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New Year truffles
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Happy New Year 2011! I wish all of you a good and happy upcoming year. Make the things come true that you wish for. Make them happen, you can do it, you just have to start.
Here comes a little recipe which is barely a recipe since it is all open for variations to your taste. Let’s call them New Year truffles. I made them with friend this year and we had them for New Year. Four different ones, each of them has a spicy secret. The squared and round ones contain spices such as coriander and pepper in different amounts and combinations and the white ones a delicate mixture of dried flowers and butter.Basically, all of them are very easy to make. The only thing you need is a bit of patience: Rolling these little treats takes some time and makes your hands sticky. So have a a friend at hand which you can chat with while rolling, or simply use the time to rest your mind. Below you will find the directions for the rose truffles, which are featured with a close-up portrait above. They have the least ingredients and such a special taste.
Create your own spicy truffles.
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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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Cranberry time! Yap. I am proud to report that the first fresh cranberries are available in the right now. Run, stock up on them – soon they will be gone – as suddenly as they appeared!
What’s wrong with her, you may wonder. Well – I live in Germany, and cranberries have just made their way here the latest years. And they don’t come in droves. So anytime I see one of these packages – I just need to buy it. When I managed to grab a package yesterday I immediately had to combine them with this delicious fudgy brownie recipe I had tried two weeks ago. And I was lucky. They turned out oh so sweet. I brought them to work (my co-workers are my secret testing animals – I analyze the time it takes until all crumbs are gone – no just kidding). Anyway, these were gone so quickly.
I wasn’t able to take decent photographs that quickly – I always have a hard time photographing brownies. Does anyone have tips and hints for me? The colour is hard to capture and I have simply no ideas on how to arrange them nicely. Well, anyway, here comes the recipe which is you will get done in no time.
donauwellen // danube waves
Donauwelle (danube wave)- a classic German cake with morello cherries, butter creme and cocoa. Butter cream? Oh oh! Its contains two layers of batter: a white and a dark one. Actually this cake is sometimes also called Schneewittchenkuchen / Snow White Cake, probably because of the combination of colours: white, black and red. Neat. But why this is mostly called Donauwelle? I have no idea. Yes, there is a wave-like pattern, but why attribute it to the Danube? Well, one thing is for sure – this cake is very yummy indeed. Very heavy, too.
This is why you will find here a variation of the cake: I let go of the butter cream layer completely. And the result may not be called a Snow White Cake – or Danube Wave any longer, but maybe the little sister or nephew. And it is very easy to make and requires not many ingredients.
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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.
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