Serafiina´s Apple Cake

 Serafiina´s Apple cake

You need:

3 eggs

1 cup of brown &white sugar

1 cup of white baking flour

Small tea spoon of ground cardamom

Small tea spoon of Vanilla sugar

Half a tea spoon of Cinnamon

Grated lemon peel, as small texture as possible.

2 big apples.

These type of tools I used.. 

Peel the apples, cut first one in to thin slice to put on top of the cake, and cut the other for thin slices by using the peeler, these thin slices you are going to hide in to cake.

Take a cake mold, and depending on what material it is, pre prepare it well, so that cake does not get stuck on it.. I use silicon mold and add little bit salty butter in to it, it gives a cake nice taste without extra fat on it. 

Put oven on, pre heat it to 160c

Take 3 equal drinking glasses.

-Brake 3 eggs to glass and note how much eggs do you have in glass. 

( idea is to have equal mount of everything..)

-Brown sugar, white caster sugar to second glass.

- Fill  your third glass either  with Self raising gluten free flour of normal white baking flour if wish add pinch baking powder

( I did not  as I use d gluten free flower.. )

-Whip the eggs until they are nice light foam, add all sugar in and whip until nice light brown foam and add all spices in, as well as grated lemon.

Then pour in the flower, and just fold it in, try not to work the dough too much as other wise it will loose it´s nice and fluffy texture.

Pour half of the dough in to mold and add those thin slices in to cake that you have cut with peeles they are filling if the cake,  there should be cake dough inbetween each slice so don´t fill it in too much.

Pour rest of the dough to cover all the apple slices that you have put in earlier.

Decorate your cake with nicely cut Apple slices, sprinkle cinnamon and Caster Sugar on top and put in to oven. 

Bake until no dough get´s stuck to your “test stick”!

Tastes great with tea or coffee! 

Enjoy with great appetite, and share with your friends in good company. 

Autumn, and it´s inspirations

Ah, how I LOVE Autumn, it is nice and dark and yet not too cold.
I can burn candles and eat soups and winter foods, and do my hand crafts, without feeling that I am forced to enjoy "nice sunny weather".
In the end I realised that I am not big fan of heat.. some how this summer was just too much for me.
15 weeks of at least +24c and our bedroom was like stove.
No, I don´t like it.

I feel very inspired, not least because of pinterest, that is my new addiction.
I have found some great crafts I want to try out this winter, but it has also given me a great ideas and itis amazing source of inspiration, my word of the day.

Knitting, sewing, painting and also dog collar making, cooking, baking, writing, and learning music and teaching. This is what my winter is made of.
This will be nice winter as my good friend from Finland has rented an apartment with her husband from our area, it feels cosy that I can walk and pop in with fresh made cup cakes and have a cup of tea and chat like back at home in Finland. She is also musician and loves hand crafts, so we will see what kind of crazy ideas we get together and start doing things in here.. we never tend to calm each others down.. opposite. If one get´s some rather bold idea, we encourage for more!

We have also plan to put together such a stage show that never seen before.. that will still be secret what it is but more will follow.. as well as Christmas decorations.. those will be coming too!

So, keep eye on my blog!!

Would you like recipe for rhubarb pie?? 

Organic Beetroot Soup

I LOVE AUTUMN!

It really is my favourite time of the year, and I like soups.. and they go well together.. Will show you few nice ways to make easy home made soups, and.. they end up being organic if you use organic veggies, and what ever you need for cooking. 

Beautiful beetroots! 

You need: 

Disposable gloves

5 Good size raw Beetroots

5 Good size Potatoes ( there should be just equal mount of potatoes and beetroot, what ever the size..) 

1 Vegetable Stock cube

Small chunk of salted butter

Black pepper

Salt

2dl Cream

Junk of Goat Cheese

1) You start with peeling the beetroots and Potatoes and cut them in big chunks so that they boil easier. 

If you boil them in whole it takes whole lot longer.. use disposable gloves for your own comfort.  

2) Put them all in to kettle and fill water about 1cm above beetroots and potatoes, add pinch of salt, black pepper and add in Vegetable stock cube. Let them boil un till beetroot is also soft, and not much water left. be careful that you don´t bake them in kettle.. Add Butter.

3) When they have cooled down a little, use Blender to smash everything in to smooth nice puree, and add Cream in, and use Blender again. 

4) Heat the soup again, so that it is boils ( carefull not to burn it now with cream) 

Look at this amazing colour! 

Serve hot, with crumbled Goat Cheese and use some herbs as a decorative element. 

I like Basil and Mint! 

Beautiful food. 

White wine is a good companion with it, and nice bread with garlic and herbs!