Spring Picnic in the forest

 

Kroo the chihu was with us. 💛

We had our sun- spring picnic every spring when is the first warm weathers and sun is shining. We said welcome to spring and sun after long, cold, dark winter. This year winter was just like that. Long, cold, dark and long. Very snowy. We had our picnics eather on our terrace like last year, or our balcony. Our balcony was so light and warm, so we could had our sun welcoming party there april back then. Even when outside was too cold to had picnic. 

These is link to our previous sun picnics: https://camillamariawi.blogspot.com/2020/05/welcome-spring-picnic.html

Our picnic place in this spring was outside in the forest. Isokari. You can walk there at wooden corridor which end has view to the sea. Its very beautiful place.. there is water, big rocks, wooden table on the forest, where you can make a campfire on there where we had our picnic. Picnic day was warm and sunny, the best day so far. 

Our picnic- team was Kroisos the chihuahua dog, my kids and my sister Carola. 

I make for our picnic Smoothie- cake. Okey, tried to make. Of course it doesnt was anything i planned. Smoothie cake supposed to be vegan, and it had to congeal and without gelatine. I used Agar agar- vegan jellying powder, but i cant use it very well. Last time any cake had congeal well, was at april my sons 2- year old birthday cake. That cake  didnt go drain along the tables. 

When the cake is not what i want it to be, i put it in the picnic cans. however, you can eat it. So, the picnic cans had smoothie cake. Our other picnic foods was bananas, biscuits, ice tea, strawberries, raspberries and grapes, and salt snacks was chili bean vegan chips. 

Smoothie cake in picnic cans... blueberries, vegan yoghurt, bananas, smashed mango, oat biscuits..... I had to try make Smoothie cake again for other vegetarian jellying powders. 

Lets hope that summer 2021 would be warm and sunny. 💛

7 year old parties

My first born son turned seven year old last week. We had parties at saturday and sunday. Kasmir asked to make emojicake. We decided together that heart-eye emoji would be the emoji.. Mom tried her best, and baked the yellow funny cake. 😁 Filling was berrie- liquorice chocolate foam. 

I baked cheesecake  at saturdays birthday parties. It failed. I make new cheesecake at sunday, and that was okey. I decorated cake with all the  candies which was familiar to phone. Hamburgers, mushrooms, skulls.... I coloured cheesecake yellow 💛with couple of food colouring drops. 

Saturday`s cheesecake was supposed to be a lemon vanilla cheesecake. But the service changed swiss roll and princess cake. The name "cheesecake" changed also, a lemon foam. 😁 It could be eaten even though it was ugly. 😃

Donuts are emojis too, so the table settings were yellow but had donut mugs and plates. Below is couple of pictures of birthday boy and recipes from parties yellow cakes. 

❤😍😎😈😇😆😅😁😀😰😫😬😺😻😸😷❤

Emojicheesecake

Ingredients:

200 gram oat biscuits 

50 gram butter 

Filling:

5 decilitre whipped cream 

7 gelatine

200 gram vanilla creamcheese

200 gram lemon quark 

food colouring drops 

Decoration:

emoji candies... 😂

hamburgers, skulls, coca-cola bottles, strawberries, eggs.... 

Emojicake..the camera distorts the colors in the image.

Emojicake

I found recipe for perfect cake at the internet. 

6 egg

2 decilitre sugar

2 decilitre wheat flour 

1 decilitre potato flour 

2 teaspoon baking powder

Bring the oven to 175 degrees. Whisk the eggs and sugar until its foam Mix the dry ingredients together and add the foam through a sieve.  Pour the dough into a carefully greased and breadcrumbed pan (diameter 24 cm) and bake on the bottom of the oven for about 35 minutes. Undo the cake until slightly cooled.

I cut the cake into three parts, and when it was cooled, i filled it with berrie- liqorice- chocolate foam.

2 decilitre whipped cream 

200 gram berrie- liqorice chocolate 

Whip the whipped cream. Melt the chocolate and mix it to the foam. 

I moistened the bottom layer of the cake with berry juice first, I added half the filling foam. I added a second layer on top, which I moistened with berry juice. I put the rest of the foam on top of the second layer of cake, and set the third layer as a lid. I rolled the yellow, red and black sugar mass to coat the cake of the emoji who fell in love

7 years ago i put maybe the worlds smallest wool socks to little baby boys little feet. ❤

Valentines Day 2021

Valentine’s Day this year was Sunday. I have made it a habit to invite people  to have coffee and bake some cakes or something.. My dear friend Jenna went to coffee in the morning with a flower and a card. Our mothers later on that day.

Jenna gave me flowers 💓

I like this time of year when it starts to get brighter and longer days and the promise of summer and warmer weather starts to show. At least there has been a decent, real winter this year. 

 Valentine's Day was this uear same time as Shrove Sunday, so i made pastries which were at the same time buns. Inside the chocolate hearts was a raspberry foam, topped with heart-shaped nonpareil decorations. Usually if I bake chocolate baked goods, I use dark chocolate powder suitable for baking. I now used cold-pressed raw cocoa powder in these pastries. I asked my mother to make a few buns made of oat milk.. My Mom arrived with a bag of buns. I put a recipe in these buns for this update too!

Love Pastries

Ingredients:

4 egg

1,5 decilitre sugar 

4 decilitre wheat flour 

1 decilitre raw cocoa powder

100g butter 

2 teaspoon baking powder 

Filling:

5 decilitre whipped cream

100 gram raspberries 

200 gram cream cheese 

200 gram berrie quark

Whisk eggs and sugar until foamy. In a second bowl, mix all the dry ingredients. 

Melt the butter in a microwave and pour the melted butter into the flour, add to the whipped egg-sugar foam, mix them but not whisking. Pour the foam into greased, heart-shaped pans.

 Bake in a 200 degree oven on medium level for about 25 min. . Undo and cool.

Make the filling. Whip the cream , add the cream cheese and berrie quark. Whisk to a foam and mix raspberries there. 

Cut the hearts in half. Put the fillin foam between chocholate hearts. I thought first to decorate some heart-themed tops, icing os something, but that was the best. A simple little cake with a few nonpareil decorations. 😍

LovePastry 💞

Buns made by my mum. 

Oatmilk Buns

0,5 litre oat milk

50 gram leaven

1 egg 

1,5 teaspoon salt

2 decilitre sugar

1 tablespoon cardamom

900 gram wheat flour 

200 g butter

Heat up the oat milk, and when it`s cooled enough, add the egg. Also crumble the yeast, salt and cardamom. Pour the batter into a batter machine or knead by hand.

Alternately add flour and melted butter until dough is proper. Add more sugar to the dough. Knead for a while. Then let the dough rise for 1/2 hour. Bake the dough in round buns. 

Place the prepared buns on a baking sheet, grease with egg and sugar on top. Bake the buns at 220 degrees for about 10 minutes!

Tired little man. Niki fall asleep,  soon as the guests had left. I carried boy to sleep in his own bed. 

Happy Valentines Day 💓

Jyväskylä Christmas

Last week on Friday we drove with my boys to my sister in Jyväskylä. When we arrived there, we went to eat at place called Pizza Buffa. Potatoes, vegetables, and pizza.. We didn`t do much anything else on Friday. Just arriving and eating. 

Saturday we left pretty early, at the city centry at Jyväskeskus, at cofeehouset cafe` Elonen. We ate cinnamon rolls, croissants filled with feta cheese, vegetable pizza pies, plus we drink coffee and latte.

Luckily, we could drink our coffees without bigger children`s circus. Niki throw empty juice can at the adjacent table, and i decide to change Niki sit to Kasmir`s  sitting place, so that the other coffeehouse customers could drink their coffees without disturbing. 😃

light ball at the Jyväskyläs church yard.

                        sleight at the church yard. 

lights at the chuch yard.

This thing twinkle. 

Next place where we go was Toivola Vanha piha. There was everything christmassy like rummage sale.  Everyday on four`o`clock, there was Lumiukko- movie showed at big screen. 💙

                Toivola Vanha piha , Jyväskylä, Finland. 12.12.2020

Niki goes christmas shopping. 😀

                Toivola Vanha piha. Movie from snowman. The photo was taken by my sister Carola.

There were torchs and candles in the yard and there was sold rice porridge and glogg. Wonderful christmas atmosphere!! 😍💓

There was sold jewelery and clothing made by artisans. If i only had chance i had bought everything i could from there. I bought there brewed tea and cocoa beans. 

At night we went evening drive at the third longest bridge in Finland. Kärkisten silta. Its about 27 kilomters from Jyväskylä. Bridge is 787 meter long. 

Next day we drove back and we made last Christmas preparations for the week. 

Merry Christmas! 💚

Halloween 2020

 We had Halloween costume parties 30.10 again. 

Niki was little mummy and Kasmir was a witch, i was also some kind of witch with my little black hat. :D Kasmir had pre-school at friday morning and me and Niki went to the childrens art club on that friday morning before our parties. First guests come couple of hours after preschool day. 

                                        Niki , Little 1-year-old mummy. <3 

Kroisos the chihuahua, at his skeleton overall and my sister. Above picture is Carola. They are both Kasmir`s godmothers and my sisters. 

Food were eaten at pumpkin- and spiderweb plates, popcorns were aeaten at little coffins. This time i did not bake anything special, youre not always on that mood. I bought our halloween cake at the store, and baked little chocolate cake before Niki`s art club. The cake that i bought on grocery store was a little disaster. The  icing was stucked in the cake box. I decorate cake with salty little liquorice skulls. So it would not have looked exploded. 

                               Skullpennant between living room and hallway.

    

Later come more guests to our Halloween parties. We also had one guest visiting before he went to his train back to Moomin Valley. Kasmir was so excited. Niki was hiding around the corner, and came to look with me. He could not understand what was going on suddenly. :D 

Kasmir had so much fun. He said it was almost like christmas, so it msut be great night. I love this horror theme so much, so i wish there were more Halloweens at one year. :D 

Soon is Christmas time, and time to dig Christmas decorations.. its time to decorate christmas tree, time to bake gingerbreads and damson plum jams. I am waiting christmas very much.. I became a little christmas person last year. <3

Previous Halloween parties... 

Picture above from Halloween 2018. I was a vampire then. I took that cloak from Kasbe's costume to the adult party, with normal black clothes. The “thing” was the bright red contact lenses I used to make the vampire’s demonic eyes. After all, these colored lenses are all the colors, by themselves when you have very poor eyesight and require those strong strengths, so exciting piercing experiments are limited in to a couple of three lenses that can be obtained with strengths. But that red was one of them and I got a vampire look too.

I was pregnant then, so my hair was probably ten different colors because I hadn’t been able to handle them in any way for weeks. I don’t think they really fit that look and I somehow wanted to heal my curls. So I marched to the store and bought a May Day paint to spray my hair better. I had two color options, red or black, and finally I ended up in black. This is how the red contacts were best highlighted.

I was witch too for some halloween parties at year 2011. I think my long red hair was perfect on that costume!

This year i was Harley Queen from Suicide Squad- movie. I have now half of my hair pink and half electric blue. :D