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…
Category: Pies,cakes & tarts
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…
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…
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…
Red pearls from my garden.. Ribiselkuchen
Red current season is on full swing here in Austria.I have quite a bit of them this year. Only thing that I really make with them is cakes.This is one of my absolute favorite cakes in Austria. It is so simple to make and so tasty! Here’s the recipe for you , I hope you…
Roasted Rhubarb,Strawberries and Clafoutis meets Finnish style “pannukakku” (oven pancake)
It has been raining like crazy! Not much to do, but stay inside and surf in web for recipes and dream about sunshine and warmth. This recipe is a combination of two different and delicious desserts.Both of them I do quite often because Kiddo loves them. The clafoutis comes from the Limousin region…
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