Dulce de leche brownies

This is a  recipe I found on a belgian blog(in Dutch), Baked Louie's, made by a young baking enthusiast named Louie. This fella sure knows how to bake and he's only 16!

 A blog filled with delicious recipes for cakes, cookies and pies off all kind. A blog worth reading!

This recipe is packed with calories but sometimes you just have to ignore them and just indulge ;)

The recipe takes 2 steps; the dulce de leche and the brownies. Start with the dulce de leche.

Dulce de leche:

Ingredients:

• 1 can of condensed milk, 305ml

Put the can, unopened, in a high cooking pot. Submerge in water and bring to a boil. 

Turn the fire lower when the water starts boiling vigorously and let it simmer for about 3 hours. Let the water cool down, take out the can, open it and pour the dulce de leche in a bowl and stirr untill you have a nice creamy texture. 

You can lick your spoon clean but don't be tempted to eat the whole bowl cause this is simply delicious.....

Brownies:

Ingredients:

• Dulche de leche
• 340gr. dark chocolate, chopped in bits
• 230gr. unsalted butter
• 50gr. unsweetened cacao powder
• 280gr. pastry flour
• 400gr granulated sugar
• 100gr. pecan nuts, chopped
• 6 eggs

Put some aluminium foil in a baking tin(+/- 20x30cm) and grease it up with some oil. 

Preheat the oven on 175°.

Melt the butter in a large pan, add the chocolate and let it melt in the butter. Then add the cacao powder and stirr well. Add the eggs, one by one and keep stirring. Add the sugar, let it melt in the mixture and then finish by adding the flour. Stirr well untill you get a thick mixture and add the chopped pecan's.

Pour half of this mixture in the baking tin and add about 4-5 spoons of dulce de leche, divided over the mixture. Swirl in the dulce de leche with a knife, creating a nice pattern and add in the rest of the mixture and repeat the step with the dulce de leche.

Put in the oven and bake for about 40 minutes.

Let it cool down, cut into pieces and serve! Delish!!!!

Enjoy,

Kev







Source recipe: http://bakedlouies.blogspot.be/2013/01/dulce-de-leche-brownies.html

Chocolate mascarpone cake

An easy Chocolate cake recipe, based on a creamy masacarpone and fresh cheese filling. The chocolate is flavoured with powdered ginger but you can also buy chocolate with ginger allready in it if you can find that!

Ingredients:

• 250gr. mascarpone
• 200gr. fresh cheese
• 150gr. dark chocolate
• 50gr.melted butter and some more for greasing the form
• 150gr. JulesDestrooper butter waffels (or ginger bisquits or any type of hard cookie...)
• 2 eggs
• 35gr caster sugar
• 1 tsp. powdered ginger
• Springform of 20 Ø

Preheat your oven at 190°.

Break up the waffles in pieces and put them in the blender, pulse and grind to a fine crumble.

Mix the crumble with the melted butter  and spread this in the springform. Press well with the back of a spoon, certainly on the edges. Bake this in the oven for 5 minutes. Take it out and let it cool down and turn down your oven to 170°.

Mix the mascarpone with the fresh cheese to a smooth cream. Break the eggs and put them in the cheese/mascarpone cream together with the sugar.

Melt the chocolate 'au bain marie' and add the ginger to it.

Add the melted chocolate to the mascarpone/cheese mixture and pour it in the form. 

Put in the oven for 50-60 minutes. Take it out and go around the edges of the form with a thin knife to cut the the cake loose from the side of the form. Let the cake cool completely down in the form. 

Don't worry if the cake collapses a bit, that's normal.

Enjoy,

Kev

Fluffy Chocolate mousse

This is a recipe to make a nice fluffy/light chocolate mousse. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not talking about skipping calories but only texture wise! Mixing this with beaten eggwhite snow gives this a nice light texture. And all kids love this dessert!

Ingredients:

• 200gr. pure dark chocolate
• 6 eggs, separate the whites from the yolks
• 100gr. sugar
• 375ml of cream, 40%

Estimated preparation time: 30 min + a few hours in the fridge.

Melt the chocolate au bain marie.

Beat the yolks with the sugar to a foamy texture. Add the melted chocolate under this mixture.

Beat the eggwhites to stiff peaks and gently spoon them under the yolks/chocolate mixture.

Whip the cream lightly, you don't need whipped cream but lightly beaten cream and mix this under the rest. Pour in cups and set in the fridge for a few hours.

Take out half an hour before serving.

Enjoy,

Kev