Rugelach

Recipe:

1 package cream cheese room temperature
2 sticks butter room temperature
1+2 tbs sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp  vanilla
2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup tightly packed brown sugar
1  tsp ground cinnamon
1 cup walnuts finely choped
1/2 cup apricot preserve
1 egg for egg wash

Mix cream cheese and butter in a bowl until light. Add 1 tbs sugar,  salt and vanilla. Slowly add flour until just combined. Put the dough onto a floured board and roll into a ball. Divide into 4 pieces. Leave wrapped in a plastic in the fridge for 1 hour.

Filling

Combine brown sugar,2 tbs white sugar, walnuts and cinnamon.
Roll the dough into a circle around 9 inches. Spread apricot preserve and sprinkle with filling lightly taping it in.  Cut in quarters and than each quarter into three pieces. Roll from wider end and put on a parchment paper. Leave in a fridge for 30 min. Mix 1 egg with a fork and  brush onto cookies. If you want you can sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on the top.
Bake on 175 C for 15 - 20 min. ( they are lightly brown, check the bottom )
Cool on the rack and enjoy.

Chocolate cake

This cake has the secret ingredient : zucchini. If you omit an egg that I added ,this cake is egg and dairy free.

I made half the recipe and it's very tasty. Nobody noticed a zucchini. I made cream cheese frosting but it can be only glaze, ganache or just plain.  

Recipe:

300 g peeled and grated zucchini

125 ml vegetable oil

200 g sugar

250 g flour

50 g cocoa

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp vanilla

1 pinch of salt

Mix everything together. Pour in a pan covered with parchment paper and bake in preheated oven ,on 180 for 25-30 min. 

Summer Cake

 Very light summer cake, easy to make.

Recipe:

150 g butter
200 g flour
100 g cream of wheat
2 tbsp baking powder
200 g powdered sugar
1 cup yogurt ( I used balkan style)
4 eggs

Melt butter and leave it to cool. I a bowl combine flour, baking powder, cream of wheat and powdered sugar. Mix slowly adding melted butter, yogurt and eggs (one at a time). Pour into the pan lined with parchment paper. Sprinkle raspberries  ( or other fruit ) on the top. Push some of them gently down.
Heat the oven on 180 C and bake for about 25-30 minutes. If toothpick comes out clean it is done.
When cooled sprinkle with powdered sugar.