Showing posts with label Christmas 2020. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas 2020. Show all posts

December 24, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 24 - Merry Christmas to all of you

 

I wish you a merry Christmas 

I want to wish all of you a merry Christmas and thank you for dropping by on small visits to my little kitchen :-) I hope you have enjoyed your visit(s), few or many, here, being either a short browse or a long stay.

Today is the day of farewell to this year Christmas Calendar of 2020 with focus on CAPITAL C, which I hope have brought you joy during a very unusual Christmas time. I have for sure got a kitchen full of Christmas goodies, when making all the many blog posts for this year´s Christmas Calendar.

Thank your for dropping by and have wonderful Christmas together with your family :-)

December 23, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 23 - Chocolate cream cake with cinnamon & walnuts

 

The final cake creation for the Christmas of 2020 is this chocolate cream cake with cinnamon & walnuts, where I have used have combined this chocolate cake with cinnamon together with the use of whipped cream flavoured with cinnamon sugar & walnut like this walnut cream cake a la Svinkløv. It turned out to be a great combination. 

Chocolade cake bun cinnamon: - 1 cake

  • 1 egg
  • 150 g brown sugar
  • 75 g butter - melted
  • 100 g whole fat milk
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3 tablespoon cocoa powder
  • 125 g (cake) flour
  • 2-2½ dl dairy whipping cream, 38% fat
  • 1-2 teaspoon cinnamon sugar
  • 50-75 g walnuts - medium chopped
  • 5 whole walnuts - for decoration
  1. Heat up the oven to 170'C.
  2. Add the egg and sugar into a medium size bowl, whip it together with an electrical mixer.
  3. Add in the melted butter, milk, flour, cocoa powder, vanilla sugar, cinnamon and baking powder. Whip again into a homogeneous mass.
  4. Place the Tupperware MicroPro ring on top of baking parchment.
  5. Fill the cake dough into the MicroPro ring.
  6. Place the cake in the middle of the oven, and bake the cake at 170 for 30-40 minutes.
  7. Check, that the cake is baked, before you take it out of the oven.
  8. Pull softly in the MicroPro ring from time to time, so get the cake loose.
  9. Remove the MicroPro ring and let the cake cool down on the baking parchment.
  10. Cool down the cake, slice the cake into either 2 or 3 slices.
  11. Pour the whipping cream together with cinnamon sugar into a medium sized mixing bowl.
  12. Whip the cream using a electrical whipper to the right firmness.
  13. Stir in the chopped walnuts.
  14. Place one chocolate cake bun on a serving plate.
  15. Spread ½ of the whipped cream on top of the cake bun.
  16. Place the second cake bun on top of the whipped cream.
  17. Decorate the top of the second/last cake bun with the rest of the whipped cream.
  18. Decorate the whipped cream with 5 whole walnuts.

December 22, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 22 - indoor Christmas decorations

 

It is not just outside the house, that I have decorated for Christmas. Also, indoor I have decorate the kitchen living room for Christmas. As I this year has a small kitten, some of the Christmas balls, which decorates the window have been placed as high as possible.

The use of battery candle light is another common theme for my Christmas decoration this year, again due to the presence in the house of a small kitten having no idea, what a burning candle is !!!

Not that many guests have been coming around, however, I small silver-like tray stand ready with glasses and different types of liqueurs to welcome guests :-)



December 21, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 21 - Chocolate cake with cinnamon



I have used this recipe on chocolate cake again giving it another Christmas twist in form of using cinnamon & brown sugar.  My plan is not to eat this cake as it is, however I will used it as cake buns for a cream cake with cream filling of walnut & cinnamon. 

Chocolade cake with cinnamon: - 1 cake
  • 1 egg
  • 150 g brown sugar
  • 75 g butter - melted
  • 100 g whole fat milk
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3 tablespoon cocoa powder
  • 125 g (cake) flour
  1. Heat up the oven to 170'C.
  2. Add the egg and sugar into a medium size bowl, whip it together with an electrical mixer.
  3. Add in the melted butter, milk, flour, cocoa powder, vanilla sugar, cinnamon and baking powder. Whip again into a homogeneous mass.
  4. Place the Tupperware MicroPro ring on top of baking parchment.
  5. Fill the cake dough into the MicroPro ring.
  6. Place the cake in the middle of the oven, and bake the cake at 170 for 30-40 minutes.
  7. Check, that the cake is baked, before you take it out of the oven.
  8. Pull softly in the MicroPro ring from time to time, so get the cake loose.
  9. Remove the MicroPro ring and let the cake cool down on the baking parchment.
  10. Serve the cake or use it as cream cake buns.

December 20, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 20 - outside Christmas decoration


Besides from indoor Christmas decorating, I have also decorate outside my house in my front garden with various type pf pine, fairy light being turned on during the dark. I have located two Christmas stars made from tarpaulin, so they can withstand a typical Danish rainy Winter season.

December 19, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 19 - English sister cake with Christmas twist

 

The English sister cake is a cake, which I recall back from my childhood, where my mother used to bake this cake. And I also think, that she was buying a similar bag containing both baking powder and spice mixture called "brown baking powder". So when I located the type of baking powder in my local supermarket, I decided to bake English sister cake with a Christmas twist in form of both candied orange peel and sucat besides from the corinths. 

English sister cake with Christmas twist: - 1 cake

  • 250 g soft butter
  • 250 g sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 400 g (cake) wheat flour
  • 1 bag f brown baking powder
  • 2½ dl full fat milk
  • 75 g corinths
  • 20 g candied orange peel
  • 20 g sucat
  1. Heat up the oven to 175'C.
  2. Add soft bitter & sugar in a medium mixing bowl, and whip it together in a foamy mass using an electrical beater.
  3. Add in the eggs, one by one, whipping between addition of an egg.
  4. Add in the brown baking powder.
  5. Pour in the milk, and whip again.
  6. Add in the flour and whip.
  7. Add in the dried fruit, and the cake dough together, until all the dried fruit is homogeneous mixed.
  8. Cover a bread form of 2 l with baking parchement.
  9. Pour in the cake dough.
  10. Place the form in the middle of the oven.
  11. Bake the cake at 175'C for 45-75 minutes.
  12. Check regular, that the bake is baked.
  13. Cold down the cake prior to cutting it and serving it.

December 18, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 18 - Cherry "mulled drink"

 

It is time to enjoy a "mulled drink" made from cherry cordial and a mulled spice bag from a local delicatessen. I decided not to use red wine or add alcohol into the "mulled drink", as my Christmas guests also were enjoying a glass or two of champagne.


Cherry "mulled drink": - 4-5 servings
  • 1 liter cherry cordial
  • 1 spice bag for mulled wine
  1. Pour the cherry cordial in a medium cooking pot.
  2. Add in the spice bag.
  3. Let the liquid simmer gently, and let the sugar from the spice bag dissolve into the cherry cordial.
  4. When the spice bag is empty for the sugar. And the cherry liquid is hot, but not boiling, it can be poured into glasses and served.
  5. Cheers :-)

December 17, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 17 - Buns with orange & cinnamon

 

As starting recipe for the bun I used this recipe on classic buns, which really have become my favorite bun recipe. As the Christmas twist I have added orange juice and cinnamon into the bun dough. I served these buns for a few selected Christmas guests. 

Buns with orange & cinnamon: 16-18 buns

  • 650 g wheat flour
  • 50 g sugar
  • 100 g sunflower/rape seed oil
  • 25 g fresh yeast
  • 1 egg
  • 8 g salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2½ dl orange juice
  • egg wash for glazing
  1. Weigh all the ingredients directly into the mixing bowl of the stand alone mixer. Keep salt & sugar away from the yeast.
  2. Place the bowl on the stand-alone mixer.
  3. Start knead the dough at speed 1 for 8 minutes.
  4. Afterwards increase the speed to 4, knead for 2 minutes. Check the consistency of the dough. If it is not OK, when knead it at speed 4 for another 2 minutes. Again check the consistency. If needed, knead again for 1 minute and when check consistency of the dough.
  5. Remove the dough from the mixing bowl and place it on the kitchen table sprinkled with flour.
  6. Let the entire dough raise for approx. 30-40 minutes under a damp cloth.
  7. When you evaluate, that the dough has raise enough, divide the dough into smaller pieces with a weight of 80 g each.
  8. Place the bun pieces on the baking tray covered with baking parchment. 
  9. Let the bun raise for second time for approx 40 minutes under a tea towel.
  10. Heat up the fan oven to 200'C.
  11. Bake the bun at 200'C for 15 minutes, turning the baking trays around after 8 minutes to get an even baking.
  12. Cold down the buns, before serving them with a nice cup of tea/coffee.

December 16, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 16 - Cherry marzipan bread

 

Today I have been creating some more marzipan bread as supplement to these marzipan bread with Grand Marnier. Again I have located the recipe in the weekly magazine "Søndag" (issue 49/2020). However, I decided to make various modification to the original recipe. I continued to use chocolate coating, as I did not need to temper a chocolate coating as you have with normal chocolate. You only need to melt the chocolate coating, and when it is ready to use.

Cherry marzipan bread: - 15 marzipan breads
  • 40 g Amarena cherry - finely chopped
  • 200 g marzipan
  • 3 tablespoons cherry liquid from the Amarena cherries or cherry liqueur
  • 20 g almond flour
  • dark chocolate coating
  • ruby chocolate coating
  1. Knead the marzipan, cherry and cherry liquid together with the almond flour together by hand in a medium sized mixing bowl.
  2. Place the marzipan cold for 30 minutes.
  3. Roll the marzipan mass in long smaller roll, which when is flatten in square size. 
  4. Cut the marzipan roll into 15 smaller square pieces.
  5. Place the marzipan pieces cold again for minimum 30 minutes.
  6. Melt the dark/ruby chocolate coating.
  7. Coat the marzipan bread pieces one by one, place the coated marzipan bread on a piece of baking parchment.
  8. After setting of the chocolate coating, place the marzipan bread in airtight containers.

December 15, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 15 - Marzipan "biscuits" with nougat filling

 

Continuing to fill the empty cake tins with some more Christmas sweets, again using a recipe located in the weekly magazine "Søndag" (issue 45/2020). I have made no changes to the recipe as it was in the magazine.

Marzipan "biscuits" with nougat filling: - 15 pieces
  • 250 g marzipan
  • 1 tablespoon icing sugar
  • 75 g soft nougat
  • 25 g dark chocolate
  • 1/4 teaspoon flake salt
  • ruby chocolate for decoration
  • freeze-dried raspberries for decoration
  1. Heat up the oven to 180'C.
  2. Start by kneading the marzipan and icing sugar together.
  3. Roll out the marzipan into a height of 3 mm.
  4. Stick out 30 pieces of the marzipan. I used a small aquavita glass as "cutter". Other shapes can be used. Re-roll the marzipan pieces into bigger pieces, which can be sticked into the desired shape.
  5. Place the marzipan pieces on a baking tray covered with baking parchment. 
  6. Bake the marzipan pieces at 180'C for 6-8 minutes, until the marzipan is light golden in colour.
  7. Cool down the marzipan pieces
  8. Cut the soft nougat and dark chocolate into smaller pieces, which is melted together over a water bath. 
  9. Stir in the flake salt.
  10. Cool down the nougat filling.
  11. Take a small teaspoon of nougat filling and spread it on top of one marzipan pieces, place a second marzipan pieces on top of the nougat filling. Now you have a marzipan biscuit with nougat filling.
  12. Melt the ruby chocolate.
  13. Decorate the top of the marzipan biscuit with a small amount of ruby chocolate. Sprinkle with freeze-dried raspberries.
  14. When the ruby chocolate is set, place the marzipan biscuit in airtight containers.

December 14, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 14 - Marzipan bread with Grand Marnier


Today it is time to make yet another portion of Christmas sweets, this time "marzipan breads" with orange peel and Grand Marnier. I have found this recipe in the weekly magazine "Søndag" (issue 45/2020). I decided to work with chocolate coating instead of normal dark chocolate, as you do not need to temper a chocolate coating as you have with normal chocolate. You only need to melt the chocolate coating, and when it is ready to use.

Marzipan bread with Grand Marnier: - 20 marzipan breads
  • 1 organic orange - only the zest
  • 250 g marzipan
  • 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier
  • 200 g dark chocolate coating
  • pistachio nut - small-medium chopped
  1. Knead the marzipan, orange zest & Grand Marnier together by hand in a medium sized mixing bowl.
  2. Place the marzipan cold for 30 minutes.
  3. Roll the marzipan mass in long smaller roll, which when is flatten in square size. 
  4. Cut the marzipan roll into 20 smaller square pieces.
  5. Place the marzipan pieces cold again for minimum 30 minutes.
  6. Melt the dark chocolate coating.
  7. Coat the marzipan bread pieces one by one, place the coated marzipan bread on a piece of baking parchment, and sprinkle at once with chopped pistachio nuts, as the chocolate coating is set very fast.
  8. After setting of the chocolate coating, place the marzipan bread in airtight containers.

December 13, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 13 - Lucia bun with orange twist


Today is Lucia day a day of singing girls in white dresses and candlelight in their hands. Besides from the singing and the candles you should also eat Lucia buns (buns with saffron) known as Lussekatte in Sweden, where the day of Lucia is an even bigger event than here in Denmark.

The Danish Lucia song by Alex Garff:

Nu bæres lyset frem                       - Now worn light up
stolt på din krone.                          - proud of your crown.
Rundt om i hus og hjem                  - Around the house and home
sangen skal tone.                            - the song should sound.
Nu på Lucia-dag                            - Now on Lucia Day
hilser vort vennelag                         - welcome to our friends
Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia.               - Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia

Her ved vor ønskefest                    -  Here at our desire celebration
sangen skal klinge.                          - the song to fade.
Gaver til hver en gæst                     - Gifts for every guest
glad vil du bringe.                           - glad you bring.
Skænk os af lykkens væld              - Grant us the happiness wealth
lige til livets kvæld                          - right to life eve
Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia.               - Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia.

As starting recipe for the bun I used this recipe on classic buns, which really have become my favorite bun recipe. Other recipes on Lucia buns could be these saffron buns a la Anne´s Food,  Lucia buns, saffron pot buns, Lucia buns year 2017, Lucia buns 2018 & Lucia buns 2019.

How to roll the bun into the right shape you can below on these photos:












Lucia buns: 18-20 buns
  • 650 g wheat flour
  • 50 g sugar
  • 125 g butter - soft
  • 25 g fresh yeast
  • 1 egg
  • 8 g salt
  • 0.25 g saffron
  • 2½ dl whole fat milk
  • egg wash for glazing
  1. Weigh all the ingredients directly into the mixing bowl of the stand alone mixer. Keep salt & sugar away from the yeast.
  2. Place the bowl on the stand-alone mixer.
  3. Start knead the dough at speed 1 for 8 minutes.
  4. Afterwards increase the speed to 4, knead for 2 minutes. Check the consistency of the dough. If it is not OK, when knead it at speed 4 for another 2 minutes. Again check the consistency. If needed, knead again for 1 minute and when check consistency of the dough.
  5. Remove the dough from the mixing bowl and place it on the kitchen table sprinkled with flour.
  6. Let the entire dough raise for approx. 30-40 minutes under a damp cloth.
  7. When you evaluate, that the dough has raise enough, divide the dough into smaller pieces with a weight of 75 g each.
  8. Shape the dough pieces into the shape of Lucia bun look at the photos above
  9. Place the bun pieces on the baking tray covered with baking parchment. 
  10. Let the bun raise for second time for approx 40 minutes under a tea towel.
  11. Heat up the fan oven to 200'C.
  12. Bake the bun at 200'C for 15 minutes, turning the baking trays around after 8 minutes to get an even baking.
  13. Cold down the buns, before serving them with a nice cup of tea/coffee.

December 12, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 12 - Cinnamon Dream cookies


After I baked these cinnamon cookies, I decided to make various changes (only to use butter, more cinnamon and less ammonium hydrogen carbonate). I also decided to sprinkle the cookies before baking with cinnamon sugar . I also decided to place the cookie dough cool in the refrigerator, so I could slice the cookie, prior to baking them.  

Cinnamon Dream cookies: - 30-50 cookies

  • 175 g butter - soft
  • 200 g sugar
  • 2½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • 200 g wheat flour
  • ½ teaspoon ammonium hydrogen carbonate
  • cinnamon sugar for sprinkling - optional
  1. Whip the sugar & butter white and foamy using a hand mixer.
  2. Add in the cinnamon, and whip again.
  3. Afterward add in the wheat flour and ammonium hydrogen carbonate and whip again.
  4. Divide the cookie dough into two portion. Each portion in place on cling film and rolled in long cookie roll.
  5. Place the cookie dough cold in the refrigerator night over.
  6. Heat up the oven to 150'C.
  7. Slice the cookie rolls into cookies.
  8. Place the cookies on baking trays covered with baking parchment. 
  9. Sprinkle the cookie with cinnamon sugar.
  10. Bake at 150'C for  approx. 20 minutes.
  11. Cool down the cookies, before they are stored in an air-tight container.

December 11, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 11 - Cherry Vermouth

 

Getting ready to enjoy another Christmas week-end, this time enjoying a cherry vermouth with a twist of orange :-)

Cherry Vermouth:  - 2 drinks

  1. Place 1 slice of orange in each glass.
  2. Squeeze the rest of orange for juice, which is divided between the two glasses.
  3. Place ice cubes in the glasses.
  4. Fill in cherry vermouth.
  5. Cheers & happy Christmas week-end :-)

December 10, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 10 - Rice Krispies sweet treats


After yesterdays creation of a first sweet treat I continue today by making some more sweet treats to fill up my still empty cake tins. I have also located this recipe in the weekly magazine "Søndag" (issue 45/2020), and here I have made no changes at all.

Rice Krispies sweet treats: - 30-40 pieces

  • 200 g Yankie chocolate bars - small-medium chopped
  • 100 g butter
  • 1 nip of flake salt
  • 50 g Rice Krispies
  1. Add the butter and chopped Yankie chocolate bars in a cooking pot at low heat.
  2. Melt the chocolate and butter together into a homogenous mass. It will take some time for the sugar part of the chocolate bars to become liquid.
  3. When the entire mass is melted together, add in a nip of flake salt.
  4. Add in the Rice Krispies and stir everything well together.
  5. Use two teaspoon for adding this chocolate mass into the small holes in silicone forms or small confect forms.
  6. Place the sweet treats cold for minimum 2 hours.
  7. Place the sweet treats in an airtight container for storage.

December 09, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 9 - Nougat treat

 

Today it is time to start making some Christmas sweets to fill up my various cake tins with goodies for the approaching Christmas. I have found this recipe in the weekly magazine "Søndag" (issue 45/2020), and the only changes, which I have done was to not make the decoration at the end with dark dark chocolate.

Nougat treat:  - 2 nougat pieces for further division
  • 150 g nougat - medium chopped
  • 150 g milk chocolate -medium chopped
  • 100 g salted almond - medium chopped
  • 50 g dried cranberries
  1. Prepare 2 plastic containers of 10 x 15 cm covering them with baking parchment. 
  2. Add the chopped nougat & milk chocolate into a small-medium mixing bowl, which is placed in a cooking pot with warm water. Melt the nougat & milk chocolate together, while you stir regular.
  3. Remove the mixing bowl from the water. Stir in the chopped salted almond and cranberries.
  4. Pour this nougat mixture into the two plastic containers.
  5. Place the containers cold in the refrigerator for minimum 4 hours, before you can cut into smaller pieces.
  6. Store the nougat pieces in an airtight containers prior to serving.

December 08, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 8 - After Eight chocolate cake

 

It is time for yet another chocolate time, I recently shared this recipe on chocolate cake with P-tærter with you. I have yet again used this basic recipe on chocolate cake a la Tupperware as starting point. The good thing about this specific recipe is, that you get a smaller size chocolate cake, so you often so enjoy a fresh chocolate, while you at the same time to try a flavour twist.

After Eight chocolate cake: - 1 cake

  • 1 egg
  • 150 g sugar
  • 75 g butter - melted
  • 100 g whole fat milk
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
  • 3 tablespoon cocoa powder
  • 125 g (cake) flour
  • 50 g After Eight chocolate - medium chopped - for the cake dough
  • 10 pieces of After Eight chocolate - for melting on top of the freshly baked chocolate cake
  1. Heat up the oven to 170'C.
  2. Add the egg and sugar into a medium size bowl, whip it together with an electrical mixer.
  3. Add in the melted butter, milk, flour, cocoa powder, vanilla sugar and baking powder. Whip again into a homogeneous mass.
  4. Stir in the chopped After Eight chocolate pieces into the cake dough.
  5. Place the Tupperware MicroPro ring on top of baking parchment.
  6. Fill the cake dough into the MicroPro ring.
  7. Place the cake in the middle of the oven, and bake the cake at 170 for 30-40 minutes.
  8. Check, that the cake is baked, before you take it out of the oven.
  9. Place the pieces of "whole / un-broken" After Eight chocolate on freshly baked cake, so the chocolate pieces can melt together.
  10. Use a dough scraper to spread the chocolate pieces into a homogenous layer.
  11. Pull softly in the MicroPro ring from time to time, so get the cake loose.
  12. Cool down the cake and remove the MicroPro ring.
  13. Serve the cake together with a cup of coffee and/or tea.

December 07, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 7 - Cinnamon cookies

It is time to start baking cookies, so the cookie tins can be filled up for Christmas. And today I have been testing a recipe on cinnamon cookies, which I have located in the weekly magazine "Søndag".

I had expected a stronger taste of cinnamon in these cookies, and the feed-back from my colleagues, is that taste of cinnamon is not very dominating. Also, the cookies was very crumbling, which I think comes from the amount of ammonium hydrogen carbonate, so next I will increase the level of cinnamon on decrease the amount of ammonium hydrogen carbonate.

Cinnamon cookies: - 30-50 cookies

  • 100 g butter - soft
  • 2½ dl sugar
  • 1 dl rape seed oil
  • 2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3 dl wheat flour
  • 1 teaspoon ammonium hydrogen carbonate
  1. Heat up the oven to 150'C.
  2. Whip the sugar & butter white and foamy using a hand mixer.
  3. Add in the rape seed oil together with the cinnamon, and whip again.
  4. Afterward add in the wheat flour and ammonium hydrogen carbonate and whip again.
  5. Use two teaspoons to take small pieces of the cookie dough, which is placed on baking tray covered with baking parchment. 
  6. Bake at 150'C for  approx. 20 minutes.
  7. Cool down the cookies, before they are stored in an air-tight container.

December 06, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 6 - Christmas kløben buns version 3

 

These kløben buns are only for grown ups, as they are full of raisin, sukat, orange peels & cranberries, some of the stuff, which quiet many people can have a strong opinion as they really dislike the use of sukat & raisins insides both buns and cakes. However, I have a huge fan of these ingredients inside both buns & cakes, so therefore I bake this type of bun every Christmas, such as these Christmas bun kløben version 2. This year I have used a combination of almond flour & sour cream, as a way of clearing up my refrigerator :-)

Since I have learned to bake these classic buns at the bread baking course, they have become a favorite of mine. Another favorite bun type of mine are kløben buns, they have been favorite since my childhood. 

These buns are great served with a cup of coffee/tea or glass of port :-)

Christmas buns kløben style version 2: - 16-20 buns

  • 650 g wheat flour
  • 20 g almond flour - optional
  • 50 g sugar
  • 100 g sour cream with 38% fat
  • 70 g butter - soft and cut into smaller squares
  • 25 g fresh yeast
  • 1 egg
  • 8 g salt
  • 200 g full-fat milk
  • 1 teaspoon of cardamom 
  • 50 g raisins
  • 50 g sucat
  • 50 g orange peel
  • 65 g dried cranberries
  1. Weigh all the ingredients (not the dried fruits) directly into the mixing bowl of the stand alone mixer. Keep salt & sugar away from the yeast.
  2. Place the bowl on the stand-alone mixer.
  3. Start knead the dough at speed 1 for 8 minutes.
  4. Add in the dried fruits.
  5. Afterwards increase the speed to 4, knead for 2 minutes. Check the consistency of the dough. If it is not OK, when knead it at speed 4 for another 2 minutes. Again check the consistency. If needed, knead again for 1 minute and when check consistency of the dough.
  6. Remove the dough from the mixing bowl and place it on the kitchen table sprinkled with flour.
  7. Let the entire dough raise for approx 20 minutes under a damp cloth.
  8. When you evaluate, that the dough has raise enough, divide the dough into smaller pieces with a weight of 100 g each.
  9. Shape the dough pieces into bun shapes. Place the bun pieces on the baking tray covered with baking parchment. 
  10. Let the bun raise for second time for approx 40 minutes under a tea towel.
  11. Heat up the oven to 200'C.
  12. Bake the bun at 200'C for 16 minutes.
  13. Cold down the buns, before serving them with a nice cup of tea/coffee.

December 05, 2020

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 5 - Cherry Royal

 

Let's celebrate the first week-end in the Christmas month of December with a sparkling glass of cherry wine (Frederiksdal RØD sparkling) with some extra cherry addition in form of cherry vermouth (Frederiksdal vermouth). These two types of cherry alcoholic products are produced locally here in Denmark.

Cherry Royal: - 1 cocktail
  • 3 cl cherry vermouth
  • cherry sparkling wine
  1. Fill the cherry vermouth in a champagne glass
  2. Fill up with sparkling cherry wine
  3. Cheers & enjoy the week-end :-)

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