Summer festival

When the sun is shining, all things become beautiful. Love life! We was in the town, today is the last day of summer festival here in Harstad. Lot's happenning in a week. Lot's people go out and enjoy the happening in the city. I bought an ice cream with oreo and enjoyed the band who played the musics.

A cup of capuccino and biscotti

A sunday afternoon in Harstad and the weather is cloudy 9,5 C.
I'm sitting on my sofa after talk to my parents with skype. (thanks to skype for making the world a small place) and enjoyed my self with my homemade biscotti with almonds and cranberries. Naam

A cup of cappucino and home made biscotti

9,5 C outside in June 2014

Cakes Compilation

Well...I'm just a new blogger here 
Baking is one of my hobbies that I don't really realized before that I am actually love it.  I have a "little bit" high creativities which I called it my self. I like to draw, take pictures with my old NIKON camera, and bake and so on cook.

I think I got it from my grandmother. I remembered she had a little cafe right beside her house and she always had a plenty of customers. Lots people really loved her cook.  I never really asked her about it if she really likes to cook or if it was because the thing she had to do in order to raised all her kids (6 children). She started the business right after her husband (my grand father) died when my mother was 18 years old and I wasn't born yet. So I can tell you that I got the "little" talent in cooking and baking from her.

I had also once a little cafe by the sea where customers can see sunset  and the sea of course. I owned this little cafe with my 2 colleges friends. It was really FUN 
Anyway...I tried now to collect pictures of cakes that I made. There's many other cake pictures that I didn't take pictures just because I thought it was not necessary. Well now I do think it is necessary.


❤ Here are cakes and cookies pictures

Butter cookies elephant and lion.

Butter cookies cute horses.

Butter cookies summer  flowers.

Wedding cake 2 tiers with white marzipan fondant.

the bottom tier filled with wildberries and dobble cream with a little taste of lemon

the top tier is a chocolate cake glassed with raspberry purre, filled with chocolate mousse with rum and baileys.

The weight of this cake is about 8kg. Height about 40 cm. 

Cake bun was baked with 26 cm cake form and 17 cm.

1st birthdayscake to little Axel 14.07.2011

with homemade marsmallow fondant

Black Forest with raspberry and rum.

Fruit pie with chocolate and fresh season fruits.

Baptist cake to Victoria Marie filled with wildberries and butter cream.

Black forest with rum is Fantastic!

Black Forest again.

and again Black forest.

and again :-)

 Free style cake with frozen wild berries.

 Cheese cake with strawberry jelly.

Strawberry Pavlova

Butter Cookies

Never done before this technique. I mean how to decorate a butter cookie. Well I can tell you that it lots of F.U.N! I enjoyed it so much.
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Aldri bakt eller pynt denne kjeksen før men når man får det til. Dæsken! Kor artig var det. Må bare prøve, folkens :-)

Here's the recipe in Norwegian.


KJEKS

Mørdeig

230 g meiresmør (rom temperatur)
1 egg  
180 g melis
550-650 g hvetemel og litt til kjevling
1 ½ ts bakepulver
1/2 ts salt
1 ts vaniljesukker

Pisk egg og smør ca. 2-3min. Tilsett melis og resten av ingrediensene. Røres godt sammen med slikepott.
Varm opp ovn på ca.185 grader og stek midt i ovn i ca. 8 min (kjeksen skal ikke være brun). Avkjøles før pyntes og oppbevares tørt.

Tips:
Bruk bakepapir når du skal kjevle ut deigen. Dryss litt hvetemel over deigen litt omgangen og kjevles ut som ca. 3 mm tykk.
(melet brukes slik at deigen sitter ikke fast på kjevler og for å få mindre sprekk) Bruk ønskelig kakeformer.

Glasur

360 g melis
1 dl varm vann
1 ss marengspulver (for å få luftig, smidig og ikke minst holdbar)
1 ts cream of tartar.
1ts vaniljesukker

Pisk sammen til "soft peak". (ca.2-3 min)
Glasuren skal være litt flytenes. Om det er hard, kan sprayes med vann for å få riktig konsistens.

L.Y.K.K.E  T.I.L

My First Wedding Cake

My friend at work asked me a month ago if  I can make a wedding cake for her son on 7th june. First time I heard it...man, I was so nervous. I loved to bake but never make a wedding cake before and never working with the marzipan fondant. I was asking what kind a cake that you want? I was thinking maybe it just a ordinary cake for coffee and cake time on the wedding day. But the answer is NO. It is a real wedding cake. OMG!

That will be a big history for me and of course for his son and entiry family.

The story began when her son checked the weddingscake at the local bakery here in Harstad.  He was surprised that a wedding cake is really expensive and then he decided to not buy a real wedding cake and he bought a big marzipan cake with a picture of him and his girl friend. His mother heard about it and she won't let him down just because of a wedding cake. She wants to make it happen and will surprise them with a real wedding cake on their wedding day. So sweet!

What a summer day in Harstad - North of Norway

It's so beautiful weather today where is only a little tiny bit of wind which is good. I can't remember the last time I'm going out to take a little tour of walk without a jacket. It just feel totally 110% summer here in the north. Almost don't believe it but it is true. Absolutely a very very fantastic day. Loves soooo much! :-)

I found a bunch of poppies flowers and another small white flowers, not so far from the sea. I'm not quite sure they called. Anyway it's called "valmue blomster" in norwegian (the big flowers)

Clear blue sky with mountains on the background and a bit snow up in the mountains.

Treats

Give people treats from your own kitchen!

These butter cookies are soft and melt in your mouth. It's almost like danish cookies that I used to eat when I was a little child.


Enjoy your day and happy baking!

Butter Cookies