Before 2016 ends, let me thank all the beautiful souls, who make this world more colorful, peaceful and bright ! Thank YOU for being who you are! May happiness be your faithful companion in 2017! I wish you a happy start into the new year and a fulfilling 2017!

I wish you a

Joyous and jovial JANUARY
Fantastic and fascinating FEBRUARY
Meaningful and magical MARCH
Awesome and astonishing APRIL
Marvelous and magnificent MAY
Jolly and jubilant JUNE & JULY 
Amazing and active AUGUST
Spirited and silent September
Overjoyed and optimistic OCTOBER
Nice and nonjudgmental NOVEMBER
Delightful and delicious DECEMBER.
Have a phenomenal and cheerful YEAR 2017 

Smile a lot  and make  people  smile ! Remember  smiles  are  contagious !

First of all I’d like to say “Thank you” for your sweet emails! It’s always quite a challenge to pick a winner out of many interesting and warm-hearted messages and I am sorry that I had to choose one and could not meet all of you, also I’m sorry for those who said that they are living in another country or that just didn’t have the chance to meet me that very date, I’m sure there will be other possibilities for a “Meet and Greet” with me, so don’t worry

This time, however, the lucky winner, was Mark Maloney, a really charming person and beautiful soul, who travelled to London to see me and have a little chat.

And while it seems that British people are more used to greet each other by shaking hands,

I showed Mark how I am used to greet people :-))))

We had a really nice conversation, while drinking coffee in a pub. Mark wanted to know all about my musical journey so far, we talked about spirituality and life in general and he also told me a little bit about his life. Finally I asked him: “Do you wanna listen to some unreleased material?” and as his eyes started to shine with curiosity and pride that he will be able to get an exclusive musical sneek peek, I showed him some of my songs that will be on the “Ambassador of Light” album and he was really happy about it

What a nice afternoon! I really enjoyed the “Meet and Greet” with Mark and I am already looking forward to the next “Meet and Greet” in another city :-)))

Cheers,

Natascha

Thanks for having been so supportive, I appreciate you a lot! 

I wish you all a fabulous 2015, full of happiness, health and love! Let us all light up the world together!

Happy New Year!!!

Love, Natascha

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas, filled with joy and love, precious time with your loved ones and also time for yourself to reflect on what happened this year and what you would like to change for the next year. 

I wish for you that you find time to think about what your true wishes are, what is still important to you , what still feels right and what doesn’t. Listen to what your heart and your soul tell you, let go of things that no longer serve you and your mission in life and forgive yourself and others for hurtful experiences of the past.

Let love into your heart and into your life!!!

I send you warm thoughts!

Please feel embraced!

Merry, merry Christmas to you all! Fröhliche Weihnachten! Feliz Navidad!!!

As my very special Christmas gift to you I uploaded the most personal song I’ve ever written: “Remember Me”. 

Watch it here: www.youtube.com/c/NataschaHagen

Enjoy!

Love and light,

Natascha

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and I hope that you are all looking forward to it as much as I do and that you are slowly calming down after the rush of the last days !

Hope you will all have Happy Holidays!

I am enjoying a hot wine punch at the Christmas market and I’m sending you thoughts of love and joy!

Oh – and don’t forget to visit either www.nataschahagen.com/videos or www.youtube.com/nataschahagenmusic tomorrow! I’ll upload a new song as my Christmas gift to you!

Natascha

Since we’re in the Christmas season, I tried myself the other day at baking “angel cake pops” with Elke, a friend of mine. It was a fun experience and I think the result looks quite good (what do you think? ;-)) and more importantly, the angel cake pops tasted delicious! 

 This is our angel cake pops recipe:

1.) First of all you need to make a sponge cake.

You need the following ingredients for that:

• two eggs
• 120 grams caster sugar 
• 100 grams of flour
• 4 tbsp milk
• ½ knife tip of baking powder

AND of course VIGOR! :-))))

And JOY!!!

Turn your oven on to preheat at 180 degrees Celsius (air circulation). Add the eggs and the sugar in a bowl and then beat them until they are light and fluffy. Then add the rest of the ingredients and mix them all together well. Pour the mixture into the already well greased tin and bake it for 30 mins

2.) For the cake pops you need:

• the sponge cake
• 100 grams cream cheese
• 50 grams unsalted butter
• 2 tbsp apricot jam
• shashlik skewer (as sticks for the cake pops)
  
• cooking chocolate (as an “attachment” for the sticks and the wings)
• white chocolate icing
• a little bit of red food coloring
• white blossom sugar (for the angels’ wings)
• yellow tube icing (for the halo)
• red tube icing (for the lips)
• a black edible felt-tip (to draw the eyes)
• wings cookie cutters

First of all you make the wings. The first step is to roll your icing out 3 mm thick on a hard surface. 

Then press firmly with the wings cookie cutters, put the angels’ wings aside and let them harden.

Put the sponge cake, who meanwhile has already cooled down a bit, together with the cream cheese, the butter and the apricot jam in a bowl and mix it until you have a dough-like consistency. Now you shape the mixture into cake balls. For each ball you break off a small piece of the mixture and roll it into a ball with your palms (ping pong ball size) and then place it on the baking sheet and put it in the fridge. To save time, you can also refrigerate the cake balls to help them firm up faster and meanwhile melt a block of chocolate at a low temperature. Dip a shashlik skewer into the melted chocolate and place it immediately into an already cooled down cake ball, around 2 cm deep, do that with all the cake balls and then put the cake pops back into the fridge. Leave them for around 30 minutes in the fridge or 15 minutes in the freezer.

In the meantime warm the white chocolate icing and make it liquid. In order not to have a plain white for the chocolate icing, add some red food coloring, only a bit, so that when blending, it turns out just slighty pinkish.

Then shortly dip the cooled cake pops into the chocolate icing, rotate them and stick them into a styrofoam slab to dry.

When the icing is firm, you can start to paint the faces, after that you go for the halo of every single angel and last, but not least you attach the wings to the heads of the angels with the rest of the still gluey chocolate that you melted for the sticks before.

Well, that’s it, the sweet angel cake pops are ready! Hope you enjoy!!!!

Easter is coming up soon ;-). I hope that, wherever you are located, the weather is as sunny and pleasurable as it is here right now and that you have time to enjoy it and do some nice stuff with your family and friends!

I wish you all a wonderful Holy Week and a Happy Easter! 

Natascha

Happy New Year! Feliz Año Nuevo! Ein glückliches neues Jahr!

Merry Christmas! Feliz Navidad! Fröhliche Weihnachten!