Chocolate liquorice cake and raspberry ice cream!

Jag köpte lakritspulver häromdagen för ett alldeles speciellt bakprojekt som jag hoppas kunna dela med mig av snart. Tills dess kände jag att jag ville experimentera lite eftersom jag aldrig någonsin har bakat med lakrits. Man har ju hört att det ska passa bra till choklad, så jag kände att det var ett säkert kort. Hallon blev det bara för att jag tänkte på sånt där godis ni vet, döskallar som är hälften hallon (om man nu kan kalla det hallon..) och hälften lakrits. Inte för att jag äter sådana, men av någon anledning kom jag att tänka på dem. Hursomhelst blev detta en väldigt lyckad kombination, men tycker man inte om lakrits går det självklart lika bra att utesluta det ut receptet.



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In English:

I bought liquorice powder the other day for a very special project that I hope to share with you soon. Until then I wanted to experiment a bit with liquorice, since I have never ever used it in baking before. I've heard that chocolate and liquorice is a match made in heaven, so that was a safe bet. For some reason I also thought of those candy skulls which are half liquorice and half raspberry (well, I don't know if I would call that raspberry..). I never eat them but for some reason I thought of them. Anyway, it was a perfect match, but if you for some reason don't like liquorice you can always exclude it from the recipe. Raspberries and chocolate make a pretty darn good match too.



Raspberry ice cream

•3 dl heavy cream
•3 dl milk
•200 grams raspberries
•1,5 dl sugar
•1 vanilla bean

Heat the milk in a saucepan. Split the vanilla bean and scrape out the seeds and put them and the whole bean in the milk. Stir in the sugar until it dissolves and then let cool. Whip the cream in another bowl until soft peaks form. Mash the raspberries and push them through a strainer to get rid of seeds. Mix them with the cream and then add the milk. Mix well and pour into a pan or a bowl. Put the pan in the freezer. Mix every 20 minutes for 3-4 hours. Remove from freezer a while before serving.


Chocolate liquorice cake

•100 grams melted butter
•2 eggs
•2,5 dl sugar
•1,5 dl flour
•4 tbsp cocoa powder
•1-2 tsp liquorice powder
•2 tsp vanilla sugar
•1 pinch of baking powder

Mix the butter, sugar and eggs. Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and liquorice powder in another bowl and then add it to the butter mixture. Pour batter into a pan (or several small ones). Bake for about 16-18 minutes in 175 degrees C.