It was around 8 pm and as usually my thoughts wandered around food. I really needed to eat something nice and sweet. With the freezing wind blowing outside I wasn't very much tempted to go to a store.. so I looked into the fridge and my kitchen shelves. All ingredients were at home!

In the next few minutes I was already mixing the flours and preparing these delightful pancakes.
They are extremely tasty, but what is most important - super easy!
For the last month I have been doing them at least once a week. Fine, more than once a week. But you will understand why, once you try them...

(The photos are not very good, but taking them when it was dark all around was a challenge!)

Ingredients

1 cup buckwheat flour

1 cup  cornflour

1/2 cup potato flour

1 tsp baking powder (gluten free)

a pinch of salt

1 big apple

1.5 cup milk (lactose free)

1 tsp vanilla powder

coconut oil for frying

Preparation

> In a bowl mix all dry ingredients with a spoon.

> Peel the apple and either mix it with milk using a blender or just grate it quickly and add milk.

> Once the apple-milk mixture is ready, pour it into the bowl with flours and stir until it is smooth. Of course if the apple was grated, you will see that the mixture is not completely smooth, just make sure you mixed the flours and milk properly.

> Heat up the coconut oil on a frying pan. Using a spoon, create small pancakes and fry them for a moment. Once they have a lot of bubbles on their surface, turn them around and fry a bit more. Each time I finished frying one"set" I added some coconut oil to make sure the mixture will not stick to the frying pan.

Serve with maple syrup, fruit jam or simply powdered sugar.

The recipe is for quite a big amount of pancakes, enough for me and my super hungry boyfriend, and there are still some left for later.

Swedish Chocolate Cake (gluten free + lactose free)

Ingredients

250 g liquid margarine (without lactose)

250 g dark chocolate (70%)

1/3 cup + 1 1/2 tbsp strong coffee or espresso (or water)

4 large eggs, at room temperature

180 g sugar

1 tsp vanilla sugar or 1/4 tsp vanilla powder

pinch of salt

Preparation

> Preheat the oven to 175 degrees, then grease the baking form and cover it with baking paper.

I used a 28 cm form, that's why the cake is so flat. With the use of a smaller form (22 - 25 cm) it should get thicker.

> Break the chocolate bars into smaller pieces and melt it slowly in a saucepan. Once the mixture is melted, add coffee and gently stir it in and set aside to cool it down.

> Using a mixer beat the eggs in a large bowl until they are soft and fluffy. Then, still mixing, slowly add sugar and vanilla powder.

> Stir the chocolate mixture into mixed eggs and sugar, add a pinch of salt and keep stirring until the batter is smooth.

> Pour the batter into the prepared baking form and bake for 40-45 minutes.

> Wait until the cake is cooled down before taking it out from the form.

The cake should be moist and very soft. It is not easy to cut it into nice, well shaped pieces, but as long as it tastes this good.. it's forgivable!

In my opinion it is perfect by itself, but you can put cream, fruit or simply powdered sugar on it.

The recipe is from 'Call me cupcake' - biggest inspiration of all!