Martha's Outrageous Chocolate Cookies

 They're... outrageous! Plenty of compliments I could tell about those cookies :) Really, really chocolate and worth trying! 

Recipe, changed, comes from Marta Stewart.

Ingredients:

• 113 g of dark chocolate, chopped (the smaller pieces, the better - easier to melt)
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• 50 g of flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt
• 1 big egg
• 110 g of brown sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 200 g of chocolate chips or more or less chopped chocolate (milk or dark, might be mixed)

Preparation:

1. Take a baking tray, put baking paper on it. Put aside.
2. Take a pot, put dark chocolate and butter inside and melt it on a very low heat, stiring all the time. Turn off the heat, put aside so that it cools down.
3. Take a bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt inside.
4. Take a mixer and its bowl and mix eggs, brown sugar and vanilla extract. Add cooled down, melted chocolate, mix. Then add flour and mix again.
5. Add chocolate chips and stir (don't mix with a mixer, use a spoon).
6. Put one spoon (= this is one cookie) on a baking tray, leaving some space between cookies because they will grow a little. Using a spoon, form every cookie in a round, neat shape.
7. Bake for 8-12 minutes in 175C. Cookies should be shiny and soft inside.
8. Keep in a closed box up to 3 days.
9. Bon Appetit! :)

Hot chocoa

A perfect liquid when the weather starts getting colder and colder... :) More natural then ready-made products you can buy in a shop and stir with milk... and for sure it contains more cocoa than any artificial product :) One important caution - if you won't add any sugar it will be really bitter.

Recipe comes from my mum and my mind :)

Ingredients (for one cup/mug):

• 200-300 ml of milk
• 3-4 teaspoons of baking cocoa (bitter one, for baking purposes)

Optional ingredients:

• 3-5 teaspoons of sugar
• a pinch of (for example): cinammon, cardamom, nutmeg or even ground chilli pepper
• decoration: whipped cream, chocolate chips

Preparation:

1. Take a pot. Put the milk inside, start boiling it, stiring from time to time so that it doesn't burn. 
2. When it reaches 100C, add cocoa, and stir to avoid the lumps.
3. Here is the time to add sugar.
4. Boil for a while, turn off the heat.
5. Put in a mug/cup, add spice(s) and decorate.
6. Bon Appetit! :)

Banana Coffee

I haven't posted any coffee ideas for a quite long time, so here is one :) It isn't a hot coffee, rather room temperature one or frappe. Very filling. 

That recipe comes from my friend.

Ingredients (for 1 glass):

• 1 banana
• 1/2-3/4 glass of milk
• 1-2 teaspoons of instant coffee
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon (or more, if you like)

Optional ingredients:

• sugar
• ice cubes
• optional topping: whipped cream, caramel/chocolate sauce, cinnamon, chocolate chips, cocoa

Preparation:

1. Put the banana in the freezer for 10-15 minutes (optional).
2. Take a blender with its bowl, put coffee and cinnamon inside, add sugar-if you want, add banana, blend till smooth.
3. Add milk, blend again.
4. Add ice cubes, mix till smooth (= till you don't hear them cracking).
5. Decorate the topping with your favourite ingredient.
6. Bon Appetit! :)

Raspberry Frappe

What an extremely hot day, here, in Poland! The real summer is not with us yet, buuut to my great astonishment, we could experience a Sahara conditions today! So how to cool yourself down during such muggy day? A raspberry frappe is the answer - cooling down & waking up miracle. Surprisingly, raspberries matches here. :) But unfortunately strawberries don't (I tried).
The recipe comes from: http://www.mkcafe.pl/przepisy-kawowe/przepisy/malinowe-frappe

Ingredients (for 2 cups):

• 60-80 g of raspberries
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 1 square of dark chocolate (optional)
• 2-4 ice cubes
• espresso/coffee*
• 100 ml of 30-36% cream or steamed milk
• chocolate chips (optional)

* no measure of ml here, because it depends on the height of your glass (it is good to take Irish coffee glass) and on your own taste.

Preparation:

1. Prepare ice cubes if you don't have any.
2. Prepare your coffee. Leave it till it cools down
3. Put raspberries, sugar and chocolate in food processor. Mix till smooth.
4. Put the puree on the bottom of your glass. Add ice.
5. Tilt the glass and carefully, pour the coffee slowly on the side of the glass (it is advisable to prepare a coffee in a jug - it is easier to put its spout on the edge of the coffee glass and pour the coffee slowly into the glass) It needs to be done carefully not to mess up the fruit puree bottom.
6. Put whipped cream or steamed milk on the top. Add chocolate chips on the top if you want to.
7. Bon appetit :)