The last time we were in the USA and Michigan was two years ago, but when I got here yesterday, it still feels like we haven't been away in the meantime at all.
The first enthusiasts already have their skeletons sitting in the front yard, but at the moment there are only a few of them. At the same time, all the pop-up Halloween shops are open, where you can get everything from costumes to decorations and life-size skeletons and straw men. All regular stores also have a considerable selection of Halloween-themed items. Probably, however, in the next couple of weeks, Santa hats will be placed on the pumpkins, and Halloween and Christmas will start to share the shelf space.
I recently saw an American woman on Instagram who "invented" a perfectly affordable, no-bake cake. She explained that the inspiration came from the honey cake made by his Polish grandmother and somewhere else, which I can't recall at the moment. And the cake she invented was ... drum roll ... a cookie cake. Yep, the same thing that Estonian children grow up doing and that the majority of 7-year-olds can put together on their own. In any case, it seemed to me that this cake is still not very well known in the US if 30-year-old ladies consider making it an achievement worthy of Gordon Ramsey's creations. And so I packed two packages of Kalev cookies from home. For Saturday dessert, I made a cookie cake with whipped cream and cherry filling. I chose canned cherries from the store, where it was written in large print that no sugar was added. I imagined a pleasantly tart cherry filling... I opened the jar, tasted it and couldn't even identify the cherry at first, because the amount of the artificial sugar substitute was clearly overpowering any cherry. In any case, the cake turned out quite well.
The Sunday morning biscuits didn't rise as much as they should have, but the raspberry pie for finner made up for it.
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