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Marquesa de chocolat
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.
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This is a quick and dirty variation of Brian’s low fat blueberry pound cake, which you find over here. I really wanted to try this for days, and I had freshly picked blackberries at hand, which I kept in the freezer. So Friday arrived and I thought – well, here we go, all is set and ready to go. Then I realised that I neither had enough eggs, nor yoghurt. But I so wanted such a cake, and couldn’t go to run errands, I just went ahead and made a small variation of it, cutting the original recipe by half and substituting yoghurt by milk and blueberries by blackberries. The cake is incredibly moist and has a taste which reminds me on childhood pound cakes – the good ones. I did not manage to keep the batter from taking over the blackberries colour. Thus my pictures may not be as yummy as the ones you find at Brian. But the idea of this pound cake will stay with me, and I believe I will soon try to process this into a very traditional Sandkuchen variation without any fruit. Thanks Brian for the inspiration!