Home is where your heart isTo indulge your sweet tooth
No peeking!! Not yet. This is Christmas at its best: Have tea and eat a slice of Stollen. With marzipan or without, with butter or without; to me this means Christmas. Every year when we come home on Christmas Eve, we sit down at the coffee table, have tea and wait for Santa Claus. Let […]
1 month to go till Christmas …. Time to bake some Christmas cookies. The first time I made those Cinnamon Stars was in primary school. Ever since they were in the back of my head. When I made them again last Christmas in Stavanger, Norway the whole office was completely crazy about them. Now they […]
This amazing strudel is an old recipe from my Bohemian great-grandmother. No she was not wild and wacky, she was from Bohemia / Moravia. My mum remembers, how she used to come into the kitchen when she was little and see my great-grandma stretching the strudel dough to as thin as possible. Well this is […]
This cake is a Bavarian specialty. The very original Bavarian Plumb Cake or Zwetschgendatschi is from Augsburg. A “Datschi” is a plum cake where the plumbs get pressed into the dough, which comes from the word datschen or detschen respectively. This cake is a great one, for any Sunday afternoon. It takes about 75 minutes […]
Apple cake has a long German tradition. Like lemon trees in New Zealand, we have apple trees in our backyards. Since the medieval age, apples have been used in autumn to bake and cook sweet dishes. Now that we have apples available all year round, there is no need to wait till autumn and harvest […]
The bread rolls from Hamburg are my all-time favorites. You used to find them only in Hamburg, but now it seems they are becoming popular all over the country and slowly make their way down south. I have seen Franzbrötchen in Berlin, but the original authentic sweet Franzbrötchen will only be found in Hamburg. The […]