Big Birthday Supreme

For my own birthday I made this cake, with sugar fondant frosting that I colored, and roses of the same material, which I used a whole evening coloring and transforming into beautiful shapes.

First I baked sugar-bread, which is basically just egg, sugar and wheat flour.

Make as many as you want, part them in two or three and put whipped cream, jam and vanilla curd between every layer.

Cover everything with cream and place the sugar fondant over.

Make it as nice as you want;)

It was raining on the way to the part, so thats why the cake doesn't look as nice as it should on the picture.

Happy Birthday!!!

Home Made Napoleon Cake With Puff Pastry Sheets

Nobody makes home made Napoleon cake any more, and thats why I decided to go for it!! I had never tasted it before, in my 23 year old long life, and decided, it was time...  So I started searching for recipes, and I think I found a good one at the end. 

Its not hard at all to make Napoleon cake, its actually quite simple... let me tell you how...

You need 4 puff pastry sheets (if thats what it is called) and they cant be frozen, so make sure they are not.

Put them on top of each other and roll them out so they make the same size as the plate in the oven. Make small holes with a fork, so the dough will keep the same shape and size. Let it be in the oven on 200 C for about 20 minutes. Divide it in two when done.

Cream:

6 egg yolks

60 g sugar

6 dl cream

3 ss maizena flour

6 plates of gelatin

3 dl whipped cream

3 ts vanilla sugar

Rum flavor

Put the gelatin plates in the water, and mix egg yolks, cream, sugar and maizena in a casserole on low heating until it thickens.  Add the gelatin and stir it even.

Let it cool down and make it perfect by adding vanilla sugar and rum flavor. Mix this together with whipped cream. Let it stay in the fridge for about three hours, it will then be easier to build the cake.

Put one of the puff pastry sheets on a plate you want to serve it on and add the cream. Use a lot of icing sugar on the top of the other puff pastry sheet and lift it on top!!

Voila!!!

Ma Baker Chocolate Chip Icing Extreme

Chocolate chip is chic!!! But its all about the icing!!! Which this time looks more like a wedding cake.. but who cares - it was Ingrid's birthday, and she deserves a wedding cake...

Heres the recipe... I didn't make it up my self, I found it out there... on azcakerrecipes.com

I have just made it i little more simple...

2 cups of white flour

2 cups of brown sugar

1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/2 cup cold unsalted butter, i 6 pieces

1 large egg

1 tsp baking soda

1 cup sour cream 

2 tsp. milk (this can be skipped)

1 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 180 C.

Butter a baking pan and mix flour, sugar and cinnamon together. Add the butter and mix until the butter are the size of peas..

Mix in the egg and take another bowl where you mix sour cream and baking soda, later adding the milk. Mix everything together and bake for about 40 minutes.

Make butter cream icing and have fun decorating the cake, the way you want it to look...

Organic almond flakes is just something I decided to add, your choice!!! Maybe you have a nut allergy... In that case, I wouldn't recommend it...

Herb Stuffed Mackerel

Mackerel is a delightful fish, but sadly - not used as much as it deserves... 

Here I will show you a nice and healthy recipe you can impress friends, family and lovers with...

Clean some mackerel by cutting with a knife from the ass until the head... Drag the stuff inside the mackerel out and clean it with water...Do this to as many fish you want to... some people eat one, some eat two, and very few people eat three, but if they do, don't blame them, blame your self for cocking a great meal, and me, for giving you this fantastic recipe..

Take some salt and pepper and rub it inside the fish.

Stuff it with some fresh herbs, for example rosemary, sage, thyme, chives and mint.. try to choose some of them, everything together can be a little to much.

Cook it in the oven until done, at 180 degrees. Its done when it's done, I can't remember for how long it should be there...

Squeeze some lemon on top 5 minutes before taking it out, pour a little water and spice it up with more pepper and salt..

Serve together with a simple green salad, some oven-roasted potatoes, fresh lemon and some expensive white wine!!!

Nice..

Since We Are Already Speaking The Banana Lanuguage

As I've already said... Since we are already talking the banana language, why not care for the people that can not eat gluten, drink milk or eat sugar??? It's important to let everybody be a part of the tremendous cake - so we can all live in perfect harmony.

Let me just start, by bragging of a fantastic book called Kernesund mad, whick is a danish book i bought a little while ago.

In there, it is a recipe, which I now have tried, and proudly can say, handed out, to those in needs - the ANSA meeting over at Julies...

Although we also had buns and cocoa, this went down as a slippy eel..only sweetened with the juice of one orange. HEAVEN!!!!!!

I'll post the delicious recipe, so neither of us is stuck with balloon tummies, slimy throats or runny noses.... Which people tend to get if their body can't handle sugar, milk or gluten...

Glutenfree Banana cake!!!!!

50 grams of sesame seeds

150 grams wholemeal rice flour

150 grams buckwheat flour

100 grams roughly chopped hazelnuts

1 dl rice flakes

1 dl rice milk

2 tsp cinnamon 

2 tsp ginger

2 tsp carnation

1 tsp cardamom 

1 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

Juice from 1 orange and the orange part of the peel 

2 dl raisins

2 tsp baking powder without wheat

100 g coconut oil

4 rotten bananas

2 eggs

Nice.. do you have all of this? If you have.. check if it's also organic, would make both me and you more happy, and the person eating it of course...

Mix all the bananas, coconut oil,  ricemilk, and eggs and add the orangejuice little by little... Mix all of the dry...

Put in the oven for 30 minutes, on 180 C, or for 15 minutes, if making Cup Cakes...

Yummy yummy

If you don't feel like your self today, take some chocolate, for example Toblerone, melt it really slow, pour it over and make it look delicious with some organic apricots..

White Bride Girly Kisses Meringue

Meringue's are so nice, but unfortunately they are not healthy at all.. I decided not to eat mine, and I tried to force someone to take them to a party, but the person said no... well well, I got some pictures after all, which was the whole purpose.  

The most important thing when you make merin

gue, is not to have any thing thats fat in the bowl. By that I mean  for example oil or butter. 

If you have made butter cream icing in it before,  be sure thats its perfectly clean as fat or egg yolk interferes with the formation of good foam.

You need:

6 egg whites

300 g sugar

Beat the egg whites until foamy and g

radually add sugar... be

ating until mixture forms stiff peaks..

Add color if you want to, eater from juice of any kind 

of berries, or actual color made for coloring..

You can also add chocolate, or spread some nuts on the top of the meringue, 

before putting into the oven..

Let it in there for 3 hours (double time for twic

e the size meringues) on 90 degrees.

Serve alone, with whipped cream o

r together with ice cream and jam.

Yummie!!!!!

Mmmmmm Mussels

I know its not summer yet, but what is better on a summer day than  mmmm mussels?

I prefer fresh mussels from the fjords in Norway. 

The best thing is to take the boat and make someone jump in the water, 

to pick the mussels from the rocks.

When other boats makes waves, I guarantee a good laugh when the person picking them gets smashed into the rocks in the water!! 

If you buy them, it will save you from a whole lot of work cleaning them, but its nice sitting with a beer, talking and cleaning mussels while the bread from the oven is pouring out a fresh baked smell!!!

Mussels

Onion

Chili

Garlic

Cream

White wine

Pepper

Salt

Lemon

Coriander (Optional)

Fry the onion, chili and garlic you just chopped in a casserole in some olive-oil, together with some salt and pepper, lightly

Add cream and white wine, and when it has boiled for a little while, add the mussels. Let them be in this fantastic mix for a couple of minutes. Do not let it boil for a long time, they will get hard and make you don't want to eat them.

Eat with fresh bread and aioli.

Freshly baked bread

3 dl nuclear milk

3 dl water

50 g yeast

1 pinch of salt

Some honey

500 g whole meal flour

500 g fine wheat flour

0.5 dl olive oil

Mix cold nuclear milk with hot water, and mix in the yeast.

Add salt and honey, and later the whole meal flour. Let it stand for one hour,covered in plastic, until it bubbles.

Mix it with the olive oil, and add the what flour, little at the time. Use your hands and make it to a perfect dough.  

Let it rise to double size and form it to two breads. Slice them on top with a sharp kitchen knife, and spread some wheat floor over it to make it look home made.

Bake them for 30.35 minutes at 200 C. 

If they get to dark, cover it with foil.

If you are not sure if its done, simply knock under the bread. Its supposed so sound hollow!!!

Cool on a ''grill''

Aioli

4 large cloves garlic, crushed

2 tablespoons lemon juice

2 egg yolks

1/2 teaspoon salt

Pepper

1 cup mild olive oil (preferable from kalamata olives

Place all the ingredients except the oil into a food processor. Process until well mixed. While the processor is running add the oil slowly, one tablespoonful at a time, until all has been added. The mixture will be thick and creamy, and with a good olive oil, more yellow than you are used to!!!