Strawberry cheese tart

An own recipe this time :) with natural coloring .

Ingredients for the strawberry dough:

• 300 grams of beetroot
• 200 grams of strawberries
• 60 grams of flour
• 3 spoons with sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 egg white
• a pinch of baking powder

Ingredients for the cheese filling:

• 250 grams of fresh cheese
• 2 spoons with sugar
• 1 egg

Clean and grate the the beetroot, then let it sit for 10 minutes in water.

Put the strawberries in a pot over a small fire and strain the beetroot water over them. Let them simmer for 5 minutes.

Mash the strawberries and you will obtain about 350 milliliters of composition.

Set aside 4 spoons for later!

Mix the flour with the baking powder.

Add the flour over the strawberry smoothie and mix. Add the egg yolk and mix.

Beat the 2 egg whites with the sugar and incorporate it into the strawberry/flour composition.

Put the composition in an oven tray and let it bake at 180 Celsius degrees for 10 minutes, then take it out.

The cheese composition is easy to prepare: just mix the cheese with the egg and the sugar.

Keep 3 spoons of cheese mixture and mix it with the 4 spoons of strawberry mixture from above.

Add the white cheese composition over the tart dough. Above add the red mixture and with a straw slowly mix the two layers.

Put the composition back in the oven and bake it for another 30 minutes.
In the end the dough will be a bit moist and yummy :) .

Enjoy!

Yogurt and strawberry cake - recipe with step-by-step photos

Ingredients for the dough layers:

• 100 grams of chocolate
• 70 grams of crushed walnuts
• 40 grams of butter
• 7 spoons with sugar
• 5 eggs
• 4 spoons with flour
• salt

Ingredients for the strawberry jelly: 

• 350 grams of strawberries
• 3 spoons with sugar
• 4 grams of gelatin sheets

Ingredients for the yogurt filling:

• 300 grams of fresh cream
• 400 grams of yogurt
• 6 spoons with sugar
• 7 grams of gelatin sheets
• a few spoons with milk 

Ingredients for the cover cream:

• 200 grams of fresh cream
• 3 spoons with sugar
• 3 spoons with strawberry jelly (set aside from the jelly prepared from the ingredients above)

Prepare the  dough layers:

Melt the chocolate with the butter.

Separate the egg yolks from the whites.

Beat the egg yolks with half of the sugar until they double the volume.

Add the melted chocolate / butter over the beaten egg yolks.

Add the flour, the crushed walnuts and the salt.

Beat the egg whites with the remaining sugar. Add the beaten egg whites over the chocolate composition. Mix well.

Put the composition in an oven tray bake it in the oven at 180 Celsius degrees for 30-40 minutes or until ready.

Divide the dough in two layers.

Prepare the strawberry jelly:

Mash the strawberries and put them on the fire with the sugar for a few minutes.

Remove from fire and add the hydrated gelatin sheets (prepared as indicated on the envelope) and mix until well incorporated. Let it cool!

Prepare the yogurt filling:

Beat the fresh cream with the sugar. Add the yogurt and mix.

Heat a few spoons with milk and add the hydrated gelatin sheets. Then add this over the yogurt/fresh cream composition and mix well.

Assembling the cake:

In a detachable circle, add one base layer, then half of the yogurt filling, then add all the strawberry jelly (except 3 spoons which will be used later for decoration), the remaining yogurt filling and on top the second base layer.

Prepare the cover cream:

Beat the fresh cream with the sugar. Divide it in two parts.

Add the 3 spoons of jelly over half of the fresh cream and use it to cover the top of the cake.

Use the remaining cream to decorate the sides of the cake.

Add some strawberries and wild strawberries on top and ... voila.

Enjoy!

Homemade strawberry jam - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 350 grams of strawberries
• 250 grams of sugar
• juice from half of a small lemon

Mix the sugar with the strawberries and the lemon juice and let it rest over night.

Put the mixture in a pot at slow fire and let it boil.
  

After it starts boiling, let it on slow fire for 50 -60 minutes and then remove the pot from the fire.

Pour the hot jam in jars and close the lid. Turn the jars upside down and let them cool!

No need to say that with pancakes, this jam is awesome, right? ;)

Panna cotta in three colors - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients for the white panna cotta:

• 400 grams of fresh cream
• 100 milliliters of milk
• 4 sheets of gelatine (6 grams)
• 30 grams of sugar

Ingredients for the strawberries and blackberries panna cota:

• 100 grams of strawberries
• 100 grams of blackberries
• 6 spoons of sugar 
• 1 sheet of gelatine (1.5 grams of gelatine)

Put the gelatine in a bowl with water.

Separately, in a pan mix the strawberries with 3 spoons of sugar and let them simmer for a few minutes.

In another pan add the blackberries and 3 spoons of sugar and let them simmer at slow fire for a few minutes.

Remove each pan from fire and add half of one gelatine sheet in each pot and mix. Let the mixtures cool at room temperature.

For the white panna cotta, mix the fresh cream with the milk and the sugar and let them boil at slow fire for a few minutes.

Remove from fire and add the 4 gelatine sheets. Mix until well incorporated!



Now, in the pan with the strawberry mixture add three spoons with the white panna cotta and mix well.

Repeat the operation for the blackberry mixture.

Now the assembly: add firstly one layer of blackberry mixture in panna cotta forms. Put the forms in the fridge for 20 minutes.

Take out of the fridge and pour the white panna cotta in the forms. Put them back in the fridge for another 20 minutes.

Finally, take them out of the fridge one last time and add the strawberry mixture. Put the forms in the fridge for another 20 minutes. Now they are ready.

You need this "stop and go" process in order for each layer to solidify, so that the layers remain separate.

 The original recipe can be found here