Red bilberry chocolate sweets

Red bilberry chocolate sweets

Thanks to Juliana_L for the recipe!

What we need:

• 1 white chocolate bar
• 1 milk chocolate bar
• 1 dark chocolate bar
• 1 glass of berries (red bilberry)
• 1 glass of sugar
• 100g almond
• 3 tablespoons of rum

Preparation:

Put berries and sugar in a small pot

Stir carefully

Stew for 3-5 minutes.

Then put into a strainer...

So we've got berries and the syrup separated.

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After we've finished with the berries - take chocolate!

Melt it with bain marie

Prepare forms for sweets, grease the bottom and sides with chocolate.

Put them into the fridge... And now we're going to make the most yummi part - the filling! :)

Grain almond in a blender

Add about 9 spoons of syrup, rum and stir everything.

So we've got something like this:

Take the forms and fill them with berries.

After that take the almond filling and put it carefully into the sweets.

Press a bit with finger.

Finally we cover the sweets with chocolate…

...and bring them back to the fridge.
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Result:

Enjoy!

Briefly

The weather today is gorgeous so I can't complain, even though I'm on quite the busy schedule! Its finally my favourite time of the year - my home is full of flowers, the fridge is full of fresh berries and fruits. I absolutely love this late spring - early summer! It inspires me, makes me want to breathe, dream, make important decisions, it gives me strength for new beginnings and makes me worried at the same time. But thats how its supposed to be right? As Summer's approaching it gets ridiculously easy to be happy. I suddenly fell in love with early mornings, my work, my studies and workouts.. Oh well, I got to say my work (and life) schedule got freaking tough these days/months. Life gets overwhelming these days and it really makes me wish for more hours in a day. Like reeeaaally much more hours. But I love being busy though - cause it's like when you finally have time for yourself you're too tired to control your mind and you let it go wonder. You get more you.
Is is better to be regular or irregular? I still haven't figured it out yet.. Since, as you know, I'm officially a veeery-part-time-blogger now, there's nothing left for me to do but to put all kinds of pictures in one irregular post! Including
my friendly kitchen:

some parties:

and vacation:

 XOXO, i will never watch GG again! Intervention :)





I'm feeling electric tonight

Another evening full of beautiful people and a completely different Tuesday night program than usual: not just gym or studies, that daily fill my evenings. I met my old friend Nastya. Haven't seen her for couple of years.. So, news are accumulated, but they are no longer actual though. Some snapshopts shortly taken before my departure. (Watch it!)
Yesterday i started reading Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak. I love the way the author tells the story! Actually, I guess it's classic-fiction-time in my life. All my life i tried to avoid these boring books, while they surprisingly appeared to be so deep. Not something I'd preferably read but something that truly touched me.  I just felt goose humps all over my arms. Unbelievable. It's really hard to find a book worth reading now.

May you live in a time of change

Chinese curse says:  'May you live in a time of change'
One of my recent resolutions was banal: to become somewhat more optimistic (this winter was tragicomic enough). In  fact I don't even dare to imagine that amount of loveliness that could make this winter time even a tiny more bearable for me.  So here comes the note to myself - winter is the time to travel! Next year I'll definitely go abroad in February!

Well, it's already 1st of April. Time flies! A real spring awakening, with lots of fun and lots of changes.

I liked my friends idea about 20 favorite activities, so i'm steeling it!
My TOP-20

1. Drawing
2. Swimming
3. Walking outside at 5 am
4. Taking photos
5. Sport (oh, i adore my gym)
6. Cooking (cakes especially)
7. Hand-made presents
8. Reading fascinating books/articles
9. Spending time with my family
10. Learning something new
11. Working hard
12. Achieving goals
13. Planning
14. Visiting new places/cities/countries
15. Watching TV-series
16. Playing board games
17. Going out with friends
18. Translating
19. Eating something delicious
20. Falling in bed after unbelievably productive day

This year is going to be the year of changes! No doubt!
New job, vacant heart, new phone-number (previous is almost 10 years old!!), refreshed friendlist, no smoking, no skipping classes and a lot more (!).. I'm lovin it :)

PS my cat hates my iphone, 'cause instead of feeding the cat i'm taking pictures with instagram :)

Yummi

It happends to me quite regularly, I must admit, like once in week or two - I'm in cooking inspiration! I guess the only thing I cook really great is pastry!

Just yesterday I've finally made that delicious cake, which recipe I was reading for a couple of weeks! OMG, I love it! All my collegues love me) again) (previously for the cupcakes)!

So as you might have noticed, nothing else happened :) Basically no rest, no parties, no other pleasures - just work and tired from staring at computer eyes...

 in free time i make the plan for 2012 and wishlist for NY :)

I know I will travel next year. Can't wait!....

GG!

 Yeah!

Inspiration: Paris, Ladurée and a lot of Girlystuff

Sometimes, when I click through various pages on tumblr.com, there are always these images that remind me of the typical girly-stuff. Something which can just be loved by real girlygirls, who love Louis, daydreaming, a lot of sweets, Paris and the Eiffeltower. Considering myself to be one of them inside, if not always that obvious due to my .. let's call it very direct and open minded character, I just had to click on "save" when I found the following pictures. Don't worry. Normally, I'd consider all these pictures to be dull...sugar but then on the other hand they sometimes inspire me. 

Credit goes to: ilovedyouforever.tumblr.com and fuckyeahgirly.tumblr.com! 

Have a nice rest of this cold Thursday.