Sleepless night

Last night I couldn't get a sleep until morning and I was a bit bored. Earlier yesterday I was shopping with my friend in Helsinki, and I bought all the baking stuffs. So I decided to try out something what I haven't tried since ever. I did royal icing and tried to do a tiara with it. But it was just a trial (:

First I drew the tiara on the paper and then I drew it on a greaseproof paper too. That picture I taped around a bottle. ( I think I made one mistake with this one, it would been better to tape on a semicircle or something like that, but not to a bottle. )
 Now was turn of the royal icing mixture. I mixed one egg white and about 4dl powdered sugar, it little depends what's you're gonna do with the icing and sometimes it just needs little bit more powdered sugar. Also I added few drops of lemon juice. It helps the mixture solidify.

Royal Icing
1     egg white
4dl  powdered sugar

•   few drops of lemon juice

This recipe of royal icing is meant of making outlines for cookies and decorating.

Here's all the baking stuffs I bought yesterday afternoon

Here's the Tiara around a bottle . Also one mistake which I made was that I used way too big piping tube.

Final score! It broke down when I tried to take it off the bottle and paper :/ Not so successful , but maybe next time I can do it better :) 

Pics

Today here won't be much text. I just went outside and took some photos today cause we finally got an awesome weather :)

Autumn Colors

My friend stayed over night here last night. We wanted to find something to do and we decided to bake a carrot cake! We had all the other ingredients expect sugar, so we had to go to buy it. We went to one shopping mall called Sello. We also did some other shopping too, clothes, and other outfits :) 


Below this text there's a picture of the carrot cake. I think it looks pretty delicious, but this time, the taste wasn't so good. Almonds on the decoration tasted a bit like plastic. Let's see who wants to eat it : D

CARROT CAKE

4 eggs
250 g of sugar
2 dl of oil
300 g of flour
3/4 ts of salt
3 ts of baking powder
2 ts of cinnamon
400 g of grated carrots
55 g of almond crumbs

Frosting

180 g of soft butter
250 g powdered sugar

200 g of Philadelphia

Whisk eggs and sugar until fluffy and add oil. Mix all the dry ingredients, flour, salt, baking powder and cinnamon. Pour to egg mixture and mix well. Add grated carrots to dough and mix smooth with mixer. Grease and flour the casserole. Pour the dough to the casserole and fry about 45mins in 180 Degrees (or as long as necessary).  The cake should rise high in a oven. Let the cake cool down before you move it to a plate.

While the cake is in the oven you can prepare the frosting. Whisk butter and powdered sugar, add Philadelphia and mix it smooth.

After the cake has cool down, pervade the frosting with a spatula on the cake and sides of it.  Decorate with almond crumbs

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Also I was working on my nails today. I wanted to use some Autumn colors, so I ended up to orange with glitter. The nail polish today was O.P.I Goldilocks Rock. First I applied nail hardener and then one level of base coat and after that I applied Goldilocks Rocks nail polish. I finish the nails with top coat. 

O.P.I Goldilocks Rocks

The Unlucky Day

When i woke up today, I thought it's gonna be a good day, but it was the opposite.
Today was pretty important day, cause my teachers at my trainee place judged me how have I learned everything and how I work.
  So I went to school and i had to print one document for that, I did it, but at some point my teacher came to ask what is that paper which I have printed. It wasn't correct document, then I found out that I have never done the right document. And after I had solved this problem everything was fine, at least for now.
  After some hours we were opened the lunch I got my first customers... well i got 3 table at the same time, and It was really busy, and some of the customers had to little wait and because of that my teacher yelled at me all the time and was complaining (well he's doing that always, but now he did it more than normally) In the end I was able to serve everyone and they we're happy (Until they find out what I've done)
  Sooo... I kinda mixed up the tables and the bills, but I'm happy we were able to fix that, even the customers were left already, when I found this out. Rest of the day went well till 4 p.m. I was suppose to go home at 3 p.m . But I had to stay there for little longer, 1,5 hours longer... The teacher said he'll come soon to talk to me and while he's gone I have to check everything's ok at the restaurant. There wasn't anything to do and I decided to check my schedule for tomorrow... THEN i saw that I have come to work an hour earlier than I was supposed today. So I spent 2,5 extra hours there... This wasn't even the end of this crappy day.
I was at home around 5.30 p.m. And I tried to set the security alarm off, but it refuse to work, something happy happened, I got it work and I was able to set the security alarm off, but I nearly got security guys to my house. So glad that didn't happen, it would cost 60€ because it would been for nothing.
  I had to leave for a Italian class in 30 mins and I tried to rush, but my lucky day.... I was late a bit, and rushed to the bus stop, and on the half way I realized I'm on my way to wrong bus stop, so I had to turn around and try to get to the right bus stop at time, I almost did it! But then I heard bus came and it passed me.... Ciao Ciao bus! It was even raining all the time I waited the bus, but after a little while I was sat in the bus, it stopped... How I love Autumn. I waited next 30 mins new bus and fortunately I wasn't so late from my lesson :)


P.s. I think i shouldn't have miss my morning coffee this morning, but maybe tomorrow's better day and It's FIRDAY! Party party party ;)

Oh Africa!

Since last January I have been dreaming of travelling to Africa, To Kenya for a safari trip. How awesome that would be? ;)
Well today I talked with one person from South Africa, he showed me some pictures and that reminded me about Kenya and how badly I wanna go there. Well now I decided that after Christmas I'm starting to save money for that trip. I wont be able to go there for several years, but when you work on something i feels even better when you achieve it :)

So now I still keep dreaming of Africa and all the wild nature and animals!
Maybe visiting in Zoo might help a bit, to see lions and leopards: D

Also I told about this to one of my friend. And she really liked the idea and she said she probably could come with me. We already checked the flights and stuff so we know a bit how much we have to save... It's gonna take while to even get those money for flights. I really need to get a job after Christmas, maybe that will make this dream come true faster, I hope :)

Cheese Cake

Today I woke up early and i drove to a market and bought some ingredients for a cheese cake.
Well, it could have been better, but I'm happy about it, it tastes ok :) I changed some ingredients of the recipe, so it failed a bit. And the cake didn't look so delicious : D
Below the picture is the recipe :)

100g    Voita

250g    Digestivekeksejä

5kpl     Liivatelehteä

600g    Tuorejuustoa

3,5dl    Kermaa

3,0dl    Tomusokeria

 1kpl  Verkkomelonia

1kpl     Limemehua

Pohja:

Sekoita kulhossa voi ja digestivekeksimurut. Sen jälkeen keksimuruseos laitetaan kakkuvuokaan, johon on laitettu leivinpaperi pohjalle ja painetaan tiiviisti tasaiseksi pohjaksi. Laita vuoka jääkaappiin jähmettymään

Täyte:

Laita liivatelehdet kylmään veteen n. 5 minuutiksi. Sekoita tuorejuusto ja tomusokeri isossa kulhossa tasaiseksi seokseksi. Vaahdota kuohukerma kermavaahdoksi ja lisää se sekoittamalla tuorejuusto seokseen

Purista limemehu ja soseuta meloni kattilaan ja anna niiden lämmetä. Kun seos on lämmennyt lisää liivatelehdet kuumaan seokseen ja sen jälkeen sekoita se tuorejuustomassan kanssa yhteen. Tämän jälkeen kaada seos kakkuvuokaan, kovettuneen pohjan päälle ja laita se takaisin jääkaappiin hyytymään.

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Ohjetta voi muokata makunsa mukaan, jos ei pidä verkkomelonista, sen voi korvata vaikka passionhedelmällä. Kannattaa kuitenkin miettiä onko hedelmässä hedelmämehua enemmän tai vähemmän ja miettiä sitten liivatteen määrää

Now i had time to translate the recipe in English too, so here it is :) 

100g      butter

250g      digestive cookies

5         gelatine sheets

600g      philadephia cheese

3,5dl       cream

3,0dl        powered sugar

1        melon

1         lime juice

Bottom: 

Smash cookies to small crumbs and mix it with a soft butter in a bowl. Take a cake casserole where are you gonna build the cake and cut right size of greaseproof paper on the bottom.  After that add cookie crumb-butter mixture to the cake casserole and press it tightly. Put the casserole to frigde to set up. 

Filling: 

Take a small bowl and fill it with cold water and add gelatine sheets in the water for 5 minutes.  Mix philadelphia and powered sugar and whip the mixture smooth. Now whip a cream and add it to philadelphia mixture and mix it. 

Press the lime juice to a pot. Peel, slice and squash the melon. Then add it to pot with lime juice and let it boil for a second. When the mixture has boiled add the gelatine sheets. (squeeze additional water off) And now mix the melon-lime mixture with philadephia and pour the mixture to the casserole. Put it back to fridge for several hours to congeal

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If you want you can change the recipe, if you don't like melon. You can use passion fruit for example, or fruits you prefer. But remember you probbaly have to add more or little less gelatine, if the fruit has less juice or more

Autumn

Now the Autumn has really reached over Finland. Everything here has turned to yellow, red and brown.

About a week ago I went to Helsinki for shopping, and i actually found some clothes for Autumn (:
I bought a vest, scarf and also I got selfmade mittens!

 I also was looking for a new lip blam, and i found one from Dove. It's really nice, it makes your lips soft and it gives a nice color for your lips :)

Because of the Autumn, my Italian lessons has started, and today I have my third lesson, and i should go there. I could not wait to get there :) Even everything what we do there is way too easy, but I'm studying the book myself at home, and I'm just asking a bit help from the teacher, if I get some problems.

I went outside today, cause it was nearly first day without rain for a week. And I was in our garden, and i found some last flowers, nearly every other flowers has died already. I really wish next summer will come fast :) I miss sun and heat!