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Saffron biscuit cake

Posted by hannah on May 26, 2011 in cake | 9 comments

This is such a delicious and heavenly light saffron biscuit cake. Yes saffron! Perfect for summer days which you want to spend outside on your balcony sipping on freshly cooled ginger-lemon-mint lemonade (ah, I should post that recipe soon) or rhubarb juice (and this one, too!). Life has been treating me so good. I finally switched jobs, arrived at a new employer with great values and a caring attitude towards the employees, so much foresight. This should be the usual way, shouldn’t it? But let me tell you, it is not. So I am such a lucky one. The only drawback is the 2 hours commute everyday, which I thankfully do it and get used to. This means less time for baking, but you see: I managed to whip up this delicious cake. But only because it is so simple to make.

Marquesa de chocolat

Posted by hannah on Dec 19, 2010 in cake | 4 comments

It’s snowing, snowing, snowing. Winter shows itself from its most beautiful side. What a timing. We have about 20cm of snow, which is a lot! Snow? What is she talking about you may think if you come from Maine or Finland for example. But hey, I am happy with what we have, and since snow had been on the scarce side for the latest years (excluding last year) I am happy the moment snow powders the surroundings with a magic calmness and stays for more than a few days. This year, I am sure, we will have white Christmas.

I finally made it! I tried a German version of Valerias Marquesa de chocolat, a Venezuelan equivalent of German Kalter Hund. The picture above on a green sheet is my version of the cake, and the other picture is of the real Venezuelan Marquesa du chocolat. I will post both versions of the recipe here, they just differ slightly. Valeria: despite my difficulty to find maria cookies here, the cake was a real hit. We enjoyed it on a cold dark Sunday together with dear friends. Everybody started licking their fingers after dipping them into bits and pieces of leftover chocolate on the plate.

Apple biscuit cake

Posted by hannah on Nov 14, 2010 in cake | 0 comments

Life is complicated right now. Thus, I am listing 5 good things here to motivate positivism:

1. Valeria made marquesa de chocolate, (a recipe from Venezuela which is similar to the German Kalter Hund) and sent me a beautiful picture. Now it is my turn to try a German version of this recipe. We will post both versions here once I managed to make it. Thank you so much for this challenge Valeria.
2. I am glad I found purplefoodie. I visit her blog and just awe at all the goodness there. And I am glad she likes it here, too.
3. Nearly all my best friends were here this weekend and spent a lovely time with me. Nothing beats that, especially during complicated times.
4. December 3 will be a date that marks changes to come. Good ones.
5. This recipe is dead easy and its taste just fits perfectly to those times where falls turns into winter.

What are the first 5 good things that come to your mind right now?

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

Posted by hannah on Nov 1, 2010 in cake | 10 comments

Oh how exciting, I have received a one lovely blog award from Jeanne at simplemathbakery. I feel so giggly, as I feel so much as a newbie to this regular food blogging world, and I am overwhelmed with all these lovely blogs and my task to keep up with them. I feel like I comment much too little and receive too much. Thus, I am honoured to pass on the one lovely blog award and leave you with a list of 12 of my favourite foodies out there. I read you, even if I don’t manage to comment regularly! Here they come, in no particular order:

Apple almond paste rings

Posted by hannah on Oct 26, 2010 in cake | 10 comments

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I haven’t been able to post a recipe in a while which makes me feel bad because I actually baked a lot: German cheesecake, apple almond paste bundt cake, with buttermilk cheesecake-chocolate squares and so on. But I haven’t managed to sit down quietly enough to write them down. So many things are happening right now. Complicated ones but also many good ones. Exciting times. I hope you cope with me and come back from time to time anyway. I am still around and I am happy if you come by and try one or the other recipe.

This particular recipe is actually a substitute for one I couldn’t find: Here in Germany we have a cake called Kranzkuchen (literally: ring cake) made from yeast dough filled with almond paste and raisins, topped with a sugary drizzle of frosting. But no recipe to be found – nowhere. Probably all the grandmothers baking these cakes don’t use the internet. And I haven’t found a recipe in any of my cookbooks either. Hm. But this one here comes close and is as yummy. It’s from Leila Lindholms a piece of cake. I varied it by substituting bread flour by all purpose flour and sugar by muscovado. Its a perfect treat for these dark days coming up.

kalter hund

Posted by hannah on Aug 23, 2010 in cake | 5 comments

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I am still travelling, but fortunatly have internet access today and decided to not go hiking today. We have hiked so much these latest days, I feel like I am familiar with Gros Morne national park already. If you haven’t been to Newfoundland yet – GO! It is such a beautiful and friendly place. You can just be – no rush and no goals.

So for today I decided to take a jog, explore Norris Point and write up this neat little recipe.

Kalter Hund – cold dog – is a German (at least I only know this recipe from Germany) cake without the need to bake. It contains all the things you actually don’t want to think about too much. But it is a classic, which I want to share with you and invite you to make your own version of it – with your kind of shortbread.