During the high beer in the second period, you could taste some delicious appetizers. One of them was the small bread rolls with pesto and nuts. These little breads are easy to make and ideal for a high tea or as a side dish. 

Ingredients: 

Directions: 

Make the bread dough according to the directions on the product and let it proof covered with aluminum foil on a warm spot for 20 min. In the meanwhile, chop half of the nuts into small pieces and the other half into bigger pieces.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface into a rectangular shape. Spread 2/3 of the pesto on the dough using a spoon or baking brush. Sprinkle 2/3 of the chopped nuts over the dough. Roll the wider side of the dough into a swirl. Afterwards, cut the dough into 3 cm’s wide pieces. Dip these breads in the remaining pesto and chopped nuts. Put the breads next to each other on a baking tray and let them proof for another 30 min.

Warm up the oven to 200 °C. Bake the little breads for 20-30 min. Keep an eye on the breads and take them out when they are light brown and done. 

Esmee's egg cake, to make your own homemade "eierkoeken"; Dutch fluffy cookies! Not a lot of work and super nice to have with some coffee. Enjoy the egg cakes!

Ingredients for about 20 egg cakes:

5 eggs

125 grams of granulated sugar

125 grams of white caster sugar

15 grams lemon zest

250 grams self-raising flour

Also needed:

Oven

baking paper

mixer

batter bowl

Mix the eggs with the sugar and lemon zest in a mixing bowl. Then put it in a pan with hot water and heat it to about 25 °C (this is called au bain-marie or else look it up). Mix the batter until fluffy and fold in the self-raising flour. Put the batter far apart on a baking tray with baking paper (about 8 at a time) and bake at 200 °C for about 10 minutes. Remove the cakes from the plate with a long knife and they are ready.

Have fun baking!

During the first period the ConsumpCie organised a lunch for our new first year plantlets. Some delicious muffins were served there. If you want to recreate these for yourself or are sad that you missed out on some nice baked goods, then here is the recipe of one (well, two actually) of the muffins! 

What do you need? (for 8 medium size muffins, or 6 huge ones) 

• 1 ½ cup flour 
• ½ cup cane sugar 

• 2 teaspoons baking powder 
• ½ teaspoon salt 
• ¾ cup soy milk 
• ¼ cup vegetable oil 
• And a filling of your choice: a cup of (fresh) blueberries or half a bar of dark chocolate are both very good, as proven during the lunch, or get creative ? 

• Cupcake liners (a cupcake tray is also helpful but not necessary) 

How do you make it? 

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. 

Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. 

Whisk the soy milk and vegetable oil through the dry ingredients. Make sure there are no lumps but don’t overmix, this will make the muffins tough. 

Carefully stir in your filling. 

Scoop the batter into the cupcake liners, only fill them ¾ or they will overflow. 

Bake for 30 minutes and enjoy! 

Always wanted to make your own pizza dough? Then enjoy this recipe to make pizza from scratch: super fun and cheap!  

Ingredients 

250 gr flour 

Half bag of instant yeast (3,5 gr) 

150 ml hand warm water 

Little bit of salt 

1 spoon of olive oil 

Mix the yeast in 50 ml of hand warm water. Hand warm means basically when you put in a finger you do not feel the water, it is about the same temperature as you hand. 

Mix the flour and the salt in a big bowl. Make a little hole in the middle after mixing. 

Put the olive oil, the yeast mixture and almost all the warm water in the hole and start mixing all ingredients! Do not put in all water at once! When you start mixing the ingredients you will notice if the dough it too dry. In that case you can put in the rest of the water. Life tip: you can always add more, not take out water, so take it slow with adding water ? 

Kneading time! The most important part for yeast-based products. When your dough doesn’t stick to the bowl anymore and forms a nice ball, take it out and onto a clean surface, like a counter or a table. Knead until it feels elastic. It will take around 10 minutes. Second life tip: set a time and keep kneading for 10 minutes! 

When kneaded properly, dust the bowl with a little bit of flower, place the dough in the bowl and cover it cling wrap and a towel. Keep it in a warm spot. 

Let it sit for at least 45 minutes. Leaving it for a couple of hours is not necessary but it is possible! (You can make it in your lunch break for example).  

Preheat the oven at 220-240 degrees Celsius. Take the dough and divide it into two parts for ‘normal’ sized pizza or use it all for one big pizza. Put flour on the flat surface and roll out the pizza dough till it is about 4 mm thick. Now put the dough on the backing tray. (You can also roll it out on the backing tray already).  

Put some tomato sauce and other toppings on your pizza. Remember: less is more and do not put too much wet ingredients on the pizza. It will slow the backing of the pizza dough.  

Bake your pizza about 10-15 minutes in the preheated oven.  

And enjoy! 

Third life tip: you can pre-make your dough and freeze it. After the rising, divide the dough in portions of your preferred pizza size and freeze it up to a month. When you want to use it, take it out and let it defreeze for 2 hours.