Summer Apricot Cake
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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A little snack for in between! Wild garlic cheese puffs!! Cream puffs are normally sweet, but you should try out one of these. Delicious!!
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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.
Apfelschlangerl – An Austrian Apple Cake
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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We are going through a so called golden October. Cold in the morning, sunshine and blue sky during the day. A weather for Buchteln.
A typical austrian type of bun. Ovenbaked yeast dumplings filled with jam.
Berry Chocolate Cake
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Olive Tomato Biscuits
Now that we had so much “sweets”… It’s now time for something “salty”…
These biscuits go with wine and beer or just for nibbling. 🙂 My sis’s and bro’s would say “ti gajak”… 🙂
Our children love them too. Also good for “in between”, picnics or snack for school.
Olive Tomato Biscuits
Gericht:
Biscuits and Cookies
Zutaten
- 50 g olives
- 50 dried tomatoes in oil
- 50 g cheese
- 125 g butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch pepper
- 2 tbsp milk
- 250 g flour
Anleitungen
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Chop olives and tomatoes. Grate cheese.
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Whisk softened butter.
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Beat 2 eggs, remove 3 tablespoon and put aside (to brush). Mix rest of beaten egg to butter.
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Mix olives, tomatoes, cheese, salt, pepper and milk to egg-butter mixture, add flour and knead with hands to a dough.
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Place in fridge for 1 hour.
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Roll out on a floured surface and cut out shapes you fancy. Put on baking tray with baking paper and brush with remaining egg.
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Bake in preheated oven at 210° C for about 12 minutes.
Enjoy baking!
Maggi & Family
Peanut Swirl
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Beetroot Cookies
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Poppy Seed Biscuits
Because I love poppy seeds so much, I adapted these Poppy Seed Biscuits from the large Poppy Seed Pastry (rolls) and made them into Christmas biscuits.
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Anise Treats
No big ado, quick and easy… lots of anise. This Anise Treats are the favorite of my father!
Read moreGingerbread
This is the best Gingerbread ever!!
For us it is a must to bake these gingerbread for christmas.
Often it is the problem, that the gingerbread get hard. But not with this one. The dough has to be prepared and stored for two weeks before baking.
You can also build a gingerbread house!
More Christmas Cookie recipes:
Vanilla Crescent Cookies
Coconut Sticks
Linz “Eye“ Cookies
Schneekrapferl EN
Gingerbread
Gericht:
Biscuits and Cookies
Zutaten
- 310 g flour
- 250 g rye flour
- 500 g brown sugar
- 1/2 Tbls bicarbonate of soda
- 1,5 sachet gingerbread spice (22g)
- 4 eggs
- 100 g honey
To Finish
- 1 egg to brush
- almonds to decorate
Anleitungen
Gingerbread dough
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Mix flour (both), sugar, bicarbonate of soda and gingerbread spice. Make a little hole in the middle, add in eggs and honey and knead.
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Place dough in a “hermetically” sealed tupperware and store cool for 14 days. (Gingerbread will stay soft)
After 2 weeks
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Roll out in 5 mm thick (on floured surface) and cut out in different shapes.
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Put on a baking tray (with baking paper), brush with whisked egg and place halved almond on it.
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Bake in preheated oven at 220° C for 6 – 7 minutes.
Rezept-Anmerkungen
Roll out this gingerbread dough not too thinly and bake hot and briefly.
This gingerbread does not become hard!
Peel the almonds: Boil the almonds briefly in water. Quench and then they can be peeled very easily.
Winterly greetings
Maggi & Family
Please do not hesitate to share your ideas with me!
Suggestions and critics are welcome.
Instagram: use #sweetandspicyde or @sweetandspicy.de, so I can see your creations.
Cat Tongue Biscuits
We have this Cat Tongue Biscuits since years for Christmas time. Delicious and easy to make.
Some more biscuits:
Christmas Beetles
Lemon Crescent Cookies
Poppy Seed Biscuits
Linz “Eye“ Cookies
Cat Tongue Biscuits
Gericht:
Kekse
Zutaten
Dough
- 100 g butter softened
- 75 g icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 100 g flour
- 50 g starch
To dip
- 100 g semibitter chocolate
- 1 tsp coconut oil
Anleitungen
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Whisk butter, icing sugar and vanilla.
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Mix in egg and egg yolk one by one.
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Sieve flour and starch in and mix.
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Put dough in pipping bag with a small smooth nozzle. Pipe on a baking tray. (with baking paper)
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Bake in preheated oven at 180° C for 9 minutes.
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When the biscuits have cooled down, melt chocolate and coconut oil (bain marie), dip both ends of biscuits in chocolate.
Enjoy baking!
Maggi & Family
Please do not hesitate to share your ideas with me!
Suggestions and critics are welcome.
Instagram: use #sweetandspicyde or @sweetandspicy.de, so I can see your creations.
Thank you!
Chocolate Hazelnut Treats
These cookies melt on the tongue. A mix of chocolate and hazelnuts. Simply irresistible!
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We love Kokoskuppeln. They are not known everywhere, but so delicious. It takes some time to prepare, but mmmmhhh … soo good.
Read moreChristmas Beetles
I call it Christmas Beetles, because for me they look like this.
They stay soft because of the marzipan (almond paste). Delicious!
Coconut Chocolate Biscuits
Crispy biscuits with coconut and chocolate! These have been on our biscuit plate for a few years now! Our children also like to bake these coconut chocolate biscuits.
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I also loved these Almond Treats as a child. We used to get a big tin full of biscuits from my aunt every year. And these were my favourite!
Read moreCrumble Biscuits
Crumble is mainly used on cakes and, of course, on crumbles. Here we have also put the crumble on Christmas biscuits. Our Crumble Biscuits.
Read moreCoconut Sticks
These Coconut Sticks are one of our favorite cookies. My aunt has baked them every year since I was a child.
Read moreBanana Walnut Cookies
These cookies are ideal to use a ripe banana. They taste really delicious, also for children.
Not only at Christmas time.
Florentine Peanut Biscuits
Soon it will be that time again!!! Christmas is just around the corner. And to sweeten the Advent season, we usually have lots of biscuits. Now it’s the turn of the Florentine Peanut Biscuits!
Read moreScones
Scones are typical english! They are eaten at tea time with double cream and a marmelade, black tea with a drop of milk.
We have scones mostly on weekends for breakfast. Warm with butter melting… I love it with jam. Just delicious!!!
My husband enjoys it with butter and cheese (preferably cheddar 🙂 ).
Our kids love it with everything!
The dough is easy and fast to prepare and baked.
This is the family recipe from Mauritius. It has been handed down over the last years and everyone in the family bakes them. From Mauritius to Australia to England over to Gemany/Austria.
Our daughter shows you how to make them:
Scones
Gericht:
Breakfast, Tea Time
Länder & Regionen:
English
Zutaten
- 280 g flour
- 2 TL baking powder
- 1 TL sugar
- 1 TL salt
- 45 g butter
- 1 egg
- 125 ml milk
Anleitungen
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Whisk milk and egg.
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Sive flour and baking powder, mix in salt and sugar.
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Cut the butter in little pieces and mix well with flour.
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Pour milk-egg-mixture in center of flour and knead lightly.
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Put an a floured surface and roll out to 1,5-2 cm thick, cut out.
Brush with milk.
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Bake in preheated oven at 220° C, for 12 - 14 minutes.
Rezept-Anmerkungen
They taste best still lukewarm.
We like to do twice the amount.
Enjoy baking! (it‘s really quick ?)
Maggi und Family
Homemade tomato ketchup
I always make this tomato ketchup in summer, when tomatoes are of abundance – from our garden or from the shop.
Tomato ketchup tastes very good with grilled chicken or turkey. If the weather is bad, we would roast the chicken in the oven and tomato ketchup shouldn’t be missing.
As bring along to BBQ parties.
It is very fruity, slightly sour and sweet in taste. Can not be compared with the normal ketchup in the supermarket. Our children are crazy about it.
I use very ripe tomatoes, gelling agent 3:1, for example…
Like jam, homemade ketchup should be stored in a cool, dark room or cellar. Used jars should be kept in the refrigerator.
Homemade tomato ketchup
This homemade tomato ketchup goes with grilled chicken or turkey best.
Zutaten
- 1 kg ripe tomatoes
- 250 g onions
- 1 apple
- 300 g sugar
- 1 Tbsp salt
- 1,5 Tbsp red pepper powder
- 1 tsp pepper freshly ground
- 0,5 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp coriander seeds
- 2 bay leaves
- 200 ml vinegar
- 1/2 package gelling agent 3:1
Anleitungen
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Cut the tomatoes into quarters and the apples into eight. Put to simmer for about 20 min.
Strain.
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Dice the onions and add to the tomato puree.
Add 200g sugar, salt, red pepper powder, pepper, cinnamon, and vinegar.
Put the crushed coriander seeds and the bay leaves into a tea bag and put in the pot.
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Let simmer for 15 min stirring occasionally.
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Mix sugar and gelling agent 3:1 together and mix well into the ketchup.
Simmer further 3 minutes.
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Remove the spice bag.
Rinse the jars with boiling water and pour in the hot tomato ketchup.
Closing the jars immediately tight = vacuum.
Strainers I use:
Best regards
Maggi & Family
Merken
Gateaux piment / Mauritian Chilli Fritters
Gateaux piment or Gato pima (creol)
In some countries it is bread and butter with jam, in Mauritius it is a hot crunchy baguette with butter and Gateaux piment. My husband is crazy about Gato pima. 🙂
You can buy them on almost every street corner, sizzling hot out of the pan.
Much enjoyed as finger-food or in a so called Rougaille (mauritian spicy tomato sauce) to go with rice.
It´s also perfect for party and picnic.
Gateaux piment / Chilli fritters
Gericht:
Appetizer, Snack
Länder & Regionen:
Mauritius
Zutaten
- 250 g yellow split peas Asia Shop
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 2 Tbs coriander leaves, chopped
- 1 Tbs peppermint leaves, chopped
- 2 small green chillies
- 4 curry leaves
- 1 sprig spring onion
- frying oil (eg. sunflower oil)
Anleitungen
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Soak yellow split peas overnight or 4 hours prior to preparation. Rinse and drain.
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Blend into a rough consistency. Half fine, half rough.
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Add chopped coriander, peppermint leaves, chilli, spring ognion, curry leaves, salt and pepper and mix well.
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Using a teaspoon as measurement, shape mixture into small balls.
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Deep-fry to a gold brown crisp.
Serve hot.