Introducing my new favourite baked potatoes recipe – Smashed Baked Potatoes with Bacon! They are full of flavour from all the spices and bacon, fluffy on the inside and as crispy or soft as you want them on the outside!
Easy Roasted Cauliflower with Simple Ingredients
This Easy Roasted Cauliflower recipe uses simple ingredients that you most likely have in your kitchen. I make this very often and it’s delicious as a side dish or a snack. My kids love it and eat it straight out of the pan! If you follow a low-carb diet, this simple recipe is great for […]
Homemade Orange Syrup – For Juice, Cocktails, Cakes
The smell of oranges and homemade orange syrup always bring back childhood memories. Oranges were hard to find in Eastern Europe 30 years ago. We would have them during the winter time only, mostly around Christmas. My parents used to always make homemade orange syrup out of the orange peel/zest so that we could enjoy […]
Ham & Cheese Christmas Tree
This Ham & Cheese Christmas Tree is easier to make than you might expect. You just need 5 ingredients to make it and 5-10 minutes to put it together. It’s a great pull-apart appetizer! Or, if you’re looking for something sweet instead, just fill it with Nutella / hazelnut spread.
Brownie Santa
If you want the looks of a professional cake but you’re not looking to put in as much effort, then this Brownie Santa will give you just that. Ditch the cake layers and fillings and just bake some brownies in cake pans. Stack the brownie layers, cover them with a bit of white chocolate ganache, […]
Sweet Bread Snowman
This Sweet Bread Snowman makes for a lovely pull-apart dessert to serve to your family and guests this holiday season. I posted the sweet bread recipe on my website a while ago. It was the traditional Romanian Cozonac, a sweet bread usually filled with nuts and/or Turkish delight. I’m using the same dough but I […]
Pull-Apart Christmas Tree Cupcake Cake
This Pull-Apart Christmas Tree Cupcake Cake is the best alternative to a traditional Christmas cake. It’s so easy to make that I guarantee you will get great results even if you are new at cake decorating. You can even get your kids to decorate it! I used mini chocolate cupcakes and a simple, 2-ingredient mascarpone […]
Edible Christmas Tree – Meatballs & Cheese Balls
If you love meat and cheese then I’m sure you’ll love this Edible Christmas Tree. It is made out of cheese balls and appetizer meatballs. It doesn’t take too long to assemble and it makes for an amazing edible centrepiece for your Christmas day. I used ~ 250 cheese & meat balls for a 24’’ […]
European Appetizer Meatballs
These European Appetizer Meatballs are popular in Eastern Europe. In Romania they are known as “chiftele” and there is literally no Christmas, New Year’s Eve or party without these meatballs served as an appetizer. Nothing beats the taste of these meatballs! We love using ground pork but other people use a mix of pork and […]
