Eenuh Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 So, since I've been making myself a nice little snack tonight, and found out Conzer tried it out too and liked it, I sorta decided to start this thread here. Now what's this thread about you ask? Food of course! One of the greatest things on this planet! =D And since there's so much of it and so many tasty things out there, why not share those with each other, so we can all experience the awesomeness that is food. In this thread, I want people to share their recipes with each other. It can be anything you like, going from a normal milkshake to a sophisticated spaghetti to a heavenly sandwich. Anything! Just tell us what we need for it, how we should make it, and if possible, post a picture of the end result to wet our appetites. =D To start this thread here, I will post the recipe for a really nice and easy to make dessert: crème au beurre cake (buttercream cake in English). First, we start with the ingredients (sorry for not listing these in pounds and stuff, but I don't know anything about that): - 250 gr. of baking butter - 250 gr. of powdered/icing sugar - one our two boxes of petit beurre cookies - chocolate milk - chocolate sprinkles - a fridge First, we start by grabbing our baking butter. Put a small part of it in a bowl and use a big wooden spoon (or anything else that will work) to make the butter softer. You have to make it so eventually you will be able to spread the butter out with a knife, so you need to get it quite soft. Which is why it's easier to do it piece by piece and not just all at once. As soon as the butter is not one big hard block anymore, you can grab the sugar and pour a bit of it in the bowl. Mix it through the butter and gradually keep adding the sugar. Mix it all till the sugar is gone. You'll get something like this: If you're adventurous, you can also add in some chocolate powder or even coffee powder for even more taste, but it takes more time and the normal sugar one tastes great already anyway. I sadly had to use normal sugar, which works just as well, except it's more difficult to spread out and you end up with a more crunchy texture. So icing sugar works best. Since now we have our butter done, we can start with the cookies. Pour some chocolate milk in a deep plate first. I used some yummy Nesquik. Grab a cookie, and quickly take it through the chocolate milk. Make sure you got every part of the cookie covered, but don't leave the cookie in for too long or it'll fall apart. Put the cookie on a plate. Now grab the butter and a knife, and put a nice thin layer of butter on the cookie. Try not to break the cookie, though it isn't a disaster if you do. Now repeat this process and keep stacking the cookies on top of each other. I usually stack four of them on top of each other, but of course it's up to you how big you make them. You can also put more of them next to each other to make a larger cake. Once you think you're done, you grab the chocolate sprinkles and pour them on top of the cookies. And now they're done! You just put them in the fridge for a while to make them nice and cold. You can already eat them now, but if you wait a bit longer, they turn out nice and soft and usually taste better. So just lick your fingers and wait to taste your awesome creation. =D There you go! I hope you guys try this out. And post your own creations in here. =D Now get working! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Wow that looks pretty nice, I think I'll make a few for tomorrow...if I can find the ingredients :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blender Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 all those ingredient are too nice individually. I think i would have just done the cooking bit in my stomach. but thanks for sharing! you've inspried my midnight feast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conzer16 Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Wow Eunuh they looked so much better than the ones I made! Since it's St. Patrick's Day today (Yay!!!) I will post some pictures later on of the types of food we (my family) traditionally eat on this most wondrous of days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Wow that looks pretty nice, I think I'll make a few for tomorrow...if I can find the ingredients :\ Mind that with 250 gr. of butter and sugar you can make a ton of these. I made eight stacks (four cookies each) and still have enough butter left for probably another eight. =P So you can easily make less, for example by only using 100 gr. Should work fine. And you shouldn't have much of a problem finding everything, apart from maybe the cookies (no idea what you would call them over there, but we call them Petit Beurre cookies). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I'm gonna make a few, just checked and I found a ton of chocolate sprinkles, dark chocolate chips and chocolate syrup, so I'm just gonna totally cover them I don't think we have those cookies here, I'm just gonna use some regular custard creams. This isn't going to end well ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conzer16 Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 You should be able to find Le Petit Beurre biscuits in Ireland and the UK. If they aren't in your local supermarket they'll definitely be in your local Aldi or Lidl. I got mine in Lidl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 How many hundreds of callories per square cm is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 How many hundreds of callories per square cm is that? I have no idea and I don't wanna find out either. XD It's probably one of the most unhealthy snacks ever though. =P But I already feel full after one of those usually, so they last me a couple of days (unless the family steals them from me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 THIS THREAD IS A TRAP! All this will do is give you a taste of heaven right before it sends you to HELL with clogged arteries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Since yesterday's snack was kinda... unhealthy, today I'm gonna try to show you all something a bit more healthy. Or so I hope. How to make: Fruit Porridge. Fruit porridge is a really simple thing to make and will help you get some yummy fruits in your system. It's something that may look like crap, but it tastes heavenly. Also something you can feed to small children, big chance they'll love it. The ingredients I used: - 2 apples - 3 bananas - 2 oranges - a little cup of mixed fruits from Chiquita (orange, grape, pear...) - Petit Beurre cookies (which you can apparently get from Aldi or Lidl, according to Conzer) Basically, you can use about any kind of fruit, but the kinds we normally use are apples, bananas, pears, oranges and sometimes kiwi too. Whatever we have at home. I used the Chiquita cup cause we had that in the fridge and I didn't want to waste it. =P So yeah, you can probably use other fruit too, if you like. First, we start by getting rid of the peel from the apple. You can leave it on if you like, but I prefer it without. In the end, it doesn't matter much, so you can skip this if you like. Now, cut the apple in pieces and take out the seeds/middle of the apple. Then, cut the apple in small pieces. Do the same for the other apple and put them in a bowl. Now for the banana. Get rid of the peel and then cut the bananas in pieces too and add them with the apple. If you have any other fruit you want to add, put it in the bowl. Grab the cookies and crumble them into the bowl. Add in as many as you want; the more the tastier. =P Now cut the oranges in half and make yourself some nice fresh orange juice; pour it on top of the rest. Almost there! Now go and find yourself a mixer and mix this entire fruit pile into a big fruity mess! You can mix it a lot or only a little, depending on whether you like it to contain pieces or not. And the last step: grab a nice little bowl and fill it up with your creation. Add in a spoon and an extra cookie and you're done! Yay! Time to enjoy this yummy snack! =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMat Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I melted a freddo and put it on a banana once.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platty Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Do you use those biscuits in everything you make Eenuh? They must be good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Do you use those biscuits in everything you make Eenuh? They must be good! Only these two recipes. Since I still had some left, plus some fruit, I just had to make this. =P But yes, they're wonderful! They're also really tasty if you put chocolate spread between them. =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whizkid Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 my mistery sandwich you will need: bread and anything you want to put in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I used to love chocolate spread on rich-tea biscuits, they're yummy after a while in the fridge. My sister makes the best chocolate rice crispy cakes ever but I don't have the recipe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 My sister makes the best chocolate rice crispy cakes ever but I don't have the recipe. Oh man, I made something like that ages ago as a kid, but I don't have the recipe anymore and wouldn't know how to make them anymore. I'd love to get the recipe for those! =O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Marry me Eenuh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fresh Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Marry me Eenuh. She's mine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 My sister happened to just come online, here's how she makes them... 6oz/170g butter 6oz/170g sugar 6 tbsp golden syrup 6tbsp cocoa powder rice crispies That makes quite a lot so just do less if you want to, they come out very sticky not like the ones you usually see in shops. This thread isn't very healthy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Marry me Eenuh. She's mine! Fight fight fight! =D My sister happened to just come online, here's how she makes them... 6oz/170g butter 6oz/170g sugar 6 tbsp golden syrup 6tbsp cocoa powder rice crispies That makes quite a lot so just do less if you want to, they come out very sticky not like the ones you usually see in shops. This thread isn't very healthy Man, I should so try that. Thank you and your sister! I've actually never seen these in shops here. I'm not even sure we have the syrup over here, so I might have to find something else to replace it with if I don't. And hey, my fruity mix is kinda healthy, a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksnowman Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Great thread! I'm gonna try out both of Ine's creations and give Katies sisters a blast too. I'll see if I can get any snaps so as you can see what kinda mess I make of the whole caper! See tonight, I had these very nice biscuits: McVities Digestive FlapJack things. The first bite was dodgy... but after that they were preeeetty nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Well I suppose people could share Smoothie recipes to health it up a bit; actually here's one from my recipe book: 1 large ripe Mango 1 large banana 200ml milk 200ml fresh orange juice 3 tbsp 0% fat greek yoghurt crushed ice to serve Peel the mango, discard the stones, chop and blend with the rest of the ingredients and process until smooth and thick. Pour over crushed ice. I don't have a smoothie maker so they're not much use to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rokhed00 Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I will be giving out recipes later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I have a really good strawberry ice cream recipe that involves strawberries, cream, and an ice cream machine (alternatively a fridge and lots of work, or liquid nitrogen). I'll post it later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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