Chocolate bread - Christmas style

Hi Dears, 

Christmas is almost here...

I don't know how You feel about it, but for me, December pasted really fast.

This used to be my favorite month of the Year , as I love preparing for the Holidays. 

I always create something hand.made for my family.

 Usually, a painted postcard, or a necklace, or I decorate a wooden box with napkin. Last year I edited photos and placed them on magic mugs. Do you know them? They are so funny, from the outside they look simple, 1 color-mug, but when you pour hot liquid in them, the pictures will be shown. 

This year, as I'm in the confectioner industry I will create many.many cookies and sweets and pack them nicely.

But now, I brought You a special Christmas dessert. 

This time, here in Hungary the Fruit-bread is really popular, which tastes like a pound cake with dry fruits in it, just the shape is different. 

My family doesn't like dry fruits. What do they like? Chocolate of course!

 So, I created a special version of the sweet bread.

Advent crowns made with gingerbread

Hi Dears, 

Are You prepared for the Holidays? :)

I still need to bake a couple of things, like more Beiglis, some snow crescents, Chocolate roll etc... 

But I baked these Advent crowns a while ago, to decorate the dining tables of my family members. I baked 6 different crowns. 

I hope You will like them as well. 

As for me, I always loved creating home-made presents. They are cuter and more personal. And this one is easy as well, only You need some free-time, a few hours.

Bounty Cookie

Hi Dears! :)

Do You have a plan for the summer? I know You will work, we all do, but any plans for a vacation? 

This Bounty cookie reminds me of summertime, as Coconut, palm-trees grow in Mediterranean areas, just where people usually go for a summer vacation.   

I always wanted to go far away, to a hidden spot, preferably near a lake, surrounded by hills or mountains. 

Coconut Brownie

Hi Dears! 

How are You? I hope You are all fine. :)

On my part, I'm kind of busy all the time and my legs are killing me... 

Have I told You that I have a new job? Well old-new job, I'm a receptionist again! Yay! :D Only problem is that I need to be fit again, to be able to stand 8-9 hours behind the desk. So be fit, and bake cakes for the family the same time! Now that's not easy to do so! :D

Anyway, I brought You a nice Coconut Brownie, easy, and tasty!

 Just mix everything and put it to the oven! :D

Check the recipe.:

Hajnalka Creamy Cake

Hey Guys! :)

I hope You all right. I'm happy to post this cake recipe with You today! 

I wasn't posting for a while... I was preparing for my biggest exam in my life. It will be in a week.

 Cross fingers for me please! It will be my diploma exam! :) 

So what about this cake?

This was the most delicious cake that I've ever invented!!! We had it for Christmas, but somehow I forgot my little note on this, and now I found it! :D 

It has so many great ingredients in it, that I couldn't find a suitable name for it. Could be chocolate liquor creamy cake, but it has nut cream and jam as well, and coconut on the top, so it was hard to find a name for this marvelous piece of Heaven... 

So, not to be too selfish, but as the most famous cakes of Hungary are named of their inventors, (like Dobos, Gundel, Rákóczi...) I named it after me. :D 

Please enjoy the "Hajnalka Creamy Cake" , and bake it, if You would like to feel to be in Heaven   for about 3 seconds, till You eat the piece. :D

Chocolate Creamy Cake

Happy New Year Dears! :)

I hope You had a memorable Christmas, with tasty goodies and cookies. :) 

Now, as we are over the celebrations, and the big eating-parties, I started to work out. Haha... :D That's always my solution for the little extra weight I get during December. I can't do a diet... How can someone resist all these cakes ? 

I think sport is enough to have a good shape. :) 

So let's talk about this cake. I baked this for my last day at work, because I finished my trainee program. :) I was a receptionist  at Marriott from July, so it was a great half-year duty. It was interesting and fun, sometimes tiring, and complicated, but it was worth it. It gave me enough experience to get to know the hotel industry. Now I have to prepare for my diploma exam. 

Please think and cheer for me at the end of the month! :D  And what shall I do after?

Let's see it then... :D

This cake was chocolaty, and inside it had 2 kinds of creams, one was pudding-like, the other was with self-made chocolate-liquor. :) Yum. 

On the top and the bottom, there are two kinds of sponges. 

Pina Colada Cake

It was a soft, juicy, sweet cake, yum yum! :D

We had a Girly Evening at my friend's place, who had just received her bar mixer qualification diploma. So, we celebrated with beautiful cocktails, that she was mixing for us! :) Therefor, it wasn't a question for me, what to bake for that occasion, because my favourite cocktail is Pina Colada. :)

Even at our collage, we could try to mix this drink during a catering course. It was real fun! :D

Chocolate & Coffee Balls

Sziasztok! :) (Hello in Hungarian :D ) How are You?

I'm in the finish of the semester, there is only 1 week left, and I will have 4 exams. It's hard, but bearable. 

I usually find some ways to make this period more endurable, for example I only listen to gleeful music, do some aerobics, and make some easy quick tasty desserts like this, when my energy is on a lower level. 

So, if You are also in a stressful period, don't give up, do some pleasant activities! ;) See the recipe below: 

Chocolate Coconut Balls Cake

Hello! :) Do You like Coconut Balls? :D This is one of my fav. desserts. Why don't You make a cake of them? :D

I'm really busy these times, You can see that from my absence here. My table is full of papers, and books (this is the last period of the semester), and there's a bit untidiness around that, as I could lost a note with my recipe for a post. :( It was a really tasty apple pie recipe... I must find that, it was really good. :D 

But this cake is another piece of heaven. :D And actually as I'm short on time, it's a no-bake-cake, too. Quick, but delicious! 

I made it for my Sweetheart's niece's birthday. :) 

Chocolate & Milk Slices

March is a busily-baking month for me. There are 2 birthdays, 4 name days in the family, (yes , we celebrate name days, too), and Easter of course.

 I baked this cake for my Brother's name day. :) 

Bunny Cake

Last Year I made this cute Bunny Cake for Easter! :) 

It was made of a soft sponge cake, with chocolate, coffee- and vanilla cream. :) 

The horrifying moment is when You cut her up, to have slices. 

"Who would like the ears?" ... :D

Snowballs

Awh.. Sweet snowballs, a quick dessert without baking or cooking. 

And such fun, to create little snowmen, too! :) Do you like snow?

Personally I love it when it falls, and it's great joy to go out and play with it and  with friends. Too bad I have only one week left of my 'after exams holiday' and the weather isn't snowy...  While I wasn't sledging I created this snowy dessert. Check it out! ;)

Coconut muffins

These little sweet muffins are so delicious! And easy  to make. :) As easy, that I baked it right after waking up, half asleep. I just wanted to bake something for my sweetheart for our one-day-long trip to the mountains. The trip was awesome, Budapest is really pretty when it's snowy, and the muffins were tasty, too. Great combination! :)