Lingonberry Smoothie

Finally I'm on my long waited holiday in Lapland! I missed being back home and specially my parents.. 
They had reserved a great amount of berries for me and I'm eating them all the time. Here I made a healthy smoothie of lingonberries picked from the forest of our lake house :) You could also add some protein powder if you wish but I preferred to use quark which is already naturally full of it.

LINGONBERRY SMOOTHIE

200 g lingonberries
200 g quark
100 ml milk (I like soya vanilla)
2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
2 tablespoons of honey

Put the still half frozen lingonberries in the mixer and add other ingredients. Mix well until the texture is smooth and pour it into glasses. 
Enjoy with oatmeal biscuits :)

Cheese Cake with Buckthorn Jam

Buckthorns are super healthy and full of vitamins, just what I need this period :)

It's quite rare here in Italy so I wanted to make my friends taste it in a dessert. 

If you can't get this jam in particular you can use any other you wish instead.

CHEESE CAKE WITH BUCKTHORN JAM

Base:

400 g cereal biscuits

100 g butter 

Filling:

400 g cream cheese

3 eggs

170 g (2dl) brown sugar

3 teaspoons vanilla sugar

6 gelatines

2 tablespoons limoncello

Topping:

200 g buck thorn jam (or which you prefer)

silver decoration balls

Cover the base of a spring cake tin with baking paper.

Crush biscuits and mix them together with soft butter. 

Press the mix on the bottom of the cake tin.

Prepare the filling. Put the gelatines into a cup covering them with cold water. Mix in one bowl egg whites with both sugars until the texture it's very thick. In another bowl mix philadelphia and egg yolks and add them in the first bowl. Heat limoncello and add in the softened gelatines, mix carefully and add with all the other ingredients.

Pour the mix on top of the base in a cake tin and place it in the fridge at least for 6 hours. Spread the jam on top of the cake and sprinkle on some decoration balls.

Before removing the collar, run a sharp thin knife around the cake and place it on a serving plate. Enjoy :)

Green Tea Muffins

The spring is coming and I wanted to make something fresh :)

GREEN TEA MUFFINS

2 eggs

125 g (1,5 dl) brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

120 g (2 dl) white flour

2 tablespoons of sugared green tea powder

1 dl milk

50 g butter

Frosting:

200 g cream cheese

150 g icing sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

+ sugared green tea powder

Preheat oven 180 C. Put on paper liners of a muffin tin (10-12 pieces)

In a bowl whisk eggs and sugar until the foam gets fluffy and light. 

In another bowl mix together baking powder with flour, vanilla sugar and green tea powder. Start adding them in the first bowl together with milk and melted butter. 

Mix carefully.

With a kitchen spoon fill the muffin liners and bake for 12-15 minutes. Remove them from the oven and let them cool.

For frosting mix all the ingredients well together, cover the muffins with it and decorate with green tea powder.