wordless wednesday

milling mondays: whole wheat apple and cranberry cake

 

This is a good versatile cake. The apple and cranberry taste well together, but if you prefer other fruits you can substitute as desired. It also freezes well if you want to make it ahead of time.

Whole Wheat Apple and Cranberry Cake

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Ingredients

2 eggs

225g sugar

350g apples, diced

100g plain yogurt

37g butter, melted

50g dried cranberries

40g walnuts, chopped

2 tsp cardamom

2 tsp cinnamon

3 tsp baking powder

200g whole wheat flour (150g soft wheat berries and 50g hard wheat berries)

Directions

Preheat oven to 356F.

Mix together the eggs and sugar until it becomes foamy and airy.



Blend in the apples.

If you mill your own flour, grind the soft and hard wheat berries (you may want to grind just a little more since you will be sifting the flour). I use my WonderMill on the pastry setting. Sift the flour twice to make the cake less dense. 

Add the flour and the rest of the ingredients (yogurt, butter, cranberries, walnuts, cardamom, cinnamon, and baking powder) to the egg, sugar and apple mixture and blend together.

Then pour the cake batter into a prepared baking pan.

Bake the cake for about 20-25 minutes.

Let it cool on a rack and it is ready to eat!

ENJOY!

 

merry christmas - glædelig jul

 

happy little christmas eve and christmas recipes

Today is little Christmas Eve- Lille Juleaften! I can't believe Christmas is already here.

As a danish family we have always celebrated the night before Christmas Eve - Lille Juleaften (Little Christmas Eve). Historically this is the day the tree is bought and decorated. In our family we have the tradition of playing a game called ten thousand while eating lots of yummy Christmas treats.

So if you are still wanting to bake some treats before Christmas or to enjoy the rest of the season, here are some yummy Danish Christmas treats featured on this blog if you want to try something new and delicious.



Vanillekranse

Brunkager

Danish Rye Bread with Dried Fruit, Seeds and Nuts

Æbleskiver

Ginger Cake (Ingefærkage)

wordless wednesday

 

seattle

While we were in Washington for Thanksgiving, we took a quick trip to Seattle to soak up the city a little. 

 

 

 

milling mondays: whole wheat ginger cake (ingefærkage)

Here is another good recipe to use at Christmas time/fall/or whenever you want to eat something yummy:) In lieu of ginger bread lattes, cookies etc ... I thought ginger cake would be yummy to make this time of year. In Denmark this cake is called a Ingefærkage and is a pretty common cake.

This moist cake has a spiced taste of ginger and cloves and is not too sweet. The raw sugar also gives it a slightly unexpected crunchy bite.

Whole Wheat Ginger Cake (Ingefærkage)

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Ingredients

250g butter

300g brown sugar

6 Tbsp orange marmalade

500g whole wheat flour (2/3 soft wheat berries and 1/3 hard wheat berries)

1 tsp baking soda

4 tsp ground ginger

2 tsp ground cloves

4 eggs

8 1/2 oz milk (2 1/2 dl)

6 tsp raw sugar



Directions

Preheat oven to 350F.

Mix sugar og butter together well.
Then add one egg at a time before adding the marmalade and milk.

 

If you mill your own flour, grind your soft and hard wheat berries (you may want to grind a little more since you are going to sift the flour). I use my WonderMill on the pastry setting. Sift the flour twice to make the cake less dense.

Add the flour, baking soda, ginger and clove to the mixture and combine all of it together.

Line a 9x13 baking pan with parchment paper and then sprinkle it with raw sugar.

 

Then pour in the cake batter.

 

Bake the cake for about 30-40 minutes (if it gets too dark cover with foil until the cake is baked all the way through) and then let the cake cool on a rack.

When you are ready to serve, you can add some frosting (I usually blend together powdered sugar and some drops of water to make a glaze) and add some raw sugar on top for an added crunch.

ENJOY!

christmas tree farm 2013

We joined Michael's sister and family at the tree farm after Thanksgiving to help them find a Christmas tree. It was fun getting to be part of this tradition again this year.

  

  

 

meeting brooklyn

One of my favorite things about Thanksgiving this year was meeting our new niece Brooklyn. She was born three weeks after we were there in January so it was long overdue. What a cutie! She is so adorable, smiley. laid back, cuddly and loving. So glad we got to meet her finally.

 

diy thursday: bathroom air freshener

 

This is a super simple and very effective trick to help your bathroom smell good.

This air freshener is relatively inexpensive and lasts for the length of your toilet paper roll (assuming you go to the bathroom regularly;))

All you need is a toilet paper roll and your favorite essential oil smell.
 

Drop a few drops of the essential oil on the cardboard part of the toilet paper roll and the aroma of the oil will fill your bathroom/toilet room.