Breakfast Buns

Ingredients for 6 buns:

- 500 grams flour

- 2,5 dl warm water

- 7 grams of dried yeast (instant will do as well but you'll have to activate is first!)

- 10 grams salt

- 20 grams of melted butter

- 1 egg

- Seeds

Methode:

1. Mix the yeast in to the flour.

2. Yeast does not like salt so start off by mixing the flour with the warm water to activate the yeast. As soon as this is mixed you can add the salt. Add the melted butter. Keep on kneading. The better you knead it the better the bun! If you find the dough too dry you can always add some more warm water.
Let the dough rise for an hour.

3.  Preheat the oven up to 200 degrees. Make 6 buns out of the dough. Make a cross in the buns.Whisk an egg an spread it over the buns. Decorate them with seeds.

4. Bake the buns for 30 minutes.

Marshmallow Coffee Ice Cream Cake

Ingredients:

- Apple pie cake mix

- Coffee ice cream

- Fudge icing
- Marshmallow fluff

- 2 bags marshmallows

Method:

1. Bake the pie but only the cake itself! So do not add apples or anything!

2. Fill the cake with the coffee ice cream and put it in the freezer for 30 minutes. Take it out and add a thick layer of fudge.Let the cake set overnight in the freezer.

3. Take the cake out of the freezer just before serving! Add some marshmallow fluff and then the marshmallows.Carefully burn some marshmallows. Pay attention to the melting fudge!

Cupcake Christmas Tree

Do you need a quick christmas treat? These tiny cupcakes will do!

Ingredients:

- 50 grams self-raising flour

- 50 grams sugar

- 50 grams butter

- 1 egg

- 1/2 tablespoon milk

- a dash of vanilla extract

- cocoa powder

- red food coloring

- green food coloring

- decoration pearls

- bonbonliners

Method:

1. Make a christmas tree out of bonbonliners. This will give you a good idea of how many cupcakes you'll need from which color.
Start with making the cupcake batter by mixing the self-raising flour, the sugar, the butter, the milk, the egg and some vanilla.

2. Take two extra bowls for the coloring.
For the trunk of the tree will need a small amount of batter and the cocoa powder.The more cocoa powder the darker the trunk.
For the baubles you'll need batter for about 10 tiny cupcakes. Mix this with the red food coloring.
The remaining batter will be the tree. Color this green.

3. Bake the cupcakes for 10 minutes. Keep watching! Let them cool and press a pearl in the red cupcakes.
Place the cupcakes in to the correct order.

Happy Holidays!

Wentelteefjes with chocolate sauce

A wentelteefje is a Dutch treat. It's bread with milk, sugar and cinnamon. The bread is toasted. It's delicious and worth the try!

Ingredients for 4 wentelteefjes:

- 4 old white sandwiches

- 1 small egg

- 12 grams sugar

- Cinnamon

- 1,5 dl milk
- Butter

- chocolate sauce

Method:

1.  Whisk the egg and mix the sugar and cinnamon in the egg. Use a large bowl!

2.  Cut the crusts of the 4 sandwiches and put them in the eggmixture. Turn the sandwiches. All of them should be sodden and all of the eggmixture should be gone!

3. I'm sure you can find a good destination for the crusts :)

4. Melt some butter in a pan and bake the wentelteefjes. They should be brown on both sides like the picture below.

5. Serve the wentelteefjes with some more cinnamon sugar and with optional chocolate sauce!

Quick Chocolate Milk

Ingredients for one mug:

- 1 teaspoon cocoa powder

- 2 teaspoons sugar

- 180 grams milk

(whipped cream or marshmallows)

Method:

1. Mix the cocoa powder with the sugar.

2. Boil the milk and add it to the cocoa powder mixture. Keep on sturring until you have a nice cup of chocolate milk!

3. You can add some whipped cream or marshmallows.

Bruschetta

Ingredients for 12 bruschettas:

- 2 big tomatoes

- 2 tablespoons Italian herbs

- 1 tablespoon olive oil

- 1 ciabatta

- 2 cloves of garlic

Method:

1. Mix your favorite Italian herbs in a bowl.

2. Mix the herbs with some olive oil.

3. Clean the cloves of garlic, put them in a garlic press and add them to the herbs.

4. Chop the tomatoes and mix them with the herbs and the garlic. Add more olive oil when the mixture appears to be too dry.

5.  Marinate the tomatoes for 10 minutes. Cut the bread into 10 slices and drizzle them with some olive oil.

6. Cover the slices of bread with the tomatoes and grill the bruschettas for 7 minutes.

Almond Cookies

Ingredients for 60 small or 30 large cookies:
- 375 grams flour
- 225 grams butter (room temperature)
- 225 grams sugar
- 1 big egg
- 1 teaspoon bakingpowder
- 2 teaspoons almond extract


Method:

1. Mix the flower and the bakingpowder.

 2. Mix the butter and the flour. Add the sugar, the egg and the almond extract to the flour.

3. Knead your dough until it looks like the picture below. Make a big ball and leave it in the fridge for an hour.

4. Dust your counter with some flour and roll out the dough. Cut out the cookies.

5. Preheat the oven up to 170 degrees and place the cookies in the oven. Bake the cookies for 10 minutes. The cookies should never be completely brown! Let the cookies cool.

6. You can make all types of cookies!