Chocolate chip cookies

Hi,

Today I'm back with another recipe :) I'm going to make chocolate chip cookies.
It's a quick recipe that you can make anytime for any occasion.

What to you need:
120 gr unsalted butter
180 gr dark brown sugar
180 gr sugar
2 eggs
540 gr all purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon fine salt

Preheat the oven at 190°C and put parchment paper on 2 baking sheets.
1. Put the butter in a microwave safe bowl and put it in the microwave until melted. Let it cool for a bit. Then whisk the sugars, eggs and butter in a large bowl until smooth.
2. Whisk the flour, baking soda and salt in another bowl. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, you can do this with your hands if you like or with a wooden spoon. Next you can stir in the chocolate chips in it.
3. Roll the dough into balls and put them on the baking sheets, with some space in between them. Bake the cookies until golden but still soft in the middle, for 12 to 15 minutes, depending on how chewy you like your cookies.
4. Transfer the hot cookies with a spatula to a cooling rack. After that they are ready to serve.
Store the cookies in a sealed container for up to 5 days. If they last that long :)

I hope you enjoy making these cookies as much as I did, it so easy and quick to do.
Enjoy eating them with friends or family :)
Love,
Sarah

Chocolate cake

Hi,

So yesterday was my sisters birthday and I made a chocolate cake for her.
Here is the recipe I used :)

This is what you need:
250gr plain flour
125gr  cocoa powder
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
425gr unsalted butter, at room temperature
350gr golden caster sugar
2 eggs
225ml milk
400gr icing sugar
4 tablespoons of milk

Step 1. Preheat your oven to 180°C and grease 2 tins of 20cm with butter.
Step 2. Mix the flower, 75gr of cocoa, the baking powder and 1 teaspoon of fine salt in a bowl and whisk it all together. Keep it to one side.
Step 3. Cut 125gr of the butter into chunks and place into a bowl and beat it for a couple of minutes until creamy.
Step 4. Add the sugar and beat for a few more minutes until pale. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, make sure scrapping the mixture off the sides and bottom.
Step 5. Add the dry ingredients to the mixing bowl and mix slowly until it all comes together.
Step 6. Beat vigorously for a minute, then divide the batter between the two cake tins. Place them in the middle of the oven and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until cooked through. When they are ready leave the cakes to cool for 10 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Now for the buttercream.
Step 1. Cut the remaining butter into chances and place into a bowl. Beat on a high speed for 2 minutes until creamy, then put in the remaining cocoa and half the icing sugar. Add 2 tablespoons of the milk and beat again for 1 minute.
Step 2. Add in the remaining icing sugar and add the remaining milk, then beat everything on a high speed for a couple of minutes until super smooth.
Step 3. Spoon some buttercream on the first cake and spread it out to the edges, then top it with the second cake.
Step 4. Spoon on the rest of the buttercream and gently spread it over the top of the cake and down the sides, until the entire cake is covered.
Step 5. On top off the cake you can also putt some shavings of chocolate, if you like.
You can decorate with what you like :)

I hope you enjoy making and eating this cake as much as I did :)
Love,
Sarah

 

Harry Potter Dinner

Hi,

I'm back with a new blog today.
Yesterday I went to a Harry Potter themed dinner with my cousin. We were super excited!
A friend of mine found it on a website and told to me about it. After looking on the site I was sold, it looked awesome!

So we had to be there at 19:20 and the line was long, I think that there were around 400 people. But on the outside they've put some colorful lights and you could here the music from inside.
Once at the door we showed the tickets and you could take a picture, there were also some little shops with Harry Potter gadgets. But I already have a lot of things so I didn't buy anything.

When you entered the great hall you could see the tables like in the movie with the banners hanging over them. At the end you had the table with the teachers and you also had the flying candles.
In the middle of the room you had a stage where something was going to happen. On the tables you had butterbeer and water. Honestly I had the butterbeer in the London studios and it was way better there, here I think it was a lemonade with vanilla extract, so totally not my thing.
You also had 2 tables with the dessert buffet. I didn't think it would be enough for all those people and other people shared the same feeling, but it looked amazing.

After everyone entered and took a seat the show began, professor Dumbledore took the stage and started the speech. It was literally the same speech as in the movie, then professor Umbridge interrupted, also like in the movie. It was ok and funny to see. Then on the center stage you had professor McGonagall who did the sorting hat ceremony. That was nicely done, except for the part when you see people who are totally dressed in a house and you put them in another house, you saw there disappointment, I thought that they could do that part better. The people who registered to get sorted but didn't got called on stage were asked to go to the photo area where a personalized letter would wait for them. But when we got there they said that there were no letters, but you could take  your picture with the sorting hat on.
Then they announced that we could get in line for the buffet, but table by table to keep some order. Buy that time everyone was hungry and waiting to get in line. We were at the third table and you already could hear people wonder if there would be enough for everyone. By the time it was our tables turn there was less choice than in the beginning I felt, the buffet tables were less full. But in we go! We got a little of everything, but the pieces we got were not normal slices of cake, there were like mini slices and we could only take one of each. Like I don't like whipped cream on anything so I could choose from less, so I asked of one if I could have a second one and they said no. Also when you booked your ticket you could let them know if you had an allergy and I heard the people in front of us complain about that, cause there son had an allergy and they didn't got anything in the place like they said online, so the kid had to eat a few chocolate frogs instead.

When we got back to our table we started to eat and honestly it were the worst cakes I had ever eaten. We were so disappointed by that time. And we weren't the only ones, we heard a lot of people complain about several things.
While eating my cousin saw that there were owls standing in the corner where you could take pictures of them, so after our meal we got to see them. I found it a bit sad for the owls cause of the lights in the room and all the noise. Then we got back to the table and everyone wondered if something else would happen, maybe another show... And indeed then there was a video they played about Godric Gryffindor and Helga Hufflepuff, it was weird but funny, the content wasn't quite correct with the original storyline. And after that it was finished, they said that the bar would stay open for a little while more but that was it. Before we left my cousin saw a guy walking around with a real life snake on him and I wanted to get out of there :) but he passed us and we both touched the snake, but again I felt so sorry for the poor animal.

I hope you enjoyed my blog more then I enjoyed my night. Everyone just expected more cause on the site it looked all so nice. I just gonna have to go back to the London studios or maybe to the park in the USA. But for the first time that they organized this it was ok I guess, they only can take the comments of the people and do it better next time.

Love,
Sarah