Homemade - Granola

Happy first of 12 days of blogmas!!! I am going to be posting for the next 12 days up to Christmas again, like last year! It's still my most favorite time of the year and I have so so many ideas! 

I'm so exited to finally be crashing them christmas markets and eating all the foods again. And what better thing to start with than cinnamon home made granola. Who doesn't love porridge - at any tome really, so now you can top it off with your own crunch. 

I soo hope there's gonna be snow this year so I can take some pretty pretty pictures. 

So let's get started.

What you need: (What I used cuz u can throw anything you want in there)

two cups of oats

pecan nuts

almonds

raisins

one cup of sunflower seeds

one tablespoon of butter

cranberries (dried)

two teaspoons of cinnamon

honey

Step 1

Firstly pop your oven to 180c. Then take your nuts and chop them into pieces. You can also put them in the blender but I like mine to be quite chunky so I just used a knife.

Step 2

Take your oats, raisins, seeds and cranberries and put them in a bowl. Then mix until everything is combined.

Step 3

Add the cinnamon and drizzle some honey on top. MIx everything together so you have a nice gooey mixture.

Step 4

Take the butter and spread it on your baking tray so the granola won't stuck to it when you take it out.

Step 5

Spread the mixture on the baking tray and put it in the oven for 10-15, depends on how goldy brown you like it.

Step 6

Take it out and enjoy with yogurt, fruit, porridge, milk......

k80

Day 12

CHRISTMAS

The weekend before Christmas I finished up wrapping all my presents! 
I turned up my Christmas music, sat at my desk, and laid out all my decorations, presents and wrapping paper and put on some candles.
I pretty much built up a Christmas workshop.

I bought some candy canes to put them under the bows and shopped of some fir branches from my garden. This year I chose pretty plain wrapping paper because I wanted to go all out on the decorations. 
At NANU NANA I picked up different sizes and variations of bows and ribbons, which makes all the difference and is probably the easiest way to decorate. 
I also bought some chalk board stickers, which are amazing. They came with some chalk and you can reuse them or you can erase and write again and don't ruin the wrapping paper.
I figured that a hot glue gun comes very very handy when decoration, cause then you can literally stick everything that comes to your mind on there!

xx Merry Christmas
See ya'll next year <3
k80

Day 11 Special

EASY COOKIES

So I already have all my blog posts done for blogmas and it's Tuesday evening at the moment. But I made some amazing cookies this afternoon and wanted to share the recipe with you, and it also matches the other Day 11 post so here you go!!

What you need:

200g butter (at room temperature)
300g caster sugar
1 large egg
325g self raising flour
a dash of milk
200g of any chocolate you like (you can choose however much and what you like)


Let's go:

-Preheat you oven to 200C (390F)
-whisk butter and sugar together until it's creamy
-crack in the egg and mix it through
-add the flour a bit at a time
-break up the chocolate (I chose Milka luflee) and add it to the mixture
-grab the dough from underneath and spread the chunks 
-shape the mixture into 10 balls (amount depends on how big you want your cookies)
-put on baking tray covered in baking paper
-bake for 10-12 minutes (mine took about 9!)
-let them cool

(I took half the ingredients and made 4!)

xxk80

Day 11

The day before Christmas

Now, I feel like the last weekend before Christmas eve is the most stressful. You gotta check that you really didn't forget to buy a present for your mother's sister's best friend, that you have enough wrapping paper, for everything you bought and that you don't run out of bows, ribbons, tape, stickers, fir branches.....
Today is December 23rd, and the countdown to 2016 starts, and all the stress slowly fades out, and you get really exited and start planning and thinking about your new years resolutions. Which might actually be more stressful than the week before Christmas!!
But now you just gotta chill and be exited for the best day of the year (?) 

Cookies in a jar I: Grab some yogurt glasses or any other (they just have to be big enough) decorate the glass, bake some cookies, put them in there, tie a bow around it! TADAA!

Cookies in a jar II: Buy a glass jar or just get a yogurt glass again. (They have to be closeable!) 

Layer:   100g flour
         1 tbs baking powder
         100g soft brown sugar
         30g cocoa powder
         50g dark chocolate chips
         50g white chocolate chips

Add:     1 egg
         80g butter

Bake:    at 170 C for 7-9 minutes

Cookies in a jar III: Special

xxk80

Day 10

Oh Christmas tree!

This weekend I went shopping for a Christmas tree!! Ever since we were younger me and my family would always meet up with friends of my parents and their daughter. I guess it became kind of a tradition, so we drove a little out of town until there were no houses near us. 
So on the last Advent Sunday we put on our big boots, and wrapped up in only one layer because it was pretty damn warm!!

They decorated a place in the woods where you could drink mulled wine next to a little fire and could chop down your tree. 
It was quite funny seeing all those people with their saws running around looking for the perfect Christmas tree.
If you have the time and know a place like that I would really really recommend you to go there because it's so much nicer and you'll definitely go home in a much more festive mood.
After we picked our tree we put it in our car, and because our dogs came with us, we went on a nice long walk through the woods.

xx k80

And tell me in the comments what kind of style and topics you'd like to see in 2016!!! 

Day 8

MY YEAR IN MUSIC

In October 2014 I decided to go premium on Spotify and it was the best idea ever. I know not everyone wants to pay 10 bucks every month for music but otherwise every song would be like one euro or something.

Anyways, I absolutely love it comes in very handy cause you have almost every song on there and can create playlists blah blah. I'm sure you know how to listen to music. 

Spotify does this thing, at the end of every year, where you can find out who your top artist is or how much you were listing to music that year. 

It's called "YEAR IN MUSIC"

So today I'm going to share with you what I've been listening to this year!

And let me know if there are any artists I'm totally missing out on!!

 I was listening to music for 50,000 minutes - 834 hours or 35 days!!!

That's 241% more than last year.

I listened to 2,077 different songs this year, which is 964 songs more than last year.

My Top 5 albums 

     The 1975 (Deluxe Edition) 

      Sadnecessary  Milky Chance

      Future Hearts All Time Low 

     LIVESOS 5 Seconds of Summer

      Blurryface twenty one pilots 

 Top 5 Songs

Paint Me Black  Ben Hazlewood

Room 93  Halsey 
The Japanese House 

Top 5 Artists

HALSEY

The 1975

All Time Low

5 Seconds of Summer

twenty one pilots

xx k80

Day 5

Fireworks & Christmas market

I saw a sign that said that there was going to be a Christmas market with fireworks that day. Well and what could be better than a Christmas market -right- a Christmas market with fireworks! So that evening I went there and it was really sweet. It took place at the outdoor pool only a couple of minutes away. Everything was decorated and most stalls sold self-made stuff like teddy bears or jewelry. Outside was a sale for Christmas trees, which made everything smell even more festive. Mulled wine, crepes, Christmas trees... 
I bought a little wooden candle holder with a sheep and a tree. You can color it yourself and have to "build it". I think it's really cute!

xx k80