Birthday Bebe-bagels

My mother have a birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! I LOVE YOU! We celebrated it earlier though. Usually me and mother do a cake together for every party or other fancy festive event. Plus the main cake, I'm usually doing something little like for example some cookies or pastries. I absolutely love to do them.

At this time I wanted to do Bebes. I was reading a finnish Pirkka magazine and I noticed the recipe from there. In now days, I always read the food recipes first lol. I never tried to make Bebes so I decided to do them. Before that though, a few funny (not that funny lol) facts. Bebe-bagels have been made since early 1900s. Bébé is a French bagel.

BEBES

INGREDIENTS:

BASE:

200 grams of butter

1,5 deciliters of sugar

1 egg

4,5 deciliters of flours

CREAM FILLING:

0,5 deciliters of sugar

1 tablespoon of potato flour

2 yolks

1,5 deciliters of cream

150 grams of butter

2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar

ICING:

about 4 deciliters of icing sugar

little bit red or red shades juice

2,5 tablespoons of hot water

little bit nonpareils

MANUFACTURING:

1.  Take all the necessary ingredients up to your kitchen's table so they are available whenever you need them. Wash your hands and just start to bake.

2. Put the oven up to the 175 degrees Celsius.

3. Start to bake the cereal base, whisking the sugar and butter until it's stiff foam. When the mixture is lighter foam, add the egg quickly. Add flours in four batch. Stir the mixture between each batch.

4. Divide the prepared dough suitable parts. According to the original recipe, you could make 24 bagels but I was just able to make about 17 bagels. Press the dough to anointed bagel casseroles bottom and sides. It took me a while to do that. I didn't think earlier that it could take that much time. As a bagel casseroles I used small rose-patterned silicone ones from Lidl, Finland.

5. Bake them in center of the oven at 175 degrees Celsius about 12 minutes or until the edges are golden. After baking, cool the bagels for a while. When they are almost cooled, remove them carefully from their bagel casseroles.

6. For the cream filling, stir the sugar, potato flours, yolks and cream among themselves in the saucepan. Do not let it boil. After cooling it little bit, put it to the fridge.

7. Whip the soft butter until it's stiff. Add to it the cold cream filling from the fridge and vanilla sugar. Make it smooth.

8. Fill the bagel bases with the filling cream. It is very important to make the top of the bagels flat and nice. Let the bagels solidify in the fridge.

9. Stir the hot water and icing sugar to a smooth mixture. Use little bit of red shade of juice to make the mixture light pink. Spread the icing to top of the bagels. Decorate them with nonparels. Keep the Bebes in the fridge. It would be nice to cover them with for example a plastic bag or tinfoil so they don't take any flavors of the fridge itselves.

10. Enjoy eating them with for example a nice cup of coffee.

These have many baking stages. After all, it was pretty easy to make them. And they are absolutely delicious.

- Love, RN

Trip to Sweden part 1

I've been sick lately so I haven't been posting anything in a while but now I'm back. On February 19th to 21st in 2017 I was in a cruise to Sweden in Silja Serenade with my 2 best girl friends. I have never been in Sweden or in a cruise so this was my very first time.

The ship to Sweden left at 5.00pm. My friend and her father was picking me up from our yard on the afternoon. We wanted to be in Helsinki well in advance so we have enough time to buy some snacks to the ship. First we went to a normal food shop where I bought some bananas, cookies and water. After that we went to MacDonalds. We arrived to self-check-in seasonably. There was a lot of people and I didn't think earlier that there could be that full and crowded.

We made it to the ship from the check-in. When we arrived to the ship, the ship's captain welcomed us. In the Promenade floor there was playing right away a trio band called Ree Train. In the ship we had a small cabin. It was clean and very intimate. There was beds for four, a television, a table, a window to outside and a very small bathroom and shower place. I suffer sometimes from a small panic attack in small places. At some point I was about to have one because our cabin was that small lol.

After being for few hours in the cabin we went to check out ship's stores. I foud from there few nice things but almost everything was very expensive and I didn't want to buy anything. Instead in Taxfree for example cigarrettes, snuff and alcohol was very cheap and I bought them from there as souvenirs to my family. After shopping we went back to our cabin to chill and get ready for the night. We also played with cards.

The main performer of the evening was at 7.30pm. It was an aerial acrobatics show Wheel of Death from a Swiss Gengis Van Gool. It was very cool and exciting. First of all he was walking inside of the big weel. Then after he jumped into the innel of the weel. He took his jacket and tie off and played with them. Then he took his skipping rope from his back pocket and started to jump with it while the weel was rotating. I was little bit scared for him lol.

After the dangerous show we went to a bar called Atlantis Palace. There was going on a Grand Opening show. We listened that while we drank one drinks. After that we went to the Casino and tried few games. No-one won anything though.

About in the midnight we went back to our cabin's beds to sleep because we had a pretty early wake-up in the next morning in Sweden.

This post will continue in the next post... Stay tuned for that.

- Love, RN

Valentine's day Tiramisú

Usually every year me and my mom have done some kind of cake or at least some baking for Valentine's day. In this year we had so much things to do. My mom was really busy so I had to do it all by myself. I didn't mind it but I love to bake with her.

We've read few different recipes how to make a tiramisú but we've done it always with our own way. Today I want to share this recipe, which enables I did this tiramisú yesterday. Before that though, a few funny facts. Tiramisú is an italian word meaning "raise me" which means like cheer me up. The name refers to an effect of caffeine which has been used as a spice. Another funny fact is that this is my first recipe post in my blog.

TIRAMISÚ

INGREDIENTS:

2 package (400 grams) of Savoiardi biscuits (Ladyfingers)

About 6 deciliters of strong cold coffee

1 package (400 grams) of mascarpone

5  deciliters of whipped cream 

5 tablespoons of caster sugar 

2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar

1 package (330 grams) of apricot marmalade

DECORATIONS:

little bit of dark chocolate 

10 pink meringue balls

2 raspberry pastries 

MANUFACTURING:

1. Take all the necessary ingredients up to your kitchen's table so they are available whenever you need them. Wash your hands and just start to bake. 

2. Make about 6 deciliters of strong coffee. When the coffee is ready, move it to a hot-proof dish and let it cool. First of all I cooled it in a hot-proof dish in a cool water-filled vessel sink. When it wasn't hot anymore I put it in the fridge. 

3. Whip the cream until it's stiff. Add both of the sugars during the whipping and finally after that add the mascarpone. With mascarpone the mixture becomes thick and it would be little bit hard to mix it. However, make it smooth.  

4. Dip about half of the biscuits into a strong cold coffee one by one. If you want you can add little bit sugar into the coffee but it's not necessary. Pile the dipped biscuits to entire surface of a large dish side by side so the whole bottom is covered. 

5. Add first into the dipped biscuits layer half of the apricot marmalade (about 165 grams) and after about half of the whipped cream (2 and half deciliters). 

6. Dip the rest of the biscuits into a strong cold coffee one by one and pile the dipped biscuits. Then add rest of the apricot marmalade and the rest of the whipped cream. After all, make the topping look beautiful and flatted. 

7.  Grate a bit of the dark chocolate. Split the middle the raspberry pastries. Arrange them in the middle of the cake. Then arrange the meringue balls around them. And finally, springle the chocolate so the whole white whipped cream bottom is covered. 

8. Let the tiramisú retreat in the fridge to a next day. It's more tasty then. And just enjoy it with for example  a nice cup of coffee. 

It was pretty easy to make it. The recipe was easy and I think it's easy to follow it. I hoped you liked it and let me know if you tried to make it. 

- Love, RN