As promised, another Schichttorte – but this time with a twist on the traditional recipe. For those of you who watched last year’s Schichttorte episode on the Great British Bake-Off, you’ll remember people commenting on the dryness of the finished cake. After all the amount of grilling, that didn’t really come as a surprise – one…
When it comes to children’s birthday parties, there’s nothing more entertaining than a giant piñata! This year, as a friend and I joined forces for a combined 4rth birthday bash for our daughters, the piñata had to withstand not only hordes of kids, but also an equally eager gaggle of parents who wanted a go. Fortunately…
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……
With St Patrick’s looming, I had been wondering what to do to mark the occasion. Potatoes? Stew? No – after Frugal Hausfrau’s inspired attempt at making her own Bailey’s Irish Cream, I knew I had to go down the truffles route. Since making boozy truffles the other day, I had been itching to give it…
This weekend was spent making truffles. And not just any kind, but a whole range of them. I had been dying to give truffles a try, despite countless failed attempts at making chocolate Easter eggs. But since I mastered macaroons, surely nothing could hold me back. Over the years I have figured out that attention to…
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’m afraid that today’s Blogvent calendar is not as Christmassy as you might have hoped for, but December is not an easy time for my family, at least not for the adults, as all our birthdays bar one fall into this month. And Christmas, too. You will hopefully forgive me this rather uninspired idea of…
As part of our preparation for the final we had some Black Forest Gateau today. These were quite fashionable in England for a time in the 70s, whereas in Germany they have been popular for ages. They are named after the black forest, a mountain range in the south west of Germany, which has given…
Côte d’Ivoire, a former French colony, is by far the biggest exporter of cocoa in the world. The cocoa plant comes originally from the tropical forests of South and Central America (Peru, Ecuador, Brazil etc), where it still forms an important part of the diet: a Columbian friend assures me that hot chocolate drinks are consumed with many meals,…
The most exciting thing about the U.S. team is its coach: Jürgen Klinsman, the former German national coach, who played for Tottenham and Stuttgart and hails from a small town near where I grew up. Klinsi is the perfect representative of my region in that he embodies the pragmatism we are known for: despite working as a professional footballer for…
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