16 days to go in xmas countdown – meet the joulutorttu
16 days to go to the big day – and if you are wondering whether we made a mistake with the numbers the answer is hopefully no, or there will disappointed kids 16 days from now! Our Santa will actually arrive the eve of 24th with the Finnish tradition, and in January the three kings come with some surprises the Spanish way. I say that this household has some lucky kids! They even get a stocking the English and American way on the morning of 24th,…
So this household is getting busier day by day – the food cupboards are starting to fill up with all sorts of seasonal goodies from Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Finland, England..pretty much from every European country. Santa started wrapping presents also and we all bakes some seasonal delicatessen.
The treat in question is traditional Finnish pastry called Joulutorttu – a sort of mince pie which can be made from puff pastry and plum jam. They were so popular that we ran out of them before I even had a change to take a picture, but the last image should give a good idea anyway. There are few ways to cut the pastry to make it look fancier, but it does take some practice to make the look really good, so this time I just used this star-type design also…
it’s just 16 days to go…
Santa was enjoying some cupcakes and tea while (s)he started wrapping presents, this year Santa’s wrapping station hopefully won’t have to work late at night the very last day!
This is Finnish Christmas pastry – joulutorttu, which is somewhat similar to mince pies