Nogat

Hi! My father used to do nogat for us, when I was a child. Today I decided to do it with my son.

You just need peanuts and sugar! Easy and fast! Just the way I like it! 

Put the peanuts in a pan and cover with sugar, lots of sugar!

Heat and wait until the caramel forms itself!

Put it in wax paper to cool.

Wait for it to get solid.

Chop it and eat it! Hummmy...

Chocolate ganache mini-tarts

• Hello again!

  My son asked me to make something sweet with chocolate. He was in the mood for chocolate...

  So after my search I found this amazing recipe from Martha Stewart and convert it in mini-tarts.

  
  
  

  You'll need:

  3 tablespoons almonds

• 6 tablespoons sugar

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

• 2 teaspoons grated orange

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold and cut into pieces

• 1 bar of chocolate, coarsely chopped

• 200g heavy cream

  
  
  

• Preheat oven to 180°.

  Make dough: In a food processor, pulse almonds until finely ground. Add sugar, flour, zest and salt; pulse until combined. Add butter, pulsing until crumbs form.

  
  
  

  Immediately roll dough using a cookie cutter and make the little tart shapes.

  
  
  

  Bake for about 20 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, about 1 hour.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Make ganache: Place chocolate in a saucepan with cream and let it boil. 

   Stir until smooth and creamy in texture.

  Pour chocolate mixture into each cooled tart shell. 

  Let stand until set, about 2 hours, or chill for 1 hour.

  Simply delicious! 

  Ana & Vera

  
  

Lembrança para a Professora

E no final de um ciclo de aprendizagem, o que oferecer a uma professora que passou 4 anos com o nosso filho?

Teria que ser algo diferente, algo especial para uma professora igualmente especial.

Foi alguém que o ensinou a ler e a escrever, que lhe transmitiu o gosto pela leitura, que lhe incutiu a responsabilidade, que fomentou o espirito de equipa... alguém que ele jamais irá esquecer!

Vera & Ana 

Festa de Fim de Ano, Parte III

E para a turma dos mais novos, uma caixa cheiinha de férias!

Vera & Ana

Festa de Fim de Ano, Parte II

E assim chegámos ao fim de um ciclo....

As bolachas para oferecer aos amiguinhos.

A bolacha da Professora e as dos alunos.

Vera & Ana

Lego Party

Every year is the same thing.

I need two partys for my son.
This year was no different. So we decided to go with LEGO for his home party and Ninjago Lego for school party.
It was super fun to make it and everybody loved it.


I took some ideas for games like the "toss the lego piece" and "pin the head". All a success!

I printed some lego pieces to decorate the mini-hamburgers and cupcakes. It turned out OK.

I never find invitations that I like, so I decided tomake my own. They turn out cutte and the boys loved it.


To decorate the cupcakes and to give as favors I did these little chocolate minifigures.

I also made some lego piece soaps to give as favors. 


I took from the internet some lego printables to convert in bottle wrappers and as I was feeling very crafty I decided to make some lego boxes to fill with popcorn and chips. A hit!

I hope you find these ideas usefull. It was a lot of fun to do this party.

Enjoy!

Ana & Vera

Last day of the school year!

Hello again!

This week was just crazy! 

I had to make gifts for everyone in my son's school, teachers, helpers and security guy.

With all my flights it was a very difficult task. I decided for cookies (of course, what else?!).

I went for the school logo - a tree and the school colors: green and orange.

And because (and let me tell you this again) I'm crazy, one cookie was not enough, so what about 4 cookies! 

I made these for all the teachers and special helpers.

But then, my son said that we had to also give a cookie to all 20 school friends in his class, because of all the good grades!!!

And I could not say no! So I said yes...

   

Yes, the final count was 91 cookies! Just crazy!

Here's the result! I hope you enjoy...

I add a "you are one smart cookie" tag, that you can find for free in the internet.