Melkkos (Milk soup)

Melkkos, topped with cinnamon sugar

Ingredients

Snysels (cutlets, or noodles)

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup water

Melkkos

• 2 liter milk
• 1/2 cup butter
• Pinch of salt
• 1/4 cup cinnamon sugar

Method

Snysels - noodles
In a bowel, mix just one (1) cup of flour with the baking powder and the water.  The dough should be a little stretchy and easy to handle. If the dough is too dry, add a tablespoon of water.

Use some of the 2nd cup of flour and sprinkle on a large work area.
With a rolling pin, roll out the dough until nice and even; about as thick as a crêpe, or soft tortilla.

Prepare a clear working area by sprinkling some of the remaining flour over the area.
Cut the dough into strips, about 10cm wide, and move one strip to the working area.

Cut this piece of dough into thin snysels, or "noodles". The snysels should be about 2 - 4 mm wide.

A strip of Snysels

After the whole strip has been cut, sprinkle a bit of flour over the snysels and pile them in a separate area. Be careful not to mush them together. 

Snysels piled with extra flour

The extra flour serves a dual purpose here; it will help keep the snysels apart, and will help thicken the main dish.

Repeat until all dough has been cut into snysels.  

Sprinkle any remaining flour over the snysels.

Melkkos - main dish
Place a thick bottomed pot on the stove and turn the stove top on high-to-medium-high (about 80%).
Add the milk, butter and a pinch of salt.

Bring the milk to almost boiling, stirring occasionally to prevent it from burning to the bottom of the pot. As soon as the milk starts to froth, turn down the stove just a notch.

Add the snysels a scoop at a time, and carefully stir the soup the cover the snysels and mix in any loose flour.

Repeat until all the snysels have been added. 

Let the soup cook for about 10 mins while stirring occasionally to prevent the milk from burning.
After about 10 mins the soup should have started to thicken and the noodles should be mostly cooked.

Melkkos cooking - almost boiling andfrothing a little

Lower the stove to med-low (about 30%)
Add the cinnamon sugar mix and stir.

Let simmer for a couple of minutes while setting the table.
Remember to stir occasionally...

Serve with coffee and extra cinnamon sugar to taste.

Melkkos, topped with cinnamon sugar

Hints

Use a pizza cutter to quickly cut the dough into long, thin strips.

The baking powder is optional and can be left out without any substitute.

The cinnamon sugar should just be a light brown colour, but if the cinnamon mix is too strong ou can also add extra sugar on top of the soup.

5 Minute Cake in a Mug (Microwave)

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup flour
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup milk
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil

flavouring (pick one of the following to flavour)

• 1 tbsp peanut butter
• 1 tbsp Nutella (chocolate spread)
• 1/2 oz strong coffee

Method

Pick a good-sized microwave safe mug to make this cake. 

Mix the flour, cocoa, baking powder, sugar and salt in the mug.

Add the milk and oil to the dry mix and whisk until smooth.

Add one of the flavourings if desired.

If adding the coffee, add the coffee to the mug and stir into the mixture.

Else simply drop the peanut butter, or Nutella on top of the mix and give it a light swirl - just enough to submerge, but not enough to mix it in.

Place the mug in the centre of the microwave and cook on HIGH for about 1 minute and 15 seconds (75 seconds).

Eat straight out of the cup with a spoon, or serve on a small plate with some ice cream.

Hints

Place the mug on a paper tower when cooking in the microwave just incase the mug overflows.

Not all microwaves are the same, so you may find yours will to take between 70 - 80 seconds.

Hot Fudge Chocolate Sauce

This recipe makes an awesome chocolate sauce for your ice cream!

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 tbsp cocoa
• pinch salt
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Method

Combine dry ingredients in microwave safe bowel
Add water

Microwave on high for 30 seconds.  Remove and stir.
Repeat until you get a good texture.

Add butter and vanilla extract.
Stir until smooth and well mixed.

Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt

• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temp
• 1/4 cup cream cheese, at room temp
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

• 2 large eggs

• 1 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Method

In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, salt.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter, cream cheese, sugar, light brown sugar and vanilla extract until light and fluffy.

Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after adding each egg.

Add the flour mixture and beat until mixed.

Stir in the chocolate chips.

Cover with plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for at least two hours.

When ready, preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (375 Fahrenheit). and grease two cookie sheets, or line them with parchment paper.

Roll golfball-sized balls and flatten the on the cookie sheet to just over 1 centimeter (or 3/4 inch) in height.  Space them about 4 centimeters (2 inches) apart.

Bake for about 10 minutes, or until golden brown.

Remove the cookie sheets from the oven and let them cool for about 2 minutes before moving the cookies to wire rack to cool completely.

Yield: About 3 dozen cookies