Old Fashioned Apple Cake

Nice old-fashioned German apple cake. Enjoy this cake with a cup of coffee or tea, and serve it with whipped cream. Ingredients Dough 375 g flour 1 tbsp baking powder 180 g sugar 1 sachet vanilla sugar 1 pinch salt 1 egg 1 egg yolk 180 g cold butter 2-3 ladyfingers some flour for rolling [read more...]

 
Valentine's Heart Cake

Valentine’s Day is coming soon! Get your baking forms out and try this delicious cake shaped as a heart. If you don’t have  a heart shaped baking form make a template out of paper and place it on the baked biscuit cake, then cut it out. Ingredients 3 eggs 150 g sugar 1 pinch salt 100 g [read more...]

 
Windbeutel or Profiteroles or Cream Puff

The origin of both the pastry and its name profiterole are obscure. It was introduced in France by Caterina de’ Medici, wife of Henry II of France, who brought from Tuscany several recipes, including choux pastry and Profiterole. The word profiterole (also spelled prophitrole, profitrolle, profiterolle)  has existed in English since the 16th century, borrowed [read more...]

Sep 272011
 
Apple Flan

A flan is a tart, a type of pie, with a base of shortcrust pastry. An example is a quiche. In both savory and sweet flans the filling tends to be based on a thick custard. However there are flans not based on custard. The recipe below is a German variation of a flan. It’s [read more...]

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