Mouthwatering Coffee Sweets 16.03.2016

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How did you start your day today; with a small, medium or large cup of coffee? Your mind is already thinking about another coffee, we are sure. Let’s make a little change in your menu today. Instead of a cup, put your coffee in a pan, bowl or an ice cream cup. Yummy, sounds like a sweet sin, right?

Before you start to experiment in the kitchen, make sure the coffee is first on your shopping list today – a true divinity is hidden in its grains.

Choose a recipe and enjoy the final result!

Hot Fudge Coffee Cake

Ingredients:

• Flour (1 cup)
• Sugar (1/3 cup)
• Brown sugar (3/4 cup)
• Cocoa powder (1/4 cup)
• Nonfat milk (1/2 cup)
• Oil (2 tbsp.)
• 1 lightly beaten egg
• Vanilla extract (1 tsp.)
• Toasted pecan halves (1/4 cup)
• Hot strong coffee (1 1/3)
• Baking powder (2 tsp.)
• Salt (1/2 tsp.)

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C. Coat a baking dish (preferably 8 by 8 inch) with cooking spray.
2. Mix sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt in a bowl. In a glass measuring cup, add the milk, oil, beaten egg and vanilla extract, and stir it into the bowl with first-mentioned ingredients (powder, sugar and salt). Add the pecans into the mix, and spoon into the pan by spreading it nice and flat.
3. Dissolve the brown sugar in the hot coffee and spoon over in the pan. Bake this for 25 minutes, and serve it after letting it stand for 7-10 minutes.

Yummy Mocha Ice Pops

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Ingredients:

• Half-and-half (1 cup, by choice)
• Vanilla extract (1/4 tsp.)
• Cocoa powder, unsweetened (2 tbsp.)
• Sugar (4-5 tbsp. brown or regular, by choice)
• Salt (a pinch)

Instructions:

1. Mix the coffee, sugar and cocoa in a bowl and wait for the sugar to dissolve. Add half-and-half, vanilla and salt until it gets well-combined.
2. Add from the mixture you’ve made into the pop molds, insert the sticks and freeze until every pop gets firm. You’ll need to wait around 6 hours for this.
3. Before unmolding the pops, dip the molds in hot water, but do that briefly, else they’ll melt!

Easy-to-make coffee cake

Ingredients:

• Flour (1 ½ cups)
• Baking powder (1 tsp.)
• White sugar (6 tbsp.)
• Brown sugar (1/2 cup)
• Salt (1/2 tsp.)
• Shortening (1/3 cup)
• Milk (1/2 cup)
• 1 egg
• Vanilla extract (1/2 tsp.)
• Melted butter (2 tbsp.)
• Flour (2 tbsp.)
• Ground cinnamon (1/2 tsp.)

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 220°C. You’ll need a 9-inch pan, greased and floured.
2. Mix the flour, the baking powder, sugar and salt. Cut the shortening with a pastry blender to small-sized peas. In another bowl, add a beaten egg, milk and vanilla and add it to the first mixture. Pour this in the pan and drizzle it with melted butter. In a third bowl, mix brown sugar, the small amount of flour and cinnamon, and put this on top of the cake.
3. Bake the cake for 15-20 minutes.

Have a coffee-sweet day!