Pear Inspiration

Pear is a sweet and delicious fruit that is perfect for baked goods but it's also equally amazing as an ingredient in a savory dish.



Why not try this beautiful Pear Walnut Gorgonzola Pizza from Kitchen Confidante.






These Baked Korean Pears in Wonton Crisps Honey Cinnamon Mascarpone from Cooking on the Weekends are looks absolutely amazing. Her pictures make me drool and wanting those Korean Pears right now.






WOW! How about starting up the day with a bunch of Caramel Sea Salt Pear Pancakes. Yum Yum! Cookin' Canuck sure knows how to make a proper breakfast.






The photos on Yummy Supper blogs are absolutely gorgeous! Her Little Pear Tarts are equally gorgeous looking.






ENJOY!

Mango Inspiration

One of my favourite fruits is the Mango, sweet, moist and almost a dessert on its own. Just cut into small pieces and enjoy the natural sweetness of the fruit, no addition of sugar is needed. I've never baked with mangoes before and thought I'd browse the blogosphere to see what others have baked with this amazing fruit. This is just a few of all amazing recipes I found.


This Mango Mirror Cake from Sugar & Everything Nice looks absolutely adorable!






4th Sense Cooking made this beautiful Eggless Mango Cake.





Or why not try these tropical flavoured muffins? Coconut Cream Banana Mango Muffins, from Laura Levys Recipes. 




This Mango & Cardamom Upside Down Cake baked by English Patis looks super moist and is from now on, on my baking list.





Nourishing Meals made this fresh Mango Coconut Pudding.



ENJOY!

Whoppie Pie Inspiration

Whoppie Pies are amazingly yummie! A soft chewy cookie sandwiched together with a delicious filling. What's not to like?! Below are some great inspiring recipes for you and me to indulge in.



Perfect fall flavoured Pumpkin Whoppie Pies from Steamy Kitchen.





I love cookies with oatmeal so I couldn't resist these lovely Oatmeal Whoppie Pies from Oishii Treats.





Oh my, these look amazing!! Mint Chocolate Chip Whoppie Pies from Tracey's Culinary Adventures





Or these Chocolate & Salted Caramel Whoppie Pies from Erin's Food Files. They look rich and decadent, just the way I like it!





If you prefer something more refreshing why not try these cute Lemon Whoppie Pies  from Sweet Peas Kitchen




ENJOY!

Cupcake Inspiration

The weather has been super crappy in Stockholm today, a rainy and grey Sunday, so what is the best thing to do on such a day?! Baking and blogging of course:-) I've browsed through an obscene amount of food and baking blogs today to find inspiration for baking and to share some of my findings with you guys.

We all love cupcakes so here are a few mouthwatering recipes for your inspiration.


Why not try these decadent Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes from Just Putzing Around the Kitchen.






These Chocolate salted caramel Cupcakes sounds totally irresistible! Check out more pics at Brown Eyed Baker.





Yum Yum, sweet and citrusy Orange Creamsicle Cupcakes from Spabettie.





These Carrot Cake Cupcakes are on my baking list! I love carrot cake!! Check out Ambrosia's blog for more delicious recipes.






Bananas and chocolate is a heavenly combination, Easy Banana Cupcakes from Your Cup of Cake





ENJOY!

Pumpkin Inspiration

I've gathered some heavenly pumpkin recipes for you. I'm literally drooling while browsing for yummie recipes....

What is your favourite pumpkin recipe?


Why not try this beautiful Pumpkin Pecan Bundt Cake from Magnolia Days.





This No Bake Pecan Pumpkin Cheesecake from Slow Cooking Kitchen looks insanely delicious.





Oh my these Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes with Gingersnap Crust from Life (Made) Simple are just adorable.





Pumpkin and cookies! Why not try these soft and puffy little Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies from Kitchen Meets Girl.





Who loves brownies? Who loves pumpkin? If you say yes to both, what then can be better than a Pumpkin Brownie Pie from Bakeaholic Mama?





I love Whoppie Pies! And these Pumpkin Whoopie Pies from Annies Eats are absolutely super cute!





Another must try is these gorgeous Pumpkin Spice Latte Cupcakes from Tracey's Culinary Adventures.





Let's not forget the most important meal of the day; breakfast! And what is more suitable than Pumpkin Pancake from Zesty South Indian Kitchen?




I hope you've enjoyed my little pumpkin round-up!

My Sweet Party - Top Three Favourites

Are you ready to see my Top Three favourites from My Sweet Party - August where the theme was Childhood favourites? You certainly know how to make me drool:-)

First out is these colourful Pinkalicious Meets Confetti Cookies from Hugs & Cookies XOXO.  Aren't they adorable?!

Or, what about these soft and chewy Snicker Cookies from In Her Chucks? Pure heaven if you ask me. Cookies, chocolate, caramel, peanuts, what's not to like?

And finally, these delicious babies from That Skinny Chick can Bake, Mounds Bars . Oh My Goooood, they look amazing!

I hope you are inspired and like my picks!

Quick Berry Jam

When I make berry jam, I always make a quick jam. I let my berries simmer in a saucepan for a while and then I add my desired amount of sugar. I don't want my jam to be to sweet, I prefer it to be as "healthy" as possible cause then I can eat more of it:-) And, I want my jam to have maximum flavour from the berries and not from sugar. It literally takes 10 minutes to make this quick jam. However, I watched a TV-show with this Raw-food expert and she said that lots of the vitamins are lost when cooking the berries. And since berries are one of the healthiest and yummiest things you can eat, she suggested to make raw jam. So this Raw Cloudberry Jam that I made, is even quicker than my before so called quick jam.

This is how to do it: Add the berries in a bowl, no cooking, just raw and fresh berries, or defrosted frozen berries, add the desired amount of sugar, stir, taste, maybe add some more sugar and voilá, you have a super healthy raw berry jam. The sugar help to preserve the berries, but of course since no preservatives are added, you can't have it forever in your fridge. I tend to eat it rather quickly, in my porridge, yogurt or as a dessert with a smooth and creamy vanilla ice-cream. Yum Yum!

 

ENJOY!

Raspberry Squares with Coconut-Caramel Topping

HAPPY MIDSUMMER'S EVE!!!! Today we celebrate Midsummer's Eve in Sweden, it's a solstice celebration where we celebrate the longest day of the year. It's one of our greatest celebrations of the year, almost as big as Christmas. So, yes, today we have holiday in Sweden and we eat a lot of food like; soused herring, the year's first potatoes, chives, sour cream, snaps, beer and the first strawberries of the season is a vital ingredient on the menu. If you're interested to know more about Midsummer's Eve, check it out here.

We usually eat a Victoria sponge cake, first layer filled with mashed bananas or thick vanilla custard and second layer with strawberry jam. Spread the cake with whipped cream and top with lots of fresh strawberries. That's a traditional Swedish Strawberry Cake. It's also very common to eat this kind of cake on birthday's.

But I wont bake a traditional Midsummer's Cake this year because we're having a picnic and the cake would most likely be ruined. But I will definitely eat a lot of strawberries today!:-) But plain fresh ones instead, not too bad:-).

I've baked Raspberry Squares with Coconut-Caramel Topping and I think it will be a great substitute:-) However for me it wont be squares because I couldn't find a disposable squared baking tin at the supermarket, only round ones. But hey, the taste will be the same:-) And I assure you, this is amazing! Sweet, summery, a little bit sticky and the coconut-caramel topping tastes like a sunny afternoon. I bet these squares are delicious too, without the topping and instead eat it with a creamy vanilla ice-cream:-)

Raspberry Squares with Coconut-Caramel Topping
150 gram raspberries, fresh
125 gram butter, room-temperature
1 1/2 dl sugar (150ml)
2 eggs
1/2 dl milk (50ml)
3 1/2 dl flour (350ml)
2 tsp vanilla sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 pinch of salt

Coconut-Caramel Topping:
3/4 dl cane sugar (75ml)
1/2 dl golden syrup (50ml)
3/4 dl double cream (75ml)
100 gram dessicated coconut
40 gram butter


Preheat oven at 175 degrees C.

Mix butter and sugar until soft. Add one egg at a time while mixing and thereafter milk.

Combine flour, vanilla sugar, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl and then add to the butter mixture along with raspberries. Combine carefully and try not to crush the raspberries. The mixture will be rather thick.

Grease and flour a squared baking tin or cover with oven paper, and spread the mixture evenly. Bake just below the middle of the oven for about 40 minutes, or until a stick comes out clean.

Meanwhile, prepare the coconut-caramel topping. Place all ingredients in a saucepan, let simmer on low heat for a couple of minutes, while stirring.

Take out the cake from the oven and spread coconut-caramel mixture evenly onto the cake. Adjust temperature at 200 degrees C. Place the cake just below the middle of the oven and bake for another 15 minutes, or until coconut-caramel topping is golden. Let the cake cool and cut into squares.

Don't forget to link up your contribution to My Sweet Party . The theme this month is Summer Fruits.

ENJOY and HAPPY MIDSUMMER'S EVE!

This was my contribution for Sweets for Saturday and Foodie Friday.

Liebster Blog Award

Weeeiii! I received the Liebster Blog award from sweetie Jade at Just Plain Jade. Make sure to pop over to her cute blog!

Once a blogger is fortunate enough to be recognized, here are the rules of passing on this encouragement to others:

1) Thank your nominator (and link back!).
2) Nominate 5 other blogs, with less than 200 followers and post a comment on each blog letting them know they have been given the award.
3) Copy and paste the award onto your blog.

5 Blogs that I would like to pass on this award to are:

Sophie @ My Happy Place

Maude @ My Spicy Cinnamon

Lisa @ Sweet 2 Eat

Back 4 Seconds

Katherine @ A Cupcake Or Two

 Make sure to visit these lovely blogs and be prepared to be inspired!   

Certified YUMMLY

I'm sooo happy today!!! My blog has been Certified Yummly! Check out Yummly's blog post about World Baking Day where my Tiger Cake is featured. Yummly only feature hand-picked bloggers and we are then provided with their badge to display that our recipes are "Certified Yummly".

This is what they say on their website:

On the Yummly blog we feature the best food websites. These sites may have great recipes, unique insights, beautiful photos or something else we love. When we feature a blogger, we promote them to Yummly’s millions of voracious food-lovers on Facebook, Twitter and the web, and designate them as “Certified Yummly”. We also give each site an exclusive badge to show off the achievement.


Thanks Yummly!!! You made my day! :-)

Kreativ Blogger & Sunshine Award

I'm super happy today as Kim from Treats & Trinkets awarded me with not one, but two blogger awards! How neat is that!:-)

For the Kreativ Blogger Award, I will tell you you 10 random things about myself: 

1. I find it very difficult to find 10 random things about me.
2. When I was younger I loved a tv-show called "Ann on Greengables". It's an adorable show and I still love it, I even got it on DVD.
3. I'm a very positive person and try to be at all times. Life's easier when you're positive:-)
4. I enjoy fishing, it's very relaxing. But I never put the worm onto the hook...it's too nasty.
5. I love travelling!
6. I don't like swimming by myself if it's very deep. It feels like an ugly fish will come and bite me.
7. I prefer romantic comedies at all times, they're perfect for whatever mood you're in. For other movies like a slow drama, you really need to be in the mood for it. A rom com on he other hand work's all the time:-)
8. My brother is one of my best friends.
9. Power walking, is the best way to think things over and find solutions to what ever problem I might have. 
10. If I drink too much coffee I get hyper active, and I'm already kind of an overactive person:-). I only drink coffee at most two times a week..but it tastes so good with something sweet so i can't help myself:-)

For the Sunshine Award, I have to answer these next questions:

Favourite Colour – Easypeasy - PINK

Favourite Animal – Cats. I had one for 18 years and still miss her.

Favourite Number – 6

Favourite Non-Alcoholic Drink – Freshly squeezed fruit juices.

Prefer Facebook or Twitter – Facebook. Never tried twitter, seems boring.

My Passion – Baking, and having fun at all times.

Prefer Getting or Giving Presents – Getting:-)

Favourite Pattern – This was tricky...bright colourful flowers maybe...

Favourite Day of the Week – Saturday, as I can enjoy a long and lazy breakfast and then have the rest of the weekend to have fun and look forward to.

Favourite Flower – Orchids are beautiful.

I'm going to hand these two out together like they were given to me, so here are the 10 bloggers that I nominate:

Back 4 Seconds Blog
Always With Butter
My Spicy Cinnamon
Sweet Treats & More
Eat Cake for Dinner
The Farm Girl Recipes
Look Who's Cooking Too
Baker Girl
Easy Food Smith
Citrus and Candy

Make sure to visit these lovely blogs! They have some delicious recipes to share with you:-)

Have you submitted a contribution to my first My Sweet Party ? The theme of my first party is chocolate and I would love you to join!

Have a nice day!