This fall has been amazing with the fruits! My hubby and his friends took over 500 kg apples and pears for pressing on Friday and we ended up with 365l of apple juice. 150l of it will be made to apple cider. A new project that the men have. Looking forward to seeing and of…
Category: Pies,cakes & tarts
Spuckkuchen – Cherry “spitting” cake
Jippii it is cherry time! I was so happy to be able to pick first juicy cherries. We have three cherry trees in our yard and every year it is the same competition. Me versus starlings! Those little buggers will not eat sour cherries, only the sweet ones! Because the spring was so warm there…
Rhubarb cheese cake / Raparperi juustokakku
Rhubarb season is in full swing and last week came first local Austrian strawberries in the market. I had to do something yummy with both of them together. This is the result. I was approved by my hubby and neighbour. Summer welcome and all wonderful flavours that go with it! Crust 300 g spelt flour…
Cardamom and Rhubarb Cookies
Oh, how I have been waiting for spring to come! Winter was so long this year (two months or so 😀 ) Lots have happened during the winter time, and that’s why I have been bit quiet on my food blogging,no inspiratin honestly. But I will try to be bit more active again. I found…
Grandmother’s Bilberry Pie
Bilberry season is in full swing in Finland,where we are on holiday right now. Forests are full of blue,big and healthy berries to be picked. This year they are so much of them that you just need walk into the forest and pick! Picking wild berries from the forest is everymans right in Finland ….
Very berry ombré no bake cheesecake
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…
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…
Laskiaispulla.. Shrovetide Brioche Finnish way..
Laskiainen, Shrovetide, is a mid winter sliding festival in Finland, but it marked originally the beginning of the 40-day long Easter fast, practiced among the Catholics and the Orthodox Christians. Fasting was both spiritual and physical purification and meditation, while meat, milk, eggs, cheese, butter and other dairy products were forbidden to eat. Shrovetide was…
Pull-apart Pumpkin and Apple Bread
Hey ho it’s that time of the year when pumpkins are coming into the shops for sale. In Finland pumpkin is not that well-known in cooking.Only in last few years you have started to find good quality Hokkaido or Butternut pumpkins in the shops. Austria is another thing..Austrians use pumpking a lot.One of my favourite…
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 cheesecake rolls and some chocolaty things…
Hello! Here’s one self-confessed lunatic, who decides to bake, when it is blazing +40c° outside and inside temperature of the house is not much colder. But hey what can you do when baking bug bites you? Even the chocolate was melting by itself on my kitchen counter 😀 These rolls are great. You can fill…
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…
From my garden into my kitchen 