coffee birthday cake — by niko on

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coffee birthday cake  sponge cake  (for 1 round 22cm / 9” cake, to be cut in 2 layers)  4 eggs, separated  1 cup flo...

moving — by niko on

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visited 17 states (7.55%) ( create your own visited map of the world ) It's sad to look at this map, full of grey. You can so e...

gingerbread cookies — by niko on

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I would like to write something eloquent, or at least in Christmas spirit, but I'm too tired with gingerbread cookies to say anything m...

easy chocolate cake with vanilla frosting — by niko on

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easy chocolate cake with vanilla frosting (makes one 22 cm/9” cake) 250 ml milk 150 g dark chocolate 125 g soft butter 150 g sug...

easy chewy & crunchy cookies — by niko on

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Done with NaNoWriMo I buried myself straight away with another writing project and no, it’s none of the three papers I need to write for un...

mini no bake celebration torte — by niko on

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I have been taking a short break from anything that required a lot of attention or effort. A well-deserved break, I hope, after a whole mon...

chocolate salami — by niko on

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I am 23 hours away from the NaNoWriMo deadline and still a few scenes away from the end, but this time I genuinely think I will manage to f...

8th birthday cake — by niko on

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This is an order cake I made for eight-year-old girl; her mother asked for a simplest cream cake with wafer tubes and mentioned the girl li...

chocolate sponge cake with rose buttercream — by niko on

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One thing I love about reading stories on the internet is that they are up to date with live languages. Not historical fiction, that is tru...

simplest cheering sandwich — by niko on

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Yesterday my 50k of the novel was finished: it made me so proud, despite not being the biggest amount of text I have written in such a sh...

moist chewy brownies & success — by niko on

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I don’t know why the characters of my novel have not eaten any brownie yet, since it is my favourite kind of dessert and also a very easy...

panna cotta with peach mousse & writing — by niko on

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i have been rather busy lately and it’s a nice change. there’s been uni work and strange hours of my classes i had to get used to. spending...

sponge cake pancakes — by niko on

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sponge cake pancakes 2 eggs ¼ cup sugar ½ cup flour ½ tsp baking powder salt optional: butter separate egg whites, whisk with a pinc...

orange french toast — by niko on

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orange french toast 4 slices of dry challah (1,5 cm / 0,5” thick) 1 large egg 1 tbsp sugar 70 ml milk 30 ml fresh orange juice...

chocolate layer cake — by niko on

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chocolate layer cake  gluten free sponge cake  4 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 2/3 cup potato flour 3 tbsp cocoa powder 2 tsp baking ...

white chocolate fudge — by niko on

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white chocolate fudge 300 g white chocolate 150 ml sweetened condensed milk seeds of 1 vanilla pod sprinkles of choice cu...

chocolate fudge — by niko on

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chocolate fudge 300 g caster sugar 100 g brown sugar 100 g dark chocolate 2 tbsp corn syrup / golden syrup 150 ml whipping cream ...

caramel sauce — by niko on

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simple and yet most amazing snack idea: sesame sticks with homemade caramel sauce. or just caramel sauce.  caramel sauce ...