Freshly baked cakes and brownies

For christmas I bought my teenage girls each a cookbook.  They both love baking.  So this holiday we are often spoiled with delicious and freshly baked cookies and muffins.  Our house smells wonderfully cozy when they are busy in the kitchen and they even clean up afterwards.  Yesterday they made brownies and little cakes with sundried tomatoes and black olives.  The cakes were made in small silicone loaf pans that came with one of the cookbooks, easy to use and so much more fun to look at. 

I really loved the little savoury cakes. For everyone who likes to try it, here is the recipe:

• 2 eggs
• 7 cl olive oil
• 7 cl milk
• 120 g flour
• 70 g grated Gruyère
• 1/2 package of baking powder
• salt and pepper
• 100 g sundried tomatoes cut in pieces
• 100 g black olives without the seed and sliced

You mix everything together and use some of the olive slices to decorate on top. For these small cakes, you only have to bake them for half an hour in a preheated oven of 180 degrees celsius.
Enjoy!!

I'd like to wish all of you a wonderful 2012 with lots of

love, laughter, warmth, good health, joy, happiness and creativity!

Lucky Charms

My youngest daughter loves to create things with felt, fabric and fimo.  She is now making these crazy creatures which she calls her lucky charms.  I just love them, they make me smile.  The eyes are selfmade buttons out of fimo.

THEY JUST MAKE MY DAY !!!

My son's needlework

My son was so proud when he finished his needlework that he insisted I put it on my blog.  Who says boys aren't handy enough to use wool and a needle??