The Forty Days Cake Video

The Forty Days Cake from Dilek on Vimeo.

I told you before the celebration dinner  of my baby’s f”orty days.” I made this yummy cake that day.   Finishing forty days from birth is our heritage and a belief. Now my baby is growing up day by day. Her sleeping, feeding,  and excretion look like an adult person’s. All these are new for my baby. When a baby finishes forty days, we celebrate it on the fortieth day. In Turkish we call this “kırk uçurmak”; in English we may translate this phrase  as “fly the forty days”. On the fortieth day of the birth, first of all the baby is washed then mother has a bath. After this mother visits a neighbour with her baby. The neighbour expresses good wishes about the baby and before they leave, owner of  the house gives eggs and sugar then touches some flour to forehead of baby. The egg means production, sugar means good and sweet life and flour means  intelligence.
I made this yummy cake with the egg and sugar that our neighbour gives us. I  name it “The Forty Days Cake” being  inspired by “fly the forty days”. I think it is made  for the honor of her.
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
•        A cup of milk
•        A cup of sugar
•        3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil
•        2cups of all purpose flour
•        A cup of corn flour
•        3 eggs
•        1 packet of baking powder
•        1 packet of vanilla
•        2 cups of edible nuts( peanut, hazelnut, walnut, almond)

First of all mix egg and sugar with the help of mixer then put vanilla and baking powder  and pour a cup of milk and put 3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil and add all purpose flour and corn flour in it and mix it with a mixer perfectly. Put edible nuts  in it then mix.
Spread  oil the cake mold with a brush then pour the mixture in it. Bake it at 180ºC – 355 ºF for 25-30 minutes.
Enjoy.

Poppy Seed Bun Video

Poppy Seed Bun from Dilek on Vimeo.

This morning my husband and my mom surprised me. They, together, prepared these yummy Poppy Seed Buns. Yesterday nigh I didn’t sleep because of my little princess. I have to feed my baby every two hours. She sleeps all the day and I wake her up every two hours and suckle her so I have irregular sleep times. Thanks to my mom and my husband. They always help me at house works and in kitchen. For example they clean our home and they start to cook dishes for us. As I said at the beginning of my sentence they surprised me and they made Poppy Seed Buns. I made Gozleme before if you remember. And I used poppy seeds with Gozleme. On this photo you see popy seeds but when making Poppy Seed Buns we use mashes seeds.

Ingredients :

• 1 kg all purpose flour
• 1 tbsp salt
• a packet of instant yeast
• Enough water

For filling:
a cup of walnut
a cup mashed poppy seeds
a cup of ground walnut
a cup of sun flower oil

Recipe:
Put whole flour in a case then put instant yeast and salt in it then pour water in it then knead it carefully after that cover the case with a cloth then wait it to rise for an hour. On the other hand prepare the filling. Put the mashed poppy seeds in a case then pour some oil and add ground walnut in it. Mix them perfectly .After waiting for an hour take the cloth from the case.
Before rolling the dough lets prepare the kitchen board. Sprinkle flour on to kitchen board in order not to stick to kitchen board. Now take a piece of dough from the dough case and roll it with your hands.
As you watch on video. Roll out the dough then put the mixture on the dough then spread it perfectly. Then roll it as you see on video then strech it from both edges to extend and swirl it. Pour oil in a tray and spread it. After making buns put them in that tray then put the tray in oven.
Heat the oven on 175C(347F). Bake the buns for 25-30 minutes.
After 25-30 minutes later take out the tray from the oven. Wait the buns to get cold. After getting cold you can serve and eat the buns with tea. Enjoy.

Pumpkin Dessert

I’ve always loved pumpkin dessert since my childhood. Sindrella and her prince come into my mind when I think pumpkin dessert. Sindrella, who has a pumpkin car and glass shoes has to arrive home before the clock shows 12.00.When I decide to make pumpkin dessert, The Story Of Sindrella comes into my mind.

Today I made Pumpkin Dessert. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1kg pumpkin
• 3/2 cups of sugar
• 2-3 cloves
• a cup of crumbled walnut

Recipe:

Peel the pumpkin and wash then slice the pumpkin and put it in a pot then sprinkle sugar on it and close the cover overnight. Pumpkin will get its water out on that time. Put the cloves in that pot the following day then cook them until the pumpkin get soften. When it gets cold, take it in a plate and  sprinkle crumbled walnuts on it.

Enjoy it.