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 Mexican Sukini Cake: 3 eggs 2½ dl vegetable oil 5 dl sugar 5 dl coarsly grated squash with the peel on or you can use grated butternut squash 5 dl flour 1/4 tsp baking powder 2 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 2 tsp vanilla sugar 3 tsp cinnamon 2½ dl coarsly chopped walnuts Mix everything together and bake approximate 1 hour at 200 degrees Celcius.

I got the Heartnut tree  5-6 years ago, and it has blossomed and made small nuts, but they fell off when still small. This year it looks as if it is going to succeed in making ripe nuts. The plant is from   Westergaards Planteskole The species is  Japanese  Walnut (juglans ailanthifolia) . The nuts should be a little more difficult to clean than walnuts - in return they have a high content of antioxidants and can therefore be kept for several years Right now there is a fantastic carpet under the chestnut tree. It has dropped all  catkins: Danish

The morello cherries are ripe now, and there are lots of them this year. They go very well with chocolate cake, so I made African Country Road Cake: African Country Road Cake 2 eggs Stir the ingredients together  Bake ½ hour at 180 degrees. Frosting: Melt the butter and combine with the rest. Spread it on top of the cake. 2 Dl sugar 1 Dl milk 2½ Dl flour 2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp  v anilla sugar 2 tbsp cocoa powder 1½ Dl rapeseed oil Frosting: 100 g butter 2 Dl icing sugar 8 tbsp coffee 2 tbsp cocoa powder 4 Dl desiccated coconut I also made walnut schnapps because a big branch fell of the tree. Danish

I got this bottle of Creme de Sureau for my birthday. It is made by a Danish firm called   Norlic It is a Danish liqueur made from organic elderberries, and it tastes really good. It is enjoyable a Danish firm makes liqueurs. They also make one on rhubarb, strawberry and vanilla, which I guess I have to taste 😋🍹. Another of their liqueurs are made with green walnuts. I have made schnapps on green walnuts, and that was fine, but as all schnapps you make it gets better if it is allowed to "mature" a couple of years before drinking. Walnut Schnapps 8 green  walnuts Wash the walnuts thoroughly,  pierce them with a  pin and put in a bottle. Fill the bottle with vodka and let  soak for 3-4 weeks. Filter and age a couple of years.  Use it  to add to a schnapps., don't drink it as it is. You can also cut the walnuts in halves instead of piercing them. . It gives you two different colored schnapps. The pierced is blue-green, and the one w...

Some time ago I bought some small silicone-molds in Søstrene Grene, and now was the time to use them. I made chocolate cakes and walnut pies. The recipe for walnut pies is already on the blog , only they were the bigger size, The small ones should be baked only once. You put some dough in the mold and then the filling. I baked at 200 degrees for 12 minutes - ( 6 minutes with the fan on, and 6 minutes  with the fan and lower heat on). This is the result. The cakes are on a place mat made of English millennium stamps. They are glued on an A3 sized paper and then laminated. And  now a recipe for the chocolate cakes: Mini-chocolade cakes 36 PCS 100  g dark chocolate Melt the butter at low heat in a saucepan and put the chocolate in the saucepan as well and let it melt. Mix and whip sugar and eggs in a bowl until it ribbons. Add flour, baking powder, coffee and spices as well as the melted butter/chocolate, Stir thoroughly. When filling the littl...

One of autumns great pleasures is collecting walnuts - especially as we got a huge amount from our daughter and son in law. We planted  a  walnut tree shortly after we had bought our house (1975), but this year the  amount of nuts was very limited and they were all consumed right away. The tree in my daughters garden is very old and always gives bucketfull of nuts. So we got a lot from her and I shell them and dry them, and I guess I will be provided with walnust the whole of next year😃. I crack the nuts and put the nut kernels in one layer on a dish towel . I keep them in room temperature for a couple of days. I then place them in cloth bags and hang them on a clothesline  - still in a place with room temperature. Before I made some cloth bags I used  pillow cases, and that works fine as well  A couple of times a day I give the bag a little shake. When I am sure they are absolutely dry and "rattel" i store them in  tin cans. Walnuts are exce...