That’s what you call squirrels in some countries. At least in Germany. Because the German word for squirrel is just as ridiculous as the english one: Eichhörnchen. Everyone go ahead and try to pronounce that! 
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Rats with fluffy tails.
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Honey, I shrunk Europe.
When I was in Germany this last Christmas my father wanted to take us all to the miniature wonderland in Hamburg. After standing in line for nearly an hour (!!) we and about one billion other people pushed ourselves through the worlds of miniature trains and plastic mountains. I felt like I was in one of Sheldon Coopers dreams!
The exhibition started with miniature Switzerland. A lot of mountains and tunnels!
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And continued with Germany. Where, of course, monks were hiding behind trees, staring at a young girls behind.. What else is happening in Germany?? Haha
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And one of the last things were Scandinavia: Norway:
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And Sweden 
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Ring of nougat.
Whenever I have a lot of things that I should be doing, which are boring, exhausting or just plain not fun, I do something unnecessary instead. Like making a to-do-list of the things that I should be doing. Or baking. Well I did the to-do-list at work already, so what was left? Yep, baking
Today I wanted to make my all time favorites: nougat rings (Nougatringe) which you can buy in every bakery in Germany, I guess. All you need to do is to bake some round cookies, mix a butter-nougat-creme, top it with some hazelnuts and cover everything with chocolate. Et voila: 10000000000 kcal on a cookie. Yummie!!
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ingredients:
cookie: 200C 7min
100g flour
45g powdered sugar
1 package vanilla sugar
zest of 1/2 orange
1 egg yolk
60g butter
topping:
120g crushed hazelnuts
150g butter
350g nougat
zest of 1 orange
2 packages couverture (à 150g)
