Angry Birds Christmas cake

This cake's assignment was interesting, as the cake was supposed to have "King Pig, ordinary pig, that red birds and 3 little blue birds watching tv on the sofa with Christmas hats on". The sofa however was agreed to be changed to planks.

The flavour this time was supposed to be strawberry without quark, so I replaced the quark with mascarpone.


Congratulations Ville, 9 years old!

Thank you for the support

My charity event of selling Christmas cakes generated 78€, which I rounded up to 80€.

Lastenklinikoiden Kummit Ry (and the writer of this blog) thanks everyone who took part in this!

Displaying your Christmas cards

I usually have all my Christmas cards scattered around on any surface I can find, but this year I decided to put the side of my hallway wardrobe into good use and make my own Christmas card holder there.


I wasn't planning on publishing this in the blog, but since my mum already 'snatched' the idea after seeing this, I thought there might be someone else out there looking for an inspiration :)

The supplies used were red silk ribbon, a few jingle bells (plus a needle and some thread) and Christmas-style mini pegs from Tiger-shop.

Gingerbread, gingerbread

My inspiration ran out when it came to building a gingerbread house, and although I received ideas from my brother's family (especially the kids), this year's gingerbread structure became this haphazardly created scenery:

Windows and the ice on the pond are isomalt sugar

Christmas spice cake

I was originally supposed to make a simple spice cake following an old recipe I have, but then something happened...

The original recipe included brown sugar, which I eventually replaced by muscovado sugar (due to the fact that I happened to have it in my cupboard, and that I didn't have any brown sugar at the time). In addition, I splashed in a little bit of milk - just because something inside of me said that was the right thing to do :)



The recipe I used this time was this:


200 g          baking margarine
3 dl              dark muscovado sugar
3                  eggs
3 dl              plain flour
2 tl               baking powder
2 tl               vanilla sugar
2 tl               cinnamon
1/2 tl            cardamom
1/4 tl            ground cloves
1/2 dl           milk (because I felt like it)


Grease and breadcrumb a bundt pan. 

Mix soft margarine and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing in between. Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl and incorporate to the batter with milk.

Bake in 175°C for about 50 minutes. Wait until the cake has cooled down a bit before turning over on a plate.

Christmas cakes to charity

First four Christmas cakes ready.

So at least 12 euros for charity already ensured :)


Only six cakes so far reserved, there's still time to take part!

Christmas spirit

Today my mum told me that people at her work (where the Saint Lucia's Day's lingonberry cake had gone to) had an idea that I could sell Christmas dry cakes. Because Christmas is so close (and selling cakes seems like a greedy idea), I had an idea to sell the cakes and donate the money to charity.

I wanted to help the children in Finland, so I chose Lastenklinikoiden Kummit Ry as the charity I wanted to give money to. I will be making the dry cakes (maximum of ten) during next week, and all the money (I will be donating the ingredients) will go directly to charity. 

If you want to be part of something good and make sure you'll get a cake of your own, please let me know. In case there's going to be a high demand; I will only have time to bake a maximum of ten cakes, so the cakes will be sold in the order the requests come in :)

Please note that this is only applicable to people I know and are able to collect the cake from me!


The price for a cake is 3 euros (= the price of ingredients) + donation of your choice.

Saint Lucia's Day's lingonberry cake

If you want your home to feel like Christmas, it's an excellent idea to bake a Christmassy spice cake, which brings the smell of gingerbread biscuits to your home.


This idea came from an idea to make my mum (for her Finnish 'name day') a Saint Lucia's Day's cake for her to take to work. The cake was originally supposed to be shaped as the crown of candles Saint Lucia wears on her head, and after a little research I learned that the crown was originally made of lingonberry shrubs, so I decided to search the internet for lingonberry cake recipes. I ended up with this simple dry cake recipe, and gave up the idea of making a cake shaped as the crown of candles after all. Although you could still make this the crown too, with the help of a few added birthday candles... ;)




Lingonberry cake:

80 g       butter or baking margarine
4,5 dl      plain flour
3 dl         granulated sugar
2 tsp       ground ginger
2 tsp       cinnamon powder
1 tsp       ground cloves
2 tsp       bicarbonate of soda
1,5 dl      lingonberry purée
3 dl         milk


Grease and cover the inside of a bundt pan with breadcrumbs. Melt the butter or margarine. Mix all the dry ingredients together and add the lingonberry purée, melted butter or margarine and milk. Stir well.

Pour the cake mix into the pan and bake in 180°C for 50-60 minutes.

Turn the cake over and let cool down under the pan.