Summertime is time for light cakes. Cheesecakes are my favorite . They are easy to change and fast make. As Finn I love Forrest berries and I were lucky enough to find real bilberries from our weekly market. The flavours of forest bilberries is so amazing! We spend about three weeks in Finland in our summerhouse…
Category: Desserts
Lemon and Poppy Seed Strawberry Shortbread cakes, with Licor 43 Whipped Cream
When I was in the USA as exchange student ages ago, I fell in love with Strawberry Shortcake. There was a great restaurant in Springfield MO, where to my family went always for Sunday lunch. They served this wonderful pie which was so crispy but filled with this ooey-gooey strawberry mixture and topped with whipped…
Mango Waffles
Soooo… Our family is on waffle trip 😂 The recipe that I made for the spinach waffles was a hit. Kiddo has been whining me to make waffles for him and his best friend for the whole day. He saw that we had a mango in the fridge and asked from me if we could…
Finnish Shrovetide buns – Laskiaispulla
Finns love their pulla.Pulla is a sweet brioche type of bread baked with wheat flour. In Finland, pulla dough always has cardamon, at least in all recipes that I use, and that’s the difference with Swedish Semla. This type of coffee bread is common in all Nordic countries in different forms. You can make korvapuusti…
Pannukakku – Finnish Oven Pancake
Winter has finally arrived in Austria! There is lots of snow and freezing temperatures. Kiddo and his best friend have been outside from early morning until late evening playing in the snow. Great! I have been enjoying the silence inside the house, and at least our Kiddo has been dead tired in the evenings. Something…
Finnish Whipped lingonberry semolina porridge – Puolukka vispipuuro
Tasty vegan/vegetarian and milk free porridge, which is great for breakfast or as dessert. Taste of Finland on your plate!
Happy Birthday to my hubby; Oreo Chocolate Cheesecake topped with Bailey’s Chocolat Luxe Liqueur
Hubby had his birthday today… And as usual he asked, if I could bake cakes for him to take to office. Of course honey..My pleasure…I made lemon tart topped with marshmallow and Oreo Chocolate Cheesecake, that was drowned in Bailey’s Luxe Chocolate liqueur. Lemon tart recipe is coming later..That tart was not an easy birth,…
Blueberry and Raspberry Ice Cream Cake..
Heat is killing me..Slowly..We have had almost a month temperatures over +25c and last week was extremely hot as you see! I feel like I am melting! But I love the summer never the less. Not complaining at all. Water in the swimming pool, is so warm that it really does not even feel refreshing…
Breakfast date with Kiddo and Bilberry Buchteln
I am still on bilberry trip since we have them. What follows is again diary from the market and bilberry recipe..Sorry, I promise I will change the theme soon 😉 Thursday is market day as you know,so today I had a date.Kiddo’s school is out and he wanted to go with me. I thought this…
Market day and bilberry cake cups from the hell..
Market in Schärding,going there is pretty much my once a week ritual, to get fresh vegetables, meat, cheese and other things. It opens 7.30AM which is just fine for me. Kiddo to school,Mommy to market. Last week I made a mega found.Fresh forest bilberries! Juhuu!! Cultivated bilberries are all over but these fragrant forest berries are…
