Posts Tagged "cake"

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.

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?

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.

two layer nectarine bundt cake

Posted by hannah on Aug 12, 2010 in cake | 8 comments

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Lately I have been unlucky with cakes. They turn out well, taste incredible but I am not lucky enough to produce a good shot. Somehow my photographic skills have decided to take the plane to Connecticut already. Well, I’ll be catching up with them in a week. In the meantime I managed to do a variation of the sunny peach streuselkuchen. Basically  the only variation is that I used nectarines instead of peaches, added some flaked almonds and managed to layer dough and nectarines neatly into a mini bundt form. But after all, it is a different cake.

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Sunny peach streuselkuchen

Posted by hannah on Jun 19, 2010 in cake | 2 comments

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Waking up to a Saturday weather doing its best at being cold and grey, and then sunny and windy, and then grey, stormy and rainy calls for a cake which is juicy and fruity and lifts your spirits. Even better if your local farmers market carries organic peaches. Basically this one is a variation of a German Streuselkuchen (which you can find filled with pudding, not filled, filled with any fruit). It lifts your spirits because a Streuselkuchen does, but the peaches -  the peaches -  really add a twist which make you go smile and feel sunny – even if the weather remains.