Carrot cake 2

Hi Dears,

I brought today another carrot cake recipe, I recently baked it for one of my colleague's farewell party. It's a little bit different from my first one. 

(If you wish to compare, click here.) 

You have might realized that I stopped posting recipes here this year, the reason is that I am quite busy to try out and make experiments with new recipes. I do bake regularly, but I tend to bake my favorite recipes over and over with only slight changes. 

The reason of my busyness, is that I have started another school, this time I study graphic design, where I can develop my artistic skills. :) 

You can view my continuously growing art portfolio here: 

https://hajnalkart.blogspot.com/

Also, I have found a new hobby, while I am taking care of a lovely dwarf hamster. I started making  short videos of him, with gentle music in the background. The aim is to create something cute, funny, calming and safe for children to watch. 

If you wish to check them click: Hamster Tales

Now let's get back to the cake...

Wedding season started

Hi Dears, 

Summer just started, that means we can go on our holidays soon, but also that means that the WEDDING Season started, too. :)

There is a time in everybody's life when wedding means a lot to us, especially when we are having our own.

As I started to plan our own wedding, I realised that I know too little about weddings. I had an idea in my had, how I imagined my perfect wedding, me and my fiancé happily say yes to each other somewhere in the nature. 

But organising it to be perfect is a much more difficult job.

So, I decided to study wedding planning. :) Soon I will have my degree on it, who knows, besides mine, I will be able to plan other's special big day, too. :D

Ours will be next year if everything goes well, but this year one of my best friends had her wedding. 

It was her idea, to make bon-bons for the guests as a thank you gift. Of course I helped her make them :)

+ The same week one of my high school teacher, who I really liked, asked me to bake a wedding cake for her daughter. I was so afraid of it, as it was my first time to bake such an important cake :) Would I succeed? Will they like it? But she trusted me, and the cake was only 20 pieces so I accepted the challenge, and baked it.

They asked a carrot cake with white icing on top, no marzipan or fondant, and to decorate the top with the icing itself, modestly, and to have a note Mazel tov.

I enjoyed baking and decorating it, as they allowed me to go on my taste, I didn't have to follow any other guidelines. 

Christmas whoopie cookie

Merry Christmas Eve to You! :)

Today I brought a nice Christmas stocking filling cookie idea. 

It's tastes so Christmas-y, as it contains all the great spices and ingredients, that we use during the Holidays. Some examples: cinnamon, gingerbread spice mix, grounded walnut, candied orange peel, cocoa, caramel....Yum! :)

When You are ready, you can pack them nicely in a little bag, with more cookies, gingerbread, anything You like, like I did... 

Confectionery studies - 9th week

Dear Readers,

Sorry for not posting lately, but as I am working now in a real confectionery I am more and more busier as time is getting closer to Christmas. We have sooo many orders, like last week we baked for a 6000 members event, which means thousands kilograms of cakes and savory scones to prepare.

But at school we continued our studies as well, on the 8th week (unfortunately I left my cell at home, so no pictures) but we learnt the basic sponge cake recipes.

That means, that the next week we started the real cake factory duties. :)  

So I brought many-many tasty and beautiful cakes this time! 

Brioches

Hi Dears, 

I baked these beauties at home, so Brioches, and Sweet Bread baking project was ON (that I learnt in school). 

There are two kinds of shapes for the brioches, this one, and the roll form. Usually, the roll is sprinkled with sugar, and the sweet bread type is smooth, but as my family has really sweet teethe, it was not a question to sprinkle the rest, or not... :)

And as the dough is same for sweet bread, I baked them both.

Walnut crescent ~ Pozsonyi kifli

Hi Dears, 

As I promised I brought this tasty walnut crescent recipe, that we learnt in school. 

The shining is not as beautiful as it was supposed to be. (It should be fragmented as the beiglis, you can reach it, if you lubricate the top of them with egg yolk a few times, and you should wait until it dries, then lubricate again. I didn't wait enough,because I baked them late in the evening, and I just couldn't wait. :D ) 

So, let's move on, I think they are still beauties. :)

Yogurt & Chocolate cake 2 in 1

Hi! :)

As I promised I brought the recipe of this yin-yang cake I baked last time! 

To be honest, I haven't decided yet, if I like the result or not. 

I wanted to make something different, than usual, something more interesting, and I think it worked. :)

Untill the yogurt solidified with the gelatin, I had placed a baking sheet in the middle to separate it from the chocolate part.

It needed a night to cool in the fridge.

I baked this for my father's, my brother's and for my birthdays, as we celebrated together. :)

Cocoa CheeseCake

Hi Dears! :)

I brought You these beauties, a little cake with lots of goodies inside.

I'm sorry for not posting for a while, omg, two weeks without cakes...

But as I mentioned, besides my job, I finally started my Confectioner studies. 

It will be 1 year studying in school and I will have an internship as well in a Confectionery. So I figured that I will post here regularly about the real kitchen studies. :) 

So as a kind of compensation, from now on You will have at least one post per week from me on the learning project. :D I am super excited about it. 

The first day was yesterday, although it was just theoretical, and those I have already learned in the University, so for me it will be easy to pass.

The real practices will be on every Wednesdays. :)  

And next year around this time I will take the biggest exam to become a professional Confectioner. :) 

OK, let's get back to this sweet. We celebrated our 5th anniversary with my Honey. We met in a high school camp and soon we were starting dating. 

Now, we are engaged and a couple of month ago we started looking for our own flat. We are still on the project. :) 

I baked this cake for him, and I wanted it to be special, so I used quite a lot of kinds of ingredients, but the good part is, that I managed to do it really fast.

3 cakes with one sponge

Hello Dears! 

I hope You enjoyed the summer, to finish it nicely I brought not just one, but 3 cakes for You! :)

As for us, we had our late-summer vacation last week, for 4 days.

It was short but we filled it with very-many adventures. :) 

It rained for two days, but we still could go sight-seeing, and to bathhouses, and we even took a little fairy train ride in the forest, so it was super joyful.

When we arrived back home, a birthday party was ahead of us, with 3 birthdays to celebrate, so I jumped in a baking project again.

As we hold it as a pic-nic party in the Margaret-island, I tried to prepare them to be easily take-aways. 

I used one main mixture, and as a last touch I flavored them differently. :) 

Let's see how...

Cherry or Chocolate sponge cake

Hello Dears,

Look what a spongy, moist cake pieces I brought you today! :)

Sorry for not posting for a while, but if you work in hotel industry, you know weekends are on weekdays, and usually you get the two days separately, so I usually have a good sleep, do some household duties, watch some shows on TV, (of course recipe, food channels are the favorites of mine..) and the day is over... 

But don't worry, I didn't stop baking, just I am a bit late with posting these.

+ We are in another project besides the usual, we are looking for cute, small flats with my fiance. 

This will be our very first own property, so it's really exciting.

 (And tiring also, but it should be, right?)

Now let me introduce a bit this cake. It is a tricky cake, as I hided mashed peaches in the cake batter. :) It made it extra tasty, and soft. 

And even my boyfriend didn't recognize it, as he doesn't like any fruits in cakes. 

(That was the reason I made the cake half chocolaty, and the other half  with cherries, because I do love them in pastries, so everyone could enjoy the cake)

Pink sponge rolls

Hi Dears!

As I promised yesterday on our FB page, I have brought today a sponge roll recipe! 

I'm not usually a pink wearing person, but in the summer even that can change...  This is a happy color, so I thought that a dessert  like this would be cute. 

The cream and the sponge are so light, they melt in your mouth,

I made the rolls for my friends, as we were having a pic-nic in the City Park, which is by the way one of the most beautiful place in Budapest, with a castle, a lake and with a nice park. After that we headed to the Scorpions concert , so a bit rock was a nice contrast to this pink dessert. :D

Chocolate Rolls

Hi Dears! :) 

Google informed me that the Rubic cube has its 40th birthday! 

Did You know that it was a Hungarian invention? Ernő Rubik was the founder of the 6 color-27 cubed cube. I read that the recorder player has the time of 5,55 seconds to complete the course. Amazing, I could never do the whole cube! :D Can You?

Today I brought You a sweet pastry, that is a very popular breakfast & snack here in Hungary, chocolate rolls. We usually call them "Kakaós csiga" , which means Cocoa snails.

 Here, all the rolled pastries are called "snails", so don't be afraid if You see something like these in the pastry-shops. They are only referred  to their shapes. :) 

Besides the recipe I brought a personal life-milestone! :) 

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I got engaged! :D 

Actually, it happened in the end of March, and now it can be officially announced to everyone, as we told it to all of our families in real life.

We took a photo-shoot as well, I will post some of them here, under the recipe... 

We are together with my love for 4,5 years, our love started in high school , and remained. ♥ We will wait a few years with the wedding, so I will have time to prepare all the details of that. :D But all your wedding dress and cake ideas are welcomed, You can always post them on our FB site. :D 

I made this cake, (which I've already posted, Do You remember?) for our Engagement celebration, it was really good. :)

But now, let's see the chocolate rolls recipe and some engagement photos of us. :)  

Happy Pudding Brownie

Hello Dears!

Guess what You will get from me! ;)
I have a bunch of Easter dessert recipes for You!

 So I will try to post every other day a dessert until Monday, so when the little boys and the gentlemen are coming to us on Monday we  will be prepared with a lot of goodies. 

This brownie is enhanced with two kinds of puddings, vanilla and strawberry. So the cake will be mottled with rosy and yellow creams, which make it happy-Easter looking, having the atmosphere of decorated Easter eggs. :)
Plus, this recipe is really easy, and quick! :)

Frankfurter Croissant

Hey Guys! :)I hope You are doing and feeling fine! 

I'm happy to announce that I am busy again. (The reason is that I finally have a job again, where I am working in a small restaurant :) )  

+  there was another big happening around here, which is a secret for now, but I will tell it later.

But still, I have time for baking, since this is my favorite hobby, so now I brought a salty-sausage - filled little croissant recipe. 

Mines bursted a bit, but they were super tasty! ;)

Let's see how it was done...

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. 

Cottage Cheese and Biscuit Balls

Hello! :) Do You like autumn?

The school has been started already. I remember I loved this time when I was in high school, that I could meet again with all my friends. :)

But for now, that I am working, it's not too different from summer, however, I do prefer this season. The nature is beautiful and we can dress up in great clothes, like I can wear my favourite leather jacket with my boots. :D 

And we can eat more sweets, haha. :D No more bikini style. So I brought You now some no-bake dessert. It's easy to make and great to taste! :) 

Food art competition

Hello Darlings! :) 

I created some fun stuffs from food! 

There is a food art competition on one of the Hungarian written recipe site to create something artistic from 

A: fruits

B: vegetables

C: desserts

So, I did all the 3 tasks, and I'm here to show to You them, as well! :) 

Check them all out! 

xoxo: Hajni

Banana Cupcake Monsters

Yay! I did all my exams!!!  :D

(I'm still waiting for the result of the last one, but I'm not worried about  that.)

So, I thought it was time for me to bake something FUNNY, and these 

Banana Cupcake Monsters were born. :) 

I even made a video for You, which can be found below. :)

 Oh it's so great feeling vacation time. Happy Summer to All of You! :)

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: