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Spotted Dog Cake. Kirju koer

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If you’re looking for a simple, yet delicious dessert, your search is over!
Kirju Koer is one of my favourite simple desserts, just because it’s so easy to make and still as tasty. The perfect and very very sweet old school dessert or cake.

It is up to you, How do you like to call this:)
Kirju koer means Spotted Dog and this name came from how this cake looks like. This is a perfect combination of sweet and sour, tart marmalade pieces complement very well bitterness of chocolate and sweet cookies.
For this dessert, you need an old school marmalade. I am not sure, that you can buy it in your country, In case it is impossible, use just berries and fruits.

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Cake Spotted Dog. Kirju koer

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“Curly Top” Cake. Kräsupea kook

krasupea1(10)Father’s Day in Estonia is always celebrated and observed on Second Sunday of November each year. So, Happy Fathers Day!!!
And lets bake one cake for all fathers 🙂

This is “retro” cake. A sour cream layer cake with a topping made from chunks of white cake mixed with sour cream that looks like a curly hairdo (kräsupea). This cake from times, when in stores were nothing.
My cake look very decent 🙂 ( to get better photo 🙂 ). I did not made last layer from cake cubes but as usual layer.

For lazy people tip: you can use just cookies and do not waste time for baking layers.
For better result leave cake to set overnight.

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Apple Cake by Moonika. Moonika õunakook

Monika kook1(19)This is again the very simple cake. If you do not have time, use biscuit cookies (like Lady Fingers or similar) for bottom and ready Pudding.

Apples are not my first choice. Apples are usual. And if you have so wide choice, why to pick the apples?

And then somewhere someone serving to me some apple jam and…I am sold.
My mother told me, when I was baby I had very bad appetite. One trick to make me eat was use everywhere apple jam and hide others ingredients and food under it 🙂

The key of this cake is apple jam. Specific  mild apple taste.

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Simple Eggfree Quark Cookies by Malle. Malle kohupiimaküpsised

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Simple Quark Cookies. http://www.estoniancuisine.com

I do not know about you, but I have always problem. When I cook for dinner soup, what to serve beside.

These cookies are simple to bake and pay attention: there no spices and seasonings in this dough. So, you can bake and serve them as savoury or sweet, as you like.

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Juicy Blueberry Pie by Mamma

Juicy and soft cake rich of berries. This is a delicious and easy blueberry cake to make.
I love blueberries and I love this juicy cake. I hope you will too. This is quick, moist and so yummy.

Blueberry Pie by Mamma

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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Delicious Estonian cake full of Blueberries.

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Blueberry Pie by Mamma http://www.estoniancuisine.com

Ingredients

  • 300 g soft butter
  • 3 dl sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 dl low quality flour
  • 3 dl high quality flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

    • Berry mixture:

  • 1 litre blueberries or cowberries or raspberries
  • 6 dl sour cream (creme fraiche or greek yoghurt)
  • 1 1/2 dl sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanillasugar
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The Cat Artur Cake. Revised. Kass Arturi kook

 

Estonia has not linked with the corn. We have too cold climate to grow maize.
In 1953 was Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev (Hruštšov). He was an interesting type. Made efforts to turn rivers upside down and grow corn everywhere. Even in the North.
So, Estonian farmers tried to grow corn, and the result was, that corn crown ca 30 cm in length. Suitable only for animal fodder 🙂

In 80s year was in Estonia very popular children  TV show
” Saturday Evening with Daddy”. Presenters were uncle Raivo and big fat red cat Artur.

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Cat Artur

And in this show was presented and introduced The Cat Artur Cake.  This was very simple but an extra sweet combination from special toffee candies and sweet corn sticks.
I am not very sure that you have both of them in your country, so I did a revised version.  (And this is less sweet and even better 🙂 :).)

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Original Sweet Corn Sticks

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Blueberry Crunch Pie with grilled Meadowsweet

In Estonia School starts at 1st of September. This is the festive day. There are a lot of flowers for teachers. And Children wear formal clothing. And at the school take place festive ceremony, concert.
And then starts  school… 9 long months until beginning of the June, when finally starts summer vacation.mustika kreemikook (9)
The current Estonian educational system consists of pre-school education, basic education, general secondary education, vocational education and higher education. Basic education is the compulsory educational minimum which is provided by basic schools (grades 1-9). Children reaching the age of seven have to attend school.

For this festive and important day simple berry pie. Meadowsweet is sweet and taste like almond. It complement very well the acidity of wild blueberries.

Blueberry Crunch Pie

  • Servings: 4-6
  • Difficulty: easy
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A juicy crunchy pie full of berries and with meadowsweet almond- taste


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Ingredients

    Quark Shortcrust Pastry
  • 200 g cold butter
  • 200 g quark, look at recipe
  • 300 g flour
  • 2 tablespoon sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

    • Cream

  • 100 g sugar
  • 2 tablespoon flour
  • 3 egg yolk
  • 2 dl 35% cream
  • 1 dl milk

    • –  ca 200 ml berries. If using frozen berries, mix with starch

  • bunch of chopped meadowsweet flowers

Directions

  1. Chop cold butter in to the small pieces, add quark, flour and salt and sugar. Mix together. Leave in cold place at least for 1 hour.
  2. For cream: mix together sugar, flour and egg yolks. Add cream and milk. Heat while mixture getting thicker.
  3. Put 2/3 of pastry in to the oven form. Bake for 20 minute at 200 C, while pastry is solid
  4. Pour on to the pastry cream and  berries mixed with chopped flowers,
  5. Cut the rest of the dough in to the pieces and sprinkle over the cake.
  6. Bake for 20 minute, while pie is crusty and yellow-brown
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  7. For grilling meadow-sweet.  angervaks (4)
    8. Mix together starch , flour and cold water. Heat the oil in a deep-fryer. Dip flowers in to the dough. Carefully place the flowers in the hot oil. Fry until browned. Remove and drain on paper towels before serving. Sprinkle over with icing sugar.

    Yes. Fresh meadowsweet flowers are eatable, too :). And if you do not want/ like deep- frying, put flowers on top/ behind the cake and bake while crispy.angervaks (5)

    Head isu!

See, how Tea made this cake.

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Estonian Secret. Kama. Estonian “muesli”

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Estonian Kama

Today I will share the recipe, which you probably will never do. The Kama.
Kama is Estonian traditional finely milled flour mixture. Estonians buying Kama mixture from shop.. and the easiest way is to try this, probably visit Estonia. But I still give you the recipe.

Historically kama was a non-perishable, easy-to-carry food that could be quickly fashioned into a stomach-filling snack by rolling it into butter or lard; it didn’t require baking, as it was already roasted. Today Kama is a perfect summer dish. Just add some fresh or fermented milk and sugar or salt, mix, and ready!
Today Kama is used for making cakes, mousse, desserts and salty snacks…

And what is interesting. In Estonian Kama means in slang “stuff, things” and the same time Kama means ” drugs”…:) Continue reading “Estonian Secret. Kama. Estonian “muesli”” →

Blueberry Pie with Crispy Oatmeal topping

Vikkelä mustikakookPlease, turn on the kettle !, I asked   the husband
Few minutes later.
I am going to the kitchen.
Pouring water in to the cup.
And leaving the tea to infuse and set.

Very carefully, blowing …  and sipping
cold peppermint flavoured tap water… 🙂 🙂

It is impossible to cook a hot tea from water, forgotten to put it to boil…:)

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Soft and Delicious Grandmothers Apple or Rhubarb Pie

Estonian women are able to weave a cobweb.

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Haapsalu shawl over 200 years old Estonian traditional lace shawl. Always knitted with fine wool, so you can pull the shawl through wedding ring.

Haapsalu shawl over 200 years old Estonian traditional lace shawl. Always knitted with fine wool, so you can pull the shawl through wedding ring. The skill has been handed down from mother to daughter, from one master knitter to another for one and half centuries.

Haapsalu, a small resort town on the west coast of Estonia, is famous for its 13th-century castle ruins, curative mud baths, and the legend of the White Lady. Created using lambs’ wool, the tradition started when members of the Russian aristocracy – including the royal Romanov family – visited the famous healing mud baths at the start of the 19th century. As they walked from the warm baths into the chilly courtyard outside, these women would fling a delicate shawl around their shoulders to keep warm.

Haapsalu shawl is something I am never able to knit, but I believe, that this  cake is the most easily baked pie in the world.
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