Carrot Cake- Easter Style

Ingredients:

- All-purpose flour (315 ml)
- Baking Powder (8 ml)
- Salt (2 ml)
- Cinnamon (5 ml)
- Nutmeg (1 ml)
- Ground cloves (1 ml)
- Vegetable oil (190 ml)
- 2 Large eggs
- Granulated sugar (250 ml)
- Vanilla (5 ml)
- Finely grated carrots (250 ml)
- Walnuts finely chopped (80 ml)



Method:
1) Preheat the oven to 325°F. Spray non-stick spray onto the pan molds and dust with flour.
2) Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves together in a medium bowl.
3) In another bowl, mix the oil, eggs, sugar, and vanilla together until they are well blended.
4) Add the carrots and walnuts and mix until blended.
5) Spoon the batter evenly into molds. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the center of a cake. Cool for 5 minutes before removing the little cakes from the molds. Trim the edges with kitchen shears if needed for a neat presentation.
6) After completly cooled, decorate them with icing


mixture of flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves



mix the oil, eggs, sugar, and vanilla together



Add both mixture together

grate carrots

soak raisins in water (opinional0

chop walnuts



Add carrots



add walnuts

add raisins (ptional)

Easter egg molds

spoon the batter into molds evenly

finsihed product....NOT YET!

NOW FINSIHED PRODUCT!

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Finnish Pulla Bread

This bread has freshly grounded cardamom and has a nice taste to it. It was my first time eating this (and making), it turned out pretty good. It was also fun to make! except the part where i had to go to school at 8:00am.......
well, I made a 4 braid, Grace made a 5 braid and Michelle made a 3 braid
The even number braids are much harder then the odd

Ingredients:

- Milk (250 ml)
- Warm water (60 ml)
- White sugar (5 ml)
- Yeast (8 ml)
- White sugar (60 ml)
- Salt (3 ml)
- Ground cardamom (3ml)
- 2 eggs, beaten
- all- purpose flour (1 L)
- Margarine or butter, melted (60 ml)
- 1 egg, beaten
- course white sugar (15 ml)



Method:
1) Warm the milk in a small saucepan until it bubbles, then remove from heat. Let cool until lukewarm.

2) Dissolve the yeast in the warm water and the 5 ml sugar. Stir in the lukewarm milk, 60 ml sugar, salt, cardamom, eggs and enough flour to make a sticky batter. Add the melted butter and stir well. Beat again until the dough looks glossy. Stir in the remaining flour until the dough is slightly sticky.

3) Knead the dough until smooth and satiny. Place in a lightly greased mixing bowl, and turn the dough to grease the top. Cover with a clean dishtowel. Let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, about 1 hr. Punch down, and let rise again until almost doubled.

4) Turn out again on to a floured surface and divide into 4 parts. Divide each third into 3 again. Roll each piece a strip. Braid 3 strips into a loaf. Lift the braids onto greased baking sheets. Let rise for 20 minutes.

5) Brush each loaf with egg wash and sprinkle with sugar.

6) Bake at 400°F for 25 to 30 min. Check occasionally because the bottom burns easily.

Finsihed product. Top left: 5 braid Top right: 3 braid in a circle Bottom; 4 braid

4 braid pulla bread

close up of 3 braid coiled

ukrainian easter eggs

For easter we made Ukrainian easter eggs, It had been a while, since elementary, that I had made them. I personally think that the one I made in elementary was better......
But it turned out pretty nice and wasn't as bad tho I only used 3 colours: black, red, and white. The colours represents something but I just choose the colours cuz they looked good together. Apparently red=happiness and love, black=eternity, and white=purity.