Chocolate and cashew oatmeal bars

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Okay, today I bring to you a perfect picnic recipe, I made this bars for a day at the beach with my mom and my grandma, of course they were also our breakfast before we left home and our dinner dessert and if they weren't too hot the night before they had been our bed time meal... This bars are really delicious and yet simple and easy to make.

Chocolate and cashew oatmeal bars

Ingredients:

• 10 oz (280g) flour
• 6.7 oz (190g) rolled oats
• 5.6 oz (160g) light brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 7 oz (200g) butter, room temperature
• 3.5 oz (100g) cashew
• 7 oz (200g) chocolate, broken to pieces
• 1 can – 14 oz (400g) condensed milk
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch

Directions:

1. Preheat  the oven to 347ºF. Line a brownie pan and spray it.
2. In the electric mixer, mix flour, oats, sugar, baking soda, salt and butter, until you reach a lumpy dough. Divide it in two equal parts.
3. Press the first part of dough in the pan, spread the cashew and the chocolate on top. Mix the cornstarch and the condensed milk and pour it over the cashew and chocolate.
4. Press (but not too hard) the rest of the dough on top of everything in the pan.
5. Bake for 40-42 minutes until the top is golden-brown. Let it cool in the pan and then take it to the fridge. Cut it in bars and serve.

The hardest thing about this bars is to stop eating them, or maybe not to eat the hole pan ... WARNING: they are really addictive!

Coconut birthday cake

Hey peeps!! This week I bring you the perfect recipe for coconut lovers- a coconut birthday cake! 

I made this cake for my grandpa's birthday, it worked as my gift :) of course it was also a gift for me to bake such a fantastic and huuuuuuge cake... and a compensation because my grandpa could not have a regular birthday dinner party because of me since I had a show that night :(...

Anyway he really liked the cake, as everyone in my family! It was just so good, it was moist but not uncooked, it was not too sweet and it had that lovely exotic touch of coconut. I think I could eat the hole cake by myself... Or maybe not... It gets really big...

Ingredients:

Coconut cake

• 7 oz (230 g) butter, room temperature
• 10 oz (280 g) sugar
• 4 eggs
• 15 oz (435 g) self-rising flour
• 8 fl oz (235 ml) coconut milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• Coconut flakes

Cream cheese frosting

• 18 oz (500 g) powdered sugar
• 3.5 oz (100 g) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 8.5 oz (240 g) cream cheese, room temperature

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
2. Grease two cake pans and sprinkle them with flour.
3. Cream butter until smooth. Add the sugar and cream for more 5 min. Add the eggs one at once and mix well after each adding.
4. Add the flour to the butter mix interpolating it with the coconut milk.  Then stir in the vanilla extract just until mixed.
5. Pour equal amounts of dough into the pans and bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let them cool in the pans.
6. Prepare the cream cheese frosting. Cream the sugar, the butter and the cream cheese for five minutes in medium velocity, until well mixed and creamy. Don’t over beat or it will get too liquid.
7. Cut the cakes in half. Place a layer in a serving dish, spread some frosting and sprinkle some coconut flakes. Repeat with the remaining layers. Spread the frosting on the top and sides of the cake and spread coconut flakes. Keep it in the fridge until serving.

So as you can see the recipe itself is not difficult, what give some troubles is the assembling of the cake with the cutting and frosting and all that. My advice is to spread a thin layer of frosting, take the cake to the fridge for like 30 min and then spread a thick layer of that heavenly cream, this will prevent cake crumbs to get into the frosting.

Chocolate chip and peanut cookies

Hey guys! Did u miss me? Probably not… oh well xD! Hahaahahaha

So this is probably my first completely successful cookie recipe, you know, I’ve tried many times before and they get tasty but they never had got the perfect size, texture, shape, or whatever that this unbelievable amazing cookies did. They got just perfect and I ate waaaayyyy to many than I should.

I made these cookies for a road trip and I gave some to my colleagues that liked them much more than their supermarket packed cookies, yet, as I have said, I ate the most of them specially because we were doing windsurf, paddle surf and canoeing in the afternoon so we didn’t had much for lunch and as a result after all this activities we were starving…

Peanut and chocolate cookies

Ingredients:

• ½ cup + 1 tablespoon (125 g) butter softened
• ½ cup +2 tablespoons (125 g) light brown sugar
• 1 egg slightly beaten
• 1 + ¼ cup (150 g) flour (not self-raising)
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ cup (75 g) oat flakes
• 2 cups chocolate broken into pieces.
• 1 cup peanuts chopped

Directions:

1. Line baking sheet and spray it with cooking spray. Preheat the oven to 360ºF.
2. Cream butter and sugar together. Stir in the egg.
3. Add the flour, baking powder and oats and mix until smooth.
4. Fold in the chocolate pieces and the peanuts.
5. With a teaspoon make small balls of dough in the baking sheet and flat them with a fork.
6. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Let them in the sheet for 2 min. and then remove them to a kitchen net for better cooling.

Well, there isn’t much I can say, my mom was glad that I left two or three cookies at home for her and daddy (and I was glad two cause if I had more with me I probably had ate them… Oh Rita…). Enjoooooyyyyyy!!!!!