Sugar doughnuts

I made some sugar doughnuts last week. I was so scared and I felt like I was going to burn the whole building but I survived and didn’t burn anything.
Here is the recipe for them, I hope you don’t burn them. I didn’t put yeast in the dough but I used baking powder instead so it was fast to make these.

Ingredients:
4 dl flour
½ dl sugar
A little bit of salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cardamom
2 dl milk
1 egg

For cooking
oil

Mix flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and cardamom in a bowl.
Mix the egg and milk in another bowl and add that in the first bowl. Mix them.

Heat the oil in a iron pot. Don’t make it too hot because that would burn the whole building.
Take a little bit of the dough and put it in the oil with two spoons. Don’t put too many dough balls in the oil at the same time. The cooking time is about 5-7 minutes.

Put the doughnuts on paper and let them be there so they could dry. Then put some sugar on the doughnuts.
These doughnuts are the best when they are fresh and they have cooled for a while.

I hope you liked this post! Have a good day!

Mud cake

I made a mud cake and now i would like to share the recipe with you.

You need:
1½ dl flour
½ tsp baking powder
100 g margarine
100 g dark chocolate
2 eggs
1 dl sugar

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees celsius (or about 392 degrees fahrenheit). Take a cake tin and grease it with butter.
Mix flour and baking powder in a little bowl.
Melt chocolate and margarine in a pot.

Cream together eggs and sugar in a different bowl. Add flour and baking powder mix and chocolate and margarine mix to egg and sugar mix and mix them together carefully.
Put the dough in the cake tin and put it to the oven. Let it be there for 12 minutes.
Then you can serve it with ice cream.

This piece of the cake didn’t turn out as great as I thought.

Easter

It was Easter last week and because I didn’t do anything exiting, I want to tell you how I spent my easter when I was a child. But there is a story I want to tell before time traveling to my childhood.
So, it was this years easter. I just sat in the car because I  went to visit my dad (even though I was sick). My dad came to get me and his girlfriend’s kids and then we started our trip to middle Finland. It went well for about 3 hours but then our car just broke. My dad stopped the car and then we sat in the car for about 30 minutes and during that my dad called someone to help us. So we just sat there, next to a road, in a broken car and there was cold. The helper came and fixed the car temporarily. We drove to the nearest ABC, which is a gas station and the guy followed us. I don’t know why but we drove to a store nearby and basically stood in the cold, when the guy was trying to fix the car again (it was about 8.50P.M and the store was closing). Then we took a risk and drove back to the ABC and the helper had to get something that might fix the car from a different town about 50 minutes away. So we started our night in that gas station. I was about to lose my mind after 6 hours of waiting in a gas station. The time was about 3 A.M when we finally continued our trip.
You might think that was it. Well it wasn’t. When we had to leave, the car broke again! This time it wasn’t so bad and we didn’t have to wait so long.

And now we get to my childhood!
Usually I woke up early and found a piece of paper in the kitchen. The paper had some hints for hidden chocolate eggs. Usually it was a drawing of the place where my chocolate was. The piece of paper was left by the easter bunny!

We have this really weird Finnish easter pudding called “mämmi” and I have always hated it but I still want to mention that in this post because it is a Finnish easter food. Here is a picture of it:

Then a thing that we call “virpominen”. I didn’t find an English word for it but basically you have a willow tree branch decorated with feathers and other decorations and you are dressed as something related to easter (for example a witch or a bunny). Then you just go to other people’s door and say a sentence (I can’t find a translation to the sentence, sad but no can do) and then you give that person the branch and get chocolate, yay! I really don’t know if this is a thing in other countries but children love this in Finland (I don’t know about kids these days but when I was a child everyone loved it).

I think everyone knows this one. Dyeing eggs. It was so much fun to be creative and paint things on eggs.

And I think that was it. I hope you’re having an awesome day!

The photos I used aren’t mine. Credits to owners!

Berry pie

I did this berry pie two weeks ago and failed, but it tasted good. I hope you don’t fail.

Ingredients:
2 eggs
2 dl sugar
1dl oil
3 dl flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla sugar
1 dl milk

Toppings:
4 dl berries or fruit slices

Heat the oven to 200 degrees (celsius or 392 F). Grease the cake tin and apply some bread crumbs.
Mix eggs and sugar in a bowl without an electric mixer.
Take another bowl and mix flour, baking powder and vanilla sugar.
Put them in the first bowl and mix.

Add milk and oil. You should mix it pretty fast (still without that electric mixer).
Put the dough in the cake tin and sprinkle the berries on top of the dough. You can sprinkle a little sugar on them if you want to.

Bake it in the oven for 30-40 minutes. Make sure that it’s cooked in the inside!