Blueberry Brownies

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Our little one loves blueberries so much, and since we had some at home, I wanted to bake something with blueberries. So, why not blueberry brownies?

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Marillenschlangerl – Austrian Apricot Cake

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Maybe you already know my Apfelschlangerl – An Austrian Apple Cake, a time-honoured family recipe that is baked several times a year.
I used this as inspiration for my Marillenschlangerl – Austrian Apricot Cake. And they turned out simply heavenly.

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Strawberry Poke Cake

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Our Strawberry Poke Cake consists of a simple sponge cake, with strawberry pudding filled holes, covered with whip cream and decorated with slices of fresh strawbwerries in it.

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Strawberry Treats

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We find these strawberry treats really delicious! A simple light base, a spread of strawberry cream with curd and yogurt, and a fruity strawberry mirror on top.

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Rhubarb Clafoutis

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Clafoutis is one of the fastest cakes to bake I know! And you do not even need a mixer, you just stir it together with a whisk. You can bake the Clafoutis with different fruits. This time we have a rhubarb clafoutis!

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Rhubarb Walnut Cake

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The rhubarb walnut cake turned out really delicious! The nuts and the rhubarb tart go really well together and, this cake is really moist!

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Donauwelle – a typical German sheet cake

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I don’t know the proper translation for Donauwelle. Danube waves? No!!
It’s a light and dark cake batter, with cherries, baked on a baking tray and normally topped with a vanilla butter cream and a chocolate glaze, with a wave pattern in it. This recipe is not made with butter cream, but with curd cream, a little bit of butter, and whipped cream. This makes the whole thing a little lighter!
Donauwelle is widely popular and well-known.

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Apple Cake without flour

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This flourless apple cake is really moist. It will still taste delicious for the next 2 days!

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German Apple Pie

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The German apple pie is a classic cake for the coffee table. Consisting of a simple shortcrust pastry and a pre-steamed apple filling, the delight of many people. 🙂

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Chocolate in a bottle Dessert EN

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The Chocolate in a bottle Dessert, is a very special cake, perfect for any special occasions – Christmas, New Year’s Eve, a jubilee or a wedding anniversary!

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Speculoos Apple Tart

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A Christmas tart that goes perfectly with Advent and Christmas! Light, fruity and the aroma of spices!!! Our Speculoos Apple Tart is highly recommended!

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Beetroot Chocolate Babka

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For all those who like to hide vegetables in a cake! 🙂
A fluffy yeast dough with a beetroot puree, with a chocolate-cocoa filling. Rolled up, cut in half, twisted into each other and in the loaf tin. It makes a great picture, the delicious, Beetroot Chocolate Babka!

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Banana Cupcakes

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The muffin is made from the same batter as our Banana Chocolate Cake , which you can also bake in a loaf tin if you have ripe bananas. It is filled with a banana custard and topped with a delicious banana mascarpone cream. Here we are… Banana Cupcakes!!!
Mmmmhhh my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

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Apple Cinnamon Bread

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Actually, this apple cinnamon bread has nothing to do with a bread for me, but because it is baked in the loaf tin and I can differentiate it from my apple cakes better, I named it like that.

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Chocolate Buttermilk Sheet Cake

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This is a pretty quick and easy cake that tastes really deliciously chocolatey.

This chocolate buttermilk sheet cake is based on a simple sponge with cocoa powder and lots of buttermilk. After baking, add a layer of chocolate and a few sprinkles. Leave to cool and it is ready to eat.

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Linzer Sheet Cake

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The Linzer Sheet Cake – an Austrian speciality – is really delicious, easy to make and best of all, they keep for up to 2 weeks (if they survive that :-)).

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Plum Vanilla Cake with Crumble

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I baked this cake for a very dear friend for her birthday, nothing extravagant, just this fruity, tasty, Plum Vanilla Cake with Crumble.

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Peach Galette

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This peach galette is really very delicious! We baked it several times in a row, just because it tastes so good. Besides, it is really quick to prepare.

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Apricot Pie

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Every year I look forward to the fresh apricot season, to make delicious apricot dumplings. A simple recipe with simple ingredients and terrific result, delicious.

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Rhubarb Coconut Bundt Cake

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I baked this rhubarb coconut “Gugelhupf” in the last rhubarb season. And now it has finally made it onto the blog.

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Rhubarb Crumble Muffins

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It is finally rhubarb season! 🙂 We really like this sour vegetables, we hid rhubarb peaces in the muffin and sprinkles it with crumble to make it a bit crispy.

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Coffee Hazelnut Swiss Roll

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I really wanted to do something using coffee again, since I still had hazelnuts left, and to keep it simple, this Coffee Hazelnut Swiss Roll was the result. 🙂

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Egg White Cake

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Egg white cake, is in my opinion, the best cake for using up egg whites. I’ve tried a few recipes before, but they were often just too dry. That is absolutely not the case with this cake.

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Braided Yeast Curd Plait

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We are really happy about our braided yeast curd plait. It is great for breakfast or afternoon tea.

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Chocolate Orange Number Cake

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My elder son wanted something chocolaty for his birthday, and since he loves to eat oranges, I decided to make this Chocolate Orange Number Cake.

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Cherry Hand Pies

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These Cherry Hand Pies are great as a little present, for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, birthday, or just so.

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Apple Cake with Almond Crust

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I love all kinds of apple cake. This apple cake with almond crust is especially delicious because of the almond crust, which harmonises perfectly with the delicately tart, sweet apples.

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Banana Chocolate Cake

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Soft, moist, chocolaty,… Simply delicious and the great thing about it: you don’t even need an electric mixer to make this Banana Chocolate Cake.

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Coconut Rhubarb Bar

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I thought that coconut and rhubarb would go really well together. So I simply mixed rhubarb with coconut flakes and tadaaa… the coconut rhubarb bar was born. 🙂

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Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

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This strawberry rhubarb pie is next to the apple pie, one of the most delicious pie I know! 😛 The sweet and fruity strawberry harmonizes particularly well with the slightly sour rhubarb. And then with the delicious pie crust…. Heaven!!!!

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Rhubarb Cheesecake Brownies

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I was really in the mood for chocolate and something fruity. Since the rhubarb season is in full swing, I decided to bake Rhubarb Cheesecake Brownies.

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Marble Cake

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There are many Marble Cake recipes. Everyone has his or her own recipe or is looking for a very special one.

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Rhubarb Cake with Vanilla Sourcream Gush

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Now that you can find the red stalks everywhere, of course you have to bake a cake with rhubarb 😉 This one has no crumbles and no meringue as you might often see, but a nice refreshing vanilla sour cream gush.

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Moist Chocolate Sheet Cake

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This chocolate sheet cake is one of the first cakes I made on my own as a child. It always turned out great and tasted really delicious!

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Lambada Delights

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This Lambada delights has a taste of childhood for me. We had this at almost every family reunion, everyone loves it, and it’s also pretty quick to prepare. My kids also associate this cake with the big family reunions in Austria. 🙂

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Crumble Cake with Egg Liqueur

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This cake is made out of a simple shortcrust pastry and lots and lots of crumble. Inside is a thin layer of custard with egg liqueur.

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Egg Liqueur Tiramisu Cake

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I wanted to bake a beautiful cake, like a ‘Wow’ cake! Since it will soon be easter, I thought why not an Egg Liqueur Cake, and to make it like even more ‘interesting’, why not pack tiramisu with it. The result was a wonderful Egg Liqueur Tiramisu Cake.

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Red Wine Cake with Cherries

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This simple red wine cake with cherries tastes especially delicious in the colder season.
Although it was really spring-like the last few days, it still tasted really good.

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Hazelnut Apple Cake

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This Hazelnut Apple Cake tastes really nutty, fruity, moist with a slight scent of Christmas from the gingerbread spice.

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Pumpkin Bars with Frosting and Brittle

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Pumpkin bars are as far as I know, more popular in America and England. They are usually baked in autumn and winter, in the pumpkin season.

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Cinnamon Roll Apple Cake

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This time I thought of an apple cake that is a little different. I wanted to use a yeast dough and I came up with cinnamon rolls as the base.

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Pumpkin Chocolate Babka

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Autumn is already in full swing. The pumpkins are heaped on the roadside for sale, chestnuts are falling from the trees and the leaves are changing color.
And that’s where this Pumpkin Chocolate Babka fits in perfectly!

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Best Apple Pie

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It is now time to go English, the American art.
I have baked this Apple Pie really often now, it is just delicious and so juicy.

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Blackberry Crumble Cake

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This Blackberry Crumble Cake is crispy on the outside and fruity and soft on the inside. It is really a great combination, in my opinion.

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Poppyseed Custard Cake With Plums

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This Poppyseed Custard Cake With Plums is a typical autumn cake for me, specially because of the plums.

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Simple Strawberry Cake

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I wanted to make a simple strawberry cake without a lot of frills, but with lots of strawberries. And this is what I got.

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Poppy Seed Strudel

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This poppy seed strudel is not the classical baked yeast dough, it’s a short pastry with sour cream.
So it’s perfect if you don’t have yeast.

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Strawberry Rhubarb Tart

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We love strawberries, mixed with rhubarb it makes a great combination. The sweetness and fruitiness of the strawberries and the slight acidity of the rhubarb harmonize perfectly.

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Strawberry Swiss Roll

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It’s great, the strawberry season has begun! We love strawberries!!! Picked fresh from the field, of course, they taste best. Even hidden in that swiss roll, strawberries are the best!

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Engadine Walnut Cake

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The Engadine Walnut Cake is made of short pastry filled caramelized walnuts.
It has become very popular, far beyond the borders of switzerland.

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Walnut Treats

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Since we still had some walnuts left from my parents garden, why not make some Walnut Treats?
Believe me, they are really good! Simple, moist, and they’ll keep for a few days and in the freezer even longer.

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Tyrolean Nut Cake

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I haven’t had this cake for a long time now, don’t ask why. 🙂 It’s quick to prepare and really delicious!

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Chocolate Orange Loaf Cake

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In winter we love to eat oranges. For breakfast, freshly squeezed orange juice, in the afternoon just like that. And once in a while the oranges also hop into a cake, like in this one. 🙂

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Poppy Seed Tart

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I love this poppy seed tarte!!
It consists of a fine yoghurt base with a great layer of poppies on top. As topping we have the tasty meringue spots.
Simply heavenly!

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Apple Cinnamon Treats

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This Apple Cinnamon Treat is fruity, light, not too sweet and really delicious! It goes just as well with a festive coffee table as with a casual coffee klatch with friends. Big and small alike, like this great cake.

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Pear Brownies

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Somehow I felt like I need chocolate. We also had ripe pears which should be used as soon as possible. And it has to be something quizy – quick and easy!!! So…

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Plum Crumble Cake

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I had so many juicy plums here, so I decided to make a Crumble Cake with Plums.

Because I had some egg liqueur left, I put it in the dough.
This cake was very moist, fruity and because of the crumble also crunchy.

Also ran an die Zwetschken und fertig los…

Let’s plum!! Ready, steady….. ! 🙂

Plum Crumble Cake
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Crumble
  • 75 g butter
  • 75 g sugar
  • 150 g flour
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
Dough
  • 250 g softened butter
  • 150 g sugar
  • a pinch of salt
  • 4 eggs
  • 350 g flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 250 g egg liqueur (advocaat)
And
  • 750 g fresh plums
Anleitungen
  1. For the crumble mix butter in small pieces with flour, sugar and cinnamon.

  2. For the dough whisk soft butter, sugar and salt until creamy.

  3. Add eggs one by one whilst mixing.

  4. Mix in flour, baking powder and egg liqueur.

  5. Spread dough evenly on baking tray with baking paper.

  6. Half and pit plums and place on dough.

  7. Top with crumble.

  8. Bake in preheated oven at 180° C for about 50 minutes.

Enjoy baking!
Maggi & Family

Summer Apricot Cake

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We have had this apricot cake a few times now. I also made it for my sisters birthday.
Delicious, fruity, fresh and crunchy with caramelized almonds.

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Cherry Crumble Cake with Marzipan

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We had lots of cherries this season, we made a crumble cake with cherries and marzipan, not to forget our cherry coconut jam.

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Raspberry Chocolate Tart

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When I saw the ripe raspberries in our garden, I knew I had to present them perfectly. 🙂
Because we love berries and chocolate, so we combined them into a Raspberry Chocolate Tart.

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Strawberry Semolina Tart

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We love semolina porridge and we also love strawberries. So I thought – let’s make a tart out of both. And that is the result! A Strawberry Semolina Tart!

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Strawberry Sour Cream Cake

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Finally!! The strawberry season is open! There are a few strawberry fields in the region, where we go pick as much as we wish.
Then we have our first Strawberry Sour Cream Cake.

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Rhubarb crumble cake

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The beauty of spring!
It brings a lot of great things after the winter like wild garlic, rhubarb, asparagus, strawberries and many flowers, trees and bushes are blooming.
So enjoy the time outside! 🙂

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Choco Coco Delight

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Fresh tasty Chocolate Coconut Delight. Easy to bake and always a hit.

I got this chocolate base recipe from a colleague and couldn’t wait to try it out.

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Walnut Apple Cake

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I wanted to bake a walnut cake, before our tratitional chrismas cookie baking challange starts 🙂 .

I added apples to make it more moist and tasty.

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Poppy Seed Cake

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I just love poppy seed cake – irresistible!
This Poppy Seed Cake is moist and succulent. I got the recipe from a very good friend of mines! Thank you very much!!!

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Apfelschlangerl – An Austrian Apple Cake

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Apfelschlangerl  – typical Austrian again – just like the Apricot Dumplings and Buchteln.

Surprisingly this apple cake is not really known in Germany. In Bavaria they would call it apple strudel, but its not an apple strudel. The apple strudel is more a long drawn-out dough.

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Poppy seed, plum strudel

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It’s autumn, when you get up in the morning and it’s no more 22 degrees but 2. Brrrr…. Altho during the day the sun shines beautiful.

The local fruits: apples, pears, plums and nuts are ready for harvest.

So today we will do something with plums – a poppy seed plum strudel! Read more

Strawberry Elderflower Cake

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Strawberry season is nearly over. Let’s plug some and prepare a cake! Read more

Berry Chocolate Cake

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Wild strawberries – I love them!! Delicious!! Read more

Rhubarb Sour Cream Cake

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Spring is here! Its rhubarb time! As a kid we loved to wear the huge rhubarb leaf as a hat.

Unfortunately we don’t have rhubarb in our garden, fortunately we have markets selling regional fruits and vegetables.

Actually rhubarb is a vegetable, but it is mostly used in sweet dishes, or as juice, marmalade, jam and in cakes and tartes.

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Winter Apple Cake

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2 days to Christmas….  Children are so excited…

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Tasty apple cake

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You can get apple cake in every variation. Here is an easy and quick one.

A quick prepared dough with spelt flour, fresh juicy apples and of course cinnamon. Brown sugar is for the hint of the caramel effect and the almonds to make it crunchy.

Tasty apple cake
Gericht: Cake
Zutaten
  • 1 kg apples
  • 125 ml milk
  • 125 g butter
  • 4 eggs
  • 250 g sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 300 g spelt flour You can also use plain flour.
  • 2 tsp (10g) backing powder
  • cinnamon
  • 75 g brown sugar
  • 75 g flaked almonds
Anleitungen
  1. Peel and cut apples

  2. Bring milk and butter slowly to boil. In the meantime whisk eggs and sugar.

  3. Add milk-butter-mixture, salt and vanilla essenz, constantly mixing.

  4. Add sieved spelt flour and backing powder. Mix thoroughly.

  5. Pour dough on a backing tray with backing sheet, spread evenly. Spread apples, sprinkle cinnamon, brown sugar and flaked almonds.

  6. Bake in preheated oven at 200° C for 30 minutes.

Enjoy baking!
Maggi & Family