Rhabarb Pineapple muffins

I made them like in the basic muffin recipe when Rishab's friend Sarah came to visit him along with her 1 year old brother Jonas.

The only thing to note:
I used 150 g each of rhabarb and fresh pineapple and mixed the rhabarb and pineapple pieces with the flour and then added it to the yoghurt batter. And decorated it with a chocolate couverture and a piece of pineapple.

Pineapple Cake

I made this cake together with my son on my birthday. It was a friday, so he was at home and we just wanted to have some fun, so we thought of making a cake togehter, which he also enjoys a lot.
Unfortunately, when I cut the pineapple, I found that half of it was already too ripe- it showed dark greyish yellow transluscent areas in the lower half. It tasted very good otherwise and didn't show any signs of fungal infection at all. So, we used the rest of the pineapple half. It had been lying since more than 4 days in my kitchen. maybe I should have stored it in the fridge, but somehow I find it too bulky for that.
Anyways, I had a tin of pineapple at home, so I did not worry. It is one of the things which you would always find in stock in my pantry!

The recipe of the cake was basically the basic cake recipe I have.


Preparation time: 30-35 min.
Baking time: 45 min.
Temp.: 200°C (390°F) electric oven / 180°C (355°F) convection oven

My proportions for the ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 150 (5 oz) sugar
• 150 g (5 oz) butter
• 1 pk. vanilla sugar
  
• 250 g (8 1/2 oz) flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 1 pineapple, peeled, cored and cut into round slices or a tin of pineapple slices
  

Method:

• Mix the baking powder with the flour in a bowl.
• beat the eggs, butter, sugar and vanilla sugar together with an electric hand mixer in another bowl.
  
• Add the flour to it and beat further to make the batter light and fluffy.
• Put baking paper at the bottom of a round baking tin (Ø 26 cm), grease it and the sides with butter.
  
• Put a layer of the round pineapple slices over it. Let the excess juice drip off from the slices in a colander before putting it in the cake.
• spread the batter carefully with a spatula on the slices
• If you wish, put some more pinaapple slices on top and press them down a bit.
  
• Bake in the oven for 45 minutes.
• Serve with 250 g (9 oz) whipped cream, flavoured with vanilla sugar and swetened with 2 tbsp of sugar.
  

Pizza Pizza Pizza!!

Today was Pizza day!
A spontaneous idea. And they turned out good.
So, thought of noting down the recipe:

Preparation time: 30-45 minutes
Oven temp: 200°C (390°F) electric oven / 180°C (355°F) convection oven
Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:
Pizza base:
1 packet (with 2 bags) Mondamin Pizzateig (pizza flour)
250-270 ml leukewarm water

Tomato base:
1/2 - 2/3 tin (400g) of pizza tomatoes
a pinch Italian herbs, dry(rosmary, thyme and oregano)
1 tsp fresh thyme and rosemary, finely chopped
1 tbsp capers
1 tbsp olive oil
salt, to taste

Mushroom Pizza:
1 green bellpepper, washed and diced or cut into thin slices
200-250g brown crimini mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
salt, to taste
parmesan, a small piece
gauda, grated
1 tsp fresh thyme and rosemary
a few slices of (cherry) tomato
4-5 slices of salami - only on one half (for my DH)

Tuna Pizza (half Pizza):
1/4 yellow bell pepper, diced
1 tsp fresh thyme and rosemary, finely chopped
3 cherry tomatoes, sliced
1 tin of tuna fish
1 tsp capers
parmesan, a small piece
salt
gauda, grated

Pizza Hawai (half Pizza):
2 thin slices of cooked ham (italian style, as per the packet), cut into small squares
2 slices of canned or fresh pineapple (fresh tatses better), cut into small pieces
1/4 yellow bell pepper, diced
parmesan, a small piece
half a hand ful of basil leaves
a pinch of fresh thyme
1 ball of mozarella, sliced
salt, to taste

Method:
Knead the dough using both the bags of pizza flour with 250 ml of lukewarm water, if needed add a few tablespoons more of water slowly while kneading. Divide into two. Roll out each dough immediately (no waiting required) into thin pizza bases, round or square.
Mix all the ingredients of the tomato base in a bowl and spread on both the pizza bases.

For Mushroom Pizza:
Fry the mushrooms and green bell peppers quickly on high heat in a tablespoon of olive oil and the herbs and salt. Spread on one Pizza base. Put some slices of tomato over it. Grate parmesan evenly over the pizza. Spread grated gauda cheese over it. Bake in a preheated oven for 30 minutes.

For Tuna Pizza:
Fry the yellow bell pepper with some salt and olive oil on high heat for a minute. Take out and set aside. Fry tuna in olive oil for a minute with the herbs and salt. Spread both on one half of the Pizza base. Grate parmesan evenly on it. Put capers (careful-are quite salty!) and sliced chery tomatoes over it. Put grated gauda on it. It is ready to be baked.

For Pizza Hawai :
Fry the yellow bell pepper with some salt and olive oil on high heat for a minute. Spread on the pizza base along with ham, pineapple and basil leaves. Grate parmesan over it. Put the Mozarella slices over it. bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes.