Christmas Calendar Day 4 - Banana bread with Christmas twist

As I still had some quiet matured bananas in my kitchen, I decided to make a Christmas twist to this banana bread a la "Rye 115" by using a combination of plain and brown sugar with addition of cinnamon on top of the vanilla powder. And as the chocolate part I used a dark chocolate with 55% and the flavour of orange.

You can regular to check the cake during the baking, as the indicated 42 minutes at 170'C is not enough at all in my oven. Here I had to bake for 60-70 minutes at 170'C. So, keep an open eye, if you bake this cake.

Banana bread with Christmas twist: - 1 cake

• 50 g sugar
• 50 g brwon sugar
• 2 eggs
• 250 g (cake) wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon 
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 dl rape seed oil or sun flower oil
• 4 matured bananas - peeled and mashed
• 100 g dark chocolate with orange - medium chopped

1. Heat up the oven to 170'C.
2. Whip the eggs and sugar together for 10 minutes. I used by stand alone mixer for this purpose, so I did not have holding a hand mixer for 10 minutes.
3. Add in the wheat flour, baking powder, vanilla powder, cinnamon, salt and oil. And whip until homogenous.
4. Add in the mashed bananas and whip again.
5. Finally add in the chocolate, and whip again for a short time or stir in the chopped chocolate by hand.
6. Fill the cake dough in a bread form.
7. Bake the cake at 170'C in middle/upper part of the oven.
8. Check regular during the baking, if the cake is baked.
9. Bake at 170'C for 45-70 minutes.
10. Cold down the cake prior to serving.

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 3 - chocolate cake with P-tærter

Some time ago I baked this chocolate cake. And I found, that you easily could twist this cake recipe in many different direction. So today I am sharing one of these twists with you as the daily Christmas Calendar entries. The twist I am doing today is to replace the chocolate with P-tærte, which as a Danish candy in form French nougat with peanuts and coated with dark chocolate. So here you cut the individual P-tærte into smaller pieces. 

I decided to double up the portion, however you can easy divide the below mentioned recipe into half, if you only need a small chocolate cake. 
 

Chocolate cake with P-tærte: - 1 cake

• 2 egg
• 300 g sugar
• 150 g butter - melted
• 200 g whole fat milk
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoon vanilla sugar
• 6 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 250 g (cake) flour
• 100 g P-tærte - medium chopped

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 pieces of P-tærte into the cake dough.
5. Cover the baking tray (15 cm x 25 cm) with baking parchment, before you fill the cake dough into the baking tray.
6. Place the cake in the middle of the oven, and bake the cake at 170 for 40-50 minutes.
7. Check, that the cake is baked, before you take it out of the oven.
8. Cool down the cake, before serving it.

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 2 - almond cakes with hazel nuts

 

To start off the Christmas baking I tried to bake these almond cakes with hazel nuts as topping froma recipe, which Ihad found in weekly magazine. However, I did not end up was worth to eat, the cakes was dry as sand ! Perhaps you can figure out, what is wrong in this recipe ?

Almond cakes with hazel nuts:- 15-25 small cakes

• 100 g butter - soft
• ½ dl sugar
• 2 dl almond flour
• 2 tablespoons potato flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• Nutella for topping
• Hazel nuts for topping.

1. Heat up the oven to 200'C.
2. Whip the butter and sugar white, until the sugar is dissolved.
3. Add in the almond flour, potato flor and baking powder, and stir until the mass is homogenous.
4. Divide the cake dough into 15-25 small portions, which is placed in small muffin forms.
5. Place a small amount of Nutella on top, followed by putting a hazel nut on the top of the Nutella.
6. Bake the cakes at 200'C for 15-20 minutes.
7. Cold down, bwfore placing them in an air-tight container.

Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 1 - Christmas with CAPITAL C

 

Welcome to Christmas Calendar 2020 with CAPITAL C

Another Christmas, where I am spending plenty of wonderful hours in my kitchen baking and creating various Christmas stuff as preparation for Christmas. However, I will not be filling up my house with plenty of guests during these corona times. This year is actually my tenth season, where I am creating my own Christmas Calendar !

So as a theme for this year's Christmas Calendar I have decided to CAPITAL C for Christmas as theme. So, this C stand for cinnamon, chocolate, citrus fruit, cardamom, etc. So, look in from time to time to see, how I have used/worked with C in my kitchen. 

Felix taking part in Christmas activity

Banana bread a la "Rye 115"

 

I have located this recipe on banana bread shared by hotel "Rye 115" in the travelling section from my local new paper. The only modification, which I have done, is that I exchanged the dark chocolate with milk chocolate. 

I also reduced the amount of vanilla powder from 2 tablespoons to 2 teaspoons. Perhaps you are you using vanilla sugar, it could be, that you should use 2 tablespoons.

You can regular to check the cake during the baking, as the indicated 42 minutes at 170'C is not enough at all in my oven. Here I had to bake for 60-70 minutes at 170'C. So, keep an open eye, if you bake this cake.

Banana bread a la "Rye 115": - 1 cake

• 100 g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 250 g (cake) wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons vanilla powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 dl rape seed oil or sun flower oil
• 4 matured bananas - peeled and mashed
• 100 g milk chocolate - medium chopped

1. Heat up the oven to 170'C.
2. Whip the eggs and sugar together for 10 minutes. I used by stand alone mixer for this purpose, so I did not have holding a hand mixer for 10 minutes.
3. Add in the wheat flour, baking powder, vanilla powder, salt and oil. And whip until homogenous.
4. Add in the mashed bananas and whip again.
5. Finally add in the chocolate, and whip again for a short time or stir in the chopped chocolate by hand.
6. Fill the cake dough in a bread form.
7. Bake the cake at 170'C in middle/upper part of the oven.
8. Check regular during the baking, if the cake is baked.
9. Bake at 170'C for 45-70 minutes.
10. Cold down the cake prior to serving.

First Sunday in Christmas

 

Today Christmas is starting, as it is the first Sunday in Advent. Besides from getting all my Christmas decorations out from their hiding, it is also time to light the first in the Advent decoration. This year my Advent decoration is four different light holders in metal, ceramic and glass placed on a tray. I will light one light on this first Sunday in Advent. 

I have also given my mother an Advent calendar, which is a combination of chocolate, port and various battery light decoration. 

For myself I have brought various Advent calendar, one with 4 bottles of champagne and two different knitting calendars from Tønderingstrik adventskalender in green colour and Önling advent calendar for advance knitters. 

Also in 2020 I will make my own Christmas Calendar with focus on capital C for Christmas, which will the use of either chocolate, citrus, cinnamon as ingredients. 

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Petra sweater - starting on colourful knit project

Yesterday I shared a more simple knit project in form the Silke sweater, which is an easy project to bring with you as well as knitting during different activities.

However, I have also started to knit a much more colourful project in form of Petra created by Filcolana. I brought the yarn mixture during Summer sale. That was appealing for me was, the sweater has a fantastic colour mixture of red and pink in various yarn types.

The knit project requires much more attention as the colour and pattern changes at unregular interval.