Vegan ginger cupcakes

Evening,

todays post is again something yummi ( haha I think I create and try way to much reciepes).

As for me Christmas without ginger isn´t really Christmas. Mhhh do you smell the yummi gingerbread smell??  I thoght that I would bake something that is traditional Christmas

I was looking for a vegan reciepe for ginger muffins. As I have never ever made gingerbread or cupcakes before, I was very suprised when I found a simple and quick reciepe by Jamie Oliver. yeah!

I changed some ingredients as I couldn´t find the, and I had no soy milk an yoghurt at home.

Ingredients:

• 350 gr  plain flour
• 2 Tbsp baking powder
• 1Tbsp ginger
• 1 Tbsp of cinnamon
• 220 ml of vegetable oil
• 120 ml coconut milk (or soy milk)
• 5-10 walnuts

How to do:

1. mix everything together
2. crush your walnuts and add them to the dough
3. put the dough into muffin forms
4. heat your oven to 180 degres and bake the muffins for 10-15min,

TIPP:
if you like dark chocolate then melt some 70% cocoa chocolate and use it as topping for you ginger cupcakes 

have fun & enjoy!

P.S: Here you can get the original reciepe and the reciepe for the icing. I did not make the icing as I don´t like it.

Boyfriend Advent calendar

Only 37 days until Christmas and I am already freaking out,

after summer, Christmas is my favorite time of the year. Even if I don´t like snow (well only when I don´t need to go to school or work) I always wish for a white Christmas. Ahhh got already some christmas songs in my head.

But before we can enjoy Christmas with the family there is always the presents rush. I always feel like I m in the Hunger Games. Everybody wants the perfect present for their loves. First question we always ask: What do you want for christmas?? & they never know...yeah!

Fortunately my boyfriend isn´t such a person. He ALWAYS knows what he wants for Christmas it is his favorite time of the year. He knows at least 1 present or 2? or 3? or perhaps 100? :D haha just kidding.

This year I decided to do a little advent calendar for him with some small and some big gifts.

He doesn´t like trashy stuff so I kept the wrapping design quite simple.

All I needed:

• 24 brown sachets
• 24 numbered stars (red and green)
• 1 plott of cord
• 1 plott of red feltcord
• 4 reindeer clips (for special days end gifts)
• 1 roll brown wrapping paper

In every sachet I put a present and for bigger ones I needed some brown wrapping paper. On every sachet is a star with the date. With the cord I made a traditional present loop.

For 4 special days I clipped a reindeer clip on the present

The special days are.

• 6 December- St. Nicolas
• 10 December- 4 years anniversary 
• 16 December- Relase of Star Wars 7
• 24 December - Christmas

But what did I buy for my love?

I don´t know exactly which present I wrapped for which day ( haha oops) but here is a list what I bought:

Oreo cookies
Lindt chocolate 
Guylian pralines
cupcake
Kinder chocolate
Nuts (jep he asked me for nuts (;
Adidas showergel
2 books- A come association tome 1 & 2
1 potion book (you can get it here)
Headphones
3 t-shirts
boxer shorts
marvel sweatpants
a men bracelet
a pictrureframe with a photo from ou summer trip
a star wars christmas ball with some chocolate and money
money for a playstation game
a parlor game
some sweet messages and vouchers

Perhaps you got some ideas for your own boyfriend :)

Apple roses

Hey followers,
well my week is almost over and I am happy when my weekend starts tomorrow.
This morning I had nothing for breakfast so I created something yummi.

I saw so many reciepes how to do these apple roses but I didn´t try to do some. So today was THE day and as I wanted to keep it almost clean and simple I only needed 4 ingredients. They are very easy to do and a perfect as a little snack when you have guets or as a dessert with some ice cream.

What you need for about 12 roses:

• 1 apple
• 1 roll puff pastry ( I took a vegetarian)
• 1 pot applesauce ( or you can do some yourself just click here to get my reciepe)
• cinnamon
• 12 muffin forms

How to do:

1. Cut your puff pastry into 2-3 cm wide long stripes
2. Mix your apple sauce with some cinnamon
3. Put some apple sauce on your stripes
4. Wash and cut your apple into very thin slicess 
5. Put them on your pastry, add some cinnamon if you like and ond roll together
6. Heat your oven to 200 degrees
7. Put your roses in muffin cups and bake them for 10-15 minuts

& enjoy! I prefered eating them while they are hot and for some sweetness add some powder sugar :)

TIPP: I splitted the pieces  and put them with the tip pointing upwards

Jay & Jay review

hey readers I hope your friday will be great,
yes the week is almost over and our beloved weekend is only a few hours away from us.

Todays post is a little review of a restaurant I´ve been on thursday with my lovely friend Vanessa.
I have to tell you the story how we ´landed´ in this restaurant. First we decided to have a cheatmeal at Pizza Hut. So we wanted to order one Cheesy Crust pizza for two and the waitress was so unfriendly when we asked something that we left.
SO NO FOOD.

I proposed to Vanessa that I know a new restaurant called ,,Jay & Jay Fresh Foods´´ but I haven´t been there yet & so we had lunch at this new place.

It is a father and son restaurant and at the moment there are only two. One in Saarbrücken and one in Hermeskeil (GR). So lucky me!  Their food is all homemade and they grow their own vegetables.. The meat is regional,  homemade and low in fat and salt. They don´t use chemical flavor enhancers or genetic changed ingredients. Click here to check out their page.
So sounds really good and so it was/is!

When we came in we had to go upstairs to the 2nd floor. The entire restaurant has a beautiful vintage country style. Big windows lighten up the room and everything is made of wood. You have stools with cowprints and some shelves with empty colorful glas bottles.
The waitress was really friendly and explained everything to us.
The menu is not that big but enough and not very expensive.
You can order;

• starters
• big salads
• different kinds of burgers with and withour bun: meat (beef, lamb, veal, chicken), fish (salmon), veggie and vegan
• Some side dishes such as sauces which are all vegan
• for the startes, burgers and salads they also have vegan meals
• slow coked meals
• quiches
• and desserts

Vanessa ordered a cheese burger with some extra bacon and I ordered a vegan burger with both had fries as sidedish and I had vegan mayo and vanessa a herb dip.

I am very satisfied. We didn´t wait long, the food was hot and very good an everything tastes great. The vegan pattie was made of lentils, peas, pumpkin, sweet potato and leek & i loved it.
The mayo was also vegan and made with soymilk.

I hope when you are once in Saarbrücken you step buy cause is good and healthy food for little money. ( I had for 11,30euro)

Vanessas cheese burger

my vegan burger

Vanessa <3