Niki`s Blue Birthday Parties

We had Niki`s 1 year old birthday parties at saturday. Niki turn 1 at april, but we celebrated them now because of strange spring. Parties theme was blue.

Before parties we crafted invitations with Kasmir at the blue cardboard. I thought it would be nice to made every year something with him at little brothers parties. First invitations we made together last may when Niki had his christenings. the weather was so lovely, so we craft outside at our terrace.

The weather was nice. About 18 degrees. We had parties at our backyard. Everything was blue, decorations and settings. Aunts electric blue hair was beautiful and fits well in our theme!

I decorated trees with silver paper streamers and blue decorations. There were also "Happy Birthday"pennant made of blue letters.

Paper streamers did not stayed on their places  into trees very long. But every decorations stayed there where i put them.

First my decorations looked like badly opened napkins. But last of them looked liked flowers.

Cakes and other food was also all blue. The blueberry pie, blue cake, and  blue bebe- pastries. Salmon sandwich cake were not blue of course. Blue cake was filled with whipped cream, bananas and jam. Almost everything eaten right away. There were also blue candies. 

I had never gotten on sugar mass so good like now. Even when i moved it, it wont get broken. But when i went to get decorations on the cake, and came back to the other room, Niki had pull of the sugar mass little from the cake. It really annoyed me , but then i thought that the birthday hero should be also decorated his own cake. I fixed the cake with car-shaped decorations. 

We all wear blue clothes. Boys had new blue shirts. 

Parties were wonderful, and its totally okey that we had to shift parties couple of monts forward at april. Back then i already thougt that it would be lovely to have parties at june when its warm and we could be outside. Luckily, there was warm weather but not too hot. Cakes and people would have melted while drinking coffee if it had been too warm. 

 Cake with grandmother..

More cake with dad. 

from the card of godmother. <3 

My Birhtday and ChocolateLiquorice Cake

Sunday i celebrated my birthdays.  I made  a liquorice chocolate cake for my birthday cake, which I planned with myself. I love both flavors, so that’s why I made this flavor duo  this year. I decorated the cake with blackberries and yellow violets, as well as a little Baileys bottle. For the evening, I made chicken pie and soy pie, which also only came quickly from my own head. The pie was strangely watery when it left the oven, but eventually become steady when it had cooled.

Chicken taco Pie is spicy and some fresh salad would be good with that. Feta salad for example. I also made the Green apple - punch.

Ingredients:

 Apple juice 

Lime flavour lemonade

Sour apple -liqueur

booze

apple and lime slices

Vegan soy pie

Ingredients:

Bottom

rye - oat 

Filling

Planti! Onion oat food cream

Paprika-Chili Oatly! vegan smetana

soy protein granules

vegetable bouillon cube

tomatoes

paprika

onion 

(vegan grated cheese)

Melt the vegetable cube in boiling water, pour soy protein granules into the water. Press the oat base into the bottom of the pie pan and bake at 225 degrees for about 7 minutes. Chop all the onions and peppers. Make tomato slices. In another bowl, mix the chili vegesmetana with the soy granules and the chopped vegetables. Place the mixture on top of the pie base, add tomato slices, and pour the food cream and grated cheese. This version itself did not have grated cheese now Bake pie 45min at 225 degrees. 

I think cream cakes are really beautiful. Any kind of baking is a beautiful thing. Especially those Mother’s Day / Father’s Day cakes with quince or manary mica centers and lovely extrusions. Skillful cakes that are almost perfectly made, almost like those made in the factory, but also those that are actually made in the factory. Also, such home baker-looking cream cakes are sweet, absolutely wonderful. Showing a personal handprint made at home. It’s an eye-catching sight when there’s a Cake waiting for the first piece to be cut from it. Anyway, pastries are one of the most beautiful things in the world. Especially when there are a lot of baked things on the same table, or even a pastry plate rolling next to similar pieces

. But even though I think cream cakes are the beauties of the food world, I still don’t like to eat them at all. : D I didn't like it as a child, and I don't like it now. I can take a piece at a party, of course, it’s not the worst thing I know right now, but simply whipped cream is just something I don’t like. And by the way, so doesn't like my firstborn son, so he seems to have inherited it. : D And even though this filling was mixed with cream, it still goes, but pure whipped cream, , it's just not to my favourite! liquorice and chocolate instead are!

For my birthday i made this cake. Everything what is my favourites. I planned cake to myself, and decorated everythinkg taht looked my favourites. Flowers is my second love.

Chocolate Liquorice Cake

Bottom:

7 eggs

3 dl white sugar 

1 dl dark cocoa flour

1 dl liquorice flour

1 dl wheat flour 

Filling:

5 dl whipped cream 

1dl chocolate cream 

1dl liquorice flour 

200g liquorice chocolate 

200g cream cheese (chocolate)

3 tea spoon white sugar

Frosting:

2 decilitre chocolate cream 

liquorice chocolate bar

liquorice flour 

Heat the oven to 175 degrees. In a second bowl, mix the dry ingredients together. Beat the eggs and sugar into a foam, such a hard foam that you manage to write your initials on it. Add carefully the flour into the egg-sugar mousse, and pour into the bottom of a greased cake tin. Bake the cake for 45min at the bottom of the oven. Check cake all the time and  change the cooking time as needed.

Cool the cake well and cut into three parts. Prepare the filling. Place the first layer of cake on a serving dish and moisten with oat milk. Add the filling and place the next cake base on top of the filling. Moisten, add the filling and then another cover for the cake from the last piece. Put cake at refrigerator overnight if possible and then make the frosting next day. 

Make the frosting. Put chocolate cream in a saucepan low heat and chop a plate of licorice chocolate into it one piece at a time. Stir until the chocolate has melted and the mixture has thickened. Pour over the cake when its cooled a little. Frosting is not meant to stay on. Decorate with yellow flowers and blackberries.

I add some pictures from my guests at last sunday. :) Picture from below at my boys Kasmir and Nikiour parents dog Tessu and my good friends little boy Matia riding Nikis police moped. 

Drinking punch at the flower paper cup. The weather at my birthday was warm and pretty.

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We had other small celebrations during last weekend, when Kasmir got a certificate and a rose when he started at the nursery school next autumn. After the fridays kindergarten day they we went to the store to pick up the cakes and candies that Kasmir want to buy. 

The "graduating rose" was really important to Kasmir. He hurried to get home to get it in the vase as fast as possible so the rose just didn't die. We had two cats so Kasmir did not deare to leave the rose in the kitchen were the cats walk. so he build staging so the rose could be safe in his room. He remembered to make sure that rose gets enough light. 

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I also got flowers from friends at my birthday. roses and bouquet of flowers. The flowers are one of the most beautiful things in the world. Winter time was especially heavy this year. Continuous gray and dark, began in November that never ended. Autumn is still my favorite season. But the early fall, and the ever-ending endlessdarkness of November, will not save even scented candles. (Which are also one of my great love.: D) But now there is light and warmth and hopefully it would last until October, like year 2018.

Welcome Spring Picnic

Since Kasmir was little we had a unofficially official cake picnic at our balcony when the warmer weather and sun comes at the spring time. I made cheesecake and its like welcoming party at the sun. This year i made sun cheesecake with my own recipe, and vegetable pie. It was neather too greasy or too salty. The bottom was made of oat-rye and the fillings were vegetables. I totally falling in love at the pie! And that pie base especially!

We have had other small parties together with Kasmir. For example i bought once chinese style lamp at the flea market and i think thats reason to bake waffles. And end of the august when its "Venetsialaiset" at 2015, our balcony was full of candles and i had made homemade ice cream for us.

Autumn 2016.

I found this lovely Chinese style lamp at the Flea market for 3€ price at the autumn 2016. Same time i bought new waffle iron and i made dozens of waffles for us. If i remembered correctly we had mint chocolate foam because neither of us like whipped cream.

Venetsialainen 2015.

This picture is taken at august 2015, i had made own homemade ice cream. The picture below is from autumn 2017, Kasmir had made his first apple pies with my help. 

Autumn 2017.

But today we had our sun picnic again. I made sunny cheesecake with my own recipe. This time we were not just Kasmir and me, =) Niki had his own picnic smoothie from bananas and apples and oat milk. 

This picture above is from our first sun picnic at spring 2016. On that day we had been at the childrens art club at morning and then we had together time at the balcony with cheesecake and chocolate oat milk. Mummy drinks coffee. Cheesecake was decorated with little orange.

At May 2017, we packed our leopard bags with juice and watermelon and went to the park. Kasmir also play and climbed there. It was our summer picnic at spring 2017.

May 2018.

At the may 2018 we had food and Moomin bubble drink on our new  homes terrace. The weather was nice. We had our first homewarming party at that weekend and we had own parties together when was sunday. That whole weekend were warm and sunny.

Sunny Cheesecake

Bottom:

300g oat biscuits

50g margarine

Filling:

5 dl whipped cream 

200g passion fruit quark

200g lemon quark

200g Mango quark

200g Orange cream cheese

mandarine oranges

6 gelatine 

sugar , vanilla sugar

Glaze:

4 can of baby food mango flavour 

3 gelatine 

Decorating:

Eatable flowers

Melt butter. Crush the biscuits and add the melted butter. Pour butter- biscuit mix on the cake tin and the put it in the fridge while making the filling. Whisk the cream into a loose foam and add the quarks and a cream cheese and stir until smooth. Finally, add the mandarine oranges, (save the canned juice) and whisk them so that they crush evenly into the mixture. Add sugars as you like.

Sugar is not neccessary.. Its good enough without any added sugars.


Soak the gelatin leaves in ice-cold water for about 5 minutes. Heat the juice left over from the mandarin slices to boil in the microwave. Squeeze the gelatin into useless water and mix it with the mandarin juice. Pour a thin strip into the filling and mix until smooth. Pour into a pan and set evenly. Put the cake in the refrigerator, preferably overnight. Make the mango glaze. Add gelatin in cold water and bring to a boil a drop of juice into which you melt the gelatin. Squeeze it before you put it on the juice.. Pour mango baby foods in the dish,  add gelatine, mix it, and pour over the coagulated cake. Put in the refrigerator  for at least a couple of hours. Decorate with flowers. =)

Vegetable pie

Bottom:

Ready oat- rye pie base

Filling:

1 leek

1 red paprika

200g light sour cream

2 egg

Parsley

Basilica

Chili

Black pepper

Put the melted pie on the bottom of the pie tin. Bake the base at 175 degrees for about 7 minutes. Chop the leek, paprika and mix with the eggs as well as the sour cream and flavour with spices. Pour the filling over the pie base and bake at 175 degrees for 45 minutes, or until the pie is cooked through.

We put blanket on the terrace and a vegetable pie was eaten there. After the pie, I fetched us pieces of sun cheesecake from the fridge.

Personally, I like it when there are big pieces in the pie! Big pieces of pepper, big pieces of leek, big pieces of all! So I always chop them into good-sized bites.

Vegetarian pie <3

Niki’s smoothies could have been put in some better container or at least cover it.. But i didn`t thougt that far. Niksu would pour half a cup of banana drink on top of the pie: D But luckily the pie was saved so that there was still food left, and we already had eat it many pieces before the smoothie fell over the pie.

Again, one spring arrived, hopefully comes a warm summer 2020. 💛🧡💚

MayDay 2020!

May Day was celebrated this weekend. We were on a drive with Kasmir on Thursday. Somehow the really lovely weather now happened to May Day, although it usually rains sleet and is so icy cold. Last May Day 2019, it was quite shockingly cold. I remember when I went to the store with my baby to pick up potato salad supplies so I even regretted going outside for some snow because it was almost snowing and it was so unconsciously cold.

On May Day 2014 I had homewarming party at our current new home. Kasmir was then at my mother over night.. He wouldn't have gotten anything out of the May Day cravings yet. On May Day 2015, I made an rainbow cake.  The rainbow  looked tense as the piece was cut from the cake and there were multicolored layers of caramel-colored inside. I blew the floor into our apartment full of balloons and Kasmir had a new red May Day fan and a black cat costume made by her aunt as a gift. :) 2016 we had masks and was eaten on our lovely balcony with chips, food and store-bought sima. I also  celebrate May Day myself.

MayDay 2015.

On May Day 2015, because of the oven, the temperature in our home gets quite high so I opened the glasses on the balcony and the windows of the apartment. I wondered if it would be cold for the little one when, however, the wind was commendably windy, and it wasn't a particularly warm day. So that’s why I put on the head on that hat inside of house that time: D 

RainbowCake at MayDay 2015.

Niki was almost 1 month old last year, when we had sausages and homemade potato salad at may day 2019. Kasmir had new Spiderman- costume. We had also mint chocolate cheesecake, and we ate it from glasses. And not because I intentionally made it in the glass but because the cake failed and not only stayed in the pile but was still edible so I put it in the glasses. It was just as good as the mint chocolate stuff always, although it didn't work out as it should: D 

Niki and Kasmir were this year police and a robber. I baked donuts and we blown balloons. Kasmir had boiled sausages and potato salad. This year I just bought the salad from the store and it wasn't even the right one, it was the mushroom salad, because all the potato salads had been completely cleaned out of stores and there wasn't a single box left. I didn’t bother then to go specifically to look for it in some store that was still open.  We deviated a little from the tradition. And it doesn't matter. :D But I remember boiled sausages and potato salad tradition from my own childhood, so it must be a thing many years ago. I always remember that those sausages taste really good when floated in a potato salad, even though I otherwise hate sausages  as a child.

MayDay 2020. My little police and robber.

Homemade sima.

I ate mayday doughnuts very collected after all. I reduced the candy eating, and now its time to left all chocolate and white sugar things out of my life for a while. I could ate cake for example at mothersday and my birhtday, but in the future i want to be without white sugar for a longer time.   And there is many other yummies than buns and milk chocolates.

Mayday 2020.