ADVENT CALENDAR- DOOR 12. Miisas christmascake and mini ginger bread houses

Vlogger Miisa has a ”hyvvää” (=good with a dialect) baking section on her popular youtube channel. She -Finland’s most influential influencer- was also involved in dancing with the stars competition this season. (Some of you may have recognized her from my dance posts). In a video after the dance competition, she told us she came second with her partner: Marko Keränen what was not told in the final broadcast. (They announced only the winner out of three). Congratulations, Miisa!!!

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A cute, tiny gingerbread houses with fried gingerbread cheesecake, made by my favorite vlogger: Mmiisas.

As information for those who do not understand Finnish, in the beginning of the video Miisa is introducing caramel-cranberry fudge which she made earlier with Valio’s recipe. She said it’s her new favorite and recommends it as a Christmas present (if you don’t know what to buy).

That recipe I will post maybe later (If I can find it -wasn’t too easy to find on the sites of ”Valio”, Finnish food company brand). Christmas cake recipe you will find here below. The ginger bread houses were a separate supplement and I will not put that recipe here but I think you can find similar recipe easily if you like. It took time for me to translate only this one cake recipe so…

Anyway I hope you enjoy Mmiisa’s christmas bakings…

and tell me what’s your traditional christmas decerts?

FRIED GINGERBREAD CHEESECAKE

175g gingerbreads

75g butter

400g seasoned curd with orange

400g orange cream cheese

2,5 dl caramel cream

2 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla sugar

4 eggs

2 tablespoons corn starch

To the surface:

2 dl whipped cream

1 tablespoon vanillasugar

Nonpareils

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1US cup=2,4dl

1 UK cup=2,8dl

Preparation

Melt butter. Chop gingerbreads and stir in melted butter. Combine with melted butter. Tension the baking paper between the bottom and the edge of the loose bottom pan (23cm). Press the gingerbread mixture onto the bottom and edges of the pan.

Whisk the filling ingredients until smooth. Pour the filling over the biscuit base.

Cook at the bottom of the oven at 170 degrees for about 60 minutes until the cake is only slightly loose in the middle.

Allow the cake to cool first at room temperature and then transfer covered to the refrigerator. Do not remove the cake from the pan until completely cold. Cake is at its best the next day.

Finish the surface of the cake with vanilla sugar flavored whipped cream and nonpareils if desired.

Bon appetit!

ADVENT CALENDAR 8. DOOR Dancing with the stars/TTK (FI) winner

8. Door opens already…

The Winners: Sami Helenius & Virpi Sarasvuo on finals. They took us to the moods of Notting Hill. I love this song and the movie!

The Dancing With The Stars winners (Finland) have been chosen…and the winners are Sami Helenius & Virpi Sarasvuo (ex-skier). It means that my favorite couple: Miisa & Marko were left without a prize but they did their best and their dances remain in my heart. Good performance from them, however! Fortunately they were involved to the end of competition!

The nebula on the dance floor is over. Thanks to all the contestants for the beautiful and entertaining moments you offered on Sunday evenings and congratulations to winners!

My favorite couple: Miisa & Marko. I love tango and this song is my favorite! This performance was also one of the best on this season!

DANCING WITH THE STARS (as TTK-Finland) covid-19

Season 13.episode 10. Miisa and Marko Keränen. With this ”Phantom Of The opera” themed paso doble they got full 30 points. It is absolutely stylish!

I was gonna made a post of dancing with the stars semifinals which should have been on Sunday. I was waited this semifinal episode a whole week and then when Sunday finally came, I went to net and clicked the show on. Then I realized that actually isn’t semifinal episode at all. There was just an episode where judges did memorize the best dances of previous seasons. Later when I was searching on net, I found the news about this. There were said that someone on Dancing with the stars team had covid -19 virus and that’s why the semifinal episode was cancelled.

Season 11. Boxer: Edis Tatli and Katri Mäkinen. Amazing fiery tango!

I’m disappointed that I couldn’t see my favorite vlogger: Miisa on the dancefloor as every sunday! Let’s see if DWTS can move on or will they quit it. Actually they shouldn’t even start the show this year. It would have been better if they just had decide not to show it but they did, and now when I have been watching it every week, what a pity it would be if it ends unfinished. Well, just have to wait and see.

Miss Finland 2010 Viivi Pumpanen ja Matti Puro 2011.

Earlier on this season there were covid -19 case on one of the DWTS orchester members and they did switch the orchester for a week. Now only two weeks after that another case of the virus occured…

This covid -19 have totally ruined my life in every possible way. It almost have took my mentall healthy away too and I know I’m not the only one who feels this way. Maybe you too are feeling this way, or are you? Are you as worried than I am now when I’m almost loosing my mind because of the fear (specially now when this covid-19 have started to spread here in Finland too?)

Season 12. epidode 10. Singer Jannika B and Aleksi Seppänen. Truly one of the best dances in ”TTK” history. So beautiful and emotional!

There is not much else to do than only pray to God to make this end and make the world normal againon the meantime we can try to relax with watching these beautiful dance shows…maybe it helps…even a little!

Season 12. episode 6. An actor Christoffer Strandberg and Matti Puro. This dance was historic in DWTS Finland last year. It was the first time we saw two men on the dance floor. I must say it felt weard for me at first when I heard this was coming but this is great dance and the more I watch it, the more I just see two great dancer, without thinking it’s two men dancing. Maybe even this ”granny” can still learn new, fresh perspectives.

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DANCING WITH THE STARS Season 13 (2)

I finally got together this second compilation amazing dance shows! (Time have flied so fast again. I’m sorry this post took a while!)

Live show 4. My favorite couple: Miisa and Marko: Foxtrot. I love this song!
Live show 5. Miisa & Marko. Miisas dress is beautiful and that lift is just perfecto!! Miisa is in great position with ankles stretched. She looks like professional dancer. That’s something you don’t see too often in this show (made by star students). It’s surely not so simple to make it look as elegant as she does!
Live show 7. Movie theme evening: Saturday night fever marathon challenge. This show was fun!
Live show 7. Miisa & Marko in the moods of the Mouling rouge tango. Great show, great costumes, great singer…all was just great! I loved this all of my heart but the judges only gave 3 times 8=24.
Live show 7. Niklas & Kia: Star Wars.
Live show 7. Jukka & Katri: Dirty Dancing…(with that classic lift. By the way I made that lift with my big brother as a child when this was our favorite movie.)
Live show 8. Halloween evening. I’m not the biggest fan of Halloween but I liked this show and the whole part!
Live show 8. Jukka & Katri. This was my favorite show on Halloween evening. Those characters are deceased stars of abandoned circus. Great story, great costumes and great choreography!
Live show 8. This may not be Miisas best performance but I liked it even judges criticized it quite hardly because of the mistakes. (They did anyway praise her legs!) Miisa told on her youtube channel that she’s disappointed with this performance and that she fell in after that show at home. Completely in vain!! Anyone can get black out sometimes but it doesn’t matter! You still look great!

Hyvä Miisa! Jatka samaan malliin. Älä huoli virheistä, ei niihin kiinnitä huomiota, muut kuin tuomarit!

The tension condenses…Who will be the winner 2020…