Today, since the weather was lovely, Mica came up with the great idea that we should have a picnic somewhere!
And so, we went and bought a couple of macarons and muffins, and brought some coffee, tea and a blanket to a park near our university. There we met up with Mica's sister and our friend Emelie, and together we sat down in the warm sun. It was only 5 degrees celsius outside, but as long as we were in the sun it still felt great. Unfortunately, a building soon blocked the setting sun... >_<;;
We brought along Miku, who was quite scared (but curious!) about everything, since she's an indoor cat. After exploring the vicinity of our picnic-area, and trying to hunt a blackbird, she decided to climb on all of us.
As soon as Spring decides to hurry up and truly get here, we'll hopefully get to do this more often. ^_^
Enjoy the sunny weather, everyone!
First picnic of 2011
Semlor
This year Fettisdagen was very late, so we couldn't keep ourselves from making semlor earlier... but we decided not to make them as plain as the traditional ones usually are!
It all started as a discussion while we were trying to make decorate some cupcakes; it came to us that the most underrated pastry of all time (we might be a little subjective on that point...) could be reinterpreted a little....
... And so we invited a couple of great friends over to make some!
It certainly was a weird day though; first we made some cupcakes (because one of the friends that was supposed to come is allergic to almonds) and everyone started to drop in... along with two highschool girls that they found along the way. Apparently they had a craving for chocolate, which I hope got satisfied by chocolate cupcakes and some 70-100% cacao chocolate that our friend Anders brought! ^_^
above: chocolate cupcakes with blue cream, and our friend Helen enjoying a cup of tea
We got to work on the baking and decorating, and together produced these lovely (and tasty!) Semlor:
Mica is posing with the delicious treats/Mica & Tsuki