Confetti cookies by Rudolph

Watching Rudolph's Bakery made me very enthusiatic to try these cookies. You can find the original recipe by Rudolph van Veen here. I changed it bit, to give it my touch. 


You need:

• 50 gr butter
• 50 gr sugar
• 40 gr hazelnuts
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 25 gr pumpkin seeds
• 50 gr raisins
• 25 gr dried apricots
• 2 tablespoons flour

You do:

1. Melt the sugar with the butter, this always smells so good! (:

 2. Add the flour and the milk, mix it together

 4. Cut the apricots and chop the hazelnuts.
Add the raisins, apricots, hazelnuts and pumpkin seeds to the batter.

4. Make little heaps on the covered baking plate

5. Bake the cookies for approximately 15 minutes at 180°C.

6. Get them out of the over and let the cookies cool down.

7. Crunchy yet soft: yummy!

Aaawh really, those cookies are really delicious. So different from what I've made before. By the way you can change any of the ingredients (then I mean the nuts, fruit or seeds) for something you like more. For example: use prunes instead of apricots. 

Now I'm off learning again. Today I did my first exam, it turned out very well so I should keep going like this...

Janna xx

Apple-hazelnut cake

Coming home early made me instantly running to my bookcase to folder through the pages of my sweet cookbooks for some inspiration. And since it was very warm this afternoon (despite the gloomy weather), I wanted something fresh. Apples would do the thing. And my brother loved to help a bit, so I had a really nice afternoon. See here my how-to, it's really a delicious cake. Recommend it with icecreamd (:

You need:

Cake

• 120 gr butter
• 150 gr lightbrown sugar
• 2 eggs, slightly stirred
• 180 gr flour
• 1,5 tablespoon baking powder
• 1,5 tablespoon cook/biscuit spices
• 2 peeled apples, crushed
• 60 gr hazelnuts

Caramel-apple layer

• 70 gr lightbrown sugar
• 60 gr butter
• 1 apple, without the core in thin slices

You do:

1. This is easy. Just melt the sugar and butter.
Provide the mix in the cake mould and put the apple slices in it.

2. Then it's time to make the batter, start by stirring the butter and the sugar toghether.
Add the eggs and make it a smooth mix.

3. Sieve the flour and baking powder and mix until it's an smooth batter.

4. Add the spices.
Don't you think this looks delicious?
It even smells better!

5. Crush the hazelnuts and add them to the batter.

Oh, and of course the apple.
Just spoon it trough the batter, don't do it with the mixer.
 Even if you're hurried/lazy/think of some other stupid reason...

Bake the cake for 35-40 minutes at 180°C

6. EAT IT ♥

My brother and me, watching the cake xd.

And then we played Monopoly, while the cake was cooling down.
I ended up broke, two times in prison and bought obligatory thrice a travel insurance xd.
But it was fun (:

Goooossh, I heard the most frightening thunderstorm. Somewhere I think it's really cool. It just sounds so overwhelming. As long as I'm warm in my house hihi. 

xx Janna