Chocolate Cake

We baked a chocolate cake today. As healthy as possible. Actually it is a beet and chocolate cake. Me, I don’t like chocolate that much. Honestly. Sometimes a little bit, then flush it away with loads of tea. I do like beets tough, I love them and could eat them every single day.

The girls do love chocolate, so this cake is the perfect combination. What I like most is the bite the raw beets give to the cake. We left it a little too long in the oven, so it went a bit dry, but solved this by eating it with some unsweetened whipped cream. You can find the recipe right HERE

Cookie Baking

Baking sweet stuff has never really been my thing. I think I made 1 cake myself over the last ten years and last year made cookies twice, but that was with a jar from Dapeppa so I guess it doesn’t really count. (Were very good though, especially the walnut and cranberry ones

In my new life as a stay-at-home-mum (still not used to the name) I decided that one of the thing I at least should master is baking cookies. We’ve started on plain old “sand cookies” (kind of like shortbreads) and will keep on going till we got them really perfect before we move on to more complicated baking goods. At this point our mixture contains 2 parts sugar, 3 parts cold butter and 4 parts flower (no rice flower, that was a huge mistake). Mine also contains raisins, hers just contains huge chunks of chocolate.

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