Nieuwe rage: Bubble Tea

Je heb de Bubble Tea winkels inmiddels vast wel zien verschijnen op stations en in winkelstraten. Deze nieuwe trend uit Taiwan begint steeds populairder te worden in Nederland. In dit Verre Oosten drinken ze dit melk-achtige drankje met bubbeltjes al sinds de jaren '80, maar in Nederland is het nog best onbekend. Voor ons een reden om de winkel maar eens van dichterbij te gaan bekijken...

Als je van plan bent een Bubble tea te gaan drinken, zou ik er maar genoeg tijd voor nemen. De honderden verschillende smaakcombinaties maken je keuze alles behalve simpel. Heb je meer zin in mango black tea, green apple milk smaak of toch in een blueberry chocolate mousse drankje? Hierna moet je nog kiezen uit een tiental smaken voor de famous bubble balletjes die het drankje zo speciaal maken. Je kunt hier de keuze maken om de zogenoemde popping balls te nemen. Deze balletjes krijgen hun smaak pas zodra ze open poppen in je mond!

Onze conclusie is dat de bubble tea vooral is voor echte zoetekauwen! Hou je van iets nieuws en anders? Dan zou ik zeker een keertje een bubble tea winkeltjes opzoeken! Ikzelf heb gekozen voor de Kiwi-milk tea met popping Mango balls, zeker een aanrader :-).

Tip: tot 30 juni zijn alle smaken bij de BoBoQ winkels op het station van Eindhoven en Den Bosch te proberen voor maar €1,95!

Lijkt het jou wat? Deze rage uit Taiwan?

Chocolate Chip cookies in een mok

Het perfecte recept voor een geslaagde lady's night, verjaardag of gewoon een random vrije avond! De chocolade chip koekjes in een mok! Wij kwamen deze lekkernij tegen op de eet-site Culy.nl en waren meteen overtuigd! En nu aan ons om jullie te overtuigen...

Het recept is easy-peasy, zelf voor de kook-diseasers onder ons! Een mixer of oven is overbodig, het enige dat je nodig hebt is trek in chocolade en een magnetron! ;-) Verder moet je zorgen dat je voor twee kopjes de onderstaande ingrediënten in huis hebt:

50 gr bruine basterdsuiker
20 gr boter
80 gr bloem
1 ei
60 gram stukjes chocola

We weten dat chocola alleen verkocht wordt per 100 gram, maar jullie weten vast wel raad met die overige 40 gram! ^^ Als je de ingrediënten in huis hebt, dan kun je beginnen met 'koken'.

1) Pak een mok en breek het ei erin.
2) Doe een theelepel bruine basterdsuiker bij het ei.
3) Doe nu 1/3 kopje bloem en een theelepel boter bij de rest in je kopje.
4) Hierna kun je er 3 tot 4 theelepels chocolade bij doen.
5) Roer nu de massa met een lepel door elkaar.
6) Zet nu je kopje in de magnetron en laat hem er 1,5 tot 2 minuten in staan.

Stap 5: Roer nu de massa met een lepel door elkaar!

Je kunt er een bolletje ijs aan toevoegen als je wilt, en daarna; smullen maar!

Closet full of tea!

Sometimes you come across the most weird, awesome stuff on the internet. Like those cute tea-hangers we found today on www.yankodesign.com. 

Why only buy a closet for your clothes? These tea-hangers are easy, cute and actually kind of unuseful!  The creators tell us about their product: 'If the Hanger Tea were to be submitted as an entry to tea-packaging-awards (if such a thing existed), I say it would win hands down!' 

What do you think? Would you buy & use it?

DIY: Real chocolate mask

We all love facial masks, that makes our face shine again! We found this inspiring movie on Youtube about how to make your own mask, made of chocolate! :) The only problem; how to put it on your face instead of accidently eat it! ^^

The only three things you need: Chocolate (of course), honey and yoghurt or whipped cream! Bubzbeauty will show you in the next video how to make this delicious mask!

We both were very inspired by this movie. So.... just have a little patience! Our (failure?) video will follow soon...

Did you ever try to make your own mask? 

The new super snack!

We just read an article that will make every balance-day a lot easier! Forget eating fruit & vegetable, just grab a hand of popcorn every day! :) Researchers from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania just discovered that popcorn contains much more antioxidants than fruit and vegetables. So, just a really healthy snack!

Antioxidants can help you body to protect against cancer and heart diseases. Popcorn contains more than twice as much of those than fruitsnacks or just normal corn. The study about this wonderfood also tells us that one serving of popcorn provides us more than 70% of our daily whole grain intake! The most persons get about half of their daily intake every day, so popcorn can help them!

Popcorn may contain more antioxidants than fruit and vegetables, but of course, it is still important to eat those! ;) Because they contain a lot of other vitamins, which you can't live without! You also have to watch out with the sugar and salt on your popcorn! This make you popcorn more unhealthy!

But when you are at the movies, just at home or hanging out with a friend; 
no hard feelings, just pop that corn! :) 

Let's try a Cup of Chococino

Review Nescafé Dolce Gusto: I was one of the lucky ones, who could test the new Coffee-maker the Nescafé Dolce Gusto. After 10 years of drinking coffee made with a filter, this is something new! After seeing more all the different flavors, I was immediately enthusiast! You can make coffee specialties from normal coffee, to cappuccino, to a latte! Everything is possible!  

My favorite until now is definitely the Chococino! This is a combination between hot chocolate and coffee, with a layer of cream on top! In this article, I will explain, for the coffee-pad-virgins, how to make this delicious cup of Chococino!

Step 1: Make sure that the coffee-make is on a save place.

Step 2: Fill the water thank with water. Be aware: don’t add too much water.

Step 3: Get a mug of the right size (you can see this on the box of the coffee) and place it in your machine.

Step 4: Push the black handle up.

Step 5: You can now pull the pad-holder to you.

Step 6: For our Chocoine, we first place the cup with chocolate.

Step7: Place the cup in the holder and close it.

Step 8: Push the black handle down.

Step 9: Chose how strong you want your chocolate milk.

Step 10: You can go for cold of warm chocolate milk by pushing the red or the blue button.

Step 11: Repeat those steps with the second cup: the milk.

Step 12: Wait until your mug is full!

Step 13: JUST ENJOY!

It looks like a lot of work like this, but it actually isn’t. I am very enthusiast! Are there more people who own this coffee-maker?

Do you also want to test free, new products? Take a look at www.theinsiders.eu!

Things to love! #2

Last week we shared some cool stuff with you guys, that we found online! But luckily for us, there are more than thousand other really great things online. So here is our second post about Things to love! This weeks theme: It's all about food! <3

We all love hot chocolate, but we also adore cookies!
With this dotted mug we can combine those two!

Where did you leave the pepper and the salt? Well, with a little magic and of
 course these wonderful pepper and salt shakers, you will never lose them again!

With these cookie cutters you can even make it a puzzle to eat the right cookie! 

When you are making cookies anyway, why not make them absolutely beautiful?
We want this cookie press!! 

Well, you can't really eat it! But we agree that this pizza sleeping bag is
 absolute awesome and has to be showed to you all!

And again: If you want to buy or take a closer look at these stuff! Just send an email! ;)

Next weeks theme will be: mustaches! :) Already curious?

Cupcakes too cute to eat!

Cupcakes are one of our favorite kind of food :) So, when we came across this site, we were absolutely dazzled away! We picked out the most beautiful, cute, original and tasteful ones to show to you guys. 

These Ballerina-cupcakes are so beautiful, it's almost a waist to eat them.

These are the only kind of flamingoes, we ever wanted to eat.

Angry birds is still one of the most popular game, but it is a waist to trow with these!

This peacock makes us want MORE!

And let's finish our meal with these delicious blackberry Cupcakes

Unfortunately, you have to be very creative and talented to make these beautiful cupcakes. We, Femke and Joli, are only made to EAT them! :) Do you want to see more extremely cute food? You can find more on http://www.cutestfood.com/.

A cup of Cupcake-tea

Are you addicted to your daily cup of tea? Or are you more a sweet tooth and do you absolutely love cupcakes? We came across this fabulous tea in the store and directly saw the solution! :) We found Cupcake-tea! 

There are four different kind of flavors, 

- Chocolicious (chocolate & mint), 

- Lovely Cherry (cherry & vanilla), 

- Strawberry Kiss (strawberry & cream) and 

- Sweet Honey (banana & honey). 

We are both big fans of the Lovely Cherry one.

For our Dutch readers: Don't search any longer, you can buy this tea in almost every Xenos! 

Little tip: Did you know that the temperature of the water of the tea is very important for the flavor of your tea? So be a little patient and wait until your water is really boiling when you stick your tea bag in it! 

What is your favorite kind of tea?

I chocolove you!

Valentine is coming up! Got a boyfriend, but still no gift or just got no boyfriend at all? Chocolate can fix all those problems! We came across these really great chocolate-gifts. Take a look at these products made of the most wonderful thing in the world; CHOCOLAT! 

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(www.megadgets.nl)

Do you feel like eating pizza, but don't have enough patience to wait for it to be ready? Try this chocolate-pizza! Easy, delicious and when you finish it, you are definitely full! Also great to share with you boyfriend!

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(www.stirringmug.com)

If you want to drink a romantic cup of hot chocolate, but you actually want to do other stuff, this self stirring mug is your solution! It stirs your chocolate milk, tea of coffee itself!  The best excuse to be lazy! If you are not lazy, this mug can be a great time killer! You can watch hours to your spinning chocolate, enjoy!

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(www.melburyandappleton.co.uk)

Getting hungry from playing game for several hours? Just eat your game after you're done! This way you got yourself something fun to do and a meal on Valentine's day!  This chocolate Molopoly game even tastes great! Little tip: if you are losing, you can just eat the houses from the other player! Winning is that easy! ;)

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(www.choco-paradijs.nl)

If you don't got a handy boyfriend! Just buy your tools yourself! You bet you know what to do with these chocolate-tools! They are delicious and you can't hurt yourself! ;)

What is your favorite chocolate-product?

The one thing you can't do in the summer!

With this horrible weather, you can better try to make the best of it! How? Just by doing the one thing you can’t do in the summer: ice skating. Borrow some skates from a cute neighbor kid and then go find a frozen lake.  

Just make sure you play it safe and don’t forget to bring warm clothes, a cap and gloves. If you are an advanced skater, you can try those wonderful moves Michelle Trachtenberg did in Ice princess, but when you are a skate-virgin, you can better try to focus on not falling down.When you are ice-skating you burn more than 400 calories an hour. So after you are finished, you got yourself the best excuse for a delicious cup of hot chocolate. You want the best, most delicious cup of chocolate? Try the recipe beneath!

We all LOVE hot chocolate!
First, fill  ¾ of a cup with chocolate milk. Put it in the microwave and leave it in there for about two minutes (depending on the size of your cup). Then add about three marshmallows and put it all back in the microwave for another two minutes. Add some whipped cream on top and ENJOY!

The right one is how you should NOT do it ;)

Important: watch your chocolate milk when it is in the microwave. Your milk might be boiling and your marshmallows can explode. Unfortunately, this happened to us once. You can see the result on the right side..


What is your favorite winter-experience?

Let’s act a little crazy. Let’s go out for a McBreakfast!

Heavy Saturday night? That’s the best excuse to start your Sunday with the fattest breakfast ever! Get up early and go eat a McBreakfast! A friend and me decided to do this crazy idea a couple of weeks ago and went to check out the McBreakfast.  

It is half past 9 and I am already in front of the McDonald waiting for my friend. It feels like everybody is looking at me and thinks: ‘We know what you are going to do; you are going to eat breakfast at the McDonald!’ When my friend arrives, we hurry inside. The smell inside is both making me feel sick, both smelling great.

We order the McBreakfast and sit down at the nearest table where a cranky employee brings us our breakfast. I look down and see two little, mysterious packets on the table. The first one appears to be a McMuffin with egg. I am curious and open the paper. Inside, there is a muffin in the shape of a little pie with a perfectly shaped egg on top. I never knew eggs could be this shape! The muffin and the egg stick together by an enormous layer of cheddar cheese. I always had a weakness for cheddar cheese, so I immediately start eating. How weird and chemical the egg looks, it taste good. So does the croissant, that came in a typical McDonalds box.

At that moment, my friend points to something behind me and says: ‘Woow, we are luckily we weren’t 10 minutes later!’ I look behind me and I can’t believe it. All the cash registers are open and in front of all of them there are dozens of people waiting. ‘Are they all here for a McBreakfast?’ No, some of them don’t just order a McBreakfast, they walk away with McFlurries, Quarter Pounders and Milkshakes. Wow, I would never be able to eat that, this early. But who I am to judge, I’m also sitting here at 9 p.m.

Finally, we finish our orange juice. Yeah! We feel like we are a little healthy now. This feeling is immediately gone when we take a second look at the boxes of our McMuffin and Croissant and see the calories that we just ate. ‘Oops’. Nevertheless, it tasted great. It was a little bit an odd experience, but we weren’t suspecting anything else. 

What to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon?

Just go make the most wonderful chocolate cake in the world! A Mississippi Mud Cake! I will be celebrating my 20^th birthday this Sunday, so I probably won’t be bored. But with this chocolate cake, I won’t be the only one in the celebrating mood.

You are warned! If you are the only one around, this cake can be very dangerous. One bite and you are sold. Finished the whole cake? Then you know you can skip dinner the next two weeks, because this cake contains more than half a kilo of sugar, one whole pack of butter and two chocolate bars. But it is so delicious that all of this doesn’t mind anymore when the first delicious bite is melting on your tongue.

First of all, you need to run some errands. For this Mississippi Mud Cake you will need:

315 grams of flour

625 grams of sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon of salt

250 grams of butter

1,5 cups of milk (around 375 ml)

75 grams of cacoa

2 eggs

1 cup of whipped cream

90 ml of syrup

2 bars of pure chocolate

Your next step is to preheat the oven, at about 180 degrees.
Then you take a cooking pot and add the butter, the milk, the whipped cream and the cacoa.
Heat everything until the butter is melted.
Take a bowl and add the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.
Take a spoon and give it a good stir.
Then you have to put everything together including your two eggs.
Take a mixer and keep on mixing until you have created a smooth mixture.
Pour everything in a big platter and put it in the oven for about 20 to 25 minutes.
Meanwhile you can make the topping. Melt the chocolate and add the syrup.
Keep stirring until your cake is ready and you can put the melted chocolate on top.

And then there is only one thing left to do, just rejoice. And try to say no to that attracting, wonderful, but forbidden, third peace. Good luck with that!