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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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Your 9 Sarah’s Little Kitchen Favorites

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Hi guys!

Sadly, Christmas is over. You’re probably just getting over that indigestion, aren’t you :p Hurry up because New Year is right around the corner! And that mostly means: more eating & drinking! Hooray!

Since at its end, I thought it’d be a good time to share with you your year here on Sarah’s Little Kitchen :)

We’ll start from number 9 to the winning number 1. Let’s see what you guys loved most.

#9: Raspberry Brownies

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#8: Nutella Brownies

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#7: Chunky Monkey Brownies

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#6: Canelés de Bordeaux

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#5: Spicy Chai Latté Brownies

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#4: Speculoos Blondies

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#3: Nerdy Nummies Chocolate Chip Cookies

Nerdy Nummies Chocolate Chip Cookies!

#2: Oreo Cupcakes

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#1: Oreo Cheesecake

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Djeez guys! I had no idea you loved brownies so much :o Well, obviously you like them but I’d never thought almost every brownie recipe I’ve made would end up in the Best 9 Of 2015 xD And of course, nothing can beat Oreo’s! :D

My personal favorite: these yummy Nutella Cupcakes I made for my Dad’s birthday :)

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Nutella Cupcake 01

I hope you had a great 2015 and may 2016 be even better! Happy New Year!

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Easy Christmas Cookies

/ sarahgiebens / 13 Comments

Hi guys!

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Let there be love, fun, happiness and… food! ;D

Today’s menu: super easy Christmas Cookies to hang in your Christmas tree :) I’ve said it before with my Christmas Jam Cookies: What’s Christmas without cookies? Just a meeting!

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What we need:

  • 250 g butter
  • 165 g sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 250 g flour
  • pinch of salt
  • Christmas cookie cutters
  • plastic foil
  • baking plate
  • baking paper
  • a straw
  • ribbon

 

Christmas Cookies

How to:

  1. Mix together butter and sugar until fluffy.
  2. Add the egg yolk.
  3. Sift the flour and add it together with the salt to the mixture.
  4. Mix until everything gets combined and it forms a real dough.
  5. Wrap the dough in plastic foil and store for 30 – 60 minutes in the fridge.
  6. Remove the foil and roll out the dough.
  7. Cut out different Christmas figures.
  8. Heat the oven at 190°C.
  9. Place the cookies on a sheet of baking paper on a baking plate and make a little hole in the cookie with the straw.
  10. Bake for 15 minutes at 190°C.
  11. Let the cookies cool on the baking plate for a bit until placing them on a rack to cool completely.
  12. Take some ribbon and put it through the cookie-hole to hang them in your tree :)

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Merry Christmas!

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Christmas Jam Cookies

/ sarahgiebens / 16 Comments

Hi guys!

Nothing says Christmas more than Christmas Cookies… I’m sorry but you can’t say you’ve celebrated Christmas if you haven’t had any cookies to go with it. You just can’t.

Sooooo I’ve made some yummy Jam Cookies! They can be used for several occasions because they aren’t Christmas exclusive as you can see but these star shaped cookies fit Christmas perfectly as well :)

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What we need:

  • 250 g butter
  • 165 g sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 250 g flour
  • pinch of salt
  • raspberry jam (or any kind of jam you like)
  • cookie cutters in 2 sizes
  • plastic foil
  • baking plate
  • baking paper

Christmas Jam Cookies

How to:

  1. Mix together butter and sugar until fluffy.
  2. Add the egg yolk.
  3. Sift the flour and add it together with the salt to the mixture.
  4. Mix until everything gets combined and it forms a real dough.
  5. Wrap the dough in plastic foil and store for 30 – 60 minutes in the fridge.
  6. Remove the foil and roll out the dough.
  7. Cut out as much stars as you can.
  8. Cut out a smaller piece in half of the stars (these will be your top stars).
  9. Heat the oven at 190°C.
  10. Place the cookies on a sheet of baking paper on a baking plate and bake for 15 minutes at 190°C.
  11. Let the cookies cool on the baking plate for a bit until placing them on a rack to cool completely.
  12. Take your ‘full’ stars and put some jam on them.
  13. Sprinkle some powdered sugar on the top stars (the ones with the holes).
  14. Place the top stars on top of the jam.
  15. Serve! :D

Jam Cookies

Merry Christmas!

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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6 Awesome Halloween Recipes

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Hi guys!

Tomorrow is Halloween! I can’t believe it’s here already…
I started off so well with my Spider Web Cupcakes… I actually thought I was going to be able to make lots of Halloween recipes this year! I guess I underestimated the life of a working person. No, I don’t have to work until midnight or something but I really am tired when I come home and I barely feel like baking something, let alone turn on the computer (again) and write something. Sounds silly, I know.

But you’re not here to read all this crap, right. You’re here for the 6 awesome Halloween recipes! I saw it as my duty to give you guys the Halloween you all deserve: one with lots of fun recipe ideas! Soooo I looked around and found some great Halloween recipes :)

Let’s get this Halloween started!

#1: Boo-licious Ghost Meringue Tarts

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Booooo! Naina from Spice in the City made these awesome ghost tarts! I love them :) Look at them! So cute ^^

#2: Vampire Teeth Treats

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This is by far the coolest recipe I’ve ever seen for Halloween! I LOVE it! So awesome! Thank you Sarah from Life, Love and Thyme for sharing this amazing Halloween treat with us! I really hope peole are making this for Halloween because it’s just too good to ignore :D

#3: Chocolate Spider Cookies

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Spiders! Mariah from Giggles Galore is so right about these. She said it’s funny how the things that scare her in real life are her favorite things to make at Halloween. I completely agree! I’m scared of spiders too but I love these ones!

#4: Spooky Ice Cream Sandwich Bats

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These Bats are adorable! They’re perfect for Halloween and I bet (or bat ;) ) kids will love them! I know Laura from Laura’s Little House Tips will have a great Halloween with these.

#5: Vampire Mickey Pudding Cups

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Love it! Isn’t this a very very cute little Halloween recipe? Carrie from Frugal Foodie Mama made this for her 2,5 year old daughter who is a little bit scared by all things Halloween.  She wanted a not-so-scary treat based on Disney that was still Halloween perfect. So sweet!

#6: Graveyard Dirt Cups

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Yumm! This Halloween recipe from Gator Mummy Reviews looks so good! Love those little bones on top :)

I hope you guys loved these Halloween recipes! Have a great Halloween tomorrow!

p.s. I’ll try to be better prepared for Christmas…

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Halloween Cinnamon Spider Web Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 9 Comments

Hi guys!

Halloween is coming and that calls for some Spider Web Cupcakes! I’ve seen some amazing Halloween recipes in the last few weeks and I realized I couldn’t wait much longer to come up with some Halloween recipes myself :)

Although we don’t celebrate Halloween that much, we did get some Halloween spirits yesterday with our little Halloween pumpkin light… It almost turned out in a burning table so I don’t think I’ll light that thing again xD

What didn’t get burned were these yummy Halloween Cinnamon Spider Cupcakes! :D

Halloween Spider Web Cupcakes

What we need:

  • 220 g sugar
  • 220 g butter
  • 220 g self-raising flour
  • 4 eggs
  • Cinnamon
  • 250 g mascarpone or cream cheese
  • 250 ml whipping cream
  • Powder sugar
  • 1/2 tablet chocolate
  • Halloween Cupcake wrappers
  • Baking tin
  • piping bag
  • piping tip

Halloween Spider Web Cupcake Recipe

How to:

  1. Mix together butter and sugar
  2. Add the eggs and mix until the batter is smooth
  3. Sift the flour and blend well
  4. Add as much cinnamon as you like
  5. Fill the cupcake wrappers for 3/4
  6. Bake the cupcakes for about 25 minutes at 180°C
  7. Let the cupcakes cool completely before topping them with our frosting

Halloween Cinnamon Spider Web Cupcake Recipe

Let’s make the frosting while our cupcakes cool:

  1. Whip the cream
  2. Add mascarpone and the amount of powder sugar you want
  3. Add cinnamon and mix it all together
  4. Put the frosting in a piping bag with a tip of your choice. I used tip #31
  5. Pipe the frosting on the cupcakes

Time for our spider webs!

  1. Melt the chocolate and put it in a piping bag.
  2. Cut just a little piece off.
  3. Make spider webs on a sheet of baking paper. I made circles with a glass and a pencil to get +- the same size of spider webs.
  4. Let the chocolate webs cool in the fridge. Don’t take them out before they are completely hard!
  5. Place the spider webs on your cupcakes

Halloween Spider Web Cupcake

Enjoy your cute little Halloween Spider Webs Cupcakes! :D

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Oreo Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 27 Comments

Hi guys!

Why did it took me so long to make these delicious Cupcakes? I have NO idea!
Really, I don’t.

So I’m not planning on keeping these lovely babies away from you. Isn’t that sweet ;)
And yes, they carry a lot of calories with them, just the way we like it!

Oreo Cupcake

What we need for 10 cupcakes:

  • 29 Oreo’s
  • 120 g self-raising flour
  • 150 g sugar
  • 30 g cocoa powder
  • 10 g vanilla sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 75 ml milk
  • 50 ml hot water
  • 250 ml whipping cream (>35%)
  • 10 cupcake wrappers
  • cupcake baking tin

Oreo Cupcakes

How to:

  1. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees centigrade.
  2. Put the wrappers in the baking tin. Place 1 Oreo in each cupcake wrapper.
  3. Put the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
  4. Mix together the egg and the milk.
  5. Mix in the dry ingredients.
  6. Slowly add the water to the batter.
  7. Fill the cupcake wrappers for 3/4.
  8. Bake the cupcakes for about 20 minutes.
  9. If you hear the ‘ping’, the cupcakes are done ;) Use a sharp knife to check if they’re really ready.

Let’s make our frosting while waiting until the Oreo Cupcakes cool.

  1. Crush +- 9 Oreo’s
  2. Whip the whipping cream.
  3. Gently mix in the crushed Oreo’s.
  4. Put the frosting on our cooled Cupcakes. You can use a piping bag or just a spatula to make little heaps on top of them.

Enjoy these delicious Oreo Cupcakes!

Oreo Cupcakes

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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July Favourites

/ sarahgiebens / 6 Comments

Hi guys!

It’s that time of the month again…
That’s right! It’s time for our monthly favourites! Yippiiii!

This time, the Monthly Favourite will be a little bit different.
There were soooooo many awesome recipes and gorgeous pictures that I couldn’t just pick 5!
Therefore, this July Favourite will have 9(!) favourites! :D

I hope you guys don’t mind ;)

#1: Triple Layer Lemon Meringue Cake

#1 Triple Layer Lemon Cake

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Chunky Monkey Brownies

/ sarahgiebens / 19 Comments

Hi guys!

Apparently, I’m having a Brownies period xD
But you can never have too many Brownies, right?

Today is a very special Brownie-day. Why?
Because I’ve made Chunky Monkey Brownies!
Some of you might have heard about ‘Chunky Monkey’ before…
It is namely a flavour of Ben & Jerry’s!

Not that I have ever tasted that one…

But it absolutely brings a very interesting flavour to your Brownies!

Chunky Monkey Brownies. These Brownies are named after the Chunky Monkey ice cream flavor from Ben & Jerry's!

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Raspberry Brownies

/ sarahgiebens / 28 Comments

Hi guys!

Today seemed like the perfect day for some fresh raspberries.
And what else could be more perfect to go with it than some dark chocolate?
I say: Nothing.

If you know me, you’d already know what I’ve been making today ;)
I’ve made Raspberry Brownies!

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