chocolate

Last Day at California Baby

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Today was my last day at California Baby, I learned a lot but grew out of it quick and I am super excited to move on to bigger and better adventures! I got Sprinkles Cupcakes from my co-workers on my last day.

More Cake

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There’s a lot of birthdays this week so we decided to run into Whole Foods and grab some treats.

We’re going up to Mammoth this weekend so I had to wax my skis!

San Francisco

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Headed up to San Francisco for the weekend to visit friends.
Driving in to the city over the Bay Bridge;

A couple of our friends live in Castro, which they say is “the gayest part of the gayest city”.

When you walk around the neighborhood you can come across windows with dolls in them, cute you may think at a first glance…

Before you realize they have their pants down. This is apparently totally normal.

We walked from Castro to the Mission district to grab brunch.
San Francisco have these cute call boxes on the street corners in case of a fire, I love them!

Chocolate Pudding for brunch, what else?

We kept on walking around the Mission after brunch and checked out a bunch of cute stores and sights. This building used to be the Levis Strauss factory, before I assume, they moved it to China or Taiwan…

Santa Con (people dress up as Santas and go bar hopping) was in San Francisco this weekend, so we saw a bunch of Santas on the streets. I wish I knew about it and I would have bought my Santa hat.

After a couple of hours of more walking, it was time for an afternoon beer break.

“What? No, we’re just hanging out on the street corner.”

My friends thought it was time for some coffee and so I had my very first freshly roasted and brewed cup of coffee.

High on caffein from my first ever cup of coffee, I was not ready to go home and stopped at about one million places to take photos. I love San Francisco though, it is very photo friendly!

More Santas on their way home from the pub.

Christmas Candy

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We had no issues with the power today so I could continue my baking! Started with finishing off the gingerbread cookies.

I continued with making Knäck, which is a hard toffee candy with lots of sugar.

I always fail when I make knäck, it’s either always to soft or to stiff. This time it’s to stiff. Still edible though. 

It’s a lot of improvising when I’m baking these days, there’s a bunch of ingredients I have to substitute and some things I cant find. I made Ischoklad (Ice Chocolate) with some coconut oil that smelled a lot more coconut than the coconut fat I’m used to, and peppermint schnapps instead of peppermint oil. Still waiting for these to cool down…

Saturday

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We had no real plans for the day but headed over to Fandy’s for brunch. My second attempt to drink a bloody mary – still not a big fan.

This may be one of the best chocolate bar in the world.

Winnie and Leo had a couple of pieces in a photo exhibition so we went to check it out in the evening.

Smultronstället

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We went for ice cream at Smultronstället in Söderköping, their ice creams are amazing!

After Eight chocolate mints, pear halves, ice cream and chocolate sauce! Who wants one?

Smultronstället is right by Göta Canal. The canal was built in the early 19th century and it connects the Baltic sea in the east of Sweden with Skagerrak in the west. It’s also called “the divorce ditch” as couples likes to rent boats during the summer and travel on the canal, it got a bunch of locks along the way, which always opens up for arguments…

My sister in law came up with filled bag of fresh wild chanterelles later in the afternoon, so we spent the late evening cleaning and eating them!

Plopp

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I love when people go to Sweden and bring me back my favorite chocolate!