pears in chocolate cake

By beyond my kitchen | 2025-12-062025-12-06 by beyond my kitchen

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…

savoury delights

pears & roquefort

By beyond my kitchen | 2024-01-202025-07-24 by beyond my kitchen

It’s time for another quiche. Some time ago I bought Meike Peters’ 365 The Cookbook. From the idea it’s covering a whole year w/ recipes – day by day. I’m pretty sure it was a huge challenge, but in the end this comprehensive book dedicated for home cooking emerged. I’m always a little vague concerning my approaches for the pastry shell of any quiche or tart. In general you can work w/ different pastry shells…