Cakes and Hygge

When someone has gone above and beyond and you want to say more than ‘just’ “Thank you”…. then say it with cake 🙏🍰🧁🥰

Nelson wanted a chocolate cake with vanilla and Oreo taste for his Birthday party 🥳🎂 Yummy chocolate cake with a layer of Oreo buttercream in the middle… and of course lots of Oreo frosting and Oreo decoration 👌🤪🤩

Before the summer holiday a sweet little girl ordered cute girlie cupcakes to celebrate her Birthday with her class before moving from Singapore - happy Birthday to lovely Vera 🥳🧁🦄

Birthday theme cake reflecting the activities of the day: climbing and a dip in the pool ☀️🧗‍♀️🏊‍♀️😎 Banana chocolate chip cake with a layer of white chocolate ganache in the middle 👌

Fun challenge I couldn’t say no to, when I was asked to make 60 cupcakes to celebrate well-being week with the theme “Joy”…. and if it could include the pride colors to celebrate diversity it was an extra bonus 🤔👏🥳 The result was these chocolate cupcakes with raspberry cream cheese frosting with lots of happy color and a joy to eat 🥳💃🕺🏳️‍🌈 Happy well-being week 🧁🌺👏

Happy Birthday Sara 🥳🐨🌈🎂🥰 Vanilla sponge rainbow cake with Callebaut white chocolate mousse 👌😋

Happy Birthday Estella 🥳🎂☀️🌈 Sponge vanilla layers in rainbow colors with Callebaut white chocolate mousse 😋

Teamworks makes the dream work 🤩🥳 My youngest daughter has talked about a colorful layer cake for a loooong time…. now was the time to finally make it 👌🤩 Simple sponge layers colored in our favorite colors. Between each layer a white chocolate mousse that made each layer yummy and even more spongy 👌😋🍰

Time for a challenge 👏🤩 Was asked to make a cake with no dairy 🤔 Came up with a sponge pistachio layer, then a raspberry layer and finally a Callebaut chocolate mousse on top made with soy creme 👌

And now that the oven was already on why on make a few more 🤔 These and some other mini cupcakes were sent off with my oldest for her and her friends in Grade 11 🌸🐣🥳

And why not spoil them a bit extra today? They have worked so hard and term 3 is almost over 🥳 The classic Danish cookie called “Hindbærsnitte” in an Easter disguise

Two weeks of Easter Holiday is only a few hours away 🥳🐣🐰 As a class parent I like to spoil the kids, so I wanted to send them on holiday with these Easter Cupcakes 🧁🤩

While making chocolate yesterday I experimented with some decorations. Not to waste the decorations this was a good excuse to make dessert for tonight 🤷‍♀️😆👌 Pistachio brownie with raspberry ganache and ruby chocolate on top 🤩🥰

Time for a new challenge - homemade chocolate 👌 Tried it once several years ago, but now I really need to learn this skill… My first attempt of tempering ruby chocolate went quite well 👌 Inside they are filled with elderflower-ganache and they are approved by my husband 😋😆😋

Fastelavn is a Carnival tradition in Denmark where children dress up and "slår katten af tønden" - the danish version of piñata, where you hit a wooden barrel filled with candy 🥳 But the best thing about this is the Fastelavnsbolle “Carnival bun”. A wheat bun filled with vanilla custard, baked and then filled with whipped cream and topped with colorful icing 😋👏🤩

Last time I baked ‘Rundstykker’ and ‘Håndværker’, but this time I added ‘Horn’ and ‘Gifler’ which are popular in our family 👏🤩🤷‍♀️ and of course served with Danish butter and our thin pieces of chocolate, called ‘Pålægschokolade’ 🥰🥰

Whole wheat sourdough bread 👌🤩

My youngest daughter interviewed her home room teacher to find out his nationality, favorite colors and hobbies. Happy Birthday to Mr. Cornish 🥳🧁☀️ ⛷🎿❄️

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” 🍎 A good reason to make an apple tarte, right? 🤔 By mixing a few recipes I have created our own version 👌🤩 Adding marzipan only made it even more yummy 😋🤩😍

Sunday mornings ☕️🥐🙏🤩🥰 ❤️

Leftovers and teamwork 🤩🥰 we had some fondant and cupcake leftovers, so my youngest daughter made a dog and a Cookie Monster while I made the BMW M logo for daddy 🤪

Chinese New Year 2022 - the year of the Tiger 🐯🧁 Cupcakes on the way to my youngest daughters class 🎉🤩😋 #2022

Our New Year 2021 dessert plate 👌🥂🍾🎉 small tarts and crème brûlée 😋😋

And same goes for New Year… no New Years Eve without ‘Kransekage’ made of marzipan, egg white and icing sugar 👌🤩🥳🥂🍾

No Christmas without Danish Butter Cookies called ‘Vaniljekranse’ 🎄🤶🎅 You can make them by using a piping bag with a star nozzle, but this requires quite some finger muscle strength 💪 so when the girls are helping we always use the meat grinder for the Kitchen Aid and a special star nozzle in front 👌 This makes it a lot easier and gives the perfect star shape 🤩😋

As a Class Parent Rep for my youngest daughters class, I’m allowed to spoil them during the year 🥰 So for Christmas they each got a big Christmas Cookie in perfect Covid-sharing-style 👌🤪🎄🎅

One of the downsides of being an expat family is that you often miss out on being with your loved ones on their special day - but this doesn’t mean that you can’t celebrate them… it will just be in a different way 🥳🎂🤷‍♀️ Like when it was my mothers Birthday, I made her favorite cake: the classic Danish Strawberry tart with marzipan and vanilla custard filling. Instead of the classic look I formed a beautiful flower 🌹🇩🇰🥰

It is this beauty (pic 2) that is causing all these amazing bread 👏🙏🤩 We moved to Singapore during the summer of 2021 - back to good old South East Asia 🙏🥰☀️🌴🌺 Unfortunately it was not possible to bring my old sourdough due to Covid restrictions when entering Singapore which sent us into 14 days hotel quarantine 🤪🤷‍♀️ While living in the Service Apartment waiting to move into our new place, I had time to make a new sourdough starter 👌 So when the new sourdough had been feed over several weeks, we had moved into our apartment, I could finally continue my bread baking 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇹🇭🇦🇪🇸🇬

My daughters favorite buns 🥰 They are light, sweet and with a lovely flavor of cardamom 👌 This recipe has followed me since I was around 10 years old. I normally finished school around 2pm, and when you don’t have helpers in Denmark and the norm is that both parents are working, then the young children go to an After School Care. This was where I met Stine. She was one of the employees, she loved baking and you would often see me helping her in the kitchen. She was originally from Norway, so when I got the recipe from her, I named it “Stine’s Norwegian Buns” (Stines norske boller) 👌🤩🥰

When living in Munich I did Cupcake decorating workshops for the students at the school, so when I was asked if I could run a workshop at a Birthday Party I was more than keen 🥳👏🧁 unfortunately I was not available the day of the party so instead I made this package as a surprise for the Birthday Girl 🎉 this way she and her friends could decorate their own cupcakes 👌🥳🎉🧁