CATALAN CREAM

                                            Catalan cream

Catalan cream is the most important dessert in Catalonia. This dessert consists in a pastry cream with egg, and with caramelized sugar on top that gives a crunchy touch when eating. It ss a tipical dessert in the most important celebrations like Sant Josep, but nowadays it has extended to other areas of our country and it is already consumed all year.

INGREDIENTS

1 l of milk

6 egg yolks

200 g of sugar

40 g of flour 

a peel of lemon 

cinnamon stick
starch

METHOD:

First, put the milk in the pot and let it boil for 20 minutes and add a peel of lemon and ciannamon stick.

Then, prepare the yolks in the other pot. Mix them and add a 1/3l of milk, sugar, and starch, and mix again.

When the milk is hot, we can take out the lemon and the cinnamon stick,  and with the help of a sieve, add the mixture of egg yolks, sugar etc. 

Then, let it rest with low heat and with a wooden spoon stir slowly so that it does not stick to the bottom. 

After a few minutes the base starts to densify , then put it in individual clay bowls. It Is important to cover the cream with some baking paper or film, and let it cool.

When the cream becomes cool, you can take the paper, and if you want you can cover with sugar and burn it.

You can decore the cream with some cookies. 

EASY CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

EASY CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Ingredients:

200g of flour

300g of dark chocolate, broken into pieces

200g of sugar

2 eggs

150 ml of  sunflower oil and some extra for greasing

one spoonful of vanilla essence

6 spoonfuls of cocoa

Method:

-First, heat up the oven to 180C.

-Crush the chocolate into small pieces.

-Add all the ingredients in a pot and  whisk everything together with electric beaters.

-Share out  between 10 moulds, then bake for 20 minutes.

-To make the icing, put the remaining chocolate bits, and 3 spoonfuls of sugar in a small saucepan.

 -Stir until the chocolate is melted and you have the icing.

-Chill in the fridge until it gets hard.

LEMONADE

LEMONADE 

Ingredients:

-12 lemons

-200g of sugar (in powder)

-1l of water

-Optional: Vodka or rum

Method:

-Lay the lemon slices on a tray and freeze for at least an hour.

-Put the remaining chopped lemons (including the peel) in the bowl  with the sugar and 100ml of water and squeeze it until it is completely homogeneous.

-Strain the lemonade and add water.

 -Serve with ice and if you like with vodka or rum.

SACHER

SACHER

Ingredients (taking an empty yogurt as a measurement): 

• 3 eggs 
• one lemon yogurt 
• 2 measurements of flour
• 2 measurements of colacao
• 2 measurements of sugar
• 1/4  measurement of milk
• 1/2 measurement of oil
• one spoonful of yeast 
• a mould

Method:

Firts, heat up the oven at 180ºC.
Mix all the ingredients in the bowl and put them in a mould.
Put the mould inside the oven, and wait 35 minutes until it is made.

Covering

• 40g of butter
• 200gr of special chocolate for coverture
• 180gr of cram milk 

Method:

For the covering, mix the ingredients in the pot. When it starts to boil, add pieces of chocolate and the butter.

When the dough has a good disolution you can cover the cake with this.

Then, put the cake in the fridge for two hours.

RICE PUDDING

RICE PUDDING



Ingredients:

• 50 g of sugar
• 1,5 l of milk
• 115 g of rice
• a peel of lemon
• cinnamon stick

Method:

1.Put the ingredients in the pot, exCept sugar, and let it boil.

2.When the rice IS cooked, add the sugar.

3. Stir the rice every five minutes approximately.

4. After 45 minutes turn off the fire and stir 10 minutes.

5. Finally, put the rice pudding in pottery pots

FLAM

FLAM (Typical Catalan CREAM CARAMEL)

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 500 ml of milk 
• water 
• sugar

Method:

1. Put the milk and the eggs in a pot and  add four teaspoons of sugar. Beat the dough. 

2. Put some water in the other pot and add two teaspoons of sugar.

3. When it turns gold in color, add the dough.

4. Cover the pot with aluminium fold.

5. Let it boil for 30 minutes.

6. Put in bain marie and  then let it rest for one or two hours. 

THREE CHOCOLATE CAKE

THREE CHOCOLATE CAKE

Ingredients:

• 150 g of white cholocate
• 150 g of black chocolate
• 150 g of chocolate with milk
• 500 ml of milk
• 125 g of sugar 
• 3 teaspoons of leavening
• a mould

For the base:

• 1 package of cookies
• 80 g of butter

Method:

1· First, it is very important to prepare a mould and spread butter on it.

2·Crush the cookies, melt the butter and mix them.

3· Put  500 ml. of milk in a little pot and on the stove with white chocolate but without sugar and add a teaspoon of leavening. Stir without stopping over  7-8 min. approximately. Pour the mixture over the biscuit base. Repeat the same process with the milk chocolate but this time add 50 gr.of sugar. Leave it apart.

4· Pour the white chocolate on the cookie layer. 

5· Before pouring out the layer of milk chocolate on white chocolate, grate surface with a fork because the layers don't slip. 

6·Pour out the  milk chocolate on white chocolate.

7· Make black chocolate layer do the same as the layer of milk chocolate but this time, add 75 gr of sugar.  

8· Before  pour out black chocolate on the milk chocolate, we do the same proceses of grate surface. Then, we let it rest for one day.

VANILLA COOKIES

Hello! Today, I will write about how to make cookies, I hope you enjoy doing this recipe.

VANILLA COOKIES:

      Ingredients:

• 250g of flour 
• 1 egg
• 75g of sugar 
• 125g of butter, 
• one spoonful of yeast
• a little salt
• one spoonful of vanilla essence

Method:

Mix all the ingredients.

2. Knead with your fingers.

3. Join the dough doing a ball and cover it with transparent paper.

4. Put the dough inside the fridge and let it rest one hour, so in that way will become 

resistant.

5. Knead the dough and cut it with the mould in diferent shapes.

6. Put the cookies at the oven at 180cº and wait 10 minuts until are made.