granola

last week i decided i needed to make granola. it was literally a pantry clean-out because i didn't do any shopping in advance. it turned out really good so i wanted to share!

i used oats, almonds, pistachios, an apple cut into tiny squares, honey, cinnamon and ground cloves. i didn't follow a recipe nor did i measure anything, i just threw it all into a bowl and stirred it. before i put it into the oven, i drizzled some more honey on top - i have no idea why, it just felt like the thing a fancy foodblogger would do.

it turned out quite dark due to the cinnamon and ground cloves. it's the spices that really give it a "speculaas" taste - and they make your house smell amazing. i also added some raisins after baking. i don't recommend baking the raisins because they'll become black and burnt, which is rather disgusting. when it had cooled down i scooped it into jars.

well, the most obvious thing you could do with granola is throwing it into your yoghurt - because it's just that delicious. 

taking it easy

sleeping in, having wholemeal toast with marmalade and brie for breakfast and sipping tea - a good start of my little vacation.

friyay

after totally screwing up our maths tests, we decided to treat ourselves and sort of accidentally created the best dessert ever. 

(and shoutout to romi's dog!)

cinnamon buns (best ever)

my first recipe. ever. 

they're soft, fluffy, cinnamon-y and just amazing. seriously.

go and make them. do it.

warning: these are in no way healthy - but sometimes that's totally okay.

CINNAMON BUNS

                 (makes about 20)                 

500 grams of white bread mix (lazy...)   125 ml of lukewarm water  125 ml of milk  200 grams of softened butter  one egg  125 grams of light-brown sugar   1 tbsp of cinnamon (i love cinnamon so i usually add even more; just adapt it to your preference)   optional: a handful of raisins

mix the bread mix with the water, milk, egg and 50 grams of the softened butter. stir with a spoon and once it starts coming together, take it out of the bowl and start kneading on a floured surface until it is a nice, soft dough. let it rest for fifteen to thirty minutes.   for the filling, mix 100 grams of soft butter with the sugar and the cinnamon. it should be a paste, sort of like peanut butter, so if it is too crumbly, just add more butter.   take your dough out on a floured surface and shape it with your hands until it has a (sort of) rectangle shape. roll it out using a rolling pin, until it is a long, thin rectangle.  spread on your cinnamon-paste evenly. if you want to, now is the time to add raisins. just sprinkle them on top. roll it up so that you have a long sausage. get a sharp knife and cut it in equal pieces of approximately two cm.  you can choose now to either bake them in a muffin tray, so that you have seperate buns or you can bake them in a cake tin, so that they bake up together and you can tear them apart.  grease your muffin tray/cake tin and if you use the muffin tray, put sheets of baking paper in them so that you can pull them out easily. if you're using a cake tin, you can sprinkle some sugar on it after greasing it, so that the bottom of the buns get that nice, caramelised effect. bake for 30 to 40 minutes at 200 °C.

these are even better if you serve them with some very basic icing, made out of sugar and water/milk. you can coat them in icing or make a zig-zag pattern. 

  enjoy.

this weekend's diet

(sorry for the unreal amount of food pictures lately, promise the next post will be something else)

as a huge fan of both dark chocolate and pretty packages, i immediately bought this and i have no regrets -  this is honestly one of the best dark chocolate bars ever.

yum

oatmeal cookies with honey and cinnamon - so good.

blueberry muffin

    made some blueberry muffins today. can't stop eating now because they're seriously the best.