Tangy lemon for sweet news

As my hubby got the news of a fantastic new job, I once again saw the chance to use my Humming bird book. I will soon post more knits, but right now it´s all about cooking. This is a tangy lemon and poppy seed cake, and the most fabulous thing about it is that while the cake is still very warm from the oven, you pour a lemon sirup all over the cake to make it super moist! Yummo! Perfect with strawberries for those late summer nights.

Love from Maisey

A couple of years ago I started sewing a bit and bought some beautiful fabrics on the net. Unfortunately I find sewing too messy, it requires alot space and stuff so I decided to stick to knitting and crotcheting. One day I gave this beautiful fabric to Maisey, and look what I got in return!! A fabulous case for my needles!! Maisey, you are a true wizard.

Welcome Eivind!

I have just finished this blanket for the newest member of our family, my cousin's son Eivind. He was born a couple of days ago, and I have been working on this for quite a while. I thought it was a good idea to crochet a huge granny square, as it seemed to go pretty fast. That was until I started working on the 7th or 8th round... I am so happy that I managed to crochet a lace on the edge, as I have never tried that before. I will go see him later today, and hopefully he (or my cousin) will love it. I have used Falk from Dale and hook 3.5.

Food to celebrate a year gone by.

So, once again I decided to turn to my newly discovered Bible of Cakes when asked to bring something to a summer party with my lovely colleagues. I made one portion of just as lovely choc-cakes, and one portion of a never before tried Strawberry Cheese cup-cakes. I guess it is not necessary to mention that it was a HUGE success. What you cannot see in this pic is that the bottoms of these heavenly bites are covered with fresh strawberries to make up for the rather heavy topping. On top I have put crunched Digestives (to add to the chesse cake feeling) and red sugar from Dean and DeLuca. 

Food for rainy days...

As the rain poured down outside I gathered it was no coincidence that the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook arrived at the p.o yesterday. A rainy day was the perfect excuse to bake for my two favourite choc-muffins in the whole wide world. So cupcakes I made and lovely they were! I will definately make a point of trying all the recipes in this book.