Recipe time - Banana bread

Hi babes,
A bunch of overripe bananas means only one thing time to make banana bread. I'd never made this before but it's a common favorite so I'd thought I try it too. I chose a recipe by Estee Lalonde formerly known as EssieButton. I'll leave the recipe below in grams but you can watch her video here where she uses cups as measurement. I'm not one for accurately measuring so mine probably won't look or taste exactly the same but it still tastes amazing.

Ingredients 
- 260 grams of flour
- 260grams of brown sugar
- 100 grams of butter
- 1 1/4 tsp of baking soda
- 1 1/4 tsp of baking powder
- 1/4 tsp of salt
- 100 ml of milk
- 1 egg
- 3 ripe bananas

Recipe
- Mash the bananas with the milk
- Combine the sugar with the butter
- Add the egg
- Mix the dry ingredients; flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt
- Mix all 3 mixtures together
- Add the mixture in a baking tin (buttered or with parchmentpaper)

Allow to bake for about 60min on 180 degrees celcius. I got mine out at 50 minutes wich makes it really moist because it's a bit underbaked. Keep your personnel preferences in mind.

Recipe time - Snickerdoodles

Hi babes,
I'm sharing one of my favorite wintercookies recipe. Sharing recipes is something new i'm trying as I promised that I'd make this blog more lifestylebased. Not many of you know this but I absolutely love baking things but I never share my recipes. Mainly because it makes me feel special that people have to ask me to bake things they like for them. It sounds a bit psychotic but who doesn't love it when people ask ''hey, could you bake those cookies again, they're so good!'' Anyhow, let's change that and share some of my secrets.

Today I'll share a recent discovery; the snickerdoodle. It's a cookie that just tastes like winter and has a great texture, not too chewy but not dry and hard either.

Ingredients
250 grams of regular flour
100 grams of white sugar
125 grams of softened butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
1 regular spoon of cinnamon and 2 regular spoons of sugar mixed together for the coating of the cookies

Recipe
Preheat your oven on 180 degrees Celsius
Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon together in a bowl
Mix the butter and sugar together using an electric mixer or by hand if you fancy until it becomes a light mixture that's close to white
Mix the egg and vanilla through the previous mixture
Mix both mixtures together

Mix the sugar and cinnamon together on a plate which will be used to coat the cookies
Roll the dough until it's a half a centimeter thick using a rolling pin
Cut your cookies using a a cookiecutter in a shape that you choose (I like my animal ones from IKEA)
Flip your cookies in the cinnamonsugar on the plate, coating both sides
Put the cookies on parchment paper on a baking tray
Put the baking tray in the oven for about 15 minutes on 180 degrees Celsius
Keep an eye on the cookies, they're ready when they're golden

Let your cookies cool and enjoy

Goodbyeeee

- Nikki

Fluffy American pancakes recipe

Hi lovelies,

I have a recipe for you today. The real American pancakes. If you are from the United States you probably know how to make them but I live in Belgium and you never ever see them here. We have crêpes. Also pancakes but the real thin ones. Just as many people I want what I can't have so the search for an American pancakes recipe begun. I tried a couple, the one already took more time than the other but I managed to find one that really satisfied my fluffy pancake needs. Luckily for me it was also one that took less time and effort. I found it on http://www.nigella.com so all credit is due to her. Let's start. 

 What do you need : 

- 30 grams of melted butter (Following the recipe you should cool it but I didn't and it was still jummy)

- 2 large eggs (beaten)

- 1 teaspoon of white sugar

- 1 pinch of salt

- 300 ml milk

- 225 grams of self-raising flour (You can use the plain kind but don't forget to put in a tablespoon of baking powder)

- butter for frying

- a bowl 

- a fork

- a small frying pan

- a spatula

The recipe : 

- Melt the butter in the microwave

- Add the eggs and beat them. You can also beat them in a separate cup but that means more work when washing the dishes

- Add the teaspoon of sugar and a pinch of salt

- Add 300 ml of milk

- Add the flour

- Mix them good together I used a fork to whisk/stir but you can also put everything in a blender but again so much work when doing the dishes

- Butter your pan

- Pour in dough

- Let it bake for a couple of minutes on each side. I just checked if it wasn't burning by lifting my pancake with the spatula and when it looked about ready i turned it around with my spatula. I recommend not to use the highest stand to bake because it would burn before it's completely ready and when you try to turn when the dough isn't completely dry on the top yet it goes everywhere and becomes messy.

Special additions : 

- You can eat this with whatever you like, you can also bake some fruit first and then trowing your dough on top of it and you'll have fruity pancakes

- I personally like it with a paste of white chocolate on top. When you put it on it will melt a bit and it's just delicious

- The site http://weheartit.com has given me the inspiration to mix in sprinkles or chocolate chips but I haven't tried that yet

- You get about 5 maybe 6 pancakes of a centimeter thick pancakes with a diameter of 15 centimeters and trust me one is enough for each person

- The dough stays good for at least 3 days ( I know because I couldn't possibly ate them in one day and ate 1 pancake each day and have eaten 3 by now)

Well I hope you liked this recipe, let me know in the comments if you tried it. 

Goodbyeee

- Nikki