Vday cleaning

Hello all you lovely people,
Happy Valentine's Day!!

I hope you all have a fantastic day, filled with love and chocolate (which is basically love, so love and love).

I have personally spent Vday loving myself - which is also important, and should not be forgotten. And then of course loving my family and friends. I also wanted to extend that love to you, by sharing a recipe with you!

These little pink rolls are called Dammsugare in Sweden, which means Vacuum cleaner. Why? I don't know. I've always thought it's because they're shaped like the vacuumy part of a vacuum cleaner. But for now it will remain a mystery.

Anyway, you take crumbs from biscuits or cakes and mix it together with a few other ingredients to get a sort of dough, then you roll out the dough to thin logs which you then wrap into marzipan (usually green, but I made a Valentine's-y pink instead).

The most important ingredient is arrack or punsch, these little things are also called Arrack-rolls or Punsch-rolls. I personally don't use alcohol when baking so instead I used arrack aroma. It does have a distinct taste/scent, but I like it very much. However, fair warning, not everybody likes it.

 
Without further ado, the recipe...

Vacuum cleaners

INGREDIENTS

• Crumbs from cake or biscuits, I used 8 digestives
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
• 30 grams almond paste
• 1 decilitre oatmeal 
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 85 grams butter, room temperature
• 0,5tsk Arrack aroma or actual arrack or punsch
• 400 grams marizpan
• Food colouring (optional)
• 150 grams dark chocolate

DIRECTIONS

Crush the digestives into crumbs, mix together with the cocoa powder, vanilla sugar, almond paste, oatmeal and brown sugar. Then add the butter (at room temperature) and make into a dough. Lastly add the arrack aroma. Form dough into thin logs, about 1.5 fingers thick. And place in fridge.

If colouring marzipan do so now, and then roll out the marzipan to a rectangle. Take the dough logs out of the fridge and place onto the marzipan. Wrap the marzipan around the logs and cut away the excess. Cut the logs into smaller pieces. Melt the chocolate and dip both ends of a roll into the chocolate.

Enjoy!

Much love,

Baking Subscription Box - Bakboxen June 2016

Hello all!
Hope you are doing well.
Today I want to introduce you to my brand new YouTube channel that you can find here.

I was gifted a subscription box called Bakboxen (=The Bake Box) by my sweet sister, and I made a video with her of the unboxing of the box. Bakboxen contains secret recipes, ingredients and tools to bake something that is revealed upon the unboxing of the box.

If you live in Sweden you can subscribe to the box here. And I've seen that this concept of a baking subscription box exists in other places as well, so if this is something you're interested in I would suggest you google it.

If you want to spoil the surprise of what's in the June box then watch the video below:

I hope you enjoyed my first ever video.
Have you ever subscribed to a box? What was it and how did you like it?

Down below are some photos of the contents of Bakboxen of June (so don't look if you don't want to know).

I wish you all an amazing weekend! And to my lovely fellow-Swedes, Glad Midsommar!
Much love,