Slow Living | Finding your purpose - life is in the little things | Cottagecore Baking | Carrot Cake
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Hello friends. These few past days were sunny and very cold, with temperatures below 0C. I love winter days like that, especially since most of this winter was cold, grey and soggy. Frosty air and pink sunrises are a refreshing change.
I've been lost in thoughts lately, thinking about my life and choices I made that led me to this slow living lifestyle. I wanted to share a few things and ideas I gathered through years - ideas which led me to the choices I made today.
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Carrot Cake recipe (non traditional)
I have a love-hate relationship with carrot cake. To be honest, I absolutely dislike cream cheese frosting, and been searching for a recipe which doesn't use cream cheese. I haven't found one, so had to make my own. This is how this carrot cake came about. :)
Carrot cake sponge:
250g plain flour
2tsp baking soda + 0.5 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1.5 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp nutmeg
100ml oil (any oil would do, but I used olive)
3 tbsp sour cream (or high fat % yoghurt)
4 eggs
150g brown sugar (you can increase the amount if you wish, but I don't like overly sweet cakes)
6 medium carrots
1 tangerine (zest and juice - you can use a small orange, but tangerine is milder)
100g lightly toasted walnuts
100g cranberries (I'm not a fan of raisins, so used cranberries instead)
Sift through your flour, baking soda, baking powder and spices. Add salt and mix through.
In a separate bowl whisk eggs with sugar, then add oil and sour cream and whisk again. Sour cream really adds a ton of moisture to the sponge without making it oily, so please don't skip this step. If you really can't find sour cream, then double the amount of oil or use high fat % yoghurt.
Pour wet ingredients to the dry and mix well. Then add grated carrots, chopped walnuts, cranberries, tangerine zest and juice.
Preheat the oven to 180C/ 355F. Pour half of the batter into a lined and greased cake tin. Mine is about 7inch/19cm in diameter, but you can also use 6 inch pan for a taller cake or 8 inch pan for a flatter cake. Bake for 25 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean. Set aside to cool completely. Repeat the same process with the other half of your batter.
Cream frosting:
225g sour cream (I used 20% fat)
100g powdered sugar
100ml double cream
Juice of 1/4 lemon
Whisk together all the ingredients until it forms soft peaks. Set aside to chill in the fridge until your sponge is cool enough to assemble.
This frosting doesn't taste much like sour cream at all - it's a little bit tangy and fruity thanks to lemon, and has a very mild and silky texture due to double cream. Don't be afraid to try it - it's somewhat similar to cream cheese frosting, but doesn't have that same heavy texture.
Cake assembly:
I like to cut my cake sponge into 2 to make thinner layers. I find that they absorb moisture from the cream much better that way. You don't need to cut it and can make a 2 layered cake instead. If you want to cut the sponge in half, you can insert toothpicks around the side where you intend to cut it to help you create an even layer.
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Music: Epidemic Sound
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"My favourite people are not nouns, they are verbs" - thank you for so many profound little turns of phrase in this lovely video!
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This is my favourite channel to watch on UA-cam. I love your filming of nature. Its so relaxing. The cake looked delicious 😋. Thanks for another great video xx 💚🌳🍰😊
Thank you so much! ❤️
Peace is a beautiful word and an even better experience , thank you for bringing some peace into my life today.
You are the wisest woman in the world. Thank you for sharing your awesome insights. Every one of them helps.
Thanks for sharing this and that Carrot cake looked good!
Thank you for sharing all these precious moments ..God bless you❤️
I'm so silly, but I miss more videos which cheer me up in this cloudy January, so watching the videos exactly one year ago haha i really really love your videos, thank you so much, Happy New Year!
Super beautiful sky 😊
You are an inspiration. Thank you.
Wonderful photography and words 🌹. Thanks 😍.
Today, for me, my five things to admire: the song bird's, to be alive, the food, the sun and your video ☺️👏👏👏
Thank you so much ❤️ These are all wonderful moments 😊
So peaceful
Such a calming video. I really needed this after my stressful day. Such lovely images like these make me happy. I hope your carrot cake turned out the way you like. It's very beautiful. Everything in this video is beautiful. Thank you!
Thank you so much! 🥰
@@IamDaria As I watch again I just have to say that your filming of the grass, the morning sky with the sun barely visible, and the bird in flight is just wonderful.
A lovely video as always, Daria, and thank you for sharing your carrot cake recipe.
your video is relaxing as always! I've been getting over a cold lately, so finding moments of calm like reading a book and baking has been nice💙
I hope you're feeling better now!
What are the little things that made you smile today? 💕
Remember that I will get better each day ( the year just start and I have a emergency surgery, it's been very difficult this days, but I know that I will get pass all of this) your videos bring me so much joy🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
I made orange marmalade yesterday 🙂 beautiful vlog. Cake looks tasty and like your cups.
Turning beautiful garden waste which is now very nearly compost in my bays, the sound, the smell, the satisfaction of putting goodness back into the soil 🌱 in the calm winter sunshine of north Scotland.
I woke up earlier this morning and go for a morning walk with my friend to a park near my place
Maybe this will be the year I will start slow living🖤 love your video it's so calming and relaxing, love the landscape
Thank you so much! 🥰 Perhaps you’ll like it too!
Amazing video
Thank you for this lovely video! I really enjoyed your way of storytelling. It almost felt like diving into a novel :)
Very relaxing. I'm impressed with your education and aspirations.🤍
Thank you so much! 🥰
Your video made me smile and made my day🥺🤎beautiful beautiful!!!✨
so nice👌🏻
Its my first time on your channel, I was excited to find you. I so love these Slow Living Vlog's and welcome each new one, I can't get enough of them, it seems... 😁
(I'm a single retiree from a Military background, 64yrs of age, young at heart, an artist and love life in all it's beauty. I think we're living in exciting times with all these wonderful technology at hand and I so wish I was still in the prime of my life... the beauty of life came as a second breath to me, at a late stage in my life (after I'd retired), therefore I live life to it's fullest). (I hope my English is not to bad, where I'm from we got 11 official languages - I'm from South Africa and Afrikaans is my home language).
Allow me to comment (in general) on your Vlog please, if I may? I just want to through these thoughts out there!!!
Why is it that everyone (I'm referring to grown-up women, as yourself) copying/mimicking another's ideas in the making of their video's for example; Running through the woods, in open spaces, through tall grass or on uneven foot paths... Some swirling around like a young girl of 5? Hugging trees? Some seems to be some kind of philosopher, sometimes referring to a great Guru, reading paragraphs from a book which must inspire you as the viewer ... And then it ends with baking... Im catching myself, counting the eggs out loud!!😂
If you see one, you have seen them all, it seems ... there is no longer something original, something authentic... nothing outstanding about the photographer, or something els/outstanding in the backdrop, another type of storyline, in these Slow Living Vlog's on UA-cam... Seems all watches one spesific person because she is successful and then they copy her, hope to get the same success story/result...
Your filming, editing & the end product is excellent, I applaud you... But, please give us more YOU, something original!!
I'm sorry if you and your subscribers find me probably to critical - I don't want to be rude - I want to be truthful. I was disappointed to see the same scenes in your video as in other's...
Thank you for your lovely insight, and please, don't apologise. English is my 3rd language too, and your comment did make me think. :) I do wonder though - what is unique to you? Truly unique, something that hasn't been said or done before, something completely original? Until I find something like that for myself, I'll continue doing what brings me joy, after all I do it for myself. There's nothing original indeed - just something I see, love and use as a sort of therapy. I only have my own life, and that's all I can share at this moment, even if it's utterly non-unique.
Gracias por esta reflexión me siento identificada un saludo cordial desde Santo Domingo Rep Dominicana
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Coment vous faite pour filmer en dirait un film c'est trop beau agréable et reposant dommage je ne comprend pas votre langue lorseque vous parlez sur la vidéo
I really much enjoyed this video! Made me so relaxed that I've watched it two times haha (think I have never done that before) Can you maybe share the music you used? I would love to be able to listen to it
Especially the last music piece
Thank you so much! 🥰
Music titles in order:
Franz Gordon - Technicolor Dreamscape
Franz Gordon - Here
Gavin Luke - In This Moment
Franz Gordon - Heartspur
@@IamDaria thank you!!
This is an interesting judgment about people-"verbs"... I worked as a hairdresser for 15 years until I got an allergy, because of which my diploma and profession are not available to me. I have suffered for 3 years in search of work in other fields, and I have been destroying myself, considering myself a loser, until now... I allowed myself to just live and enjoy every day, saturating her with her favorite things... We'll see where it all leads, but I'm definitely happier.
Thank you for sharing your experience! Sometimes we go too hard on ourselves when things are not working out how we initially planned. But whatever happens to you doesn't define who you are. It's just another passage in life. And it will inevitably lead somewhere beautiful 🥰
Hi lass.
Hi! 😊
5 Layers of clothing is nothing less I'd expect with such weather! Though it was very well worth getting up early and going out into the coldness, the shots are absolutely stunning! Crazy to see that the gate was almost fully submerged!
As you said, nothing wrong with having a clearly defined purpose in life, but as usual, it's very important to stay present and see and feel life in all it's aspects.
Lovely video as always :) Keep it up! 👍
Haha there was even a 6th layer which I took off! 😁 The flooding is crazy this year. I’m lucky to have never seen anything like it.
And thank you so much! 🥰
So relaxing and well done !
I love your voice and accent 💖💖
Thank you! 🥰
Such an incredible video. Your content is so gorgeous and thoughtful in every way. I aspire to one day have a fraction of this skill and eye for beauty! 😭😭 Thanks for sharing! I love January as a time to reflect and conserve energy, recovering from all the holidays and thinking about what the year to come holds. Thanks for making this month a bit sweeter!
Aah thank you for such kind words! 🥰 I've been consumed in dark feelings this January, but I absolutely love how you look at it - a time to reflect, conserve energy and recover. I'll continue thinking about it that way too!
@@IamDaria you're so welcome! I'm sorry to hear this month has held dark feelings for you, but I'm glad if I can be encouraging at all. Your videos definitely encourage me.
Very nice, thanks for all you share in goodness.
He Goes Before Us -- I AM -- Always Been.
Tsion/Yashrael IS a purpose, a practice, and a place;
Intentional behavior accordingly unTO RighteousNess, Justice, and SetApart:
...sWORD Spirit and Truth withIN one. (echad)
Yahu'Sha Messiah answered, "Thou sayest that I Am a king:
...To (this) end was I born, and for (this) cause came I inTO the world, that I should bear witness unTO the truth. Every (one) that IS of the truth heareth My voice." (Abide, TOdo)
Kingdom CitizenShip and MindSet.
Followers must (die) of self, repent daily, and know the 'good shepherd'. (Kingdom MindSet)
Praise and thanks TO the Most High Ab Yahu'Ah, and all esteem TO His anointed Hebrew Son Yahu'Sha Messiah, our King, High Priest, and Intercessor unTO Life, Love, Logic, and Loyalty everlasting, for believers that "Hear Ye Him!"
sWORD Spirit and Truth -- Morning by Morning!
Your words are so wise...and this beautiful sight with the barge on the river...wow !
The little things that made me smile today: the sun finally showing after 2 weeks of rain, a walk in nature and my daughter losing her first tooth 🤗
Looking forward to your next video 🙏
Aah such wonderful things. 🥰
Beautiful videography and accompanying narration!!! A sheer delight to watch!!! :>)
These frosty views are so stunning!
Oh they were wonderful!
(5:45) There is something I learned in Literature and adapted for my profession: "who knows only Psychology, doesn't even know Psychology". 🌹Thanks for the video!
That's a wonderful thought! 😌
I like your channel 🥰🥰👏🏻👏🏻😍😍💚💚🌹🌹
Such a beautiful and calming sound and wonderful shots
Wow
Amazing 👏 ❤
I was watching this without headphones and my sister was like “are you watching online therapy??” 😂
Such a wise soul with a wonderful spirit and that cake looks awesome ❤
seeing your new uploaded video is one of the little things that make me happy.
🤍 ..In other words, what is one going to do to get that chocolate cake? 🍩
I have just found your video. It was so calming, loved the music. The photos of the frost were beautiful. I love walking in the countryside on these crisp frosty mornings and spend a little time seeing nature at its best.
I normally skip through most videos but I watched yours the whole way through. Thank you for sharing.
Aah thank you so much! 🥰
NICE HONEY !
Beautiful
Oh my gosh! Thank you! The pandemic shut down gave me 2 years to reflect and figure out myself and I totally see my life before the pandemic as a linear trajectory of expectations imprinted on me from birth. I do not dismiss it as wrong but what was. Now, retired and free to do all that I wished to do while in my linear journey, I became afraid and hesitant! Am I too old now to fulfill this creative dreams, live a simpler and joyful life? I am still letting the answer reveal itself but I am learning to mindfully enjoy each day, put less emphasis on shoulds and must-dos, etc. Your interpretation of Wilde was awesome! Thank you for your inspirations.
What a beautiful video, and such wise words! 😍 That Oscar Wilde quote really made my day! Thank you!! 👏👏👏
Thank you! 🥰
Thanks so much for your beautyful vidéos,i enjoy watching them. It IS so beautyful to live life full of joy ,doing only what we are convinied of ,doing this brings healthy and peaceful life for us. but life IS full of duties that WE can't put away
I absolutely agree with you! But I also believe we can add moments of joy in between. Life is difficult, and I don’t pretend like I live 100% in fairytale, because sadly I don’t. That’s exactly why I like to create these moments for myself in between the mundane, amongst the duties. Moments that seem like a fairytale even just a bit. 😊
So sad to see things flooded!! It's hard in the cold winter months to find joy sometimes. These months are a time of patience & preparation for the coming spring. It gives us a time of just slowing down & just unwinding. The frost was so beautiful. Your cake looked amazing & I bet it tasted incredible!! Take care sweet girl 💙
These floods were a worrying sight, but I just walked there again recently and it seems they have subsided. Some of the paths don't have water on them and you can actually walk through parts of these fields. Snowdrops appeared in some areas too. 😌 I'm waiting for spring too impatiently, but it looks like things are slowly happening in nature. It gives so much hope. Just have to stay patient!
The sky being lighter in the morning as I get my girls on the school bus reminds me that spring is coming in slow but steady increments makes me smile!
It's wonderful, isn't it, to notice these changes as spring slowly approaches again :)
Beautiful ❤ Your video is making me smile today 😊 X
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As always...beautiful. ❤
Thank you ❤️
This was soooooooo beautiful. I'm out of words. Only feelings. You take me back to my own feelings. So pure and beautiful. THANK YOU 💚🌳🍰