Chocolate chilli cheesacake

First thing when I arrived (I really don´t want to mention the duration of my exhausting and dreadful journey...grrr!) to Birmingham, my sister, she told me: "We need to bake something, my housemate is going to celebrate his birthday on Saturday!". So the plan for the rainy Friday morning was settled. Only question was, what should we bake? My sister bought a few packages of fresh full fat cheese, so we decided to bake a cheesecake, chocolate chilli cheesecake (my idea), because everyone who had ever tasted it, felt in love with it! When you are not a big fan of spicy things, just add little bit less chilli than we used. 

First time I did chocolate chilli cheesecake couple years ago I followed recipe on the blog Chez Lucie, but its final form is changed and created by me. So if you want to pleased someone who loves spicy things, this cheesecake is perfect for it!

Sweet millet dumplings with strawberries

When I decided to remove almost all gluten from my meals I was looking for a classic flour replacement. In our organic store I found surprisingly a lot of gluten-free flours, for example millet, buckwheat, chick pea and amaranth. For this recipe I chose millet one, because millet is well known in our family for years. The real advantage of millet flour and hazelnuts is, that if you do these dumplings in advance or if you have leftovers, they won't get as hard as usual wheat dumplings. The other thing I hate about preparing wheat dumplings - dough is sooo sticky. Gluten-free, sticky-free :) And of course, hazelnuts make them much more tastier and unusual!

Coconut and raspberry cheesecake

Finally!
One of my favourites! Coconut cheesecake (read čískejk). This coconut and raspberry dessert with hint of lemon taste is kind of my sudden creation. Here it is kind of summer, well I'm in England so summer more feels like spring, and lots of fresh strawberries and raspberries are on rack in my favourite fruit shop.

Zucchini hummus

I really love hummus but I only had known classic chickpea hummus until I saw recipe for zucchini hummus on website rawfoodrecipes.com. There are at least three different recipes for raw zucchini hummus but I decided to follow my own chickpea hummus recipe and I only switched zucchini instead of chickpea and also amounts of each ingredients are little bit different. It's tasty, it's healthy, it's raw and it's lighter than classic chickpea hummus. And it perfectly matches with fresh zucchini for dipping!

If you have never ever ever eaten fresh zucchini you missed a lot! (Don't worry, I ate my first fresh zucchini month ago in Hungary - and I felt in love with it :) ) Do you know that it's crunchy? But you have to choose a small one, no longer than 20cm, hard and without any damages. Bigger ones start to be mealy and the middle it's not tasty at all. Try it, it is worth!

Daring Bakers Challenge - Charlotte Royale

Well, first question you are gonna probably ask is "what is the daring bakers challenge?"

Just to explain shortly. Daring bakers is website where people share different recipes from all around the world. Every month there is a challenge hosted by one of us. The challenge has to be completed within a month period and after  that we share our results. It is a amazing way how to try new recipes and discover tweaks and tricks for baking.

This month the challenge was hosted by Rebecca from BakeNQuilt.com. Our job was to make either Charlotte Royale or Russe.

I chose Charlotte Royale because it looked bit more interesting and challenging than Charlotte Russe. The Charlotte Royale is mostly made in a round bowl lined with slices of Swiss roll cake for a spiral effect.

                       

I know it might seems like a bit tricky kind of dessert to make but it is much easier than it looks. Let's get started!

Vegan summer rolls

              

It was my first experience with rice paper and it was a really good experience. I guess I will repeat this recipe very often with a different filling. In the begining, I thought that I was making a raw summer rolls but tofu is not compatible with raw food unfortunately. So finally, it is not raw, but it is vegan, healthy and sooo tasty! Mainly the dipping sauce is incredible. I follow dip recipe from rawfoodrecipes.com, but I've changed it a little bit. If you do it for the first time like I did, don't be upset when your rolls won't be perfect - practise makes perfect! :)

Glutenfree banana pancakes

Today, I want to introduce my favorite breakfast far away for last months - it is really easy and tasty so don't hesitate to try it!

               

You can find banana pancakes recipes everywhere on internet, but I want to share my own improved one. The trick is that you add protein powder into the batter and your pancakes will be more compact and you can turn them easily to other side without tearing. And the protein powder adds them flavour so you won't be bored from always the same banana taste - my favorite is chocolate with peanut butter (yes, I am deeply in love with peanut butter - you can buy it here). So let's start!