Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. During the summer I didn’t do any new innovative jams. I only produced some classic jams like: strawberries w/ raspberries apricots w/ red currants. Both were made w/ preserving sugar (2:1). So when summer slowly turns into autumn I thought about my jam production & decided to add another classic jam based on plums. Voilà the results safely stored in jam jars! (I got more than 3 jam…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. Last week I wrote about Odette Williams’ book „Simple Cake“ – now a recipe turned into life. Based on the olive oil cake w/ orange flavor I created my own version following the tips in the book. The recipe defines cake for 2 rather small round cake pans – I used a larger springform. I made some rough calculation & decided that the area covered by…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. A cake loaf w/ fresh fruit… This isn’t my 1st try. To be honest: my overall experience is that a cake w/ fresh fruit likes to collapse due to too much fresh fruit – or to be flavorless & dry due to the lack of enough fresh fruit. Therefore I’m always skeptical when folding in fresh fruit into batter. (More than once recipes in books/blogs proved incorrect!). However,…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. I couldn’t resist to try another version after rhubarb season – rhubarb bake!. There are lots of rhubarb outside as well as strawberries – we are only in June. So I thought a mix of both might be quite nice. …& additionally I opted for chocolate cake… So let’s start w/ this wonderful mountain of prepared fresh rhubarb & strawberries.
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. We are mid of rhubarb season & it’s time for me to add some new rhubarb dessert experience. I thought of some combination of baked rhubarb w/ lots of thickened rhubarb juice & some light cake… For the record: The dessert is also known as cobbler in the English hemisphere. In general it’s a thick layer of fresh fruit covered by a thin layer of batter…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. I’m still in my loaf cake mania… & I made progress in my test series… What’s new? I made a ricotta loaf w/ orange flavour. …& I topped it off w/ chocolate icing! For the record: At first I tried to do a ganache, but it didn’t work out as I anticipated. You may know by now when having followed my blog that „me &…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. To begin with: a banana bread isn’t bread, it’s cake. At the end you get a juicy, soft cake w/ chocolate flavor & a hint of vanilla. (Ok – this time I didn’t add any more spices like cinnamon or so, nor did I shatter any nuts, nor did I think of any additional fruit or vegetables… to make all just a bit more fancy!) For the…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. Why is it so difficult to bake a simple loaf cake? This is an earnest question because during the last months when trying to get a simple – or rather „a rather simple“ – loaf cake it ended in some more or less small disaster. So I decided to start a test series. However, for the moment admire my perfect result for a vanilla loaf: I didn’t fiddle…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. It’s really annoying when you discover – mid of winter – that your home-made jams are running out of supply. (I admit that I didn’t produce such a lot of jam last year in spring & summer…) I decided to refill some of the jam jars… well: which jam to make? In winter you may rely on any frozen fruits, but… When aiming at fresh fruits there are…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. Xmas is gone – all people think about how to lose weight & how to detox & how to… whatever. Before Xmas there were loads of recipes for cakes & cookies & all types of sweet stuff all over the food blog universe – although I didn’t post such a lot in the pre-Xmas Time. Now I think it’s time to look outside, take note of winter season,…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. I’m obsessed w/ loaf cakes – always looking for new ideas & the best recipes. I like a slice of loaf cake next to my espresso cup in the afternoon or as dessert after lunch or dinner or accompanying my espresso nightcap… I think you get it. Best is a loaf cake with some sort of icing keeping your cake moist – that’s the reason behind, however… it’s…
We are on the Italian road again… you know: Omnes viae Romam ducunt! (So now you know that I learnt some Latin at school… in the spirit of my food blog it’s simply: go to Rome resp. Italy & you’ll learn about the best desserts ever!) Tiramisu: Imagine a (big!) rectangular casserole filled w/ ladyfingers soaked w/ espresso & fine liquor, covered w/ mascarpone cream finished by a thick layer of cocoa. You may indulge…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. I couldn’t resist to try another ice cream: mashed strawberry & raspberry in a yoghurt mix… It’s perfect: easy to make, full of fruity summer flavors, creamy… & you don’t need an ice cream maker! My last post was on home-made ice cream & now there’s another one… (Don’t be afraid: I don’t intend to reinvent this blog as a „How to make ice cream?“ blog.) I…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. At the moment all people seem busy w/ ice cream making at home – at least when roaming food blogs you’ll find lots of new recipes & (sometimes!) strange combinations. Unfortunately no ice cream maker is sitting somewhere in my kitchen eager to produce ice cream… Therefore I’ve to stay w/ my approach for “no churn ice cream“ (which works very well!). Which ice cream… Quite easy: I…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. I like loaf cakes. They are so versatile. There are the classic ones like vanilla cake, marble cake, chocolate cake… There are the fruity ones where you just add apples or cherries or …whatever – not to mention the ones w/ dried fruit… & finally every loaf may be covered by icing if a mix of chocolate & cream, if a sugar icing flavoured by lemon or orange…