Green Tea Chocolate Balls

It's a simple recipe to make green tea flavored chocolate balls, using white chocolate. The sweetness of white chocolate is well-balanced by the bitterness of green tea powder.

Yield: Makes 12 balls

Ingredients:

• 1/2 lb white chocolate, finely chopped
• 2 tsp Matcha (green tea powder)
• 1 Tbsp milk
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• matcha green tea powder for coating

Preparation:

1. Put finely chopped white chocolate in a medium bowl and set aside.
2. Put 2 tsp of green tea powder in a small bowl.
3. Pour warm milk over green tea powder and stir well. Set aside.
4. Pour heavy cream in a small pan and heat on medium heat.
5. Stop the heat before cream starts to boil and stir in the green tea and milk mixture.
6. Pour the cream mixture over white chocolate. Melt the chocolate, stirring well.
7. Cool the chocolate mixture for about one hour in the room temperature.
8. Scoop the chocolate into about 1 1/2 inch balls and place them on a sheet of aluminium foil.
9. Cool them in the refrigerator for about one hour, or until firm.
10. Round chocolate balls by hands and coat with green tea powder on a tray.
11. Cool green tea chocolate balls until firm.

Chocolate Butter cookies

• WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
• 2 cups self-rising cake flour
• 2 tablespoons dutch process cocoa powder
• 1 cup + 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
• 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon sugar
• 3 ounces milk chocolate (optional)

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Instructions -
1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Sift together flour and cocoa powder in a large bowl. Set aside.
2. Cream the butter and sugar until pale. Mix in flour/cocoa until thoroughly combined.
3. Roll into 1″ (or slightly bigger) balls and place on un-greased cookie sheets 2″ apart.
4. Bake for 5 minutes. Turn the oven down to 300 degrees F and bake for another 10 minutes, or until cookies look set. The tops will still be a bit soft.
5. Remove form the oven and transfer to cooling racks immediately. Cool.

6. Melt chocolate over a double boiler. Drizzle over cookies.

OR:

Blackforest

Cherries....Chocolate...White cream....

yummmmm^^^^

YOU WILL NEED:

FOR THE BASE

1. 125grams sugar
2. 125 grams flour
3. 5 eggs
4. 30 grams cocoa

FOR THE SYROP

1. 150 grams sugar
2. 150 grams water
3. 125 grams rum

FOR THE FILLING

1. 600 grams cream
2. 60 grams sugar powder
3. 200 grams canned cherries
4. 50 grams rasberry jam
5. 100 grams rum
6. 150 grams dark chocolate -scratched

HOW TO MAKE IT :

1. beat the eggs with the sugar till they become fluffy
2. add the flour n the cocoa slowly into the beated eggs gently stiring with a spoon
3. put the mixture into a pan (20-25 cm diameter) after you have buttered it and sprinkled with flour
4. bake in pre heated oven for 20 minutes in 170 oC.
5. when its cold add on it the rum
6. take the cream and beat it with the sugar powder until it becomes tight
7. cut the base in three pieces
8. put the one part on a plate, wet it with a brush with the syrop and spread on it the jam
9. add 250 grams of the whipped cream and add the half of the cherries
10. add the second part of the base and repeat the proccess
11. add the third part on top, spread the rest of the whipped cream on top and sprinkle with the choco!

TIPS

1. before you use the cherries keep them for one hour in the 100gr rum. but thats optional.
2. make sure the cream is very very cold. will become firm n tight n smooth in no time!
3. you can add more cherries on top if you want.
4. DONT BE AFRAID TO EXPERIMENT. COOKING IS FUN!!!^^

banana choco pizza!!

We all love pizza!! But who has ever eaten a sweet one?? If you are up to the task to make one yourself, here we are !!

YOU WILL NEED 

 FOR THE DOUGH:

1. 150 grams flour
2. 25 grams melted butter
3. 70 grams warm water
4. 7 grams beer yeast
5. 15 grams olive oil
6. one pinch salt
7. one pinch sugar

FOR THE FILLING:

1. 350 grams milk
2. 150 grams cream ( 35%)
3. 80 grams sugar
4. 1 egg
5. 3 egg yolks
6. 40 grams corn flour
7. 80 grams dark chocolate
8. 300 grams sliced bananas

HOW TO MAKE IT:

DOUGH: 

1. in a bowl take the yeast n some warm water along with the sugar n the salt. mix them well.
2. add the rest ingredients and start working the mixture with your hands. or a mixer for cakes or bread if you have.
3. when its ready, cover the bowl with a towel and put is some warm place for about half an hour until it gets double is size

FILLING:

1.  add the milk n the cream in a pan and put it on fire
2. mix the sugar with the corn flour and the eggs.
3. before the milk boils, take out the 1/3 of it and add it to the egg mixture. stir well
4. add that into the milk and keep stirring
5. when it becomes thick n starts to bubble take it off the fire
6. add the cut dark chocolate . dont forget :KEEP STIRRING
7. cover it with a membrane and put in the fridge to get cold
8. when its cold take it out n whip in to make it soft again

NOW THE FUN PART : HOW TO MAKE THE PIZZA!!!

1. take one of the plakes that come along with you r oven.
2. wash it well, dry it and spread some butter on it
3. put the dough in and spread in till the corners
4. add the cream leaving 1 cm uncovered from the edges
5. add the bananas
6. bake in the oven in 170oC for about 45 minutes

IMPORTANT TIPS NOT TO FORGET!!!!

1. do not add more flour into the recipe. it will not grow. it you keep working it with your hands and it keeps oin being sticky, just keep working it. or better, make you rman work it!! no matter what their hands are always stronger!!:)
2. dont forget that the covering with the membrane is very important. it will prevent your cream to get a crust while in the fridge.

hope you like it!!!! enjoy!!!!