FUDGY EXTRA CHOCOLATE NUTTY BROWNIES

Place of origin: United States

Just another version of extra popular Brownie, filled with dark chocolate and nuts.... the taste is just .... overwhelming :-D
And the first recipe in a "brownie series" that will follow, so stay tuned. ;-)

SBRICIOLATA MASCARPONE & NUTELLA - ITALIAN STYLE CRUMBLE WITH MASCARPONE & NUTELLA

Place of origin: Italy

Italian style crumble with creamy Nutella & mascarpone filling. Based on the combination of ricotta & Nutella, but I'm not a ricotta lover so I substituted it with mascarpone and made some other small changes while combining several recipes into a new one. Everybody loved it so I hope you will too. :-)

FLOURLESS APPLE & WALNUT CAKE / TORTA OD ORAHA I JABUKA BEZ BRASNA

Place of origin: Our recipe

Some time ago, in one coffee bar and pastry shop in Zagreb, I had very good walnut and apple cake. This cake is my interpretation of the one I had, in a way it's similar, but also different. I hope you will like it as much as we do. :-)

AUTUMN DELIGHT - JESENJE VELICANSTVO

CHESTNUT & BUTTERNUT SQUASH CAKE - TORTA OD KESTENA I BUTTERNUT BUNDEVE

Place of origin: Our recipe

For last year's Halloween party I made chestnut & pumpkin crostata and our friends loved it. So, at the first, I wanted to make it again for this year's party but then I thought - why should I repeat the cake we've already tasted, I can make something new and different out of the same autumn ingredients. And then this fluffy cake was "born". :-)

STRAWBERRY & PASTRY CREAM CROSTATA (PIE) - CROSTATA S JAGODAMA I SLASTICARSKOM KREMOM

Place of origin: Italy

I'm totally crazy about Italian Crostata, that wonderful pie with various fillings and a crust so simple and yet so rich in taste. Being 1/4 Italian and having relatives in Italy, every time we would go to visit while I was still a kid, I had to have at least one piece of Crostata. My mum has never ever made it at home. When I grew up I got this recipe from my Italian cousin who is a great cook. Really great cook. The pie crust is a base and the filling.... it's up to your imagination. As the first Crostata recipe on our blog, I'm presenting you this mouthwatering summer strawberry & pastry cream crostata. :-)

DOUBLE CHOCO BLUEBERRY CHEESECAKE - DVOSTRUKA CHOKO CHEESECAKE S BOROVNICAMA

Place of origin: Our recipe

The second cake I made for Katarina and his B-day party this July, together with Choco coco raspberry cake. I wanted to make an easy, no bake cake that I can "put together" in no time or while the other cake was baking. Of course, it had to contain the chocolate as I'm surrounded by choco lovers. :-D Blueberries came in the picture as a seasonal fruit that goes well with chocolate and mascarpone. Unfortunately, unlike raspberry cake, not one single piece of the cake survived till the next day so I wasn't able to take a picture of a cut. But I guess it can all be seen even without it. ;-) And when you think about 7 people (out of which 4 were women) eating two normal sized cakes all by themselves in one night (and I ate probably least of all) after the four-course meal (five if you count cakes) with rather big portions .... I suppose it wouldn't be over the top to say they were delicious :-D :-)

CHOCO-COCO RASPBERRY CAKE - COKO-KOKOS MALINA TORTA

Place of origin: Our recipe based on chocolate strawberry cake recipe I found few years ago somewhere on the internet and printed it out but forgot to make a note where I have found it.

For one B-day party this summer I wanted to make choco strawberry cake. But strawberries were already gone (you can't find fresh strawberries all-year-round in Croatia) so using the recipe for a strawberry cake I wanted to make, and making some changes to my taste, I came up with this lovely cake. :-)
I suppose it was very good as the cut pictured below was the only remaining piece I've found in the fridge the next morning! The other cake from the same party, Double choco blueberry cake, was not so lucky. In the morning, when I asked where is the other cake, I was just told - well, we ate it. :-D Bad people, they should have left at least a small piece for the cook. :-P

RAFFAELLO MUFFINS

Place of origin: Our recipe, based on Ferrero Raffaello pralines

One day I was eating Raffaello while looking at some muffins recipes. And it crossed my mind - I could make Raffaello muffins. And so I did the very next day for my friend’s B-day. She didn’t have a party, we just had a drink in a bar. So muffins were a surprise. :-D

MIXED NUTS TRUFFLES - ORASASTE KUGLICE

Place of origin: Our recipe

Just another simple no bake recipe I came up with some time ago. Based on traditional Dalmatian sweet made from dried figs - Smokvenjak (smokva = fig) :-) 

CHOCOLATE WALNUT TRUFFLES - ORAHOVE KUGLICE

Place of origin: Croatia

An old truffle recipe (from Dalmatia) that I found in my granny Elisabeta's (mum's side) cookbook from mid 20th century. Easy and delicious :-)

NUTTY CAKE WITH APPLE AND VANILLA CREAMS - ORASASTI KOLAC S KREMAMA OD JABUKE I VANILIJE

Place of Origin: Our recipe

A somewhat healthy cake (not much sugar and flour) that we have created while working on excavations in Slavonia few years ago. Long winter days, locked inside the house with tons of pottery laying around.... we were baking something almost every day. And making experiments, too. Some turned out pretty well, like this one :-)

BRITTLE (GRILLAGE) CAKE - GRILAZ TORTA

Place of Origin: Croatia 

Found the recipe for this cake in my great granny’s Lilian old cookbook from 1926. I have adjusted it a bit as the original recipe called for much more sugar. Old cakes were waaaay to sweet. ;-)

HONEY COOKIES & PEPPER COOKIES - MEDENJACI I PAPRENJACI

Place of Origin: Croatia

Honeycookies and Peppercookies are old and traditional cookies that can be found in practically all parts of Croatia in many different variations. They're usually eaten during the winter and especially for Christmas and New Year holidays or at many festivals throughout the year. They’re almost similar to Gingerbread or Ginger biscuits, but they don’t contain ginger and they’re usually shaped as a small ball or disk. I'm sharing with you this old recipe from my grandma's who comes from a village between towns Novska and Jasenovac, near the Sava river.

MUM'S APPLE PIE - MAMINA PITA OD JABUKA

Place of Origin: Croatia

Very easy recipe that my mum used to make very often. I think she learned it from my dad's mum, aka from my granny, aka from her mother-in-law. :-) It's different from typical apple pies as you don't have to roll out the dough, actually it doesn't have a dough. It's made of batter and you just have to pour it into a mold. So simple, isn't it? :-)

HUSSARS' FRITTERS - HUSARSKI USTIPCI

Place of Origin: Croatia

Another traditional Dalmatian cookie, one of my favorites. It's so simple and easy and yet so delicious and full of flavor. Among the first cookies I've learned how to make while looking at my mum who made them very often and she learned it from her mum long, long time ago while she was still in a high school.