Walnut biscuits - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 80 grams of butter
• 75 grams of flour
• 60 grams of sugar
• 3 spoons of honey
• 1 spoon of fresh cream
• 75 grams of walnuts
• salt

Mix the butter with the sugar, the honey and the cream and let it simmer.

Add the salt and the flour while still on the fire and mix until well incorporated.

Let it simmer for a few more minutes, until it's getting a bit thicker.

Add the crushed walnuts and mix.

Make little balls and  put them on a tray at 170 degrees Celisus for 5-8 minutes.

Let them cool for 1 or 2 minutes and then put them on a rolling pin.

Keep them 2 or 3 minutes, then continue the process with the others.

Enjoy!

The original recipe can be found here

Chocolate, cognac and walnuts cake - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients for the dough:

• 90 grams of sugar
• 80 grams of flour
• 15 grams of cocoa powder
• 3 eggs
• salt

 Ingredients for the filling:

• 200 grams of dark chocolate
• 150 grams of crushed walnuts
• 150 grams of fresh cream
• 30 grams of butter
• 30 milliliters of milk
• 2 spoons with sugar
• 2 spoons with cognac

Ingredients for the syrup:

• 250 milliliters of water
• 50 grams of sugar
• 2 spoons with cognac

Prepare the dough

Mix the eggs with the sugar for exactly 15 minutes.

In a separate bowl mix the flour with the cocoa powder and the salt and then add it slowly over the beaten eggs.

Pour the dough in a round oven pan (about 18 cm diameter) and put it in the preheated oven at 180 Celsius degrees for 40-45 minutes or until ready. Put it aside to cool!


Now, prepare the filling:

Melt the chocolate together with the butter and the milk.
Once melted, put aside to cool!

Add the crushed walnuts and the cognac and mix. You can keep 30 grams of walnuts for the decoration.

Beat the fresh cream with the sugar and afterwards incorporate it in the filling. Let it rest in the refrigerator!

The syrup:

Mix the water with the sugar and put it at slow fire until the sugar is melted. While still warm add the cognac and let it cool!

 Assembling:

Divide the dough in 3 equally thick circle layers.

Put one layer on a plate, pour a third of the syrup and then spread half of the filling.

Continue with the second and third layer in the same manner.

Cover the last layer with some cream and walnuts.

Enjoy!

The original recipe can be found here

Cake with Nutella and walnuts - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 7 eggs
• 25 spoons of sugar
• 7 spoons of flour
• 100 milliliters of milk
• 250 grams of cream
• 100 grams of butter
• 100 grams of nuts
• 100 grams of Nutella (or chocolate)
• vanilla sugar

Cover with baking paper the bottom of the pan, and put the chopped walnuts in the pre-heated oven for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, mix well the egg yolks with 5 spoons of sugar (more if you like sweeter), and vanilla sugar. Put the pan on slow fire and add the milk, mixing continuously until creamy.

Let the composition to cool, and add the butter mixing continuously to incorporate it.

In a separate bowl beat the egg whites with 9 spoons of sugar.

 

and add them over the walnuts. Put them in the oven for 25-30 minutes at 160 degrees Celsius.

After the dough is ready overturn it on a plate.

 

When cooled, add Nutella on top.

then add the composition from egg yolks, butter and milk..

and in top of it add the whipped cream (which is prepared by using the remaining sugar and 250 grams of cream).

Bon Appetit!

Grandma's mini croissants - recipe (including photos)

Recently we tried a nice recipe from a Romanian site : http://www.bucataras.ro/retete/12672/cornulete-fragede-cu-nuca.html

 Ingredients for the dough:

• 6 egg yolks
• 400 grams of flour
• 4 spoons of fresh cream
• 150 grams of melted butter

Ingredients for the whipped cream:

• 6 egg whites 
• 100 - 150 grams of sugar
• 150 grams of ground walnuts
• vanilla sugar

Mix well the flour, with the egg yolks, the cream and half of the melted butter...

...until the mixture looks like this.

Divide the dough in 8 parts .

Each part has to be stretched well.

Coat with melted butter and roll the dough.

Put the dough in the fridge for 2 hours.

In a separate bowl prepare the whipped cream. Beat well the egg whites with the sugar, and add the ground walnuts, the sugar and the vanilla sugar.

After 2 hours, take out the dough from the fridge and cut it in small pieces.

Stretch each part and put the cream in the middle.

Close it very well, otherwise will open during cooking.

And again to be sure it remains close.

Put the croissants in the tray, and let them bake for 15 - 20 minutes at 170 degrees.

Bon Appetit!