My children are slowly growing up, and the time when mum is the only source of food in the home will come to an end. There are some dishes which they can prepare themselves. Recently, I have been able to sleep 10 minutes longer in the morning because my daughter prepares breakfast herself. It is nice, but it is sad to think that the time when they don't need me is coming.

Recently, my daughter suggested preparing a dessert together. She wanted something that was equally chocolaty, fruity and sweet. We made a dessert which met all these expectations. We wrapped dark chocolate, seasonal fruit and marshmallows in French pastry. We ate it together hot from the plate. It was nice and yummy.

Ingredients:
1 pack of chilled French pastry
150g of dark chocolate
a couple of strawberries
a handful of blueberries
a handful of raspberries
75g of marshmallows
2 tablespoons of milk

A tart is a nice cake which every time may look and taste different. You only have to use different fruit, form the dough on the top in a different way and you will make a quite beautiful and yummy dessert. Today I would like to share with you the recipe for a tart for the end of the rhubarb season. You should pick the rhubarb at the turn of May and June, because in young spears the amount of calcium oxalate is low. In the course of time this amount is higher and the rhubarb can be impaired.

I like strawberries, so I enriched the stuffing of the tart with some of my favourite fruit. They go with the rhubarb perfectly. You can decorate the top of the cake as you like. My mum grated the dough on top to make a grid. I went crazy and made a flower version of my tart. It looks wonderful, doesn't it?

Ingredients (25-27 cm cake tin)
dough:
300g of flour
100g of sugar
120g of butter
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
2 tablespoons of brown sugar (to sprinkle on the cake)
stuffing:
350g of strawberries
400g of rhubarb
3 tablespoons of brown sugar

Did you know that the Krecik (Mole) - the main character of the cartoon – was created in 1957? The director Zdenek Miler received an order for an educational movie about fabric production. The movie was intended for young viewers and the first version of the movie was disappointing. Only the movie with Krecik (Mole) as the main character was accepted. In the first episode Krecik got some new trousers.

Although it is difficult to believe, it sometimes occurs that there are chocolate muffins on the table and nobody wants to eat them. In my home this happened for the first time. The day after preparation, muffins aren't as yummy as just after baking, so I decided to use them to make a different kind of muffin called small molehills – a dessert inspired by the nice cartoon character Krecik. My children love Krecik just as much as I do, and they named the dessert "cookies with a surprise" because as well as traditional banana, I put bits of strawberry inside the muffins.

Ingredients (for 8 muffins)
muffins
160g of flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
0.5 teaspoons of baking soda
100g of brown sugar
2 tablespoons of dark cocoa
160ml of milk
1 egg
40ml of oil

Ripe and sweet mango is the secret of an excellent mango lassi. In Poland it is difficult to buy yellow and very sweet mango, so I promise myself that someday I'll make this drink with fruit "from the tree". For the present, I have to use mango which I can buy in Poland. The recipe for mango lassi is very easy, and the cooling drink is wonderfully refreshing and yummy. It is excellent for a hot summer afternoon. My children said that it is yellow yoghurt . The original recipe has water among the ingredients, but we like it when mango lassi is a bit thicker. I don't add water, but I use only natural yoghurt. On the internet I found a recipe for mango lassi with kefir. I haven't drunk it yet, but maybe next time I'll try it.

Ingredients

2 ripe mangos
400ml of natural yoghurt
4-5 tablespoons of orange juice
3 tablespoons of maple syrup

Every year I can't wait for the strawberry season. I wait for the first, fragrant Polish strawberries to appear at the market, and I can't stop myself from buying them. The price is always very high at first, but I take comfort in the fact that day after day it is lower and lower.

Today I would like to share with you the recipe for a chocolate-strawberry dessert: yummy, soft chocolate muffins with a creamy strawberry surprise inside. Can anybody resist them?

Ingredients (for 12 muffins)
250g of flour
150g of brown sugar
250ml of milk
60ml of oil
2 teaspoons of baking powder
half a teaspoon of baking soda
half a teaspoon of vanilla essence
150g of thick cream cheese
0.5kg of strawberries
2 tablespoons of caster sugar