Issue #3 | April 2017
crafting & cooking
Eggs - bunnies for our Easter table!
Colorful eggs holder | Mini Handmade Vegan Burgers | Lamb cake | Spring garland | Easter soaps
Angeliki | www.cookika.com
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m Angeliki and my friends call me Kika. Since I was a kid, l constantly meddled in my mother's kitchen. I liked to collect images, smells and tastes, while trying to save as much information and experience for future use. I have a weakness for sweets and therefore I'm constantly looking for healthy alternatives that offer enjoyment without the caloric burden while I give particular importance to the nutritional value of my ingredients. For me, being in the kitchen and testing new recipes is the best psychotherapy. I feel complete when I share my food with loved ones, old friends and new which I make thanks to CooKika's virtual kitchen.
Anna | journeycreativity.blogspot.gr
Atena | www.craftcooklove.gr
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i, I am Athena owner of the blog craftcooklove.gr. I enjoy cooking and baking, decorating my space, easy crafting. I share all of this experience with my blog readers. Also I try to squeeze all of my roles within 24 hours: being a mum to Penelope, being a spouse to John, being a dog mum to Pares, being a working girl. Wish me luck!
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i, I am Anna. Graphic designer, mum to Stefanos, wife to Theo but above all creative! Love colors, circle, sphere, photography, nature, recycling… I am exciting to find ideas and transform simple materials into craft original items. You can find me on “Journey into Creativity”.
Zina | www.efzincreations.com
Eleni | craftwithmom.blogspot.gr
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i! My name is Eleni and you can find me and read me at my blog, CraftWithMom. Mom of two, but also addicted to crafts, the past 5 years I am trying to combine both of them. In love with the three men of my life, I am always getting inspired by them. I adore the sea, seashells and Greek islands, but also a walk in the mountains and rainy weather. I enjoy camping and spending time with my friends. I admire handmade things, made with love .
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love to create things from old materials and especially jewels. My first love was sewing, but then I was trying to find more materials to use to create something useful. My first attempt? When I was almost 6 years old I created a necklace with beads from my grandma’s old curtain! More experiments followed with uncommon materials but finally my latest and biggest love is fabric buttons!!!! My life completed with my young princess and the young prince! Crafting small creations and jewels with my girl is something really relaxing for me. And what about the prince? Well, yesterday he started using glow! He will soon be an active member in our projects!
Maro | www.akamatra.com
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i! I am Maro also known as Akamatra, which is an old fashioned way to say (in Greek) that a woman is lazy in house related chores! That's me! I love to experiment with DIY projects (blame it on my Chemistry background) instead of doing the dishes! I am addicted to crafting, drinking tea and eating chocolate. I try to make things that I need and I don't bother myself with complicated DIYs that produce sophisticated stuff no one is going to use! Stick around, we'll have fun!
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crafting & cooking
Editorial
The spring is ďŹ nally here after a really rough winter here in Greece. The sun is ďŹ nally shining, the flowers are blooming and for us is the perfect time to enjoy the new season and its wonderful colors!! Our new spring issue will help you in cooking new things (vegan or not), making easter crafts and it will get you in that easter, spring mood. Enjoy your reading!! We wish you a wonderful Easter!! The C2 team Aggeliki, Athena, Anna, Zina, Maro
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Colorful eggs holder
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Crochet chicken
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Mini Handmade Vegan Burgers
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Easter Bunnies Full Of Surprises
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Lamb cake
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DIY Easter Eggs Decoupage!
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Eggs - bunnies for our Easter table!
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Shrimps & Coconut Milk Noodles
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Spring garland
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Easter Chickens
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Easter soaps
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Tahini Brownies
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Colorful eggs holder ANNA | journeycreativity.blogspot.gr
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aster is one of the most important Orthodox celebration. A joyful celebration in the spring! This gives you the inspiration to create colorful.
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For this colorful eggs holder you need: • air dry clay (white) • acrylic ink You starts with the clay creating a worm about 50 cm. Find the average, catch both ends and turn right and left at the same time. Getting the plait and wrap it in a circle. After drying, paint it with acrylic inks. The egg holder are ready!
Happy and colorful Easter!
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Crochet chicken Maro | www.akamatra.com
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fast and cute crochet chicken toy;
the real ones should be with their mothers after all!
Click Here For more!
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Mini Handmade Vegan Burgers Athena | www.craftcooklove.gr
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ho said that burgers are not for vegans? Please look at the pic
carefully. I know even I get fooled that this is a meat burger but it is not. Everything in this burger is vegan, the bun, the sauce and of course the burger. Which burger was a pleasant surprise for me the meatlover. It tastes really good!! So let’s check out step by step how to cook and impress your veggie taste!!!
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For the buns (4 pieces) Ingredients 1/2 tbsp ground flax seed 1 1/2 tbsp water 1/4 (48gr) warm (not hot) water 1/2 tbsp (3gr) dry yeast 1/2 cup (80gr) almond milk 1 1/2 cup (188gr) all purpose flour 1 tbsp (6gr) coconut oil (melted ) 1 tbsp. brown sugar 1/2 tsp seasalt In a small bowl mix the flex seed with the water and let it get sticky In the mixer ball mix the yeast with the warm water and let it get bubbly and rise for 10 minutes. As soon as the yeast mix gets foamy, mix the almond milk with the coconut oil, the flax mix, the sugar and salt with a spoon. With the dough accessory of the mixer mix the ingredients until the dough becomes smooth and sticks away from the sides of the mixer bowl. Cover with a kitchen towel and let it double in size for an hour at a warm space. Cover an oven pan with cooking paper and cut the dough in four even pieces. Spread them on the cooking paper and cover again with the towel. Let it sit for 40minutes and get even bigger. During the 10 last minutes, preheat the 20 oven at 190 degrees Celsius.
Bake for about 15 to 20 minutes until they get gold on top.
For the sauce (one small vase) Ingredients 1/ 2 cup (80gr) almond milk 1/2 tsp sea salt 2 tsp. (7gr) apple cider 2 tsp. (9gr) marple syrup 1 cup vegetable oil 24gr ketchup 12gr mustard Εκτέλεση With the food processor mix the almond milk with the salt, the syrup and the apple cide. Add the oil and process until the mixture gets thick. Add the ketchup and mustard and mix to get the sauce even. Store the sauce in a jar and refrigerate.
Black Bean Burger (4pieces) Ingredients 1tsp ground flax seed & 1 1/2 tsp water 1 can (400gr) black beans 36gr breadcrumbs 1/2 tsp garlic powder 1/2 tsp dried tarragon 3 tbsp vegetable oil Place the the flax seeds with the water in a
small bowl and let it sit. In the food processor melt in rough pieces the beans (strained) Empty the mixture in a large bowl and add the breadcrumbs, the spices and mix all ingredients by hand. Make 4 medium sized burgers In a frying pan or a grill pan pour the oil and cook the burgers 3 to 4 minutes at each side.
Serving the burger 2 leaves lollo rosso 4 tomato slices Cut the buns in half, place the lollo rosso, the veggie burgers, the sauce and the tomato. Top with the upper size of the bun !!
Enjoy your burger the vegan way!!!
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Easter Bunnies Full Of Surprises Eleni | craftwithmom.blogspot.gr
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his year our Easter gifts are cute bunnies! Sewn bunnies from wrapping paper!
Full of small surprises for kids and adults!
Click Here For more!
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Lamb cake Angeliki | www.cookika.com
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his little lamb will make your day. A sweet emoticon that
calms you mood and makes you think of countryside, meadows, holidays. Challenge your children to play with you and decorate a happy cake for your Easter table! Happy Easter!
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Ingredients: For the cake: 4 eggs 300 g. sugar 250 g. butter at room temperature 1 tsp. vanilla extract 500 g. cake flour 1 tsp. baking powder 2 cups milk (500 ml) zest of one lemon For the frosting: 230 g. cream cheese 125 g. butter 1 cup powdered sugar For decoration: Masrhmallows Some melted chocolate
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Preparation: Preheat oven at 170 degrees Celsius.
For the frosting:
Grease and flour a 24cm round cake form.
Beat on low speed the butter, icing sugar and cream cheese until homogenized. Increase the speed of the mixer and beat for approximately 3-5 minutes, until smooth. Put the frosting in the refrigerator to stand for at least half an hour.
In a deep bowl or mixer bowl, beat the eggs and the sugar until white and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add butter in small pieces and beat until incorporated. Sieve the flour with the baking powder and add to the mixture alternately with milk. Finally add the lemon zest and vanilla extract. Pour the mixture in the mold and bake the middle oven rack for 50-60 minutes. We test if ready when placing a toothpick in the center of the cake and comes out clean.
Decoration: Frost the entire cake. Then, using the mashmallows, design the face of the lamb. Melt chocolate and with a piping bag design the mouth and eyes / eyelids of the lamb.
Good luck!
Allow to stand for 10 minutes and then remove from pan and let cool completely on a rack.
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DIY Easter Eggs Decoupage! Zina | www.efzincreations.com
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t is really fun to decorate your Easter eggs and of
course to do this with your kids! A craft for everyone! Simple and so funny to do it! Well... my kids have spent at least 2 hours helping me!
Click Here For more!
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Eggs - bunnies for our Easter table! Eleni | craftwithmom.blogspot.gr
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ainted eggs never miss from the Easter table.
Here is a way to make them part of the decoration! Easily and quickly convert them into beautiful, cute bunnies. A different proposal for our Easter table! Let's see how they are made!
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Materials: white towels (cloth or paper towel) boiled eggs water vinegar food coloring food markers Teaspoon fabric colors Paintbrush Cord In the container with the warm water, add a few drops of food coloring, stir and add a spoon of vinegar. Put into the eggs and let ďŹ ve or more minutes depending on how dark you like them. Remove with the spoon and let them dry. Once dry with the pastry marker we form our little bunny. Fold the towel in a band and wrap the egg the way you see in the photo. Tie with the cord. Optionally paint the ears with fabric colors diluted with water.
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Shrimps & Coconut Milk Noodles Athena | www.craftcooklove.gr
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his recipe came up after a friend’s phone call who ended
as: hey I only have shrimps, coconut milk and noodles which are due soon, could you please post a recipe with these ingredients to help me use the noodles? Oh what a great idea!! Someone giving me the ingredients and me coming up with a recipe !! I went for it and here it comes:
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Spring garland Maro | www.akamatra.com
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pring brings light and optimism, colors and the
promise of summer. Our house needs renewing but that doesn't have to be expensive or difďŹ cult to make. With an old book, some bakers twine and a little bit of yarn you can make a spring garland for your room!
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You'll need a few pages of an old book (preferably a destroyed one) a couple of meters of bakers twine, yarn in the colors of the twine, paper glue, a pair of scissors and a pom pom maker. Cut out a triangle from the book pages (height 14cm, width 9cm) and use it as a pattern to cut out 8-10 triangles depending on how long you need the garland to be. Cut a big piece of bakers twine around two meters long or more. Put the twine over the triangles and fold them over it at about 1cm. Use the glue to glue the fold down and cut the excess on the sides. Place the triangles with a 20cm distance between them. With the pom pom maker make 4 pom poms. One of each color and two with mixed colors. Use their long ends to tie them between the triangles going one by one. With the same color yarn make 6 small tassels and tie them between the triangles which you left without a pom pom. Make a loop to each end of the bakers twine and hang on the wall Ready!!!
May this spring be an awesome one!!!!
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Easter Chickens ANNA | journeycreativity.blogspot.gr
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hese miniature egg chickens make a fun and
whimsical decoration for Easter. Styrofoam eggs make it easy.
Click Here For more!
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Easter soaps Zina | www.efzincreations.com
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e are in love with Easter and the main reason is that is in
the middle of Spring, so a great opportunity to have small excursions with an amazing weather! Also, do not forget that this period is just perfect for handmade gifts especially to our godchildren. So this year except the cloths and the Easter candle, what about creating handmade soaps full of amazing colors just for them instead of offering sweets favours? They can be created really easy and in any schema we wish. I am sure that they will be loved!
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Materials for handmade Easter soaps: • Glycerin soap base • Easter Soap Molds • Food Coloring • Ethanol in Mist bottle (optionally)
The procedure is really simple and easy. Firstly cut in pieces the glycerin soap base and put it in a bowl perfect for microwave and heat them for 30secs. It should be liquid by now but if not heat it for a few seconds more. Split it in a few bowls, one for each color. Add in every bowl 1-2 drops of food coloring and mix it. Spray the mold with ethanol (We do this in order to remove any small bubbles that are created in the glycerin) and add the liquid mixture. Spray once more and let it dry. Remove them carefully from the soap mold and your soaps are ready! Tips: 1. If you wish to make them aromatic then just add 3-4 drops of your favorite essential oil. Just have in mind not to over do it since the soaps are for children! 2. In case it is not able to find soap molds, you can replace them with ice cube molds or even with chocolate molds. Actually this time of the year it is really easy to find molds in many adorable patterns!
Happy “clean” crafting!!!! And Happy Easter!
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Tahini Brownies Angeliki | www.cookika.com
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ave you ever tried "halva" as alternative and
vegan option for you brownies? I challenge you to try it and I am sure that you will enjoy the most healthy, chewy and super quick brownies!
Click Here For more!
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Craft Party #5! In a very beautiful place, which has become our haunt, took place our 5th Craft Party! With talented Anna guiding us we made a beautifull and unique construction. Most of us ďŹ rst met and tested the technique of mandala. And we fell in love with it! Mandala Hearts from C2 team!
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Οι Χορηγοι μασ!
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Last Year Easter Issue!! Our last year C2 Easter issue has a special place in our heart! It was our ďŹ rst issue! Fantastic DIYs and delicious sweet and savory recipes, worth seeing and try! Happy Holidays!
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