When I want to make something nice for my son, I prepare pancakes or something similar. For my daughter I can make tatar, herring or... brownie. Because the last two weeks were especially arduous for her, I decided to make this cake at the end. I have already made a lot of different brownies. This time I chose vegan-brownie (almost, because I added white and dark chocolate) with a lot of raspberries and blueberries. Hot green tea, a big piece of hot brownie with runny chocolate inside was what my tired teenager needed. She ate and... fell asleep. Let her sleep it off.

Ingredients (25cm cake tin)
250g of flour
125g of cocoa
300ml of oil
300ml water or vegetable milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
200g of brown sugar
1 teaspoon of baking powder
12 pieces of white chocolate
12 pieces of dark chocolate
a pinch of salt
raspberries and blueberries

I really like the combination of pistachio and lemon. Till now I have eaten and used only roasted and salted pistachios in the kitchen. That was the case until recently, when I accidentally bought unsalted ones. Because I don't like throwing things away, I decided to use them... and they have become a permanent fixture of my dishes. This type tastes like pistachios, not like salt. It doesn't mean that I disown salty nuts. I also really like them, but I don't buy them so often, except for example for a film marathon. I always make sure that I don't eat too many though. It doesn't matter how many of them I put into a bowl, they will all disappear. I recommend trying unsalted ones. Nut lovers will love them as much as I do. Today's offer is a way of using unsalted pistachios in a cake. Try it for butter lemon cookies with pistachios. They are light, refreshing and really delicious. The recipe comes from TM's culinary book, but it is so easy that you can do it without it.

Ingredients (25-cm baking pan)
30g of unsalted pistachios without the shells
225g of butter
250g of caster sugar
½ teaspoon of lemon peel
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
260g of flour
½ teaspoon of baking powder
50ml of lemon juice
a pinch of salt

I try to use my head when I go shopping. This is not only due to the prices; I just don't like throwing food away. However, sometimes I find products which I can't use in a simple way. Recently I found some beautifully packed slices of lemon with rum. The product isn't so unusual, but I couldn't find a way to use them. How many teas with lemon in rum can you drink? Especially if you don't like tea with lemon 

I decided to use them in a cake. It was a great decision. Banana-chocolate cake with rum and lemon slices was really delicious. So how do you deal with unusual products?

Ingredients (bread pan)
3 ripe bananas
180g of flour
2 eggs
150g of brown sugar
30g melted butter
juice from half a lemon
50ml of rum
a fistful of chopped almonds
100g of chocolate drops
2 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa
1.5 teaspoons of baking powder
0.5 teaspoon of baking soda
a pinch of salt
a couple of lemon slices in rum

Today I have an offer for those who don't like Valentine's Day. Poppy seed cake with piecrust hearts can be a sweet ending for a romantic dinner with candles or a simple afternoon tea without any special occasion. We don't have to have an occasion to eat something delicious and sweet at the same time, right? I think so, so I eat poppy seed cake every time I bake it, even if it is a normal weekday. This year, we will enjoy hearty poppy seed cake on Valentine's Day, but I think I will bake it again someday.

Ingredients
dough
250 g of flour
125 g of cold butter
1 egg
4 tablespoons of caster sugar
poppy seed layer
400g of grated poppy seeds
100 g of butter
3 big tablespoons of flour
5 eggs
250g of sugar
1 teaspoon of almond aroma
dried fruit and nuts

Fat Thursday is the last Thursday before Lent. It begins in the last week of carnival when you can eat as much as you want without any consequences. I don't know what these consequences are exactly, but the calorific value of these sweet things is so big that we limit our sweet madness only to Fat Thursday and we eat less during the remaining weekdays. In Poland we eat a lot of Berliner doughnuts and angel wings, and most bakeries serve only these baked goods on this day. For a few years on our Fat Thursday menu we have had doughnuts and from this year – churros. So as you can see there are many ways to stuff our faces with sweet and fatty things.

Ingredients:
250g of flour
25g of butter
125 ml of beer
4 egg yolks
a pinch of salt
caster sugar
oil for frying