Merry baking

It's the time for baking.

According to the Norwegian tradition

it should be 7 different types of cakes and cookies

in a proper Norwegian Christmas home

There won't be seven types in our home

but there will these:

Nutty cookies, with hazel nuts and almonds

And coconut macaroons

And even dinner suddenly seems Christmasy

and it wasn't even deliberate

Beans and tomatoes, Ho Ho, Ho!!

Football, Earth Hour and a few nuts

It's time to celebrate Earth Hour

We're ready

at least I am

I've made a fire

charged my PC

Turned of all the lights
lit loads of candles

But
and isn't there always a bu!
My husband is insisting to watch football.
After all, it's Norway vs Denmark
and he wants the Norwegians to kick som serious Danish butts!
A compromise has been made;
Everything off, except the tv. And to the game:
just raisins and nuts.

Our Enchiladas was prepared and consumed

in good time before everything went dark!

Christmas baking part two - gingerbread and nutty squares

Cocoa and nutty squares

hazelnuts chopped to pieces

Dough and nyts flat in a pan

They hav to be cut in to squares

when it is stil hot

When cooled down, they get very crunchy!

Not to sweet, jyst perfect with a cup of tea!

Then Gingerbread!

Butter, treacle, sugar, flour, bakingpowder, clove, ginger, cinnamon, black pepper

(in Norway we call them "pepperkaker")

Let it rest cool for a day
Use a rolling pin and shapes to make your cookies

Little Chefs knows the way to do it effectively

And the house smells of spices and Christmas
Maybe we'll have to make an other batch

Cause my cookie tins seem to be leaking!