Baking gone wrong...

So my friends and I have been planning on baking something together for quite some time now, and now that the holidays started we could finally find the time to do so. Since we are quite inexperienced when it comes to baking, we wanted to start off with something rather simple. Luckily, we’re not really hard to please when it comes to sweet stuff and we didn’t really care about what we’re gonna bake as long as there’s chocolate in it. After doing some research we decided on something that sounded just as good as it looked: a nutella-flower.

how it's suppposed to look like

Looks amazing, right? If you’d like to give this beauty a try, just keep on reading. But be warned: it doesn’t taste as sweet and chocolaty as you would expect.

Ingredients

450g flour

180 ml milk

70g sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons dry yeast

40g butter

a pinch of salt

1 cup nutella

Directions

1. Tepefy the milk, mix it with the dry yeast and let it sit for a couple of minutes. In the meantime, melt the butter and blend it with the flour, the sugar and the eggs. Then combine all those ingredients. Finally, add a pinch of salt and start kneading the dough until smooth.
2. Now separate the dough in four equal-sized parts. Roll one of them into a circle and cover it with a thin layer of nutella. Make sure you heat the chocolate first, that way it’s much easier to spread it on the dough. And: try not to eat all of it before you’re done (I know it’s hard - it looks so delicious!).
3. Repeat the process with the other three parts of the dough.
4. When you’re done, cover the cake with a round cake tin and cut the excess dough off to create a nice circle.
5. Put a glass in the middle of the cake - the inner part should stay as it is. Divide the outside into 16 equal-sized stripes by cutting the dough from the glass all the way to the edge.
6. Take a pair of these stripes and twist them in opposite directions. Repeat this process with all the stripes.
7. Let it rest for an hour, then bake it at 175°C for about 30 minutes.

Unfortunately, my friends and I failed miserably. I guess the most difficult part was step 6. It’s hard to keep the nutella from pouring out, so when we were done it was smeared all over the place, making our flower look really messy. Our version of the beautiful, bloomed flower from the internet looked more like a flower that has already started withering. Well, at least we had fun. ;)

our messed up version of a nutella-flower 

Who am I?

Hey there!

So the new semester has just started and I think all of us are surrounded by a lot of people we’ve never seen before. Since quite a lot of you probably don’t know me, I’d like to give you a quick overview of who I am! J

My name is Stefanie, but most people call me Steffi. I’m 18 years old and I’m a family person, really animal-loving and addicted to chocolate (out of all the addictions that exist probably the best one, right?).

Gai

In October 2014 I moved to Graz because I decided to go to university here. Living in such a big city was a huge change for me, because I spent my entire life up until now living in a small village called Gai where there’s absolutely nothing but meadows and cows. Oh wait, there was a gas station once – but it was closed a few years ago. This may seem horrible to people who are used to living in the city, but the older I got the more I appreciated the beauty of my hometown. Actually, I think I’m pretty lucky to have been able to spend my childhood in such a beautiful place. But Graz isn’t that bad either, and I’m getting used to it.

My hobbies aren’t really exceptional. First of all, I like movies. My preferred genres range from thriller and action movies, to fantasy and drama movies. As some of you may remember from our first English class, my favourite movie is Lord of the Rings. I’ve seen it about five times by now and I could probably watch it 50 times without getting tired of it. Secondly, I really like music, especially rock and metalcore music. You can’t imagine how excited I get when one of my favourite bands finally announces a show in Austria. Lastly, what I absolutely love is travelling. If travelling was for free, I probably wouldn’t do anything else ever again (though I’d have to find a way to take my cat with me). Exploring foreign places and cultures is so fascinating. The world is so diverse and it’s wonderful!

Well that’s it for now, time to read your posts. I’m really looking forward to getting to know all of you!