Category: Baking
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Easy Cheesecake Recipe
Cheesecake isn’t my favourite. There, I said it. Yet I’m surrounded by people who actually love cheesecake. That means that I bake cheesecake more than my own favourite (marble cake for example). Luckily I found a simple and delicious recipe that I can whip up in no time but still gets lots of compliments.
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Rhubarb Strawberry Tarte
There are two edible spring plants I adore: leeks and rhubarbs. However, they aren’t really that popular for some reason. It’s is one of the facts of life I find utterly incomprehensible. Nevertheless, I use them as much as possible as soon as they’re in season! The rhubarb strawberry tarte is one of the recipes…
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Palm pretzels
Palm pretzels have always been my favourite thing about Lent. They’re sweet pretzels with raisins that are traditionally eaten on Palm Sunday, a week before Easter. So you can imagine my surprise and disappointment when I moved away from the deeply Catholic region I grew up in and realized that palm pretzels were not, in…
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Making spelt wheat bread in a Dutch oven
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2023 will be a happy, healthy, and fulfilling year for you. I’ve spent the days since Christmas experimenting with the Dutch oven I got from my parents. We broke it in with Maya’s Sweet and Sour Holiday Brisket from The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook when we invited Phil’s mother and…
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Baking “Springerle”
Springerle means “little jumper” in German. They’re a traditional Southern German cookie and are usually made around Christmas. To be honest, I used to dislike them as a child, but I learnt to love them as I got older. Sadly, my parents haven’t made them in recent years in an effort to tone down Christmas.…
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In which I make the easiest cake in the world
Recipe from: slowly veggie! Vegetarisch & vegan genießen 02/2019, p. 111. Christmas time is coming closer, it’s getting colder outside, and I feel very much like baking. My original plan for this weekend was to bake Springerle, Southern German aniseed cookies that need to be packed away and ripen for at least for weeks until…
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My new favourite cookbook
For my birthday in January, I got my new favourite cookbook! It’s called Ekkeharts Kochbuch (Ekkehart’s Cookbook) and is a rare collectors’ item with only two copies in the entire world. My Dad is the cook in our family. He’d make sure I got a homecooked meal every day when I was a child. On…
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Pasta, Revisited
I cash in my Deutsche Bahn points regularly for the GU cookbooks on offer. I figure I pay a lot for train rides each month anyway so might as well get a cookbook out of it! 1 Nudel – 50 Saucen by Martin Kintrup is my favourite so far. It’s levelled up my pasta game,…