Good bye - Easter Calendar 2019

As a follow up on my Easter calendar 2019 I hereby share the top 3 list of the most popular Easter Calendar 2019.

Top 3 list Easter Calendar 2019

Number 1: Easter eggs-scones

Number 2: Easter egg cakes

Number 3: Citrus gin tonic

And finally you can see a photo of the two Easter eggs, which I got here in 2019 :-) which I can use for Easter decorations in 2020 :-)

Easter decoration items of 2019 - Easter Calendar 2019

In my previous blog post Easter decorations you are able to see, how my various Easter decorations have been displayed for Eastern 2019. So perhaps you are wondering, if I have found some new Easter decoration items here in 2019 ?

Yes, I have so. On the photo above you can see two ceramic Easter egg in silhouette, which is made by LiCa ceramics, and I brought in the local handicraft shop Danmark & Norden. They fit perfect into my narrow window stills.

On a small Easter holiday to Hamburg just before the Danish Easter days (Maundy Thursday - Easter Monday) I found both these green glass eggs (photo above) and as well these handicraft Ester eggs (photo below to the right). The white egg with holes is from the area of Spreewald, Germany.

The photo below to the left shows snow drops in metallic. These decorations I have found in a chocolate shop in Haderslev.

Finally I have brought the some of the Royal Copenhagen annual Easter eggs from 2019, as I really like the flower decorations of magnolia and Fritillaria meleagris (vibeæg in Danish).

Now all my many Easter decorations have been stored away in a big box, where they will rest until Easter 2020 :-)

Easter decorations - Easter Calendar 2019

It is another Danish tradition to decorate your home with various lambs, eggs, chickens in the time up to Easter. It is also a Danish to tradition to bring tree branches to the living room, which when is decorate with various eggs decoration.

 

It is not typical Danish to decorate your outdoor surroundings with colourfull eggs. This is much more tradition in Germany. However, I really like these outdoor decorations with eggs, so I have been doing this for the last 5 years. 

I typically "dig out" my big plastic box with Easter derocations items one month before Easter happens. As this gives me plenty of time to both enjoy all my many Easter decorations, where some dates back to my childhood and other items have been brought in different countries in connection with either business or holiday travels.

I like to bring different tree branches, which I place in big vases and when decorate with various eggs. Another time is, that I use my many window stills for varous still-leben displaying the various eggs and chicken decoration items.

And usual every year I find some new Easter decoration items for my collection. I will quiet soon share the item of 2019 with you :-)

Easter afternoon tea 2019

I typical meet with my good friends from Horsens on one of  the Easter days for an Eastern afternoon tea, and this year is was on Easter Monday or second Easter day, as we enjoyed some good hours in great company eating various afternoon tea treat with Easter as theme.

As usual in connection with an afternoon tea we started off with a glass of sparkling wine. First we tried to add 1½ cl Easter aqua vita into the glass of sparkling wine. We when evaluated this combination sipping through straws, BUT this is NOT a good idea !!! The taste of the this cocktail was too bitter.

At the photo to the right side you can a champagne glass filled with tasting straws. So here we are wondering, if manufacturers of champagne and sparkling wine will "hunt us down", when they those of photo ?? Lets see :-)








At the Easter afternoon tea we enjoyed the following baked goods:

Bun with milk chocolate

Easter eggs scones

Easter egg cakes

My good friends from Horsens camed their arms full of tulips, biscuits from Møn and this wonderfull Easter greeting cards, which you can see below.

Easter egg's scones- Easter Calendar 2019

Today is Easter Monday or second Easter day, which is the the final Easter vacation day here in Denmark. So tomorrow the normal working day starts again for many of us, so lets say happy Easter to each other with a nice cup of tea.

To make these scones I have again used the latest addition equipment in form of a silicone form in egg shape.

As starting point I have used this recipe on saffron scones with various modifications. Instead of saffron I have used almonds and the very last rest of marzipan. A very fitting combination to use almonds and marzipan, as we have a saying here in Denmark, that Christmas lasts until Easter.

Saffron Scones: - 12 pieces

• 400 g cake flour
• 75 g almonds - blended into flour size
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1½ teaspoon baking powder
• 50 g sugar
• 55 g marzipan - roughly grate
• 100 g cold butter
• 1 egg
• 2 dl milk
• 8 candy almonds for decoration

1. Heat the oven (conventional) to 220'C.
2. Mix the flour, almond flour, salt, baking powder,marzipan and sugar together in a mixing bowl.
3. Cut the cold butter into small pieces. 
4. Add the butter pieces and rub the butter into the flour mix, until it look like fine breadcrumbs.
5. Whip the egg and milk together to a homogeneous mass.
6. Mix milk-egg and flour-butter together without kneading it a dough.
7. Place the dough on a pieces of baking paper.
8. Flatten the dough into a height of 3 cm.
9. Place one candy almond into the each egg shape of the silicone form.
10. Place the scone dough into each egg shaped form of the silicone form.
11. Turn the silicone form up side up side down, so the silicone form covers each scone.
12. The remaining scone dough is shaped round shape and placed on the baking tray covered with baking parchment..
13. Bake the scone at 220'C for 15-20 minutes.
14. Cool down.
15. Serve together with a nice cup of tea.

Easter egg cakes - Easter Calendar 2019

Today it is Easter Sunday, which is the fourth day in the Danish Easter vacation.

Today it is time to make some Easter eggs in form of a baked cake version using the latest addition equipment in form of a silicone form in egg shape. I have used a Tupperware recipe, which I have got from my cousin with a few flavour modifications in form using lemon zest and liquorice powder as flavouring ingredients.

The amount of liquorice powder should be increased from 1/4 teaspoon to min ½ teaspoon, as it was impossible to the liquorice in these cakes.

Easter egg cakes: - 8 cakes

• 100 g soft butter
• 100 g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 100 g (cake) flour
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• 50 g dakr milk chocolate -melted
• 1/4 teaspoon liquorice powder
• ½ organic lemon - only the zest

1. Heat up the fan oven to 180'C.
2. Whip the soft butter and the sugar together into a foamy white mass.
3. Add in the eggs one by one, whip between each addition of egg.
4. Add in the (cake) wheat flour and baking powder.
5. Divide the cake dough into two portions, approx. 200 g per portion.
6. Add lemon zest into one pf the cake dough portions.
7. Melt the chocolate using the micro wave oven.
8. Stir in the melted chocolate and liquorice powder into the second cake dough portion.
9. Fill half the egg silicone form with the chocolate cake dough. And fill the remaining part with the lemon cake dough.
10. Bake the cake in fan oven at 180'C for 20 minutes.
11. Cold down the cakes prior to serving them.
12. Store in airtight container.

Citrus gin tonic - Easter Calendar 2019

Today it is Good Friday (Langfredag) being the second day of the Danish Easter vacation. So today, I will enjoy my vacation time with a gin tonic as the third blog post for my Easter Calendar 2019.

The colour of Easter is really yellow in my opinion, and at the same time various citrus fruits also have the colour or yellow/orange, so the theme for this gin tonic is citrus

Citrus Gin Tonic: - 1 serving

• 6 cl Malfy Gin Rosa - Sicilian pink grapefruit
• 9 cl Fentimans Valencian Orange tonic water 
• 1-2 slices of (bllod) orange
• Ice cubes

1. Start by adding the ice cubes into the large gin bowl.
2. Fill in the gin followed by the tonic.
3. Add in slices of (blood) orange.
4. Happy Easter.