Cupcakes

Hello, hello!

I made chocolate-peanut cupcakes and they turned out so good that I had to share the recipe with you. The original recipe was found from here : http://www.kinuskikissa.fi/peanut-butter-muffinssit/?sliderpage=4&ref=26 but it is in finnish. I changed the original a little bit because I didn't find peanut butter from here.

For 12 cupcakes

Pastry:
150 gr  milk chocolate
150 gr  butter
1½  dl  sugar
2     eggs
3½  dl  flour
2   teaspoons of baking powder
2½ spoons of cocoa powder
1½  dl  milk
1½  dl  salted peanuts

Icing:
200 gr cream cheese
350 gr chocolate hazelnut spread


Pastry:
Before you start doing anything make sure that you turn on your oven into 225 degrees. Melt the butter in the microwave for 30 seconds so that it gets a bit soft and mix it with the sugar. Add the eggs one at a time. Combine the dry ingredients ( flour, baking powder, cocoa powder) together and put it in to the mixture in turn with the milk. Chop the milk chocolate and the salted peanuts and add them into the mixture.

Because I don't like peanuts that much I crushed them. In the picture they are not crushed. You can do as you like :)

Put the mixture into small tins ( or whatever you have at home ). Remember to put butter on them before you fill them with the mixture. Leave them in the oven for about 15 minutes.








Icing:
This is easy. Just mix the cream cheese and the chocolate hazelnut spread together. I used philadelphia and merenda (nutella is good too). Remember not to put the icing when the muffins are still warm!

 For the icing I use this kind of shape ( I don't know how you call them in english). If you have something else don't worry it will do the same thing :)

  When the muffins have cooled-down you can put the icing. I usually start from the middle of the muffin and go around.

At least my friend Maria liked them very much! I hope you try the recipe as well :)

Karoliina

No stress...

Hello again! :)

My time here has been very relaxing. I went for shopping yesterday and it felt so good haha...shopping therapy I guess! I am not a big fashion freak to be honest. If I don't like something, I don't wear it no matter how fashionable it is. I usually like to be comfortable, but I found these awesome high heels from Zara that I couldn't resist. It is so hard to find shoes that fit me because I have so small feet ( 35 size ) , but I'm so happy that I finally found shoes that look good. Probably the highest high heels I have ever worn, but I am hoping I will get used to them :P (look at the picture below)

Yey! I looked a bit crappy in the morning. I went jogging with my friend Eleni and I have to admit that I hate jogging and running in general, but it is the only way to keep myself fit here. Plus the weather is good so why not enjoy the nature and the sun :)

I don't get it when people say that when they exercise they get that good feeling. I sometimes wonder what the hell they are talking about! For me exercising can be torture sometimes. I never really enjoy doing it, but I do it because I know it is good for my health. I have always been very lazy, but I guess I have learned to drag myself to the gym every day. Now that I see the results on myself I can say that I feel good, but I have never got that "good" feeling during my exercise. Oh well...maybe I will get there or maybe not...:P

This was taken in the evening. I must say that I look a bit better here! A little bit of make up and nice clothes can do miracles hehe :)  I just had to take a picture from each angle so you can get a good look at my new shoes... I know it's a bit cheesy :P

Now I am going to make cup cakes! I will put the recipe on my blog as soon as possible :)

Karoliina

Γειά σας!

After 16 hours of traveling I am finally home! :D It is nice to be back and the first...or actually the second thing I did was eat gyros! NAM! Greek food is so goooood! It is nothing like eating greek food abroad. Foreign people have no idea about real greek food and that's the truth!  If you ever eat feta, please buy at least GREEK feta cheese, it tastes so much better and it is nothing like the crap they name "feta".

Everytime I come here it is funny to notice how people act so differently.  Greeks are very loud and I like that, because it feels like home again. I am very loud myself even though I am tiny, but now I am not the only one hehe...! My greek friends came to my house yesterday to welcome me and it was one of the best things they could ever do. I am so happy to be here :)

When I am here I like going for walks with my dad. I know most girls my age don't do that, but I think it's good that we do because it brings us closer and we get the chance to talk about things. I like to have a close relationship with my parents, but that doesn't mean that I tell them everything :P

This is my dad :) Αs you can see it's already spring here! Ahh...I just love the weather :D

This is the place I call home Agria! <3 Sunny days in Greece! :D I got so sick of the snow and the horrible weather in Finland that I wonder how finnish people stand that every year. Summers are probably the only time of the year that you can actually enjoy being outside.

Yeah! My dad is cool! :)

I  love this old house, it's a pity they haven't fixed it yet :/

Have a great week!
Warm greetings from Greece! :)

Karoliina

Bye bye Finland :D

Hello!

First of all, my exams are finally over!! YEAH! Secondly, I am going back to Greece tomorrow! SUPER YEAH! :D I can't believe it's over! I don't even remember when was the last time I felt so relaxed. It feels weird that I don't need to study anything for a long time...life is good!

Now I am just packing and trying to put things in order...my room is a mess, but who cares! I won't let anything ruin my good mood. I am going home after three months which isn't a very long time actually. Even though I have been living here for three years I still don't feel like calling Finland my home. It's not that I don't like Finland, but here everything seems to be so dead sometimes.

 Before I leave I have made a video for you guys just in case you forget what my voice sounds like hehe...Now that I have had more time I have been singing all the time and I am sure that my neighbours probably hate me. I can't help it! I was born to sing :P

When I was fifteen I loved Taylor Swift's songs, but not so much anymore. I remember I used to play this song all the time, so I decided to play it for one last time. I need to learn new songs I am getting so sick of the old one's! If you have any good ideas let me know :D ( sorry about the bad quality of the video )

 Karoliina :)

Help...

Hello!

I must thank you all for your nice comments on my previous post! Our duet was a big hit haha maybe we should try singing again sometime. Also I noticed that  I have two members on my blog now which is really great! Thank you! :)

Today I tried for the first time in my life shooting with an ilma-ase (airgun haha)...I have no idea what it's called in english, but it was something like this...

Actually, shooting wasn't my cup of tea and the gun was a bit heavy :P What can I say, I am too weak! At least I am open to try new things. Me and a gun, not a good combination...I am glad I didn't kill anybody!

Now I am freaking out for my exams...seriously I have never been this terrified in my life just for a maths test! I don't know how some of my friends wrote physics and chemistry, crazy people! Just looking at my maths books I feel sick... this is torture!

Now I am going to watch felicity and get a good rest. I am becoming a bit obsessed with Felicity and I should blame my dear friend for that...we act like thirteen year olds when we talk about Scott Speedman (one of the characters of the series).

He is so dreamy! :D I could look at him for hours hahaha...oh my...I sound so creepy! :P















Goodnight everybody! :)

Karolina

The sound of music

Hey!

I can't believe how fast these past two months have gone by! Especially now that my last exam is coming soon I can take my life back finally. I won't need to worry about school or exams I will just take it easy and relaaaaax! In almost a week I am going back to Greece and I am so excited to see my friends and family again! One of the hardest things being from two countries is having to say goodbye to people all the time which is something that I am still not used to. I always cry like a baby when I have to leave from Greece.

I thank God that I have amazing friends who make life easier. I was touched when my friend Salla surprised me the other day by coming to my house with some pizza (which was really good!).  I like it when people are spontaneous and they don't organize their everyday separately. That is why I don't own a day planner! 

Salla got really excited when I played "set fire to the rain" by Adele on guitar. She was like "Let's sing it together!" and I was like "why not!". To be honest it didn't exactly turn out as we thought it would, but at least we had a great time! I am not a good guitarist, but music isn't about singing or playing an instrument perfectly. You can play an instrument very well and still not enjoy it, what's the point of that?

Here are two videos of our attempt to sing "set fire to the rain". It got really high at some point as you can hear :P Gosh I couldn't stop laughing of how bad it sounded, but at least it sounds better on the second video. Enjoy! :D

 

Karolina

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

Hey!

I am sure most of you have had difficult times in the past or you are going through some hard times at the moment. Well if it helps at all you are not the only one who is suffering in this world. I believe that  99% of  the world's population has had at least once in their life one hard moment and the 1% is just lucky.

On the other hand, having an easy life can be boring. Imagine if nothing wrong happened, things would just stay the same. I believe that difficult times change people and make them understand some things about life. You can't always have things your way...welcome to the real world, shit happens!. You can either ruin your life complaining all the time about how bad things are OR you could just learn something from those bad moments. 

I have had some rough times in my life. Especially after I had this depression last year I have changed in many ways. I would never want to go through the same thing again, but I don't feel bad that it happened because it made me stronger. Now that I have my exams I wish they were over, but unfortunately it something that I have to deal with at the moment. :( 

Anyway...this is for you. I have been hearing this song everywhere so why not put it on my blog as well! :P

Goodnight everybody!

Karolina :)