.
  8. Whip up the cream and set aside.
  9. Mix mascarpone and powder sugar.
  10. Gently blend in the whipped cream, using a spatula.
  11. Put a piping tip in the piping bag and fill the bag with frosting.
  12. Frost the cupcakes and add as much sprinkles as you like :)
  13. CELEBRATE!

Carnival Cupcakes

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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7 awesome Pancake recipes for National Pancake Day

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Hi guys!

Happy National Pancake Day! I think this is my new favorite “holiday” :p

I just LOVE Pancakes… American Pancakes, homemade Pancakes, Nutella Pancakes, Pancakes from my grandma, … I LOVE them! Who doesn’t? :D

To celebrate this very special and joyful day I bring you 7 awesome recipes!

#1: Apple Pie Pancakes

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Two of my favorite things combined. That just screams DELICIOUS!

#2: Cinnamon Roll Pancakes

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These pancakes are for all you cinnamon lovers out there! :D

#3: Nutella stuffed Pancakes

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Oh boy… These look soooooo good! It’s literally 1 pancake + nutella + 1 pancake :o
Omnomnom ^^

#4: Fluffy Banana Pancakes

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I’d say these are the perfect breakfast pancakes! No more grumpy mornings ;)

#5: Blueberry Pancakes

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Aaaah the Blueberry Pancake… I think this one has become a classic and I can easily understand why :) Yummy!

#6: Chocolate Pancakes

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Don’t eat this pancake for breakfast on a workday… I think you won’t make it to noon. But this would make perfect partyfood! Or comfort food ;) Mwuhaha!

#7: Lactose & Sugar Free Pancakes

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Craving pancakes but in need of a little bit more healthy ones? Try my lactose and sugar free pancakes. They are delicious but don’t fall so hard on your stomach (or hips, bums and bellies ;) )

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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No Bake Strawberry Chocolate Tart

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Hi guys!

The recipe I’ve got for you today is not just good. It’s awesome!
Delicious and a little bit decadent. Just the way we like it ;)
Oh and super easy too!

I was scrolling up and down Pinterest because I really really wanted to bake make something. You know that feeling? I only had two eggs so a cake was not possible. Hmmm… There it was! I saw this gorgeous, delicious and slightly decadent tart from Home Cooking Adventure. I was sold. And I didn’t even need eggs! Although I did have to go to the store xD

No Bake Strawberry Chocolate Tart

What we need:

  • 30 Oreo cookies
  • 110 g melted butter
  • 200 g milk chocolate
  • 100 g dark chocolate
  • 200 ml heavy cream
  • strawberries
  • Tart pan
  • optional: white chocolate flakes

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How to:

  1. Crush the oreos to dust and add the melted butter.
  2. Put the crushed Oreos in the pan and make the bottom. Freeze until you finish the rest of this recipe.
  3. Heat the heavy cream.
  4. Cut the milk and dark chocolate in pieces.
  5. Poor the heated cream over the chocolate and let it sit for about 1 minute before stirring.
  6. Take out the tart pan and fill the bottom with the chocolate.
  7. Decorate with strawberries.
  8. Put this delicious tart in the fridge for at least 3 hours or over night.
  9. Optional: Decorate with white chocolate flakes

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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