Category: Desserts

Buns

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In Sweden we have a bun we eat during the winter season. We call it “semla”. It’s a wheat bun filled with whipped cream and almond paste. I love it!

It’s a sweet wheat bun that you split in two – a smaller lid and a bigger bottom part. Remove a little bit of the middle part of the bottom bun (hard to explain). Fill the “hole” with almond paste. If I ever decide to make this bun I will buy the paste but it’s essentially almonds crumbs and sugar mixed together.

Whip the cream and put it on top of the paste. Place the lid on the cream. Sprinkle icing sugar in the lid.

Semla!

Buying

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-Honey there’s only five bananas left!

-There’s five in the freezer.

-That’s right but they are the ones I planned on making a dessert with.

That’s me. I always make plans to bake or cook things I know never will happen. I put the bananas in the freezer because I’ve read recepies where they have to be frozen. I probably never will make the banana dessert and I have to throw them away.

I have peppermint oil and dried fruits “just incase”. I buy crazy spices and seeds and tell myself I will use them. I buy vegetables and fruits I don’t know what to make of. I buy crackers and cheese because I might one day like it. Crazy!20170109_155011.jpg

Mug cake

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I have to eat in the evening. I can’t skip that meal. They say breakfast is the most important meal but for me evening meals are just as important. With that said I find it hard to know what to make. I almost always eat sandwiches but that bores me after a while.

That’s why I’m happy I have found mugcakes! I have seen mugcake recepies before but they have all been a celebration of all unhealthy things. This mugcake is not the most healthy thing you can eat but it’s healthy enough for me.

Mugcakes are what it sounds like, a cake in a mug. You make the batter in a mug and then you bake the batter in the mug in a microwave. East!

Blueberry muffin mugcake.

Ingredients:

4 tbsp flour

2 tbsp sugar

1/8 tsp baking powder

1/16 tps baking soda 

3 tbsp milk

10 blueberries (I used frozen)

Mix all the ingredients in an microwave “proven” mug.

Streusel.

1 tbsp cold butter

1,5 tbsp flour

1,5 tbsp sugar

1,4 tsp vanilla extract (I used powder)

Mix the ingredients in a bowl. “Pour” it over the blueberry mixture and put the mug in the microwave. The recepy said to bake at 1200 W for 1 minute. Our microwave only has 750 W and I baked the muffin for 1,5 minutes.

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Rest

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I hope this year will bring you happiness and all the things you want. I hope this year will be the year where I hopefully will feel better. I have gone through crazy things these last few years when it comes to my depression but I have finally gotten in contact with a doctor that seems to know what he`s doing. I am going to tell you about this journey later.

I haven`t made any new year`s resolutions to myself, which I never do anyway, because I can`t keep them. One thing I will try though is to cut down on my sugar intake. I have done it before and I will try my hardest to do it again. I got inspired by a blogger that is struggling to quit sugar. I have actually succeeded to do it before, which I never thought I would. For me, candy is my biggest weakness when it comes to sugar. I eat candy because I like it and also when I`m hungry or bored. Sometimes I eat chocolate instead of a sandwich because I`m too lazy to make it, and it`s crazy. And when I`m bored I eat candy to keep me busy.

Happy new year.

-Mom I don`t care that it`s a new year.

-Every year is a Kajsa year.

Ice cream

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I made ice cream yesterday. No ice cream machine was involved! I love ice cream and I`ve been looking for a machine but I haven`t found anyone I liked. They are either too expensive or too big. I don`t want one that is big enough to fill a room and I don`t want to spend hundreds of dollars on one. The smaller ones don`t make much ice cream and I felt that I had give up the idea of making my own ice cream.

I was happy when I found out that you can make tasty ice cream without the machine! You just need a hand mixer! The amounts in this recepy are what I think makes the best ice cream. And it is delicious! This flavour is chocolate nougat.

Ingredients:

3 dl double cream

3 dl (cold) condensed milk

2 teaspoons vanilla powder (not vanilla sugar)

4 tablespoons cocoa powder

50 g melted nougat

Whisk the cream until it gets stiff. Add the cold condensed milk.

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Put the mixture in a bowl and (of course) keep it in the freezer.

It tastes like creamy delicious ice cream.

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