Fruits cake

This was a project of my friend Ewelina, that ends in this delicious cake.   

INGREDIENTS:

- Cookies.
- Mango.
- Papaya.
- 3-4 bananas.
- 3-4 natural or greek yogourths.
- Strawberries.
- Dried fruits (nuts, almonds, seeds...)

PREPARATION:

- Get a recipient to prepare the cake and put the cookies as the basis.
- Cover the cookies with a slice of yogourth.
- Pick up the bananas into slices, and create another slice with the banana slices.
- Again, cover with another slice of yogourth.
- Pick up the mango and papaya into little pieces, and prepare another slice of the cake.
- Again, cover with another slice of yogourth.
- Pick up the strawberries and spread over the cake.
- Spread the dried fruits over the cake.
- Put into the fridge and wait about 2-3 hours.
- Serve it!

Lavender cookies with a lemon esence

The second one today.  A dessert.  Who could resist to a cookie?  Well, i adore cookies.  And, in this case, is very simple to prepare cookies.  And, you can prepare it in every moment, because i used ingredients that everybody have always in the kitchen.

INGREDIENTS:
- 100 grs. of flour.
- 50 grs. of butter.
- 80 grs. of sugar.
- 2 eggs.
- A handful of lavender branches.
- A half a lemon.

PREPARATION:
- First of all, you have to warm the butter up, until it were liquid.
- Mix the butter with the sugar.
- Add the two eggs beated to the previous mix, and remove.
- Add the flour and the lavender branches, and remove.
- Add the juice of the half lemon, and remove the mix until it were melted and thick.
- In a piece of vegetal paper, put little pieces of the dough.  Separe it well, to avoid that the final cookies were melted.
- Preheat the oven, until it had a high temperature.  Put the pieces and cook it.
- You have to repeat the previous step until you finished the dough. 
- Serve it!

(1) - You can use an orange instead a lemon, and you will obtain the cookies with an orange esence.

Cherries clafouties

INGREDIENTS:
- 150 grs. of cherries.
- 20 grs. of flour.
- 30 grs. of powdered almonds.
- 80 grs. of sugar.
- 2 eggs.
- A little vanilla.

PREPARATION:
- Beat the two eggs in a recipient.  Add the sugar, the milk and the vanilla while still beating.
- Add to the previous mix, the powdered almonds and the sifted flour.
- Spread the mass into little recipients, not plenty.
- Pick up the cherries, and add to the recipients.
- Heat up the oven at high temperature during almost five minutes.
- Put the recipients into the oven, and wait almost 10-15 minutes, or the mix was settled.
- Serve it.

A FINAL ADVICE:
- We can use strawberries instead of the cherries.

Cherries crumble

Here we have the cherries!!  And to start the season, we have to prepare a very simple dessert, but delicious.

INGREDIENTS:
- 150 grs. of cherries.
- 45 grs. of flour.
- 30 grs. of cold butter.
- 30 grs. of sugar.
- 15 grs. of grindend almonds.
- A pinch of salt.

PREPARATION:
- Cut and pit the cherries.  Put as the basis into the recipients we will use to serve the crumble.
- In another recipient, mix up the flour, the sugar and the grinded almonds.
- Cut in little pieces the cold butter, and add it to the previous mix.
- To manage the mixture, we join the ingredients using the fingertip, preparing little crumbs.
- Spread up over the recipients with the cherries basis, the "crumbles" prepared in the previous step.
- Warm up the oven.  When it was heat up, put the recipients and cook until the surface were a golden aspect.
- The ideal is to serve 15-20 mins. after it were cooked, avoiding to keep it into the fridge.

A FINAL ADVICE:
You can use strawberries instead of cherries.  The final result is delicious too.  A little example:

Rice pudding au chocolat

Today i'm going to cook a traditional dessert with a new touch.  I will add a piece of black chocolate at the end of the cooking, with a delicious result.  Finally, i will put a strawberrie in an ornamental way and... well, i hope you like it!

INGREDIENTS (2 pieces):
- A glass half full of of rice.
- A glass half full half of water.
- A glass half full of milk.
- A spoonful of cocoa powder.
- 6 squares of a black chocolate bar.

For the presentation:
- A strawberrie.

PREPARATION:
- Boil the rice at medium heat into the water, removing to avoid the rice stuck to the pan.
- When the water was evaporated, add the milk, the cocoa powder and repeating the process as with the water.
- When the milk was evaporated and the rice was boiled, add the squares of black chocolate and remove until it was mixed with the rice.
- Retire from the cook and reserve it.
- Serve it into little pans and add the strawberrie in an ornamental way.

Tortilla of strawberries marinades into honey

Today a very simple dessert.  After all, a tortilla is something easy to prepare.  But with a touch of strawberries and the use of the honey becomes this dish into a very sweet dessert.

INGREDIENTS (1 portion):
- 1-2 strawberries (depending on the size).
- 1 egg.
- Olive oil.

For the strawberries marinade:
- Honey.

PREPARATION:
- Clean up the strawberries and cut them into little pieces.  Put the pieces into a bowl and cover them with honey.  Let the marinade almost two hours before de preparation.
- Stir the egg.
- Get the strawberrie pieces from the bowl, trying to dry them the most that can be possible.  Put the strawberrie pieces into the bowl with the egg and mix them.
- Put the frying pan on the heat with a little olive oil and add the mix of egg and strawberries.
- As with every tortilla, let then make one part, turn fried egg and repeat.
- Serve it with the remaining honey from the marinade.

Apples tortilla

INGREDIENTS: (2 persons)
- 2 apples.
- An egg.

PREPARATION:
- Peel and pick the apples into thin slices.
- Sauté the slices of apple into a frying pan with clean oil over medium heat, until the apples had a golden aspect.
- In the other hand, stir the egg and mix with the apples slices.
- Put into the frying pan a little part of oil and heat up.  Put the mix of egg and apples into the frying pan.
- Let the mix into the frying pan over low heat until the part on the frying pan is done.  Turn around the mix into the frying pan and repeat the process until this mix was soft but consistent (but this is a question of taste)
- Finally, we serve.

NOTES:
- This dish is figured out as a dessert.
- In the photo, served with fried figs.