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…
Summer is in its way … autumn will come. The sweetness of summer fruit may be preserved & create desserts for some months. It may be combined w/ fluffy muffins, plain vanilla muffins w/ intense orange flavour. That’s just what I tried to create. There is some red fruit compote – in Germany it’s called Rote Grütze. Some compote will end up on a bowl & a muffins will dive into this red deliciousness. Let’s…
It was a very hot summer day … a juicy savoury sandwich with baked apricots seemed a good approach – although you’ll need the oven … Also I decided to add some bits and bobs depending on the stock in my fridge. I made quite a lot of baked apricots & used them for an open sandwich, but most of the rest ended up w/ Greek yoghurt for breakfast … I had about 500 g…
Naked cakes are in. Why? Quite easy: you only need to create some layers of cake & a delicious filling. Just distribute the filling over the cake layer, take the next cake layer & repeat. You don’t need to care for a final icing all around the cake or even elaborate decorations by using a piping bag – which is mostly the crucial point (at least in my view!). So I decided to do a…
It all started with … My better half & I didn’t watch Bridgerton during Xmas just after the launch, but only beginning of January. So I hope, although the Bridgerton hype seems to have flattened, that there are enough people out there who like to read some thoughts about the series. During my 1st steps towards my kitchen-decluttering for 2021 I examined my resources concerning herbs, spice, any baking ingredients … & I found rests…