Zebra cake

Today let's make simple, but impressive, tasty and reliable zebra ;) Cake is awesome, everyone will like it, and kids will like making it, so take them to kitchen with you :D

Zebra Cake Recipe

Ingredients

• 5 eggs
• 1,5 cup sugar
• 3 cups flavour (and 3 spoons to white part)
• 2 tea spoons baking powder
• cup oil
• cup something earated (water, orangeade)
• 3 spoons cocoa
• oil to oil the sheet
• optionally icing (dark, white or dark-white)

How to make it

Whippe eggs with sugar (until it's white).

Add flavour and baking powder.

Pour oil and something earated.

Devide cake ito two parts.
Add 3 spoons flavour to first one, and cocoa to second one.

Oil the sheet.

Pour two spoons of white cake into the middle of the sheet.
Then pour two spoons of dark cake into the middle of the middle of the dark cake.
Repeat until all cake is poured.

Bake the cake about 45 minutes (I needed only 30) in 180°C.

You can pour icing over ready cake. 
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Carrot Cake

Very tasty and very simple carrot cake. Try it!

Carrot Cake Recipe

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup oil
• 2 cups flavour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• pinch of salt
• 2 big carrots
• oil to grease the sheet
• possibly rasins or nuts - I don't use

How to make it

Wipe the carrots.

Mix eggs with sugar and oil. Add flavour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. At the end add the carrot.

Put the cake onto greased sheet.

Bake 60 minutes in 180°C.

WARNING! Unfortunately sometimes it happens to me that after 30 minuts of baking cake looks great outside, but it's raw inside. IF it happens to you, don't worry! Just turn temperature into 200°C and select baking from the bottom mode in your oven.

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First fan fiction

Hello :) Today I'll give you some Tolkien fan-fiction, I hope you'll like it ;) Try to read, it's really short...

"Prophecy"

It was a dark night. Maiwë, Aiwë and Morfin were coming home. They knew the road very well, so they walked fast and surely. Suddenly the dark figure appeared before them. Girls stopped and looked at each other, terrified. Figure came closer. She was an old, short and fat elf, obviously an elf, because she would be very tall, if she weren't crooked. Stranger walked almost halfway bent. She looked at the girls and she smiled with her toothless mouth. 

- Good evening, my dear girls - said she - I'm Gildur. I'm shadow.

- Do you know... future? - asked Morfin.

- I know many things. But it's very late, my dear girls - She passed girls by and she walked swaying. But she stopped after several steps and she recited:

 - First love will die,

Second will last forever,

Third will see the beginning and the end,

All loves will know the happines -  and she went away without looking back. Girls were staring at her back. And the old women suddenly straightened. Black coat slid to her feet and they saw long white dress she was wearing. Beautiful golden hair flowed to her arms. Phantom raised her hands and she disappeared in moment she connected them behind head.

- We won't tell anyone, will we? - asked Morfin.

- No... - Maiwë took her hand - we won't...

Birthday cake

Exactly nas in the title: my culinary torture with birthday cake :)
I - no artistic talent - made my own decorations... So effect is interesting.
Cake is for my sister (so Happy Birthday, Julia!)

Birthday cake recipe :)

Ingredients

• sponge cake (I bought mine, because it's my sister who usually makes birthday cakes)
• currant jam (or another dark)
• manna-croup
• milk (I used six cups)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 180-200g butter
• decorations (I used canned peaches and chocolate - one milk and one dark)
• you can also soak the cake (I used cherry liqueur)

How to make it

1.Cream

Butter should be soft! 

Boil milk with sugar. Add manna-croup. It shoud be thick.
Put into cold place (It cools fastest on several plates).
Whip butter and mix with manna-croup, when it's cold.

2. In the meantime

Cut the peaches and... make chotolates.

What?!

Well, I decided to decorate cake with chocolates ;)
Mostly because I hate grapes.

Because they're full of pits.
So I made something-like-chocolates.

I melted chocolate and I made small round chocolates without any filling.
I put them into freezer for they congeal faster. I heard that they'll become matt if you do it, but I guess that's not true. They were perfectly shiny.

3. Layers

I hope your cake has 3 parts too.

First soak cake (using pencil).

 

Then you do (from bottom to the top): cake - jam - cream - cake - jam - cream - cake - cream (on sides too) and decorations.

For my idea look at the picture below ;)

Of course you can just sprinkle  the cake with grated chocolate,
But you have to be careful - because someone can blow it with the candles!

Smacznego!

Where are feelings?

Today I'll give you another double opinion ;)

But what does "The Host" have to do with "Fablehaven"? 

Answer is simple. Feelings.
And emotions maybe.
But first let's see what the books are about.

Both are really awesome. Actually "Fablehaven" is rather for kids, but it's still amazing.
I really think that each new part is better than the last. The fourth had incredible end and brilliant intrygue. 

Shortly, "Fablehaven" is about magical animals reserve. This time main characters have to leave the reserve and find the key that is one of five able to open demons prison. The keys are also found by evil organization that wants to set demons free.
That was really shortly, I can recomend the book to the young and to the old. :)

"The Host" is rather for older readers and this is a book that really surprised me. I've read "Twilight" so I thought that "The Host" will be something like that but for adults.
I was wrong.
Imagine world which is possessed by souls - calm and good creatures that finally brought peace to Earth.
The only wrong thing with them is that they're... parasites, so they have to use human bodies.
"The Host" is about girl, that has the soul inside and fights with her.
Unfortunately, the soul took over body's feelings.

So there we are. Feelings.
Both books tells about where feelings are. Inside us, of course, but are feelings part of body or mind?
In "The Host" we can notice how Melanie's (body) feeling transferred to the soul inside her.
On the other hand, at the end soul finds love. And I don't mean Melanie's love.

It is actually similar in "Fablehaven" when you look at...
... Dragons.
Tne dragon doesn't want to hurt people when it's in the human form, but as a animal it kills them.
Why?
Body changes, but the mind should stay the same, right?
Of course we can try to separate feelings from emotions and say that feelings belong to mind and emotions to body, but what will happen in another situation?
Ostatecznie, chociaż zmienia się ciało, umysł pozostaje ten sam.
I don't know how to explain it without spoiling the plot.
There's a person in book who falls in love with another person. He has to say the truth and he says that he really cares about the second person.
But then bam, bam!
He turns into a dragon and he tries to kill his love!
So he is perfect actor or he thought he feel something he didnn'y fell or his dragon part is stronger than human one.
That's sad.
Anyway, please say what you think about my conclusions.
But first READ THE BOOKS!
They're really amazing!
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Porridge with spinach and mushrooms

Today I decided to experiment with barley porridge. I did it mostly because of my laziness (I didn't want to peel potatoes), but also because of mushrooms I had. The final effect wasn't bad :)

Barley Porridge with spinach and mushrooms recipe

Ingredients

• 2 bags of porrige
• 2 glasses of vegetable broth
• frozen spinach
• mushrooms
• olive oil
• garlic
• cream
• favourite spices

How to make it

Rinse the porrige and boil it in vegetable broth.

Cut mushroom into slices and fry in olive oil. Add spinach when they become brown. 

When spinach thaws add cream, garlic and spices.

Mix with porridge.

Smacznego!

Chocolate tart

Who doesn't like it? :D
Unfortunately I decided not to eat sweets during the Lent, so I didn't want to write about this cake!
But, actually, it's not that sweet.
I took this recipe from my Aunt Marta, but then I lost it so this what you can see below is what I remember + some things from Internet.
But don't worry, I tried it!

Chocolate tart recipe

Ingredients

Cake:

• 2 cups flavour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• egg
• about 160g butter
• 2 spoons homemade vanilla sugar

Filling:

• 2 bars of dark chocolate
• 50g butter
• 6 spoons sugar
• 6 spoons cocoa
• 3 eggs

How to make it?

From the cake ingredients make pastry.
Bake it until it's white but not raw.

Break chocolate and melt it with butter and cocoa.

Beat the eggs with sugar.
Mix chocolate mass with eggs.

Then put the filling on the pastry and put it again to the roaster.
Bake until the top cracks.
Smacznego!