Bostini Cream Pie for my first DB challenge

Finally the 29th came!! I just couln'd wait to post my first Daring Bakers challenge!!
But... how i'm forgetfull... i almost lost the challend (in Brazil is 27 to midnight)


The challenged was hosted by Mary at Alpineberry, and her choice was a Bostini Cream Pie, a variation of Boston Cream Pie.

When i started making the recipe i planed on taking step by step pictures, but... as i'm not a lucky girl the camera was without battery, i maneged to take some pics on my brothes machine, but lets just say i don't really know where the camera is and i also don't know where he is, soooo i'll post the ones i maneged to take after charging the battery.

To assemble it i put a very tiny slice of the cake under, put the custard, another slice of cake and finished with perfect chocolate. I liked the cake and the chocolate glaze but the custard wasn't really great.

cake+custard waiting to be unmolded

cake+custard+cake again














The Bostini!!


Thanks Mary for a great challenge, my pictures aren't the best so i sinceirly recomend you visit the other lovey bakeres to see the diferencs. And the recipe can be found at Mary's blog.

Matchá cookies

What a bad start for my blog right? Posted only a few times and disapired...
Haven't really had the time to do good things to post. But there's something i've made and would love to share with you is this....
For a school project i'm developing a recipe tha goes green tea and dark chocolate. Here in Brazil we're not really used to have dark chocolate, and its kind hard to find also, bute recently Nestle put to sale a 70% cocooa chocolate and of course i just had to buy it... To try it i decide to use in the recipe to college, my group and i wanted to create something using the called Functional Food, meaning products that produces some good for your helth.. and chocolate is one of those and so is green tea... two products that are not know to have this bennefit.
Ended up that well, lets just say that i forgot green tea losts its proriets when cooked above 65°C... so.. it didin't work for my project my it tasted really well... so... posting here.




Matchá Cookies

Ingredients:

110g margarine
130 cup flour
80g choped almond
80g sugar
30g green tea-matchá
1 whole egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
150g bittersweet chocolate choped (70%cocooa)

Perheat oven 160°C.
Combine margarine, flour and almond, add suggar, matchá, egg and vanilla. And to finishi add the chocolate.
Bake until it gets strong green. Let it cool. and eat!

Banana Muffins

Last friday, here in Brazil, was a holiday, and so i went to de countryside and... a lot of bananas came back whit me, and.. for my misfortune, all of theme wore ripe. So what to do with all of that??
I started looking for recepies, but nothing seemed to please me, i wanted something tasty and easy... when I suddenly found Banana Chocolate Chips Muffins. It was just perfect because bananas i had and i also had chocolate chips!!
And just to please a litle my mom i mad chocolate ganache, because i had chocolate and heavy cream that was alredy doom to the trash can.
The recipe is from Epicurus but i'll post it here whit some notes on the ingredients.

Banana Chocolate Chips Muffins

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2/3 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup mashed ripe bananas
1 large egg
115g (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
1/4 cup milk - i used nonfat milk (didn't have the whole one)
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line twelve 1/3-cup muffin cups with foil muffin liners. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in large bowl. Mix mashed bananas, egg, melted butter and milk in medium bowl. Stir banana mixture into dry ingredients just until blended (do not overmix). Stir in chocolate chips.

Divide batter among prepared muffin cups, filling each about 3/4 full. Bake muffins until tops are pale golden and tester inserted into center comes out with some melted chocolate attached but no crumbs, about 32 minutes. Transfer muffins to rack; cool.

Makes 12.

Pink Macaroons

The firt thing i want to post i'ts something that i love but can't really get it right...
Macaroons, i have always been in love with them, but here in Brazil i'ts not verry easy to find them.
I've tried to make them so many times that i've alredy lost count.... This time was the one that it tasted better... but didin't look very preety... I'll keep on trying, so for now i'll post this one...

I'm no going to post the recipe because I used this one here. Only for the whit chocolate ganache that I omited the fraise tagada candy used 150g heavy cream, 300g white chocolate choped and some pink coloring.

PS.: The pic is terible i promise to get better pictures from now on.. this one wasonly take to send to friends!

Just a start

How to start my blog?! First I have to say that i'm not a native english speaker so... i'll do my best not to writ to many wrong things!
I'm from Brasil and I just LOVE cooking!!! I don't really have lots of time to cook 'cause besides working I study to... I'm a nutricionist to be!! Very soon I hope.... (only missing 2 and a half years hihihi), so my blog will be about food my somethins i'll post for you things that I find interesting abou nutricion....
Ohh.... forgot to say why I decide to blog.... I'm always searching for new recepies and diferent things for me to try and suddenly i discovered de unioverse of foof blogs and just feel in love by it and wanted so much to be part of it, to be a Daring Baker, to post brownies for browniebabe of the month and etc... so... here I am...
HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY IT!!