As tradition "demands" I invited my local friends around for birthday coffee. Classic Danish birthday coffee contains three key ingredients: freshly baked bun served with plenty of butter, cream cake and hot chocolate. Hot chocolate or drinking chocolate has no space inside my kitchen, as I DISLIKE the taste of hot chocolate and cocoa milk !!! I still recall my dislike, when I as a child was served hot chocolate at the other children´s birthday :-(
I had not selected a specific theme for the birthday coffee this year, which I sometime had done previous years.
The usual start was a glass of either sparkling wine or French cider to get the talk running, before we sat down at the table.
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As start we enjoyed saffron buns. For me saffron buns really equal birthday celebration for me, as the use of saffron in huge amount is a great way to celebrate life/birthdays.
The second cake was the cream cake with rhubarb compote and a whipped cream mixture of both dairy whipping cream and full-fat sour cream. The use of sour cream bring freshness to the cream cake, which was covered by a marzipan cover. So the cake is not tasting too sweet.
For those of my guests still having room in their stomach they could enjoy a oat cookies with raisin and cinnamon.
I will be sharing the various recipe from this birthday coffee in the near future.