Estonia unit geography Europe 9th

Estonia unit

Y’all, this has been sitting in my draft for years. Apparently, I went through wrote lots of other geography lessons up and somehow missed writing about our Estonia unit. Looks like I need to go back and relearn all about this country. It’s a win for me.

Estonia unit for homeschool geography

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Estonia Unit resources

All right, I went and search up some Estonia facts, let’s see what we have here.

Estonia unit geography

And Flag Friday…

Estonia Unit Recipe

I found a site with a list of 30 Estonian foods, but no recipes, so it was just this long list of foods you could theoretically cook. Then I found a dessert, and a chocolate strawberry cake dessert sounded delicious to me.

Chocolate strawberry estonian cookie cake recipe dessert Europe

And since I’m totally writing about this several years later I have no memory of making it. Isn’t that special?

Chocolate Strawberry Cookie Estonian Cake

Chocolate Strawberry Estonian Cookie cake ingredients

  • 1.5 cups sour cream (NOT LOW FAT)
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup sliced strawberries
  • 1 package butter cookies (these are the thinner cookies they recommend, I used the Walker brand, which are much thicker)
  • lemon zest (optional)
Estonian chocolate strawberry cookie cake

Chocolate sauce ingredients

  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 4 tablespoons heavy cream
  • 3.5 oz. mix of dark and milk chocolate

I suspect why I have so little memory of this, The Artist, who is my baker, might have taken over cooking this

Let’s make this!

  1. Mix sour cream, brown sugar, and vanilla extract in a small bowl.
  2. Slice strawberries, and keep a few out to decorate the top of the cake.
  3. Line the bottom of the dish with cookies, then spread some of the sour cream mixture over the cookies.
  4. Add another layer of cookies, and again spread out the sour cream, then a layer of sliced strawberries.
  5. If you’re using the lemon zest, this is the time to add it.
  6. Keep laying cookies and sour cream until you reach the top of the dish you are preparing it in. Cover the cake and place it in the fridge while you prepare the next part.
  7. Melt butter over medium heat, and mix together with the heavy cream. Slowly add the chocolate in, stirring constantly as it melts.
  8. After it has all melted, take off of the heat and let cool for 1 minute. Then slowly pour over the top of the cake. Decorate the top of the cake with the reserved strawberries.
  9. Cover the cake again and place in the fridge until the chocolate has set.

I like how simple and easy it is, if you have thinner butter cookies than I did, you could do the 5 layers they talked about, but my cookies were fairly thick, so that wasn’t going to happen.

Chocolate Strawberry Estonian Cookie Cake

Chocolate strawberry estonian cookie cake recipe dessert Europe

Delicious chocolate strawberry cookie cake to share with friends

Ingredients

  • 1.5 cups sour cream (NOT LOW FAT)
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup sliced strawberries
  • 1 package butter cookies
  • lemon zest (optional)
  • 4 tablespoon butter
  • 4 tablespoons cream
  • 3.5 ounces mix of dark and milk chocolate

Instructions

  1. Mix sour cream, brown sugar, and vanilla extract in small bowl.
  2. Slice strawberries, keep a few out to decorate the top of the cake.
  3. Line the bottom of the dish with cookies, then spread some of the sour cream mixture over the cookies. Add another layer of cookies, and again spread out the sour cream, then a layer of sliced strawberries.
  4. If you’re using the lemon zest, this is the time to add it.
  5. Keep laying cookies and sour cream until you reach the top of the dish you are preparing it in. Cover the cake and place it in the fridge while you prepare the next part.
  6. Melt butter over medium heat, and mix together with the heavy cream. Slowly add the chocolate in, stirring constantly as it melts.
  7. After it has all melted, take off of the heat and let cool for 1 minute. Then slowly pour over the top of the cake. Decorate the top of the cake with the reserved strawberries.
  8. Cover the cake again and place in the fridge until the chocolate has set.

Estonia unit notebooking pages

We used the Europe notebooking pages as we watched the Geography Now video and filled it out, then looked up the last few bits we didn’t learn in the video.

Estonia Unit notebooking pages

Here are my fun facts:

  • They SANG themselves free of the USSR, how cool is that? Very cool is the answer. I have a friend from Latvia and she has similar stories.
  • meteorite lakes
  • giant boulders, why giant boulders, how big is giant?
Estonia unit geography Europe 9th

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Tallinn, Estonia 028 – Catedral Alexander Nevsky/ Alexander Nevsky Cathedral” by Claudio.Ar is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.


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One response to “Estonia unit”

  1. OK… Fun fact – Estonia is mostly Protestant like other Nordic countries. The cathedral in your post is Russian Orthodox, since Russia heavily imposed Orthodox faith throughout the Empire. Tallinn is a very pretty and well preserved city – in many movies of Soviet Era they filmed in Tallinn when the action was supposed to be happening in the West. I don’t know much about their cuisine – except that they eat more fish than we did in Belarus since they are not landlocked. Oh, and the famous thing about Estonia is amber – I still have some amber jewelry from the last time I’ve been there.

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