Dear Martha,

I’ve found a new favorite daytime show. It’s kind of a colleague – or concurrent – of yours, but I promise you I won’t abandon you Martha.

I usually exercise in the morning, when I also get my weekly dosage of reality shows. Most mornings I see MTV’s NewlyWeds or The Hills – love the drama – but this Tuesday a buy at a machine behind me had already chose morning show on the TV (and I’m polite enough not to change).

Anyway, I started to look at this all-chick-morning–show he was obviously very found of. And so was I, it turned out. After only five minutes I felt I was able to walk for an hour just to see the hole show, instead of my rutine of 30 minutes on the stair master.

The show is called Rachel Ray, and is very American. But not in an oh so perfect way, but more my way. Rachel Ray laughs all the time, advices a teenager to have some fun with the boy she likes at school (“So what if he’s a Don Juan – your not gonna wed at 15, are you?”).

She’s also for getting bargains and doesn’t think that you have to spend your entire monthly savings on a dinner party. Plus, I like her cooking (and you know I like to read recipes when I’m exercising, Martha). And she’s got a magazine – Everyday – just like you!

This Tuesday when I watched she made food for a charity dinner at a kindergarden (don’t really know what they were saving for), and she baked she these simple orange cream cheese-filled butter dough baskets. I didn’t see any other choice than to try and make them myself. Unfortunately I didn’t have a pen and paper at the stair master, so I kind of improvised when I got home – which turned out just fine!

This is how you bake the Orange Cream Cheese Butter Dough Baskets

You’ll need
1 sheet of butter dough
½ dl cream cheese
1 tbsp brown sugar
The zest from ½ orange
1 tsp honey
1 tsp hot water

1. Preheat the oven to 175°C.
2. Roll out the butter dough until thin. Cut into four squares.
3. Mix the cream cheese, sugar and orange zest, and put the mixture at each square. Fold so that you’ve got a triangle.
4. Mix the honey and hot water (you can take it from the tap – no need to boil it) and paint over the baskets.
5. Bake for about 5-8 minutes. The recipe makes 4.

Love, Josefin