I’ve been planning to make these for a while now, and after cooking so health-consciously this week for Elaine, the time was right for this fat and sugar feast. I’m afraid, there’s nothing healthy in these indulgent layers of sinfulness, but I am absolutely going to tag them as ‘vegetarian’ and ‘egg-free’, just in case……
When the email arrived in my inbox last year asking me if I wanted to take part in a cookery show, my first response was a snigger. For a start, this had to be a joke; I don’t really watch much TV, never mind cookery shows, so I was ready to dismiss the whole thing…
I’ve always imagined my nemesis to look like a mix between Mrs Clooney and Katherine Hepburn (ca. 1942), who could bake like a pro. The reality is somewhat disheartening. My real nemesis, it turns out, are candy-coloured, chocolate-filled meringues: macaroons, as some call them; overhyped faff, according to others (ok, mainly me). When Dana first…
Pancake or Shrove Tuesday calls for something decadent. In Germany, we celebrate carnival today, a nod towards pre-Christian tradition of chasing away winter. Similar to the Mardi Gras, or ‘Fat Tuesday’ in the States, we eat lots of different types of doughnuts today, some jam-filled, others more like those cute beignets Angie served up for…
I have no idea what the difference is between flapjacks and granola bars – I have a hunch that the former are English and more oaty, whereas the latter are American, full of nuts and fruit, and ultimately prettier. You tell me. Nevertheless, when I asked my colleagues what I could make them to celebrate the end…
It’s Day 22 of my Blogvent Calendar, my daily posts about what makes a German Christmas so special. With just about two days left before our Christmas party officially starts, I bring you these delicious gingerbread biscuits from Nuremberg in Franconia: made from almonds, nuts, sugar and spices, they are not only gluten free but…
With it being the fourth Sunday of Advent, the time has come for some reflection. Over the last days and weeks, people have been posting Christmas bakery in such an abundance that it would be a crime not to present you with my personal highlights, and thus next year’s biscuit and cookie treats. Have a…
I have actually no idea why gingerbread houses appear at Christmas – after all, the story of Hänsel and Gretel is not really a Christmas tale! But whatever the reasons be hind it, come Christmas we have to have one, or two, or even more gingerbread houses under our tree, in increasing states of disrepair.…
With only a week to go, time is running out for making gingerbread: the dough needs to rest over night and the finished biscuits, too, need some time to mellow. If you have been planning to make a gingerbread house, you better get going – we’ll be making ours at the weekend, in case you…
These biscuits have been part of our family Christmas for as long as I remember: crumbly and buttery shortbread-style biscuits, filled with apricot jam – ‘Marillen’ being the Austrian dialect word for apricots. In many ways they are a distant cousin of my butter biscuits, which I openly preferred when smaller, because of the fact that…
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