Everybody has their favourite cakes which they can't resist. My son is a lover of donuts with icing and orange peel. My daughter goes for caramel-chocolate flavours, so I buy butterscotch cupcakes for her at the bakery.

Today's dinner was topped off with a simple and beautiful dessert: mini cupcakes with light whipped cream and decorated with juicy bits of fruit. They are so easy that everyone can manage them, and the effect ... try for yourself. Our mini cupcakes disappeared before the tea was finished. I think our table will host them again soon. The good thing about them is that they can look different every time you make them. You just have to change the fruity decoration.

Ingredients for 12 cupcakes:
Dough:
200g of butter
300g of flour
100g of sugar
1 tablespoon of cream
1 egg

When before Easter I planned what to cook, I realised that the holidays should last at least a week. I couldn't do everything and we would not be able to eat it all. I don't even like to think about wasting food. Therefore, some of my ideas would have to wait their turn.

One such idea was light lemon cookies with a hint of coconut for the spring. I found the recipe on www.candycompany.pl. The cookies are bright, crispy on top and fluffy inside. Apparently, you can store them in a hermetically sealed box, but we didn't have time to check this, because the cookies disappeared too fast.

Ingredients:
130g of flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
90g of butter
a pinch of salt
100g of sugar
lemon peel grated from one lemon
1 egg
1 teaspoon of lemon essence
1 teaspoon of lemon juice

If one day I manage to prepare a new dish that isn't spaghetti, borscht with ravioli or crepes and it disappears from the plates in a nice atmosphere, I will engrave a gold plate and hang it in the kitchen. It will motivate me to cook more. The way my kids push food around the plate with sour faces exasperates me, because right now they don't like tomatoes, courgettes or cucumbers. My frustration reached its zenith when my son was given a homemade cookie. It emerged that he doesn't like ... chocolate mixture. Fortunately, it is just him.

Today I would like to share with you a recipe for homemade candy bars. If you follow this recipe, the bars are quite thick. If you would like them to be a bit slimmer, spread the chocolate mixture on two wafers.

The recipe comes from www.przepisy.pl.

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons of cocoa
200g of butter
100 ml of water
125g of white sugar
125g of brown sugar
400g of milk powder

Strawberries are a sign of summer for me. Every year I await the sweet and excellent smelling fruit along with the holiday season. Indeed, fresh strawberries are irreplaceable, but this year temptation beat me and I bought some frozen fruits. I made an eye-catching but simple dessert from strawberries and natural yoghurt. Robust red strawberry mousse looks beautiful, but you may set this off with other fruits: kiwi or oranges, and in the summer any fresh fruit. For those of you who believe that desserts should always contain chocolate, I propose that you add this homemade chocolate decoration.
The recipe comes from Lidl cookery book.

Ingredients:
Yoghurt layer
200g of natural yoghurt
1 big teaspoon of gelatine
2 teaspoons of caster sugar
100ml of milk

Soak the gelatine in 50 ml of the milk and leave for a while. Heat the milk a bit in a microwave oven and mix until the gelatine is dissolved. Add the rest of the milk and mix it in. Mix the yoghurt with caster sugar, add the milk and mix again. Put the yoghurt layer into some cups and leave in the fridge for 2 hours.

My daughter called this simple dessert "a bit cold – a bit hot". The name is accurate because some really hot peaches were served with balls of ice cream. You can make this dessert all year round. In the summer use fresh, sun-blessed peaches, and in the winter peaches from a tin will be excellent. The secret of this dessert is the buttery, sweet and crusty cover made with almonds and butter cookies. You may use any flavour ice-cream and leaves of fresh peppermint or juicy green slices of kiwi for decoration.

Ingredients:
12 halves of peaches
100g of butter cookies
40g of butter
25g of almond flakes
50g of brown sugar
2 egg yolks
Ice-cream
leaves of fresh peppermint or kiwi