Hello guys

Hello everyone,

    First I'd like to say Ramadan Kareem, may this fasting bring Allah's mercy and peace to all our homes. I know I have been AWOL and I don't even know how to explain it this time, do I blame it on laziness again? Because its not forgetfulness, I didn't forget about the blog. I guess I would say I have been a little busy but not busy enough to ignore the blog for 2 months. I don't know what came over me but I am definitely back.
      Its not like I didn't make anything all through the while I didn't blog, but I didn't document anything, No pictures...Nothing. I didn't even remember. I do have some things that I did a while back and just didn't get a chance to post, I'm gonna start to post them after this post and continue to work on some new things for you guys.
     Once again...oh wait..I have not said it already. I'm sorry I abandoned the blog for so long, I really hope I don't do it again. I don't want to do it again.

  Although, I had been making a lot of cakes all through the time I wasn't blogging, not for personal consumption though, for customers. Yup I bake professionally and maybe I would share pictures of some of my work with you guys and maybe one of these days also post one of my cake recipes just because they are simply amazing and you need to try them.

  So I guess that's about it for this post, just for apologies really. I'm sorry guys, hope you continue to read my blog and try out some of the recipes that I'm also trying out. **muah** *in falzthebahdguy's voice* kizzes... Yup, I'm a fan.

Freshly made pina colada

Hello,

How is everyone? I just have to say the light in Lagos has been horrible, making it really hard for people to do a whole lot of things, we just hope Nigeria gets better. we can only hope.

       Now this recipe requires the use of a blender, which needs electricity, which we don't have. I just hope you guys find the time to try it out, maybe when you're done fuel hunting for your generators.

Lets start:

You'll need:

2 medium sized ripe pineapples

1 coconut

Water
Rum(Optional)

Chop up your pineapples and coconut, this makes for easier blending

         
 Toss both in the blender

Add about half a cup of water, then pulse for 5 seconds. do this up to 10 times.

 Add a little more water if you feel its too thick. pulse for about 5 more seconds.

 So I'm going to sieve one and serve it as a glass of juice and the other as a smoothie. I'm going to pass the former through a fine mesh sieve and squeeze all of the juice out of it.

silky smooth

smoothie

N.B: Most people add rum to their pina colada, you can add white or dark rum here or both even, as much as you'd like in it.
I preferred it as a silky smooth cocktail but my mum preferred the smoothie, if you'd like to leave it a smoothie, I suggest you finish it that day because coconut tends to taste soapy the day after. Not everyone might like to have it this way but I loved it.
I hope you guys find the time and the light to try out this recipe....Until next time

Peanut butter fudge brownies

Hey people,  Been  a while

      So I abandoned my blog for quite some time now, that was only because of stress, excessive stress and also a little bit of laziness but all that's gone now and I'm back. I might have been lazy to post but I sure as hell wasn't lazy to bake or cook. I have a list of things I did over my little "break" and I will be sharing them with you guys one after the other.
      First lets start with this Peanut butter fudge brownies, as usual I had excess peanut butter on my hands and my brothers were going to finish it if I didn't act fast. I don't really like eating peanut butter unless its being used in a recipe but I was craving brownies so I decided to make this peanut butter fudge brownies.
I took my regular brownies recipe and decided to tweak it a little bit and try it out, After baking I gave some out to my trusted tasters(not just my brothers this time) and they said it was wonderful. I hope you guys try it too.

Here's what you need
100grms of dark chocolate
100grms of butter
128grms of peanut butter
1 cup of white sugar (200 grms)
1 cup of brown sugar
! cup of cocoa powder
1/2 cup of flour
1 tsp of salt
5 large eggs
1 tsp of vanilla
1 tsp of coffee granules

 Melt together butter, chocolate, peanut butter and coffee granules over a double boiler.
Double boiler: place a pot of water on low heat, then place over it a smaller pot containing the items you want to melt making sure that the bottom of the smaller pot does not touch the simmering water

 Measure the flour, cocoa powder and salt

 whisk all together

 Measure both sugars

 Add both sugars to the melted chocolate mixture and whisk well

 Crack in the 5 eggs

 Add in the rest of the dry ingredients and mix just until combined, be careful not to over-mix here so you don't end up with a chocolate cake

 Line a 9 by 9 inch square pan with aluminum foil and let it hang over the sides so you can easily pull out your brownie when its done.

Bake at 350°F or 180° C for about 45 minutes or until a wooden toothpick comes out clean.

Hmmm...No words

 If you live in ikorodu and you want to be one of my trusted tasters and you also don't mind coming to get whatever it is, send me a mail or leave a comment below.

peanut cookies

Hey people,

Its me again, this time I'm here with a banging peanut butter cookie recipe that I think everyone should try at home. Like I always say, its super easy to make and you only need a few ingredients.
Lets get started...Heres all you need.

2 and 1/4 cups of flour, sifted
135 grams of unsalted butter (softened)
115 grams of creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup of brown sugar
3/4 cup of white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1/2 a cup of crushed peanuts


 Whisk your flour, baking soda and salt, set aside

Measure 125 grams  of butter

Add in 115 grams of peanut butter

Add in both your sugar and mix on medium speed

Until creamy

Add two eggs and mix well

You can add a teaspoon of any flavoring you'd like

Mix in your flour mixture

Next, fold in your crushed nuts.

  *ermm that should be crushed peanuts....yeah....crushed peanuts.

Cookie doughhh!!!!!!!!!

Its delicious..try it.

Wrap you dough in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for at least 15 minutes

 I chilled mine for 3 days, mainly because I felt lazy to bake them but the good thing is the longer you chill your cookie dough the better it tastes but don't leave it for too long tho.

Next, you line your baking sheet with parchment paper. I ran out of parchment paper so I just greased my baking sheet.
 Take out your cookie dough and let it rest on your kicthen counter for about 5 minutes or just until dough is pliable. Roll your dough into small balls and place on baking sheet, then place the baking sheet in the freezer for about 5 minutes. (I forgot to take pictures until the cookies were ready because I was simple baking cookies I prepared 3 days back)
After 5 minutes, take out your baking sheet and flatten the balls with the back of a spoon, just a little tho, you don't make them too flat because they will still spread out in the oven.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 12 minutes, rotating your tray halfway through baking time.  Let them cool and enjoy.