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Courgette Cupcakes – Fluffy Muffins with Courgette or Pumpkin
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Courgette Cupcakes – fluffy muffins made with courgette or pumpkin. These delicious cupcakes are made using the giant courgettes available in late summer and early autumn. Later in the season, you can make these tasty little cakes with pumpkin – mild-flavoured Halloween pumpkins are perfect for this recipe. The sweet courgette (or pumpkin) cupcakes are light as air, and the lovely little spiced cakes remain fresh for days. They are also dairy-free, making them suitable for lactose-intolerant guests. Find recipes, free printables, and seasonal inspiration at danishthings.com
Rose-infused alcohol – how to make vodka and gin with roses
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How to make your own rose-infused alcohol in days – make gin or vodka with a subtle flavour of roses. Add a personal touch to your cocktails and long drinks using homemade rose gin and rose vodka. Find
Easy rose syrup – a rosehip rose petal simple syrup
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Rose syrup – make an easy and quick syrup made from the fragrant roses of the rosehip. Make a delicious rose soft drink, a rose soda, drink it in tea, make yourself a rose slushie, use the rose syrup in mocktails and cocktails, or in cakes, sorbets, and desserts.
How to make a Danish Christmas heart with a Christmas heart in the middle
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A Christmas heart with a Christmas heart I have made a template for a woven/pleated/braided Christmas heart with a Christmas heart in the middle. It’s not a beginner’s heart because the little heart can be tricky. If you want to start with something a little easier first, you will find the easy 3 tabs […]
Specier – a classic Danish butter cookie
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Specier – a classic Danish butter cookie I don’t know the English word for the Danish cookie SPECIE – plural specier, so I call it specie and specier here. Specier are delicious crispy cookies. Classic Danish butter cookies. A traditional cookie the Danes serve with coffee (or tea) all year long. But especially for […]
Make yourself a Christmas tree – free templates
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Find den danske udgave her. Make yourself a Christmas tree – free templates Now it’s time for Christmas crafts! If you’re planning to make Christmas crafts at home or work, I’ve made templates and gathered instructions for you. You’ll find three free Christmas tree templates in varying difficulty levels here. And you can choose […]
The best Danish pancakes
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Pancake day – Pancake Tuesday – holiday – or an ordinary Sunday.
There is always a reason to make pancakes.
Here’s the recipe for the best Danish pancakes – the classic kind you roll.
They are super thin, taste good on their own
– and with sugar and lemon juice, jam, ice cream, berries…
Make your own super easy Easter chickens
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Super easy paper chickens Here you get my recipe for very easy Easter chickens. They are so easy that you can make them with kids – a nice kid-grown up craft project for Easter. The small child can cut out coloured circles and wings, a big child can take part in everything – and […]
Risalamande – how to make the classic Danish Christmas dessert
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Risalamande, rice a la mande, rice à l’amande or riz à l’amande The most famous classic Danish Christmas dessert with the French-sounding name. (Which can be spelt in several different ways.) Risalamande is a delicious rice and almond pudding – with a cherry sauce. We serve it for Christmas – you can enjoy it […]
How to make Danish rice porridge easily in the microwave
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Rice porridge – the Danish way Eating rice porridge for Christmas is an old Danish tradition. In the old Danish Christmas stories, they write about the gnomes that live in the countryside at farm attics. They helped the farmer all year and all they wanted was porridge at Christmas time. If they didn’t get […]
