#22: Norwegian Waffles

Ok - long time no see, but I am back! Have been a crazy couple of weeks, and then my camera broke! But my hubby fixed it again:)

So - made yummy waffles with the girls that I babysit a couple of weeks ago! They are so easy to make, but you will need a waffle iron to actually make them... Putting this recipe out because some of my friends asked me to:)

Ingredients

- 100 g butter

- 4 eggs

- 4-5 tbs sugar (or more!)

- 1/2 ts cardamon

- 4 dl flour

- 1/2 ts baking powder

- 5 dl milk (you can replace some of it with cream or sour cream)

How to do it

1. Melt the butter and mix in all the ingredients (If you don't have a hand mixer and have to do it yourself, it is smart to mix all the dry things together first - with the butter - and then add the milk slowly in the end)

2. Let it rest for 15 minutes

3. Make them in the waffle iron

4. Serve with ice cream and maple syrup, or with sugar, or with jam - however you like them!

#16: Chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients

- 250 g butter

- 2/3 cups of caster sugar

- 200g sweetened condensed milk

- 2,5 cups of self raising flour

- 125 g white chocolate chips

- 250 g milk chocolate chips

How to do it

1. Cream the butter and the sugar together

2. Add milk

3. Slowly add flour

4. Add choc chips

5. Place in small balls on tray, press down a bit with a fork

6. Cook for 10-15 minutes on 180C.

#14: Cinnamon Rolls

On Thursday I made these cinnamon rolls - they turned out pretty well! It takes a little while to make them, but it makes more than 40 buns and they are great to have in the freezer.

Ingredients

- 5 dl milk

- Yeast

- 1 egg

- 1 ts salt

- 150 gr sugar

- 2 ts cardamon

- 200 g butter

- 1 kg flour

How to do it

1. Melt the butter and heat the milk - mix it together

2. Mix the flour, the cardamon, sugar and salt

3. When the butter and milk are luke warm, put the yeast in

4. Then mix it all together

5. Mix the egg and then put it in the dough

6. Knead the dough - show muscles!:)

7. Let it then raise in 1/2 hour - 1 hour, put the oven on 220C

8. Cut the dough in half

9. Form it like a roll and then flatten it with a rolling pin

10. Put butter, sugar and cinnamon on - as much as you want

11. Then roll the dough together like a sausage

12. Cut 2 cm slices of the sausage, like shown on the picture under. Put them on a plate with baking paper and press them down a bit

13. Let the buns raise for another 1/2 hour

14. Put them in the oven for 15 minutes on 220C until they are golden brown

#12: Chocolate Soufflé

Ok - I didn't get to take a picture of this one when it was done, cause it disappeared!?? Hehe.. But it turned out well and is extremely easy to make, definitely a recipe for everyone - even people like me!

Ingredients

- 200 g dark cooking chocolate

- 200 g butter

- 200 g flour

- 200 g sugar

- 1 ts baking powder

- 4 egg

How to do it

1. Melt chocolate and butter together in a casserole (The best way to do this is to have a big casserole with boiling water, and then you have a smaller casserole in that water - that way the chocolate doesn't burn! But don't get any water in the chocolate..)

2. Mix flour, sugar and baking powder in the casserole with chocolate and butter

3. Mix in one egg at a time

4. Put it all in a small form you can put in the oven

5. Cook for 7-12 minutes on 160C and serve with vailla ice cream

#7: Cookie Dough

The other day Asle and I were really craving Cookie Dough ice cream, so we drove to our closest Baskin & Robbins - just to find that it wasn't there anymore! So we went home and made our own cookie dough instead - makes a vanillia ice cream so much more exciting:)

Ingredients

- 1/2 cup flour

- 5 1/2 tbs sugar

- 2 tbs softened butter

- 1/8 ts vanilla extract

- 2 tbs water

How to do it

1. Mix the sugar and the butter together in a bowl until smooth

2. Mix in vanilla and water and then finally the flour until it is all well blended together

3. Wrap in cling wrap and freeze for 1 hour

4. Cut into small pieces and mix into softened vanilla ice cream (or even Cookies and Cream ice cream!) before you freeze for another 15 minutes

#6: Fruit Salad with Vanilla Dressing

We ate this one for dessert when having some great friends over last night!

Ingredients

- Apples

- Pears

- Grapes

- Pineapple

- Bananas (Optional! I don't put bananas in as I don't like it...)

- 1/2 l water

- 3 dl sugar

- 1 1/2 ts vanilla sugar

- 1 ts aniseed

How to do it

1. Boil the water and the sugar in a casserole, add vanilla sugar and aniseed and let it boil for 10 minutes, then cool it down (in fridge if you're in a hurry) while doing nr. 2

2. Cut all the fruit in small pieces and have them in a bowl

3. Put the salad dressing in the bowl with fruit when it is cold

4. Serve with vanilla ice cream!

#4: Brownie Muffins

These ones are nice little treats!

Ingredients

- 150g dark cooking chocolate

- 100g butter

- 2 eggs

- 1,5 dl sugar

- 2 dl flour

- 1 ts baking powder

- 2 ts vanilla sugar/icing sugar

How to do it

1. Melt the chocolate and the butter and mix together

2. Mix the eggs and the sugar

3. Then put in the flour, the baking powder and the vanilla sugar, and finally mix all the ingredients together

4. Fill the muffin forms half full and have almonds in if you want

5. Bake on 200C for 6-8 minutes (and serve with vanilla ice cream!)

#1: Chocolate Mousse

Ok, so here's the first recipe - chocolate mousse! This one is very simple and turned out very good!

Ingredients

- 200g dark cooking chocolate

- 1 egg

- 4 egg yolks

- 5 tbs of icing sugar

- 3 dl cream

How to do it

1. Melt the chocolate

2. Mix the egg, egg yolks and icing sugar

3. Whip the cream

4. Mix the chocolate with the eggs and icing sugar

5. And then whip in the cream - till it looks like this

6. Put in the fridge for 1 hour

And - bon appétit!