Green smoothie freezer packs

I am trying to be a bit healthier lately - pretty much to make up for all those ice creams I couldn't say no to in the summer  - but sometimes it's just too hard since healthy food is not always that tasty or easy to prepare. And considering how little time I've been having, it's not always my go-to option. However, these smoothies have been my life savers.

Carrot Cake Recipe

You may remember me constantly tweeting asking everyone for a carrot cake recipe. Unfortunately, the only response I got was "vegetables shouldn't go in cakes" (I hope you don't see me as a monster now, Sarah. I promise it doesn't taste like vegetables at all) so I had to ask my grandmother for our family recipe. That's right: our family recipe is now on the internet. There goes my heritage!

Creme Egg Brownie

My sister and I love creme eggs so much, so creme egg brownies have become like an Easter classic at my house. I just love making - and especially eating - these every year! And don't get me started on eating all the leftover creme eggs...

Nacho Pizza

This pizza has been very popular in Spain since one big pizza company (and the best, I must say) launched it this summer. I love pizza and I love nachos just as much as I love watching episodes of Friends, and that's a lot! So I had to find a way to make this pizza at home and I think you're going to love it too!

My mom's tiramisu

For years and years and years my sister and I kept hearing from our family that our mom's tiramisu was the best they'd ever tried. And in all those years and years, guess who hadn't tried it once? Yes, that was us. So after some begging and begging she finally made us one. And I, as a good blogger, obviously photographed the whole process so I could share the recipe with you.

Little cookie houses

These are some little cookie houses that I made with my favorite little person (i.e. my three-year-old cousin). They're seriously the easiest to make and she was so wowed by them but I thought I'd show you what we'd done.

Nutella Christmas Tree

I love Nutella. (Although who doesn't love Nutella?) And I love Christmas. So what can be better than putting the two of them together into a Christmas tree that you can eat and tastes like Nutella?

Sandwhich Sushi

Let's face it: what is easier to make than a sandwich? But sandwiches are not a very fancy meal. Well, this will take your sandwiches to the next level. Oh, and if you have a little kid in your life who gets jealous every time adults are eating actual sushi (like my little cousin does), I think this is the perfect solution!

Nutella Mug Cake

I am not exaggerating a tiny bit when I say this mug cake is the best one I have ever tried in my entire life! Not only is it one of the most delicious things I have ever tried in my life, but it's also super easy and quick to make, flourless, made in the microwave, and single serving! If that, combined with Nutella, is not perfection, then you tell me what is!

Coffee Flan Cake

Every time I think of flan, I remember that episode of Friends where Monica makes a birthday flan and everyone laughs at it, but to be honest, I love Flan! And this is not only my favorite flan recipe, but actually one of my favorite desserts in the entire world!

Typical Spanish Torrijas

It's Easter and in Spain we have this traditional Easter food we call torrijas. It's usually my mom who does them in my house, but since I am in Belgium this year, I had to make them myself for the first time. And, not to sound conceited, but the result was pretty good!

Oreo brownies

Two weeks ago, my best friend Maria was here and we decided to make some brownie. But we didn't have enough ingredients for my usual recipe so we had to improvise a little. And this is what our little experiment turned out like:

Not that bad-looking. Right? 

Ingredients

• A lot of oreos. We used about 40 I think.
• 1 stick butter 
• 1 cup sugar 
• 2 eggs 
• 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract 
• 3/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 cups and 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 
• 1/2 teaspoon salt 
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF (180ºC)
2. Place the oreo cookies in the bottom of the tin you're going to be making the brownies in.
3. In the bowl of a electric mixer, beat the butter.
4. Add the sugar and beat again.
5. Add the eggs and the vanilla extract and mix everything again.
6. In a separate bol, mix the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder.
7. Add the flour mixture into the butter mixture and mix everything.
8. Put the batter in the pan, covering the oreo cookies.
9. Optional: break some cookies and put them on top.
10. Bake brownies for about 25 minutes. 

WARNING: This is best made with a friend ;)

Question of the day

Do you have a favorite type brownie?

For those who don't, I'm giving you some ideas: chocolate chip, m&ms, oreo, slutty brownies, white chocolate brownies...

Chocolate volcanos

If you follow me on Instagram, you probably saw a photo of this yesterday, and if you follow me on twitter you probably saw this drove me crazy. I was super tired yesterday that my brain wasn't working, so I had to make this three times until I finally managed to make something edible.

Si me sigues en Instagram, probablemente viste esta foto ayer. Y si me sigues en twitter, probablemente viste que me maté para hacer éstas. Ayer estaba súper cansada y mi cerebro ya no funcionaba, así que tuve que hacer todo tres veces hasta conseguir hacer algo comestible. 

My aunt came to have lunch with my sister and me yesterday so I decided to make these for dessert. I took the photos with my iPhones, so sorry for the bad quality, but it was hard enough trying to explain my aunt she couldn't eat then because I had to take photos for my blog… 

Mi tía vino ayer a comer con mi hermana y conmigo y decidí hacer estas de postre. Las fotos las saqué con mi móvil, así que lo siento por la mala calidad, pero ya fue suficiente difícil explicarle a mi tía que no se las podía comer porque tenía que sacarles fotos para mi blog...

Ingredients 

• 170g dark chocolate
  170g chocolate fondant
• 170g butter
  170g mantequilla
• 60g sugar
  60g azúcar 
• 3 large eggs
  3 huevos
• 3 egg yolks
  3 yemas de huevo
• 50g self-rising flour
  50g harina de repostería

Directions 

1. Preheat oven to 460°F or 240°C.
   Precalienta el horno a 240°C o 460°F.
2. Melt the butter and the chocolate over boiling water.
   Funde la mantequilla y el chocolate al baño María. 
3. In a bowl, mix the eggs with the sugar.
   En un bol, mezcla los huevos y el azúcar. 
4. Add the melted chocolate to the bowl with the sugar mixture.
   Añade el chocolate al bol con la mezcla de azúcar. 
5. Add flour and mix everything.
   Añade la harina y mezcla todo. 
6. Fill 12 cupcake cups. I used silicon ones so they couldn't stick to the paper.
   Rellena 12 moldes para magnadenas. Yo usé moldes de silicona para que no se pegasen al papel. 
7. Put them in the oven for 7 minutes.
   Mételos en el horno 7 minutos. 
8. Enjoy!
   ¡Disfrútalos!

Crescent rolls

It's Friday! And Friday is a posting day so I owed you a post. However, you should know that I've barely slept this week and I'm super tired so please excuse me for all the things that don't make any sense that I might include in this post.
¡Es viernes! Y los viernes toca entrada de blog, así que os la debía. No obstante, esta semana he dormido poquísitmo y estoy super cansada, así lo siento si digo algo sin sentido.

Today I wanted to share with you this ""recipe"" for Crescent rolls.
Hoy os traigo mi ""receta"" de los rollitos de hojandre.

To make these I used:
Para hacer estos he usado.

• A package of puff pastry
  Un paquete de masa de hojaldre
• Ham
  Jamón de york
• Cheese
  Queso
• 1 egg yolk
  Una yema de huevo
• Optional: jam
  Opcional: mermelada

Directions

Roll the puff pastry. You may want to cut in two halves. Then lie some ham and cheese on top, and even some jam if you want. I made some with jam and some without it.
Estira la masa de hojaldre. Problablemente necesitarás cortarla en dos mitades alargadas. Luego coloca unas lonchas de jamón y de queso encima, e incluso mermelada si quieres. Yo hice algunos con y otros sin.

Start rolling each half. 

Enrolla cada mitad.

After rolling it, cut each roll in smaller pieces and separate them from one another in case they would spread in the oven.

Después de enrollarlo, corta los rollos en trozos más pequeños y sepáralos por si crecen en el horno.

Whisk the egg yolk and brush the rolls with it. This will make them look gold and crispy. 

Bate la masa de huevo y pinta los rollos con ella. Esto hará que queden más dorados y crujientes.

Put them in the oven for 15 min aprox. at 350°F / 180°C.

Mételos en el horno durante 15 min. aproximadamente a 180ºC o 350ºF.

Chocolate and vanilla swirl cake

This post has been in my drafts for such a long time and I thought it was time I shared it with you. I simply love this recipe! It is seriously delicious and very easy to make. I usually don't eat anything I bake (yes, I'm that weird) but it required a lot of self control for me not to eat the whole cake.
Esta entrada llevaba en mis borradores hace muchísimo tiempo, así que ya era hora de que la compartiese con vosotros. ¡Esta receta simplemente me encanta! En serio, está buenísimo y es super fácil de hacer. Normalmente no me como lo que cocino (sí, soy así de rara), pero está me costó un montón controlarme para no comérmela entera.

Ingredients:

• 200g flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 170g butter
• 180g sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons of milk
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
• Powdered sugar (optional)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 160ºC / 320ºF
2. In a large bowl, mix butter and sugar. Then, add the eggs and mix again.
3. Add flour and baking powder and mix it all once more.
4. Divide the mixture in two halves, each of them in a separate bowl.
5. In a small bowl or glass, mix the cocoa powder and the milk and add it to one of the bowls.
6. Add the vanilla extract to the other one.
7. Put alternative spoonfuls of each bowl into the cake tin. Lightly swirl with a knife until you get the marble look (be careful not to overmix)
8. Bake for 40-50 minutes. Let cool for about 10 minutes before removing from the tin.
9. Decorate with powdered sugar, syrup or even melted chocolate with sprinkles. The possibilities are endless!

Ingredientes:

• 200g harina
• 1 cucharadita de levadura
• 170g mantequilla
• 180g azúcar
• 3 huevos
• 2 cucharadas de cacao
• 2 cucharadas de leche
• 1 cucharada de extracto de vainilla
• Azúcar glas (opcional)

Preparación:

1. Precalienta el horno a 160ºC / 320ºF
2. En un bol grande, mezcla la matequilla y el azúcar. Luego, añade los huevos y vuelve a mezclar.
3. Añade la harina y la levadura y mezcla otra vez.
4. Divide la mezcla en dos mitades y deja cada una en un bol.
5. En un bol pequeño o en un vaso, mezcla el cacao con la leche y échalo a una de las mezclas.
6. Añade el extracto de vainilla a la otra.
7. Ve echando cuacharadas de las distintas mezclas en el molde y mézclalas un poco. Ten cuidado de no mezclarlas demasiado porque entonces no conseguirás el mismo efecto.
8. Mete el molde al horno 40-50 minutos. Deja que se enfríe unos 10 minutos antes de sacar del molde.
9. Decora con azúcar glas, sirope, o incluso chocolate fundido con fideos de colores! ¡Las posibilidades son infintas!

Strawberry milkshake

Now that spring is here and the days are so warm and sunny, I was really feeling like having a nice and cold milkshake, so I made some!
Ahora que ha llegado la primavera y hace más sol y calor, me apetecía un montón un batido fresquito, así que hice uno.

Recipe for 2 milkshakes / Receta para 2 batidos

Ingredients 

• 200g strawberries
  200g de fresas
• 50g ice
• 50g de hielo
• 25g sugar
  25g de azúcar
• 100ml milk
  100ml de leche

Directions

1. In a blender, blend strawberries, ice and sugar on high speed for about 30 seconds
   En una batidora, bate las fresas, el hielo y el azúcar a la velocidad más alta unos 30 segundos.
2. Add milk and blend again on high speed for another 30 seconds.
   Añade la leche y vuelve a batir todo a la velocidad más alta otros 30 segundos.

It's as easy as that! It's super easy to make and delicious.

Y ya está. ¡Es así de fácil! Es super fácil de hacer y está super rico.

Creme Egg Brownie

It's finally Easter!!!! Which means I finally have some days off to finally relax at last. And it's so weird for me that I actually got sick, which is why it's taken me so long so post this. But anyway, back to the post... It's Easter! And on Easter we eat Cadbury Creme Eggs. (See what I did there?) and last Easter I kept seeing this brownie on instagram so I just had to try it. And I loved it! So what I was looking forward to the most about Easter was baking this brownie again and... here it is!
¡¡¡¡¡Por fin es Semana Santa!!!!!! Lo que significa que por fin tengo unos días para descansar de una vez. Y es tan extraño para mí que de hecho me he puesto mala. Por eso he tardado tanto en publicar esto. Pero vamos, volvamos al post. ¡Es Semana Santa! Y en Semana Santa comemos Creme Eggs de Cadbury. Y el año pasado veía este brownie todo el tiempo en instagram así que tenía que probarlo. ¡Y me encantó! De hecho de lo que más ganas tenía de Semana Santa era de volver a hacerlo y... ¡aquí está!

Ingredients / Ingredientes

• 1 bar fondant chocolate
  1 tableta de chocolate fondant
• 1 bar milk chocolate
  1 tableta de chocolate con leche
• 1/2 butter stick
  Medio stick de mantequilla (50-60 gramos)
• 3 eggs
  3 huevos
• 3 tablespoons flour
  3 cucharadas de harina
• 3 tablespoons sugar
  3 cucharadas de azúcar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
  1 cucharadita de levadura
• 8 mini creme eggs, cut in halves
  8 mini creme eggs, partidos por la mitad.

Directions / Instrucciones

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF / 180ºC
   Precalienta el horno a 180ºC (350ºF)
2. In a big bowl, mix eggs, flour, sugar and baking powder.
   En un bol, mezcla los juevos, el harina, el azúcar y la levadura.
3. Melt the 2 chocolate bars and the butter over boiling water.
   Funde las tabletas de chocolate y la mantequilla al baño maría.
4. Mix the melted chocolate with the flour mix.
   Mezcla el chocolate fundido con la mezcla del harina.
5. Pour the batter into a greased pan and bake for about 15 minutes.
   Vierte la masa en un molde engrasado y hornéalo 15 minutos.
6. Take the brownie out of the oven and insert the creme egg halves. Return to oven for another 10-15 minutes.
   Saca el brownie e inserta las mitades de los creme eggs. Vuelve a meterlo en el horno otros 10-15 minutos. 

I hope you all enjoy your Easter holidays! Have a nice day!

Roasted Apple

This is one of the healthies and yummiest things in the whole world so I totally had to share it with you. I personally love apple pie, but it may not be very healthy to eat one every day, but this tastes almost just like it! So it's perfect! It's delicious and super easy to make you I'm sure you'll love it just as much as I do!
Esta es una de las cosas más ricas y sanas del mundo mundial así que tenia que comprartirla. Personalmente me encanta la tarta de manzana, pero como que no sería muy sana comerla todos los días, pero esto sabe casi igual, así que es perfecto!! Está super buena y es super fácil de hacer así que espero que os guste tanto como a mí.

Ingredientes / Ingredientes

• 2 apples
  2 manzanas
• 2 sweetner bags
  2 bolsitas de sacarina
• Optional: Whipped cream or yogurt
  Opcional: Nata o yogur

Directions / Instrucciones

1. Peel the apples
   Pela las manzanas
2. Cut them in pretty big pieces
   Córtalas en trozos medio grandes
3. Add 2 tablespoons of water and the sweetner to them
   Échalas 2 cucharadas de agua y la sacarina
4. Put them in a microwave-able tupperware
   Mételas en un tupperware para microondas
5. Heat them for 15 minutes (in the microwave)
   Caliéntalas 15 minutos (en el microondas)
6. That's it! It's as easy as that!
   ¡Esto es todo! ¡Es así de fácil!

I personally love adding whipped cream to mine, and it makes it taste like apple pie. But I guess that makes them not-healthy any more. You can also mix them with yogurt and it tastes amazing too! Or you can just eat them without anything. They're amazing anyway.
A mí personalmente me encanta echarles nada y hace que sepa igual que la tarta de manzana, aunque supongo que eso hace que deje de ser algo sano. También puedes mezclarlas con yogur y está super rico también. O puedes comerlas sin nada. Saben genial de cualquier forma.

Kit-kat cake

You've probably seen this cake a million times on the internet. At least, I had, and it's something I'd always wanted to try. So when my sister told me she wanted to make a cake for her friend's birthday and she didn't know how to decorate it... this came to my mind!
Probabemente hayáis visto esta tarta un millón de veces en internet. Yo, por lo menos, sí, y era algo y que siempre quise probar a hacer. Así que cuando mi hermana me dijo que quería hacer una tarta para el cumpleaños de una amiga suya y que no sabía como decorarla... pensé en esto.

I must admit, it was her who baked the cakes, although I gave her the recipes. I've had a couple of birthdays this month and this has been my go-to cake! So when she asked me what cake to bake, I knew she couldn't go wrong with this one.

Tengo que admitir que las tartas las cocinó ella, aunque la receta se la di yo. Este cumpleaños he tenido un par de cumpleaños y esta tarta era una apuesta segura. Así que cuando me preguntó qué tarta podía hacer, sabía que no podía equivocarse con ésta.

Once she baked the cakes, she didn't know how to decorate it, so I suggested doing this and she liked the idea so I helped her decorate it and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

Una vez que hizo las tartas, no sabía como decorarlas, así que sugerí que hiciésemos esto y le gustó la idea, así que le ayudé a decorarla y estoy bastante contenta con cómo salió.

Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cups flour
  1 1/3 tazas de harina
• 2 tablespoons pure cocoa powder
  2 cucharadas de cacao puro
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
  1 cucharada de levadura
• 3/4 cup room-temperature butter
  3/4 taza de mantequilla a temperatura ambiente
• 1 cup white sugar
  1 taza azúcar blanca
• 3 eggs
  3 huevos
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  1 cucharadita estracto de vainilla
• 2 tablespoons milk
  2 cucharadas leche

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF / 180ºC
   Precalienta el horno a 180ºC (350ºF)
2. In a big bowl (or in the bowl of an electric mixer), mix butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla extract.
   En un bol grande, o en el de una batidora eléctrica, mezca la mantequilla, azúcar, huevos y estracto de vainilla.
3. In a small bowl, mix flour, cocoa powder and baking powder.
   En un bol pequeño, mezcla la harina, cacao y levadura.
4. Add the second mix into the first mix and mix everything again. Add milk and mix once more.
   Añade la segunda mezcla a la primera y vuelve a mezclar. Añade la leche y mezcla una vez más.
5. Split the cake batter into 2 tins and bake them for 25 minutes aprox.
   Reparte la masa en 2 moldes de tarta y mételos en el horno 25 minutos aprox.

Once you've baked your cakes, we joined ours with nutella. Then, buy a lot of candy and kitkats and stick the kit kats around the cake using more nutella.

Una vez hayas cocinado las tartas, nosotras juntamos las nuestras con nutella. Luego, compra un montón de caramelos y kitkats y pega los kitkats alrededor de la tarta usando más nutella.

Chocolate caramel shortbread

It is finally December aka the best month in the year! I'm so excited. This is something I'd been wanting to bake for quite some time now, and since it was my birthday today and my house is probably going to get a little bit crowded, I decided it was time I did.
¡Por fin es diciembre, aka el mejor mes del año! ¡Qué ilusión! Esto es algo que llevaba tiempo queriendo intentar hacer, y como hoy era mi cumpleaños y mi casa probablemente va a estas llena de gente, decidí que era el momento de hacerlo.

It took a bit longer than I excepted, but I love how it turned out and they taste great so it was totally worth it! To be honest, taking a good picture of them was almost harder than making them. But I'm so happy I finally baked them.

Me llevó un poco más de tiempo de lo que esperaba, pero me encanta cómo salieron y estaban super buenas así que definitivamente, mereció la pena. Para ser sincera, hacerles una buena foto fue casi más dificíl que hacerlas.

I found the recipe on Pinterest and it's from Le creme de la crumb.
La receta la encontré en Pinterest y es de Le creme de la crumb (en inglés).

This one was of the best birthdays I can remember and I'm just so grateful for everybody I have in my life. Having a good birthday is brand new to me and I just wanted to add this little "paragraph" to share my happiness with you.

El de hoy ha sido uno de los mejores cumpleaños que recuerdo y estoy muy agradecida por la gente que tengo en mi vida. Tener un buen cumpleaños es algo nuevo para mí, así que quería añadir este parrafillo para compartilo con vosotros.

xx With Love, Be.