Small gestures that create big smiles !

Sometimes, days can just fly by without anything special happening and this is why it is so important to make sure you SMILE each and every day to make it meaningful day ! Or you make others smile :) If you give smiles, you will get smiles !

Here's how I found my mirror one morning last week :P My baby had come home from work really late and experimented with my eyeliner :D Very cute to wake up to :)

And, this cake always makes people smile :) It has been present at several parties and other occasions and it's always as popular ! So here goes the recipe for those interested. It's a Swedish common cake, it's nice but in Holland it really creates a "wow-effect" lol! I like making people smile by the means of food lol as they say the way to a man's love goes through his stomach :P

Ingredients Silviacake:
2 eggs
2 dl sugar
2 dl flour
1 dl boiled water
2 teaspoons baking powder
Do: Mix eggs and sugar until it's white and fluffy. Add flour, water and baking powder, mix well ! Pour the batter into a greased smaller ovenform (~20x30 cm).
(The cake from the pic is bigger because I doubled the recipe!) Bake the cake in the oven in 200 C for 15-20 mins. In the meantime, make the glaze.

Glaze:
100 g margarine
1,5 dl sugar
1 eggyolk 
 Do: Add these ingredients in a cold saucepan, mix the sugar and the yolk a little bit. Put on very low heat and mix the glaze until all the margarine is melted. The key thing is that the glaze cannot boil, because then the eggyolk will be "fried" and your glaze ruined. Pour the glaze over the cake. Sprinkle grated coconut over the glaze. Let it cool down and cut into square pieces ! :D Good luck !


 There are many simple "recipes" for how to create smiles! Most of them cost nothing, so we can give as much as we just want! :) I hope you all had a good smile today, I know I did :)

Song of the day that's streaming through my mp3 player at the moment: 
Mr. Easy - Dynamite 



Enjoy :) Peace out!

- Stef