Spring cake

  

With this cake I wish my Dear Sister a very happy 25th Birthday!

Heart shaped muffins with raspberries

As a gift from my family, I got this heart shaped silicone muffin pan and of course, I couldn't resist, I had to try it out.

Ingredients for 24 pieces:

• 25 dkgs of fresh cheese
• 15 dkgs of sugar or some kind of sweetener that gives the same amount of sweetness 
• zest of one lemon and juice of half a lemon
• 15 dkgs of plain flour 
• 1 packet of baking powder 
• approx. 2 dls of milk
• 2 eggs 

Combine the fresh cheese with the lemon juice, the zest and the milk and stir until it becomes this smooth cream. Add the sweetener and taste it, because if not sweet or sour enough, you will have to add some more lemon juice or sugar/sweetener. Now it's time to whisk the eggs into the mixture, and give it a good stir again. Measure the flour and mix it with the baking powder before you combine the wet and the dry elements. The flour mixture goes into the cheese cream, and if it's too thick after a thorough stir, you can add some more milk. Get the muffin pan and fill the heart shapes with the muffin dough. I usually bake them on a low heat, at 160 degrees Celsius for about 25 minutes.

You can make a thicker vanilla custard with store bought vanilla pudding mix or from scratch.

Roast chicken with orange and rosemary

I have never roasted a whole chicken before, so it was about time now :) It's not a complicated thing to do, you just have to do the seasoning carefully and you shouldn't let the chicken dry out. For garnish I made mashed potatoes, steamed french beans, onion sauce with red wine and mushrooms in  Worchestershire-sauce. I'll give you the recipe for the last two as well.

Ingredients

The chicken

• 1 whole chicken, insides removed
• 3 dkg of butter
• 1 orange
• 5 rosemary branches
• salt, pepper
•  a bit of water

Wash the chicken on the inside and the outside too, and put it in the dish in which you will roast it. Loosen the skin carefully at the legs and the breast and sprinkle salt and pepper under it. Rub butter under the skin and put a bit of rosemary everywhere. Cut the orange in quarters, and arrange it around the chiken, put one bit in the abdominal too along with a bit of rosemary. Pour some water under the chicken and cover it with tin foil. It needs one and a half hours in the oven at 180 deg Celsius, the last half an hour with the tin foil off, so that the skin gets crispy.