Robin McKinley: Sunshine

A girl living in the maybe not so far future where the humankind knows about the creatures of the night and then some meets a guy who happens to be a vampire (her enemy in general) but their common enemy unites them and they start bonding. How is it it different from the gazillion books with the same topic I've (and I bet even YOU HAVE) read?
The writitng style - is absolutely excellent and it reads fast and leaves you craving for more. It's entertaining and funny.
The protagonist - even though the "hidden prodigy" theme is here, she's so normal. She failed at school, winded up in a bakery, fights with her mom constantly, has moods etc. And all she asks of life is to feed people. And to be in as much sun as possible (her nickname is, after all, Sunshine).
The romance - is very subtle and well executed. Sunshine has a cool biker boyfriend who might be threatened by the arrival of the "other" one but you don't really want her to pick sides or leave one for another. It's not even complicated. Just almost nonexistent.
The universe - oh boy, I absolutely adored the setting after the Voodoo Wars with bad spots where nothing could thrive, those living protection tattoos, the charms and wards and all those inanimate objects with life and all those people with some demon or were blood in them.
All in all, it's dark and thrilling, those who like sarcasm here and there will find it, those of you who like action will see it, those of you who like supernatural elements will be surprised and those of you who like romantic element will probably have to go somewhere else since it's a different kind of romance (I'm saying this because the blurbs on the cover describe it as romantic). If I think of it, I've read books like this but none of them was so good. All these clichés which are in every vampire book well so well-balanced in here that it made a perfect story.

GENRE: dark tale of believable characters

FANGS OUT: the story reads so well
FANGS RETRACTING: let's not retract them, okay?
TOTAL SCORE:

Grandma's Bundt Cake

I'm not sure if any other cake evokes more emotions than bábovka (bundt cake). Every family has its own recipe which is, of course, THE recipe. 

I actually dislike the typical bundt cake because it's too dry. But for the old time's sake (hey, grandma!) and because I got a new cool bundt cake form, I decided to make the old school dry cake which must be eaten while sipping some hot beverage. 

Ingredients:

•  4 eggs (separated)
• 150ml sunflower oil
• 100ml water
• 250g sugar
• 250g flour
• 4 tea spoons cocoa powder

1) Mix the egg yolks and sugar till the mixture pales.

2) Slowly add water, oil and flour.

3) Beat the egg whites till stiff peaks (some people need a pinch of salt to make it happen but if you have a clean bowl, they will do the trick on their own) form.

4) SLOWLY! fold the whites in the mixture. As you can see, there is no baking soda or anything to help you. If you fold in the whites gently, the air bubbles will stay in the cake, help it rise and be more sponge-y. That's actually what makes this cake magical.

5) Divide the mixture into two bowls and add the cocoa powder in one of them. Sloooowly. ;-)=

6) Either butter your pan or spray it with some oil and pour in the mixtures as you want. 

7) Put it in a preheated oven and bake for about 50 minutes at 180°C.