SWEET TREATS

I've been having a "cooking morning", preparing two kinds of sweet treats. Hoping you'll like them !
They're perfect to go with coffee, a bowl of fresh fruits or for a quick healthy snack.
The coconut rock cakes are gluten-free and the cookies are dairy-free, I haven't tried a glutenfree recipe yet.

The first recipe is a very easy and quick one: Coconut Rock Cakes.
All you need is [love] but not only:


Ingredients:
for about 25-30 mini-cakes

- 3 egg-whites
- 80g of (brown) sugar (healthier than white sugar)
- 150g of grated coconut

Directions:

Preheat your oven (200°C)
[It's better if you take the eggs out the fridge 1 day before cooking]
Whip egg-whites until it looks foaming
Then add sugar, keep whipping
Then add grated coconut
The whole paste should be a bit thick. Then, make some small piles of paste (like pyramids) on your dish and put it into the oven during 15 minutes. The coconut rocks are ready when they look golden.

Coconut rocks after cooking

The second recipe is Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies:

Ingredients:
for about 35 cookies

- 4 eggs
- 180g of flour
- 180g of oatmeal
- 110g of sugar
- 1/2 sachet of baking powder
- 2 spoons of rice milk
- 1 bar of dark chocolate

Directions:

Preheat your oven (180°-200°C)
Mix flour, oatmeal, sugar and baking powder in a bowl
Then add the pieces of chocolate
Then add the eggs and the milk
Keep mixing until you get something thick
Then make piles on your baking tray
Put it into the oven for about 20-30 minutes

Cookies after baking

Bonus:

You can put the bottom of your coconut rocks into hot chocolate and then put them in the fridge.

You can divide the cookies preparation in two bowls to mix it with different kinds of chocolate (or chocolate bars like KitKat, Twix, or pieces of cookies like Speculoos...)

ENJOY !!

UNUSUAL PLACE

WHERE TO EAT & CHILL IN MADRID ??

I discovered the following place during a journey in Madrid. 

It was 3pm on a saturday afternoon, I was with a few friends of mine, starving (and hungover), wandering in the streets to find a nice place to fullfil our empty stomachs - even if it's hard to think in such conditions. 

We finally ended in the street "Calle Ventura de La Vega", and got into this restaurant called SAPOREM, attracted by its menu made of "tapas" and small dishes to mix and match.

The decoration is very lovely; modern and original with small details that make you feel like home.

We first thought there was no terrace - but as starving as we were, we were ready to give it a miss - but a waiter took us to a patio in the back of the restaurant.

Now we could get a new lease of life by eating and resting.

After sharing our tasty dishes, drinking a few glasses of "Tinto de Verano" (a typical spanish drink made of red wine and iced lemon Fanta - it seems weird but it's actually good !), we were ready for dessert and asked for the menu...

The waiter came back with a particular menu...
And from this moment, we knew we were falling down a new (but really nice) trap: a menu that suggests one slice of amazingly big cakes + an amazingly big homemade cocktail.
It was 5pm when we ordered.

[...]
Well, it was 9pm when we got out. No need to tell you it was a great afternoon !!

It was the perfect place to relax and enjoy some good food.
Moreover the "cake and cocktail package" is original and very appreciable if you want to enjoy a little snack while drinking a delicious homemade cocktail.

If you want to freshen up and eat good food during Madrid's warm days, don't miss this place !

For twice as much pleasure, we can find them in two places:

"Calle de Hortaleza, 34" and "Calle Ventura de la Vega, 5"

Enjoy !!