Cooking 105

Ciao!

Spring Break is officially over and it's back to reality! Good thing reality here in Italy is still fun! :) Today's cooking class was one of my favorites! Mary Lou taught us how to make...

Mushroom Soup & Nutella Cake

Ingredients: mushrooms, cream, cheese, bread, sunflower oil, olive oil,
garlic, wine, butter, bouillon cubes

First, we made the croutons! Which in my opinion- makes the soup!
Laura cut a loaf of bread into little squares while Megan chopped up some garlic.

The garlic was then put in a pan with olive oil and some chili powder.

Once heated, we added the mushrooms. LOTS of mushrooms!

While the mushrooms were cooking, we finished making the croutons. Mary Lou put sunflower oil into a smaller pan and added the pieces of bread. They cook fairly quick.

Once they are toasted, remove them from the pan and place them on paper towels in order to absorb the excess oil.

Mary Lou continued to stir the mushrooms in between making the croutons.

Once the mushrooms were cooked, we poured them into a big soup bowl and
 then used a mixer to grind them up.

Add cream and then water depending on how thick you want it.

Mary Lou also added a 1/2 stick of butter, white wine, and chicken bouillon cubes. 

Finished croutons! So good!

The longer it cooks the thicker it will be.
Mary Lou added some chopped up parsley for decoration :)

Put lots of croutons and cheese on top and EAT! 

and now for the very simple but tasty cake...

Ingredients: sponge cake, Nutella, cream, milk

Separate the cake into layers and pour a few drops of milk onto the cake to soften it.

Mix the Nutella and cream in a bowl.

[I give full credit to my roomie, Katie, for this cake]

Spread the Nutella mix in between the layers and all around!

...and that's it! So easy!!!

...and So delicious!! :)

If you don't like mushrooms I do not recommend this recipe :)

Hope everyone has a happy monday!!

xoxo
Britt