On the spur of the moment I decided to create a plum galette – after having watched all the plum cakes appearing in the food blog universe during the last weeks. It’s a simple affair: you’ll need not more than an hour to prepare this juicy delicacy. If still warm it’s absolutely soft and crumbly calling for some whipped cream or vanilla ice cream… Next day after a night in the fridge the galette is…
The Amalfi lemon… I never met any lemon as juicy, as soft, with delicate acidity… and so much flavor in the zest. Only one single Amalfi lemon will suffice for a cake – trust me. … and I decided to combine this extraordinary lemon flavor with fresh blueberries. I started with a long rectangular tarte baking tin with loose bottom which I oiled carefully. Later in the oven I put a sheet of baking parchment…
It’s time for another simple home-made cake. I started with my square baking tin, to be filled with dough – I wanted a fluffy, juicy cake to be cut into square pieces to accompany my espresso sessions. Nothing too fancy and too tricky to prepare… In my fridge I found an organic orange… I thought about brushing orange syrup all over the cake when leaving the oven to enhance the juiciness… so it became an…
Another change: I started with the basic fluffy & moist batter for another square cake. Instead of apples or morello cherries I worked with pears. The pears were on top & a 2nd layer of slices was inside covered with batter. Pears are fine with chocolate – so I added some cocoa to the batter. Well, it worked fine … I got a delicious chocolate flavor – and the pears were soft, but didn’t melt…
I’ve changed some ingredients, but the result … I started with a very soft apple cake: now there are morellos replacing the apples. Also the cream was substituted in order to create a lemon flavor. There was an unexpected result: the morellos sank to the bottom because of the soft cake batter … So I created a cake with a solid layer of fruit on the bottom slightly covered by batter. … and I turned…
I started with some fluffy cake and slices of apples inside and on top … My next step was to change the square baking tin for a muffin tin, however, stay with the basic batter mix. For the apples: instead of apples slices I cut the apples into small pieces … In short: it was too much batter for the muffin tin, so I reduced the ingredients roughly by about 15% … and there were…
Autumn has started with blue skies and blazing sun … resp. clouds, dark clouds, rain, storm … It’s time to think of apple cake which is best – as far as I think – in autumn or winter. I like these fresh apples which get soft in the cake without vanishing as a melted mess. So it’s especially Boskoop apples I prefer for any cakes. The recipe is simple, but delicious. There is a soft…
This summer the temperatures go sky-high: time for a light and moisture cake with fresh raspberries and a hint of lemon. Because of the raspberries that almost melted away the cake is very moist. My icing of sugar mixed with lemon juice and raspberries which led to a nice pink color also almost melted away … and made the cake even more moist. (Maybe I’ve overdone in raspberries – feel free to reduce by about…
I bought a new baking tin. I laid my hands on a 20 x 20 cm form because there are mainly the 2 of us … Any larger baking tin is not convenient. (Even when having a dinner event this baking tin will produce enough cake for a dessert for 4 or even 6 people.) I’m not a hoarder concerning baking tins or any other cooking/baking equipment or any kitchen equipment in general. My kitchen…
Let’s start w/ the obvious! Today is one of these grey days – last week we had lots of them w/ lots of rain. Now it’s getting really cold. During the coming days it’ll be below zero day & night, however, almost no snow. (This – the lack of snow – may be horrible if you crave for a walk in crisp white snow surrounded by snow filled trees under a clear blue sky –…
I’m always looking for easy & fast dishes … also dishes which can be prepared w/o using too many pots & pans & other kitchen equipment which need to be cleaned excessively later. So I admired the easy way of galettes for rather a long time – & now I decided to give it a try. For my 1st approach I chose a very simple galette w/ few ingredients. It’s rhubarb season at the moment…
It’s an olive oil cake w/ orange flavor – the basic recipe from one of my favorite cookbooks. 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 2 small cake pans or by a larger springform – like mine – was almost the same. So there were no changes necessary due to the dimension of…
Creating a quiche loaf … What to do w/ a savory cake?It’s best to combine it w/ a fresh green salad, a simple green salad … It’s a perfect dinner treat especially when you have been busy all day long – well: I mean assuming that the savory cake is already sitting on your kitchen counter! It was fine because we had a delicious side dish of mixed green salad. The slices of the quiche…
This is just another apple cake, but it’s a very soft & fluffy & crumbly & juicy apple cake prepared in a loaf tin. The top is crispy when leaving the oven & will stay so for at least 24 h. Afterwards … it gets soft. No worries – the cake is still delicious. What do we need? There are the usual suspects like: In addition there is mascarpone … creamy silky mascarpone. (You may…
There are 6 small Bundt cakes coming out of my new toy – isn’t it great! Have a look at the gleaming new baking tin … Of course I had to test it asap! I stuck to the recipe attached to the packaging concerning the amounts of butter, flour, eggs … only reducing the amount of sugar by about 20%. So don’t let’s waste precious time: let’s take off!