Lussekatter

Got some saffron and made Lussekatter :) Bring on Lucia!

Finally took some time for some arts and crafts

I saw something like this on Pinterest but with autumn colours, red, orange and yellow, and thought to myself, why not make three big ones but with colourful leaves that can be up all year long?!

so here's the result. And I'm very pleased with them, turned out exactly as I had imagined :)

concrete candle holders

a path to Buddha with step stones made by me

and Buddha is sitting on a Ikea tray ;)

had a go with some Magic Metallics paint I had read about that will turn your things into rust or bronze with patina. They didn't change as much as I had thought tey would but I think one has to put more layers on. I'll have another go and see what happens...

and this is not really a craft, just some fun with making a so called "Nutella star", but instead of nutella I used chocolate paste instead and it was seriously yummy!And not as hard to make as it might seem ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wglB1TCwZnU

Birthday baking

For my birthday, just three days before Xmas, I made a cake and bagels for my four guests (+ the boyfriend) that I'd invited to celebrate with me. The bagels took forever to do but they were really yummy! Especially the ones with cheese on top ;)

banana mousse layer

chocolate mousse layer 

marcipan cover 

taa daa! 

bagels growing... 

bagels boiling 

bagels baking 

cheese bagels ♥ 

Saturday off

Having worked last weekend it was nice to have a Saturday at home with my älskling just spending time together. I made some breakfast buns, we went for a walk down to the beach to see the damage that the storm the other day had made. The steep sloaps down to the beach were steeper than before and I can imagine that both wind and water have been pretty  high during the storm. We also paid a visit to the new big thing happening here in the village, a gym which will open just about 100m from our house. I'm not really a big fan of gyms but I really should go and since work pays for half the fee I have no excuse not to go :P so we went home and bought two memberships, so here we go! :)
Also made a gingerbread house (correction: we put together one that we bought) and watched a good film in the evening, a great end to a very ordinary and good Saturday :) 

Buns in the oven

 

I got an early birthdaypresent from my dear mum and it is this lovley thing, the OBH Nordica Hercules.

I love baking but hate the whole process with kneading the dough, but thanks to Hercules this whole precess takes just a few minutes and he does all the work ;)

Yesterday I made some cinnamon buns like this:

 The recipe is:

150g butter

5 dl milk

50g yeast

½ tsp salt

1-1½dl sugar

1,3 litre wheat flour

A tip that I got about not overheating the yeast with the hot butter is to just mix it with the salt and let it melt before mixing it with the other ingredients. I can guarantee that it works perfectly!

Hercules did his bit and the dough got to grow to double size before cutting it into two parts so I could make two different kinds of buns. One part with butter, cinnamon and sugar. 

and one part with Philadelphia Marabou chocolate, Yum!!! 

roll it up and cut into even size buns, let them grow again for a while until they are a good size. Brush the buns with a slightly whipped egg and sprinkle sugar on the cinnamon rolls. 

Bake in the oven at 250 degrees celcius for 8-10 minutes depending on size, but when the buns are golden brown, they are done! Enjoy!

Cake boss!

Two out of three cakes I've made in the last two months. As you can see I like to play with colours :) and a must have filling is chocolate mousse, yum!

Want some Oreocake?

I love baking and today I made a oreo/marshmallow cake and some chocolate muffins, yum yum!
Also made some chocolate frosting for the muffins so maybe they will look completely different tomorrow ;)