Graduation

I finally graduated (in May but w/e) and I had a graduation party with my brother's girlfriend. We made everything by ourselves and here's what we came up with!

We made chocolate brownies, muffins, minced meat - bacon pie, white chocolate - raspberry cheese cake and an irish cream cheese cake. Oh, and I made some white chocolate hearts with a taste of peppermint!

Rye-lingonberry mousse

I found this from a Finnish blog called Hellapoliisi and decided to try it as it is now almost 2am and I have nothing else to do. Still 5 more hours left before I get off work.

Recipe:
2dl rye flakes
3/4dl brown sugar
1/2 tea spoon of vanilla sugar
2 1/2dl vanilla flavored whipped cream
100g lingonberries

Roast the rye flakes in a hot frying pan. Mix with sugars when cooled. Add whipped cream and berries. And you're done!

Breakfast bread rolls

One of the greatest things about my job is that whenever I feel like baking something I can just go on and do it. Here are bread rolls I just made for our patients for breakfast!

Cupcakes!

I'm graduating from school in a month and my brother's girlfriend is graduating too, so we decided to have a joint graduation party. I'm going to be a practical nurse and my brother's girlfriend is going to be a daycare nurse! We've started planning our graduation already and what we should serve there. One thing we decided instantly was cupcakes. It's sort of our thing, cupcakes, and we made a sample batch last weekend! Here's how they turned out:

 

 

The icing is a bit off but it was our first try, and as the graduation party is only for our closest friends and family, it's not gonna bother us that much if the icing is not perfect. :)

I'll post the recipe later when I get it from the source!

Simple yet tasty

I wanted to make something easy, something I could take with me to work and decided to make a swiss roll with apple sauce.

Recipe:

4 eggs

2dl sugar

1dl potato flour

1dl wheat flour

1ts baking powder

Preheat the oven to 225°C. Whisk the eggs and sugar together in a bowl until thick and creamy. Sift the baking powder with the flours and fold in. Pour into the oven tray lined with greaseproof paper and bake for  5-10 minutes.

When the cake is cooked, turn it on to a large sheet of greaseproof paper dusted with sugar. Peel off the lining paper. Spread jam/berries/anything you want on the cake and roll up tightly.

Mudcake

It was a lazy Sunday today so I thought I'd bake something. I got my little brother to help me, he's getting pretty good, he's always baking with me! I asked him what he wanted to do and he decided he wanted to have some mudcake.

Here's how it turned out:

Turned out great, and my little brother made half of it, so thanks to him! :)

Recipe:

150 g of dark chocolate
150 g of butter

1 ½ dl of  wheat flour

½ dl of dark cocoa powder
1 tea spoon of baking powder
¼ tea spoon of salt
4 eggs
2 ½ dl of sugar

Preheat the oven to 200C.
Melt the chocolate and the butter. Mix together when cooled a bit.
Mix wheat flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
Whip the eggs with sugar into a hard white mousse.
Mix everything together (chocolate - butter, dry ingredients, eggs and sugar).

Grease and dust a 24cm springform cake pan. Pour the mixture in.
Bake for 15 to 30 minutes until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out almost clean. Mudcake is supposed to be a little raw from the inside so don't bake too long!

Farewell party cake

I made this one for my farewell "party" at my training place.

I don't have a better picture of this because I forgot to take one!

 It's a choco - cappuccino cheesecake with vanilla topping. Turned out really great!

Recipe:

Base:
200 g Domino cookies (or Oreos)
50 g  butter

Choco-cappuccino filling:
6 gelatin leafs
1 ¼ dl strong coffee
200 g cream cheese
4 dl  vanilla flavoured (whipped) cream
100 g milk chocolate

Vanilla topping:
2 gelatin leafs
2 ½ dl vanilla flavoured cream

Filling:
Cover the base of a 24cm springform cake pan with greaseproof paper.
Crush the cookies. Melt the butter in a saucepan and mix with cookie dust.
Press firmly onto the base of the springform pan.

Put the gelatin leafs in cold water to soften. Make strong coffee. Melt gelatin leafs into hot coffee.
Soften cream cheese with a mixer. Add gelatin-coffee to cream cheese.

Whip vanilla flavoured cream and mix with coffee-cream cheese.
Melt chocolate, add to the filling. Pour into the cake pan and let cool in fridge for 3 hours.

Topping:
Put the gelatin leafs into cold water. Heat up 1/2 dl of vanilla cream in a sauce pan and melt the gelatins into it.
Add the rest of the vanilla cream to cool the topping. Pour onto the filling. Let cool in the fridge for a couple of hours.