• Food

    Chocolate cupcakes

    Chocolate is those kind of things most either love or hate, but I’m more of a “middle” kind of girl. I enjoy my chocolate, but can live without it (sorry chocolate addicts). Made these cupcakes the other day with an amaaazing icing which you can find in my previous post.  Chocolate cupcakes (makes 8) Look at this. Perfection.  Ingredients 1 cup flour // 1/2 cup cocoa powder // 3/4 cup sugar // 1 medium egg and 2 tbsp egg white or  2 small eggs // 1 tsp baking powder // 8g vanilla sugar // freshly brewed coffee (1 cup) // 1/4 cup sunflower oil // a pinch of salt Instructions…

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    Simple Vegan Pancakes (without banana)

    I love pancakes. Among my fondest childhood memories are those week end mornings where my mom would make us giiigantic pancakes. Then we would eat them with a honey-butter mix, or some Nutella. These were sooo delicious. My mom and dad themselves are so into pancakes, especually Aunt Jemma’s one, cause the smell reminds them of their days in the States. Nothing beats a fluffy pancakes, with looots of syrup on top. Oh wait, maybe fruits AND syrup on top beats that up. Anyways, enough talking, here is an easy vegan recipe of pancakes. As it’s vegan, everyone can eat it, no excuse 🙄 Ingredients (makes 6-8) 1 1/4 cup flour…

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    Healthy Tiramisu

    Tiramisu is one of my favorite recipes, and also one of my mom’s. It’s also one of the few recipes I have already prepared with my brother, and it is relatively easy to make, since no oven is required. However, the originak recipe calls for lots of mascarpone, eggs and sugar. Hence, it’s quite heavy and…well, not something I would eat everyday 🙂 You know I like to bring twists to original recipes, so I came up with this. Ricotta cheese is one of my favorite. I always get the reduced fat version, which is like 280 calories per cup, and always have to try not to eat the entire…