Christmas Cupcakes can also be made on other days than Christmas!
Ingredients: 250 grams butter, 250 grams sugar, 4 eggs, 250 grams flour, 1 sachet vanilla sugar, baking powder, 2 tablespoons cocoa powder, 50 grams plain chocolate,
Preheat the oven to 160 degrees. Put in a muffin form the paper shapes (for these special days in green and red). Mix 250 grams butter with 250 grams sugar until creamy. Add gradually 4 eggs and mix until you have a pale batter. Add 250 grams flour, 1 sachet vanilla sugar and baking powder and mix it well. Fill the cupcakes with the 3/4 of the batter. Sprinkle over the cupcakes about 50 grams finely chopped plain chocolate. Add with the rest of the batter 2 tablespoons cocoa powder and mix it well. Shovel it in the chocolate cupcakes so the chocolate is well covered. Place the cupcakes for about 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Decorate the cupcakes possibly with red and green icing. Enjoy!
Ingredients: 1 onion, 1 garlic clove, thyme, 300 grams minced pork, 1 green pepper, 250 grams mushrooms, 5 roma tomatoes, 1 tin tomato puree, salt, pepper, 100 ml stock, 50 grams butter, 50 grams flour, 500 ml stock, 75 grams mature cheese, lasagne sheets,
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake in hot oil 1 finely chopped onion with 1 finely chopped garlic clove and thyme to taste until the onion has softened. Add 300 grams minced pork and stir fry until the minced pork is brown. Add 1 chopped green pepper and 250 grams sliced mushrooms. Stir fry until the mushrooms are tender. Add 5 diced roma tomatoes, 1 tin tomato puree and 100 ml stock again. Bring to taste with salt and pepper. Allow to come to the boil and then let it simmer for about 10 minutes.
Meanwhile make the cheese sauce. Melt butter 50 grams. When the butter has melted, add 50 grams flour. Bake this briefly. Add, while stirring, gradually about 500 ml stock. Remove the sauce from the heat and stir in 75 grams mature cheese.
Put in an ovenproof dish a layer of the meat-vegetables-mixture, a layer of cheese sauce and a layer of lasagne sheets. Then a layer of meat-vegetable mixture and lasagne sheets. Finish with a layer of meat-vegetables mixture and a layer of cheese sauce . Sprinkle a little grated cheese over it. Place the ovenproof dish about 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Enjoy!
Ingredients: 300 grams of cooked potatoes, 15 grams butter, 70 grams of flour, 1 egg, salt, pepper, nutmeg, grated cheese,
Melt 15 grams butter in the microwave or a saucepan. Mash 300 grams of cooked potatoes fine. Add 1 egg, the melted butter and 70 grams flour. Mash this together. Bring to taste with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Divide this mixture in half. Make a role of it and pack into foil. Put this about half an hour in the refrigerator. Heat the oven to 200 degrees. Put a pan with water with a little salt and let it cook gently. Cut the potato rolls in slices of about 1 centimeter thick. Boil it in gently in boiling water for about 2 minutes. Drain the potato panckes. Place the potato pancakes in an ovenproof dish and sprinkle grated cheese over it. Place the ovenproof dish in the preheated oven and wait until the cheese has melted. Enjoy!
Ingredients: 1 cauliflower, salt, 50 grams butter, 50 grams flour, 500 ml milk, 1 tablespoon mustard, 100 grams grated mature cheese,
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Boil 1 cauliflower cut in florets in water with a little salt until al dente. Meanwhile make the mustard-cheesesauce. Melt 50 grams butter. Add 50 grams flour and fry briefly. While stirring add gradually 500 ml milk. Take the sauce from the heat and stir in 1 tablespoon mustard and 100 grams grated mature cheese. Drain the cauliflower florets and place the cauliflower florets in an ovenproof dish. Pour the mustard-cheesesauce over the cauliflower. Sprinkle grated cheese over it. Place the ovenproof dish about 20 minutes in the preheated oven. Enjoy!
Ingredients: 375 grams butter, 2 sachets vanilla sugar, 250 grams sugar, 250 grams caster sugar, 12 eggs, 375 grams flour, 50 grams cocoa powder,
Preheat the grill for at 220 degrees. Mix 375 grams butter with 2 sachets vanilla sugar and 250 grams sugar into a shiny mass. Divide 12 eggs. Mix the egg yolks with 250 grams caster sugar to light white mass. Beat the egg whites stiff. Mix the butter with the egg yolks and egg whites. Add 375 grams flour. Mix lightly together. Divide the batter into 2 bowls. Add to 1 bowl 50 grams cocoa powder and mix until you get a uniform color batter. Grease a springform of 22 centimeters. Scoop a layer of the light coloured batter in the springform and turn on the springform in the oven. After about 5 minutes get the springform from the oven and put a layer of chocolate mixture on top. Put it back in the oven for 5 minutes. Keep up to until you’re out of batter. If the upper layer is ready is the chocolate ’spekkoek’ also ready. Enjoy!
Time for a cake to bake with cookie spices. It was a ‘Quatre Quarts Cake’, a cake consisting of 4 equal parts. See the ingredients for the exact amounts.
Ingredients: 4 eggs, 250 grams sugar, 250 grams butter, 250 grams flour, 1 pinch salt, 1 sachet vanilla sugar, 1 tablespoon cookie spices,
Preheat the oven at 170 degrees. Mix 4 eggs with 250 grams of sugar until you have a creamy mixture. This could take several minutes before you get this creamy mixture. Melt 250 grams butter. Add to the creamy egg mixture 250 grams flour, melted butter, a pinch of salt and 1 sachet vanilla sugar. Mix this with a whisk to a good batter. Pour half the batter in a greased and floured cake tin. Mix the remaining batter with 1 tablespoon cookie spices. Mix this well with the batter. Pour this batter also in the cake tin. Put it cake tin approximately 60 minutes in the preheated oven. Let the cake cool well before you get it from the cake tin. Enjoy!
Ingredients: broccoli, salt, 40 grams butter, 40 grams of flour, 500 ml vegetable stock, 100 grams grated aged cheese,
Boil the broccoli in boiling water with some salt until al dente. Pour it off and put it in a obenproof dish. Melt 40 grams butter in a casserole. Add 40 grams o flour and fry in this very short. Add bit by bit approximately 500 ml vegetable stock and keep stirring well. Remove from the heat and add 100 grams grated aged cheese and let the cheese melt while stirring. Pour the cheese sauce over the broccoli and turn the obenproof dish in the preheated oven at 175 degrees for about 15 minutes. Serve with baked potatoes. Enjoy!
