Erika's World

Hello! I was going to post this last night but I was too tired. I barely know how I managed to bake these buns but I did. Okay, so a few weeks ago I saw this picture on instagram of these delicious looking vegan pumpkin spice cinnamon buns. Immediately I just knew that I had to make them. Last night I finally decided to fight my fatigue and bake them. I even made my own pumpkin spice pumpkin puré (because you know I make everything from scratch). It was very easy.  As you can see I made twice as many buns as the recipe says, but you should still bake them for 25-30 minutes. I skipped the glazing on my buns.  I have missed baking so much! When I was younger, before I started high school and even in high school I used to bake all of the time. Cookies, cakes and I even made my own ice cream. It was so much fun. Now I don't do that as much or I mean even at all. It's just that I don't really have the same craving for sweet stuff as I did back then.   If...

Hello! I just wanted to make a quick post. I am still at my moms' for the weekend but I am going home tomorrow. I wish that I could stay longer but it's nice to get away a little bit like this. Cuddle with the dogs and of course to hang out with my mom. We had a really nice day today. We baked cupcakes this morning - snickers cupcakes. They don't look anything like the pictures from the recipe. But who cares, as long as they taste good, right? your writer, Erika

Hi every one! Tonight I have been a totally wifey! But where is my husband though? Anyway, moving on. As  said I have been a total wifey. I have been cooking and baking. LOL. I made more of my own delicious granola and I made some bagels. I didn't have any bread at home so bagels it was. Bagels are so easy to make yourself! I love making my own bread and my own granola (which is also super easy to make and my granola recipe is one of the few recipes I know by heart). Actually doing so can bee time consuming but so worth it because the you know exactly know what it contains. And I like being healthy and knowing what I put in to my body. My body is my temple so I do my best to be my healthiest. your writer, Erika

Hello chicas and chicos and every one else! Today has basically been the same as yesterday. Me, the couch and Teen Mom OG  (which I finished watching today). Yup. I went to the grocery store though. I am starting to feel a little better though. I think it's the excessive water drinking. Gosh, I drink a lot of water other wise but now that I am sick I drink water like all of the time. It is one of the best home remedies. I promise you! Raw garlic is also a really good home remedy. You can either chew a glove of raw garlic but you do get really bad garlic breath from that. So you can do it like me instead and chop it up in to tiny pieces and just swallow those pieces with the help of a glass of water. Just like you would swallow an aspirin. Eating raw garlic while you're sick is the best home remedy and really speeds up your recovery! And water! Always water, which you should drink a lot of any way. Garlic is just one of those things that is also really easy to include in your co...

Hello boys and girls! How are you this fine evening? I am okay I guess. Just frustrated over typical me stuff, but otherwise I am super because tomorrows Thanksgiving. Or Fakegiving as I am calling it. Hahaha. You know because Thansgiving is not a Swedish holiday. So today I have been preparing a little bit for tomorrow. LOL, it's just gonna be my mom and I since she is the only one that I can force to have Fakegiving with me. I made a pumpkin pie and I bought cranberry sauce today. I'll post pictures of everything tomorrow. your writer, Erika

OMG, hi guys! How are you? I am good. Been baking all day. Well, most of the day anyway. Cinnamon buns, because it's the Cinnamon Bun Day and regular bread. LOL. Baker Babe, that's me. Hahahahaha. I told you guys that it was going to be a good weekend! Like today I have been baking all day. Fun fun (also a little bit exhausting). And tomorrow I am going to be an extra in this cute cool little film. It's not going to be shown in the theaters. It's just a film for educational purposes. I don't know how to put it really, but it's an informational educational film. (LOL that sounds weird, like I just made up my own word. Hahahaha.) That's going to be fun. It's going to be a long day, but I my call time isn't until 10:45 AM which mean I don't have to be up super early. LOL. I wouldn't be up now if I had to be up super early tomorrow morning. I was watching TV earlier and I saw that Flight on TV tomorrow. I got so excited that I screamed! I lov...

Hi boys and girls! How are you this fine evening? I am good! I just spent the last couple of hours catching up on all the shows that have started a new season. The Vampire Diaries , New Girl  and ANTM. Okay, ANTM premiered back in August but I haven't gotten around to watch it. But now I have - seen the first episode. LOL. Schhhh! Don't spoil! LOL. I am so glad that the TV season is starting again! Finally something good to watch on TV. I mean instead of reruns of a show that you totally love but still, (you're craving some TVD, Grey's, New Girls and OUAT) you have seen it a million times. This is gonna be a good weekend because I am going to continue to watch more of my favorite shows tomorrow and bake. ALOT. Hahahaha. That seems to be all I am doing. Baking, but who cares, right. 'Cause honest the truth is that I own it. I am freaking amazing baker. (I am good cook as well!) Give any recipe any time of the day and I'll make it happen! BOOM! (Okay the last bi...

So I guess I am a boring old housewife because instead of going to watch Sommarkrysset live at Gröna Lund I stayed at home and watched it on TV and baked. LOL. Yup, that it pretty much a Saturday night in my life. Welcome to the real life of Erika Eklund! Hahahaha. That's a show you don't want to watch, because I pretty much watch TV and movies all day, and stay on my computer or phone (of course), so you wouldn't get much from me. Sorry! I mean in case you were hoping for me to signs deal with E!, MTV or idk. LOL. Reality TV is really not my thing. I want to be am actress, so I will stay out of that thing, unless it will help my career. If you would have had asked me a few years ago I probably would have said yes to reality TV, but no I don't want that. My love for TV and movies goes way back. I feel like that is all I can ever imagine for my future. Tragic, if I won't be able to work with it in some way. It's kind of like social suicide, no let me rephrase t...

Hello. Day Three. How are you guys? It's the last day of the three day vacation. LOL. But I don't start until 2:30 PM tomorrow so at least I get to sleep in and I get off at 8 PM. So, um yeah it's not that long. But lets not talk about work, 'cause hat boring. So what have I accomplished today? Okay so I have mostly been home all day so it has not been a progressive day where I have done a bunch of things like written a novel, won an Oscar and a Nobel Peace price. Oh, don't forget about that Pulitzer. LOL. No. My day was more like I went to the grocery store. I forgot to buy something so my mom went back and bought it. the I remembered that I wanted to make walnut bread so I had to go back buy walnuts and walnut oil. I baked the bread. Oh, I cleaned the bench at the end of my bed (there was a bunch of junk on it that I have been meaning to sort out for months now). Oh yeah I watched a movie. I mean my day wasn't more exciting than that. It's not like I was...

Hi guys! Monday, another week. Hahaha. It was a really mellow day at work today. Not much happened and not many guests. I mea, yeah there was guests at like all the time but there wasn't like a lot of guests at the time. I had time to run out with orders for guest who had made like a special order or something that wasn't ready when they ordered it. More days like this please! Pleeeeease. LOL. Tomorrow I'll work between 1 PM and 9 PM. 9 PM ain't that bad. Last Thursday I worked until 9 PM and at like that time there is not so many people so it is quite easy and not a lot to do. I like that. I mean I still get paid as much. LOL, last Thursday there was this girl who who told me that she had worked extra at twice at this other McDonalds in Stockholm and that it was so mellow there. It was like basically getting paid to so nothing. She and this other girl at this other McDonalds turned two trash cans upside-down and sat on time. LOL. Damn why can't I work there. I mean...

So basically I haven't done much today. I mean like I haven't left the apartment, except for opening the door to reach the mail box so that I could get the mail but like that doesn't count. Hahaha. I did bake some more bread tough and I did do the dishes. So, um, yeah. At least that's something. Tomorrow I am not going to do much either, except for studying. You see I am starting this new job on Wednesday and they gave me a introduction book that I have to read but like it's mostly obvious things. I mean to always be nice to the customer and always have a smile on your face etc etc. But like the book is (I think it was) 137 pages but there is not a lot on every page so I will probably finish it in like half an hour or so. You also had to write down things in the book. Like OMG, I thought that I was done with school. Homework, I meant homework. Hahahaha. Hmmm. Don't know what else to write here so I prompt you all to check out my tumblr,  http://eriikaworld.tum...

I guess you deserve a post. I am going to try do quick 'cause I want to practice my monologue. I know it by heart but I want to make them sound like they are my own. I like not just some text that I rehearsed. Hmm. I hope that I do well. I hope I don't jinx it. But how would I jinx it? I don't know I am weird like that. Like I would describe myself as a weird awkward person. So please don't be afraid. Hahaha. An animal at the zoo (what am I talking about? OMG I really am weird). But I guess that's more how I feel about myself. I don't feel bad about it 'cause it's who I am and why should I feel bad about myself? I mean about me being me. There is this Directioner thing this weekend. Just a bunch of Directioner getting together. I am going. I looking forward to meeting everyone. I thinking about baking cupcakes or maybe a sponge cake (hmmm, is that the correct/ word term?). I want make the cake look like a rainbow. That'd be fun. your writer, Eri...

YOLO! I just looked at the watch and "Woah". I mean time passes by so fast sometimes! What are y'all doing? I have just been home all day. I mean I haven't done anything special. Um, yeah I mean I baked cupcakes. Vanilla cupcakes with raspberries and white chocolate. I instagramed pictures of the cupcakes. Before the oven and after the oven. LOL. Delicious. Something I just made up myself. Not the actual cupcake batter but the thing with the raspberries and white chocolate. I like to bake. I like to bake more than I like to eat it sometimes. I just don't like too much sweet stuff. Cooking and eating is more my thing 'cause I rather eat real food. Here are pictures of my cupcakes. Before the oven... After the oven... There is this contest to meet 1D when they com to Stockholm next week. For me to qualify into the finale I need as many people as possible to like my plasylist on spotify. Pretty please like it  http://open.spotify.com/user/1255703...

Yo, yo, yo! Have are you all feeling? Hahaha. Good, I hope. I'm good anyway. Today I met my good friend Linda. We went shopping. We went to The English Shop at Söderhallarna. OMG! Well, I wanted to get some chocolate flavored angel's delight (delicious!) but then, omg, they have this amazing selection of everything you need for baking. I mean cute cupcake cases and decorating stuff. DAMN! Love! It was love at first sight. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures (I took a picture of the cupcake cases). Hmmm, should have. We walked by a CUBUS store and as the big Belieber I am I just had to go and check out the official Justin Bieber collection. That I managed to think of to take pictures at. Hahaha. Once a Belieber, always a Belieber. Mwah! I took pictures of my makeup this morning. I thought it was cute and fresh so I wanted to share it with you. I am wearing a ton of mascara as you can see! Want to know a fun fact? Stop reading if you don't because I am...

Okay so I baking and baking a whole lot of stuff. Bread, nougat among other things. It's a special christmas bread and the nougat I need for the rocky road. I hope it all will turn out okay. I am not the type of person to do things last minute but here I am the day before. College has fucked me up. LOL. But seriously I had two paper two write and three play reviews to write but I got started on everything like not more than two months before they were due. I don't why. Hmm, it was also that I also had homework to I never dug into it until I really had to since I had other homework to do. Okay. I think that stupid log in problem had been solved. I think it was the email address. Hmm, it's weird because I tried to log in with the email address that I have been using for this account since forever, but no. I think it might be that I changed, I mean added an email address to the account. I don't know. Hahahaha (I felt like laughing with words but my face is stone dead col...

It' Friday! Yeah! Today have (except from school, one class from 8 am to 9:25 am), I went shopping (I bought a Cody Simpson shirt) and went grocery shopping because I needed something for dinner (I didn't want turkey franks or eggs, whatever I had at home) and I wanted to make a chocolate cake for tonight (you are welcome to come over for some, you have my number so text me :p). Now I am just waiting for my chicken drumsticks (which is what I bought for dinner) to be done. on the side I have a salad and the awesome ketchup and whipped cream sauce. Yum! Later I will have chocolate cake with whipped cream. OMG, it has been so long since I last baked. It was nice. Welcome back old friend! your writer, Erika

Hi guys tomorrow is Friday and I only have one class. Yes. My plans for the weekend are nothing more than what I usually do. Shopping, going to the movies and mail a package to Sweden. I want to see Flight  and Wreck It Ralph . But I want to see Flight  more than the other movie so I will go and see Flight  this weekend and  Wreck It Ralph on Tuesday, since I have no classes then and since it's cheaper on Tuesdays. It only cost like 5 dollar and 25 cents (or something like that). What's your plans for the weekend? Both of those movies premieres next year in Sweden. Flight  premieres on January 25th and  Wreck It Ralph or ( Röjar Ralf as it's called in swedish) premieres on February 8th. People are crazy here! I mean for halloween. Damn. Halloween was yesterday, I know. I saw someone dressed up as (in full costume) as a hot dog on the buss when I was on my way to school. I saw banana too. Hmm. People would never do that in Sweden. I mean dress up like t...

OMG, I am exhausted! I just want to lay down on bed or the couch (doesn't really matter) and just lay there. I am just.... I don't but yeah, exhausted. I deserve a medal for my accomplishments today! I do do. Today I have helped my mom grocery shopping, I have cleaned my room, I went for a jog earlier and a few minutes ago I baked scones. Okay, okay confession time here - jogging and cleaning my room was the two most exhausting things. Oh, almost forgot, I went to the dentist and booked an appointment for a examination. Not that I believe that anythings wrong with my teeth. Nothing hurts or whatever. I just want to be sure so that i don't get stuck with a huge dental bill in the US. I want to use the free dental care as long as I can, so when I come back home in December I will try to get an appointment. Now, I am just going to enjoy the evening by watching TV. Yeah, I deserve some laziness in front of the telly. I need to rest fo...

I turn 19 tomorrow. Yeah, it's my birthday! LOL. I started prepareing for tomorrow yesterday. I mean that I started baking yesterday for tomorrow because my family is coming over and I don't want to be too stressed today and I don't want to leave everything for the last minute. Meaning doing everything tomorrow. Not a good idea. I did that last year, baked everything that same day as my birthday dinner. Very smart, not. Then it was more stressing because my mom wasn't home so I had to do it all by myself (cooking, cleaning etc.) and I had a birthday dinner which means that had to make dinner and dessert for a lot of people. This year I am not haveing a dinner. I am just going to serve a birthday cake, a strawberry cheesecake, cinnamon and vanilla buns and chocholate chip/ marshmellow cookies. Plus coffee and lemonade but nothing more. LOL. Maybe ice-cream because some of the kids might want ice-cream instead of what I am serving.     your writer, Erika

Yesterday my mom and I made this gingerbread house from the dough that I made a few weeks ago. It is really easy to make your own gingerbread dough. I have made my own dough for the last few years. I love the taste of it when it is warm. Yum! LOL. Oh, last weekend my mom and I wnet shopping in Sollentuna Centurm. I got some thing that I needed and we sat down for coffe (well, my mom had coffe and I had a cup of chai-latte). Yum, I just LOVE chai-latte. We went to Wayne's Coffe (which I love), but I think I prefer Espresso House's chai-latte. It just tastes more. You know what I mean? After that when we came home, no the day after - last Sunday - we made lussebullar. Yum, yum, yum! You have to have lussebullar for Lucia. Not just for Lucia for Christmas. It's a must! It is! Hehehe. Look what I made today. To be honest I started on it two days ago and finished it today since I was home from school yesterday. I am quit pleased with it. Oh, if you wonder what it sa...