Change.

I’m looking forward to easier times. I’m not saying better times because my life isn’t a living hell. It’s just that making life changing decisions every other day can be so exhausting and hard. My mind is tired. I can’t keep track of how many days have passed. I lost my sight on where I am right now, and where was I about to go? If my life was google maps, it couldn’t find me. 0 search results. Please check your searching term. If I only knew what to look for to find my needle on the map. But I know that change is just around the corner. It always is. As my mother used to say “Without difficulties life would be boring”. And I know she’s right. But one boring day is all I’m asking for right now.

© Jule Helmke

Do not trust a coffee shop.

What would you do if you find out that your favorite coffee shop stopped producing your favorite baked good??

1. Write an angry letter to the owner.
2. Go home and cry.
3. Make your own. : )

So all you have to do is google for the recipe, buy all the ingredients and get started!

Here is an example for the recipe I had to look up, because my favorite coffee shop discontinued the toscasnäckor..

 

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Toscasnäckor

© Jule Helmke

Ingredients:

1/2 packet yeast

75g butter

6cups flour

2cups milk

2tsp sugar

filling:

3tsp butter

2tsp sugar

glaze:

50g almond flakes

50g butter

1/2cup sugar

1tsp flour

1tsp milk

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Grind the butter in 6cups of the flour. Dissolve the yeast in a bit of cold milk. Mix the yeast, the rest of the cold milk and sugar in the butter and flour mixture. Work together and add more flour if needed.

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Put the dough on a floured surface. Roll into an oblong square, about 1cm thick. Stir together butter and sugar for the filling and spread on the dough. Roll up. Cutting length in about 24 pieces. Place in paper cases on a baking sheet. Let buns rise, about 1 hour.

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Mix ingredients for glaze in a small heavy saucepan. Bake the buns at 250°C, 3-4min. Let the gaze boil and spread it on the buns. Bake another 3-4 minutes.

© Jule Helmke

let it snow.

Hamburg, Germany: 4°, rain

When I look at the weather widget on my mac I really want to cry. Where’s my friggin snow????? Where is it? But it’s getting worse! The weather forecast for christmas eve in Hamburg this year: 10°, rain. What? Why?

But heads up everybody, I got the solution. Or google does ; )

1. go to google here
2. search for “let it snow”
3. press ENTER
4. be amazed : )

But don’t you worry, there’s a defrost button too! Haha