Valentine’s Day is almost here, do you already know how you’ll surprise your significant other? My husband is very lucky, because he can taste all the occasional sweets (and not occasional sweets) several days or weeks before important dates. Since he is also my greatest food critic, all the dainties are always evaluated not only…
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Cacao Sour Cream Cake with Chocolate Glaze / Kakavinis-grietininis tortas su šokoladiniu glaistu
Before the end of the year, I want to share with you the latest recipes of the 2017 delicacies. I was planning to make this cacao sour cream cake for a while, since the baking takes some time. For festivities this cake was amazing – chocolatey, not too sweet, with light citric acid. In other…
Christmas Gingerbread Cookies / Kalėdiniai meduoliai
I can not believe that Christmas is almost here!!! Well, and what kind of Christmas time without gingerbread cookies?! I bake gingerbread cookies for the second year in a row using this recipe, so the recipe is really proved to be successful and it’s simply impossible to fail 🙂 The preparation is also very simple,…
Farmer’s Cheese Cookies / Varškės sausainiai
These are one of my favorite cookies that disappear from the table instantly! Crispy outside, soft and moist inside – these farmer’s cheese cookies will appeal to everyone without exception. The cookies are not too sweet, so after tasting one, you’ll want the second, the third and so on… The feeling of satiety comes when…
Quesada Pasiega – Spanish Cheesecake / Quesada Pasiega – ispaniškas sūrio apkepas
For quite a while I wanted to make a Spanish Quesada Pasiega. This cheesecake is like a dense pudding that can be served with your favorite jam, berries, fruit or other favorite ingredients. The cheesecake is eaten both hot and cold, but I personally prefer to have a piece of hot cheesecake, when the edges…
Delicious Plum Pie / Gardusis slyvų pyragas
You should know a few essential things about this pie: a very plumy type, soft, moist and indescribably delicious goodness! 🙂 I usually bake plum pies just during fall season, because at that time it’s impossible to return from the store without buying a bag of beautiful plums. You can actually use any of your…
Lithuanian Farmer Cheese Fried Pastry Strips / Varškės žagarėliai
I was getting ready to prepare these fried pastries (žagarėliai) for a while and finally found some time to make them (and again, the autumn is guilty for this craving!). Only this time I made fried pastries from farmer cheese, so they were almost like farmer cheese donuts, but in a different form. To be…
American Apple Pie / Amerikietiškas obuolių pyragas
In autumn, all the baked goods smell like apples… Although it can’t be otherwise! Autumn without apple pie is like Christmas without Christmas gingerbread 🙂 Today I’m sharing with you the recipe of an American apple pie that I have made for several times and every time it turned out perfect. Of course, you have…
Vanilla Chocolate Chip Muffins / Purūs vaniliniai keksiukai su šokolado gabalėliais
Muffin pictures speak for themselves 🙂 It’s hard to say no to these beauties! Soft, delicious and fragrant muffins disappear from the table instantly (you will see it yourself 😉 ). Furthermore, the preparation of the muffins is extremely simple and really fast, so you don’t have to wait too long until the muffins are…
Chocoflan / Chocoflan – kakavinis pyragas su pudingu
In Latin American cuisine this Chocoflan cake is also called an “Impossible cake“. And probably it got this name because you’ll rarely see a combination of pie and pudding in one baking dish! Usually everyone bakes one or the other. But everything is possible in the kitchen if you really want, so I also decided…
Magdalenas – Spanish Cupcakes / Magdalenas – ispaniški keksiukai
I learned about Spanish Magdalenas and I first tried them when I came to Spain. Since then Magdalena is one of my favorite cupcake. Simple, soft, fluffy, perfectly matches with coffee, tea or cocoa drink. In Spain, Magdalenas are usually eaten for breakfast, typically late ~9-10 a.m., because in Spain lots of people start working…
Pineapple Cake with Cream/Ananasų pyragas su grietinėlės kremu
How can you resist to a delicious piece of pineapple cake..?? The answer is – it’s impossible to resist, because when such a piece appears on the table, you just need to take the fork and enjoy the pineapple goodness! 🙂 There is a very little work to make this cake – bake the cake,…
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