Wishing you all an uplifting year: live, love, create and enjoy it all!
A little something from me – to you – as a thank you for your support, visits and endless inspirations!
script, camera and directing – by me
editing and making it to the public – by my dearest (Karsten Schmidt)
music – by Fletcher Henderson ‘Shake your feet’ from archive.org
And a big thanks to my swiss honey cookies!
Next up is a give away – Zoog will be looking for a dinosaur friendly home to move to…
I’ve also found a great apple cake recipe
and a new Polish recipe that makes really yummy Christmas cookies
50g butter
1 tbsp golden syrup or honey (I used honey)
50g light brown sugar
225g plain flour
3tsp mixed spices (ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon..)
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
3tbsp milk
1 egg yolk
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Melt the butter, syrup or honey and sugar in a pan. Leave to cool for 5 minutes.
Sift the flour, spices and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Make a well in the centre. Pour in the melted butter mixture, milk and egg yolk. Mix to a soft dough.
Kneed until smooth, then roll out between 2 sheets of baking paper until 5mm thick. Stamp out forms using cookie cutters. Place on the baking sheets. Make a hole in each if you wish to hang them up later. Bake for 10 minutes, until a slightly darker shade.
Speaking of cookies, I had to make some for my kids school’s Christmas fair. I used simple gingerbread dough and decorated it with the icing. No idea how successful they were, but it was fun making these. 
Ok. Next up buckwheat pancakes
Made from wholewheat and buckwheat flour (50/50). My kids actually love them. I also substitute normal sugar for black molasses, it not only is healthier, tastes better, but also makes the pancakes look brownish, so my kiddos call our pancakes ‘the chocolate ones’
So that’s baking. Now making. Lina and her goodies. Already in my shop
I also have a bigger bear that needs to be finished… and a couple of other things… so I might do my last shop update next Tuesday night, but no promises here
That’s it. The sun outside is calling – have a great Sunday!
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The recipe is very simple and the result very yummy:
500 g self raising flour
100 g butter
200 g honey
100 g sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
2 teaspoons of ready mixed spices (cinnamon, coriander seed, caraway, nutmeg, ginger, cloves)
grated rind of 1 orange
100 g almonds finely chopped
Preheat oven to 200C°. Grease 2 baking sheets.
Melt the honey, sugar and butter together. Take off the heat and let it cool down. Stir the flour, baking powder, spices and nuts in a separate bowl. Once the honey mixture has cooled down, mix in the eggs. Add the flour, orange rind and mix until blended. Gather mixture into a ball, wrap in greaseproof paper and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
Roll out the mixture about 8-10mm thick. Stamp out some shapes and place them on the sheets. Brush the cookies with the egg yolk. Bake until golden brown, 8-10 minutes.
Nothing too special, but these ended up as a symbolic ‘Thank you’ for our oldest son’s teachers.
And some ended up in my tummy… or quite a few… a lot of them actually. Eh. They are good!
We have now officially switched in to a relax mode.
All is ready, no more rushing. Time to appreciate, time to enjoy. I’ve been very happy.
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