Exchange in Finland: Laskiaispulla Baking Evening

Finally a post after a week.. Nothing special happening recently, that's why.. My room mate is in London to see his family and his girlfriend for the week, leaving me all alone in the apartment. I really should master the dish I'm gonna prepare for him before he comes back.

The Survival Finnish Exam held yesterday was alright. Everybody should be able to pass fairly easily. The Beginner's Finnish course will begin on 9th March, meaning there is about 2 weeks of break.

The Laskiaispulla Baking Evening which we signed up for was conducted this evening. The cost was EUR 3 each, which wasn't that expensive. It was conducted in a building about 10 min walk away from our apartments.

Introduction to the session

We then divided ourselves into groups of about 5 or 6. I think there were a total of 16 groups.

My group mates, Olga, Beata, Frosyini, Xiao Hui

Recipe Pg 1

Recipe Pg 2

They didn't really teach us.. They provided us with the ingredients and we just had to follow the instructions on the recipe.. But the instructions were simple enough.

Just dump everything together

Let the yeast do its job

Group picture

Korvapuusti

Should have taken more pictures for the process of making the korvapuusti. But ours ended up very small. They are supposed to be about the size of a fist I think. But smaller means they cook faster, and we get more of the crispy skin. And you won't get sick of them easily. And they're so easy to eat. Bite sized. Very happy with the way they turned out. :)

Can put some jam. Plain's good too.

Pulla!

Nice right? The white bits are coarse sugar.. And they are almost of the same sizes, courtesy of me. Haha.. Then, we cut each pulla into 2, and add generous helpings of jam and whipped cream.