Dreams are necessary to life, but the life is not a dream.

Nowadays it has become fashionable that exquisite dishes are accompanied with flowers. Its medicinal properties and health benefits have kept them near the kitchen for thousands of years, in countries like: China, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, France, USA and Greece.

The flowers give in your plate joy, color and fragance. Also, they have a lot of vitamins as A, B, C, D, E , K, PP, B12... And what's more they contains special oils beneficial to the body and you don't need ingest a lot of quantities to notice all the benefits.

For example Begonia White Sugar is a edible flower that it offers a refreshing acid and are both sweet and nice, provides us with vitamins and proteins, either in salad or in combination with whipped cream, cream cheese, dipped in chocolate, crystallized ...




Truffle cake with honey and crystallized flowers

Ingredients:

For the dough:

-125 gr. flour

-Cold water

-75 oz. cold butter cut

-1 teaspoon powdered sugar

-Pinch of salt

For the filling:

-4 spoons of honey from flowers

-125 ml thick cream

-225 grs. cottage cheese

-1 whole egg

-120 grs. cream cheese

-2 egg yolks

-25grs. star violet or rose petal badior.

-25grs. crystallized violet or crystallized rose petals

-2 spoons superfine sugar


PREPARATION:

The first thing to do is grease a fluted pie pan with butter detachable base.

In a food processor is to sift the flour with salt, add butter and mix until it resembles breadcrumbs.

Add sugar and water needed to be thicker.

Spread the dough on a floured surface and form a circle larger than the mold. Put the dough into the pan pressing down firmly.

Pass the roller over the edge to remove excess dough. Put a piece of tracing paper on top and let cool for half an hour in the refrigerator.

Remove the base of the cake from refrigerator and cook for 10 minutes in the oven, preheated to 190 º C.

Remove the baking paper and bake 5 minutes more.

On the other hand be mixed with cream cheese curd and clotted cream. Chop a few petals of fresh rose or violet. Add the egg yolks, whole eggs, honey and sugar and stir.

Put the filling over the base and half hours baking the cake.

Remove and let cool 10 minutes in pan. Sprinkle with a little honey and garnish with rose petals violet or crystallized or crystallized.