KRUMKAKER

While I'm waiting forward to Christmas night so I'm making "krumkaker" not quite sure what is it in english. But these cookies are so good and crunchy!!  You will need a "krumkaker" iron.

The norwegian make it in christmas time and eat it with cloudberry cream. I can tell you that it's soooo good.

KRUMKAKER (about 23-25 pieces)

200 egg (around 3 big size of egg)
200 melt butter
200 flour
200 g sugar
3 tablespoon of water
1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar

PS. the weight of egg, sugar, butter and flour have to be equal.

This is how you do it

Mix the eggs and sugar til it's fluffy (15-20mins). Add flour and butter to a bowl and the rest og ingredients. Mix it well and leave it about 30mins. You will see it's just like a cake batter.

Get your iron hot and give a tablespoon of batter in the middle. You can counting to 17 and it's done!  Don't get any longer because you will burn it. 

Roll it into any shape you like. I use my chopstick to help me to roll it. Be carefull it's hot!

The classic norwegian form is like an ice cream cone. But since I don't have the stuff to make it like that. I'm just roll it :)

Enjoy your krumkaker! ♡

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This is our first Christmas Tree after 2 years we couldn't decide it if we want a real tree or a plastic one. Today we decided to have plastic fantastic. So here is Mr.Christmas Tree in the house :-) We wish you a merry merry christmas 2014 and a happy happy new year 2015!!! God Jul 2014 og Godt Nyttår 2015!

Grove Rundstykker - Healthy Dinner Rolls with rye, whole grain and flaxseed.

22 stk @100g

Ingrediens:
1 pose gjær
250g kornbrød
250g grovbørd
200g rugbrød
1 koppe sammalt spelt
1 koppe sammaltrug
3 ss linfrø
3 ss sesamfrø
1ts salt
100g tine smør
1 lt lunken vann

Hvetemel til passe deig ca.150-250g.

Litt melk for pensler rundstykker.
Sikt sammaltrug-grovmalt fra mollerens. Du vil få grov mel derfra hvor du kan strø oppi rundstykker.

Fremgangsmåte:

Miks lunken vann og gjær i kjøkkenmaskin eller i en bolle.  Tilsett tørre ingrediens litt og litt. Blandes godt. Tilsett hvetemel forsiktig.

Hvile deigen i en time eller til den dobble opp. (kan tas til 1.5 timer)

Dele opp til 22 stk @100g. Heves i ca.45min. Pensle med melk.
Sett ovn i 200 grader. Bake i ca. 15min.

Kan fryses! Ta opp og bake i ca. 5min i 210 grader for å få de ferske igjen.

Ps. This recipe is only available in norwegian. Because the ingredients that I used come from one manufature called Mollerens. These are the healthy dinner rolls which contains of rye, whole grains and flaxseeds.

Dinner Rolls

(10 pieces @100g)

Ingredients

500g bread flour
25g butter
3.5dl milk
25g yeast
2 tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon cardamoms
1/2 teaspoon salt

1 eggyolk+3 tablespoon milk to brush the buns.

This is how you do it:
Warm milk and butter together in microwave. Get this liquid around 38 C and pour it into bowl.
Add yeast and sugar into the liquid. Mix it well.
Get the rest of ingredients and mix it together about 10mins with kitchen machine. Rest the dough about 1 hour or until it raised to double. (it can take 1.5 hour in the winter time)

Devide to 10 pieces @100g and rest again for about 30-45mins. Brush your rolls with the mix of eggyolk and milk. (it will make shinning)

Bake in the middle of oven 200C in 15mins.

Enjoy your dinner rolls! ♡

Ps. You can freeze the dinner rolls!
I used this recipe to Christmas brunch.

Lussekatter - Lucia sweetbun celebrate St. Lucia's day 13th December

Today is the 13th of December. 2 weeks left until the Christmas day.

I think it was 5 years ago I've baked Lussekatter.  It was a long time ago. Well this   sweetbun called as Lussekatter in norwegian. It's a bit special because of the saffron.

Here' the recipe of lussekatter (10 pieces)

2.5 dl warm milk
75g butter
75g sugar
350g bread flour
25g yeast
0.5g saffron

for decoration: little bit of raisin.

ps. you will need an extra 50g flour when you're working and form the dough.

This is how you do it:

Warm the milk and the butter in a bowl. Make sure the temperature of this blanding around 38 C. 

Put the yeast on it and stir it.

Get the rest of ingredients except raisin.
Work with the dough about 10mins. I use my stand mixer to work for me. Then  let the dough rest for 1 hour.

Devide the dough in to 10 pieces and form it like S letter. Decorate with 2 raisins on each dough. Rest again about 30mins under kitchen cloth.

Bake in about 10min in 200C.

Enjoy your lussekatter! It's so soooft ♡

See how soft it is, isn't?

Pistachio and cranberries biscotti with a hit of orange zest

It's thursday night now and after cleaned up my kitchen becoz I need place for a red bosch stand mixer that I've just got from a friend of mine who leaving Norway for good. Then I thought to bake a biscotti for a chritsmas gift and try the machine.

It is a good machine and not too noisy. So I am very happy. Well I wasn't expect it at all to get this stand mixer from my friend. I always think to get this kind of machine. I just think my self that I want a kenwood stand mixer for Christmas. My hubby asked what I want to Christmas so I think it would be a good idea to put it on the list. Well now I have one. Red colour is always one of my favorite :-)

Pistachio and Cranberry Biscotti Recipe

5 egg (medium size) 

575g white flour 

375g sugar 

100g dried cranberries 

70g pistachio

1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 

1 teaspoon vanilla sugar orange zest from 1 orange 

5 tablespoon of orange juice 

1 teaspoon vanilli extract 

This is how you do it:

Mix eggs and sugar together in 10 minutes then blend good all the stuffs together. Don't worry it will work.

Get a parchment paper and divede to 2 long sausages. Set in the middle of oven for 15mins in 180C and the other 15mins in 160C.

Set aside and cut into a slice about 1cm thickness. place it back to oven in 8 mins with temperature 150C. Do this each side and voila! ps. this biscotti dough is a wet dought I just use spatula to help me to form it.