Cosmo Cooking

Ah, it’s again one of those days when you just don’t want to leave the house. It’s winter, and the rain is beating against the windows. Now, a good way to make yourself feel a lot better is to trust the power of a hot chocolate… however, with a little spicy twist.

Ingredients

• 600 ml milk
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1 chili pepper
• 40 gr of cocoa powder
• 50 gr sugar
• 80 gr dark chocolate
• 2 tbsp Amaretto (optional)
• 1-2 tbsp starch

Bring the milk with the cinnamon stick to boil, then reduce the heat and let it simmer for a few minutes. In the meanwhile, cut the chili pepper lengthwise … Continue Reading

I love cinnamon, not only for Chrismas. Thus this recipe.

Ingredients

• 2 packages quark
• 1 bowl of yoghurt
• 1 sachet vanilla sugar
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 bottle mango sauce
• 1 can blueberries

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It’s the same old story… one day, you bought a bunch of bananas, but then you fail to eat them in time, and they slowly turn brown. So, time to shed some tears and through them away? No, our American readers will already have guessed what we are going to do, we are going to bake a banana bread instead. This one is a little special though, since it hides a whole banana in its core. Yummy!

Ingredients

• 250 gr self-raising flour
• 1/4 of a nutmeg
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 125 gr butter
• 125 gr caster sugar
• lemon zest
• 2 eggs
• 3 bananas, mashed with a fork
• handful of sultanas
• 3 tbsp

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