Happy Cookie Friday! Easter is just around the corner which means I got some Easter cookies for you today. Italian Easter Cookies to be precise. We don’t have traditional cookies for Easter here in Germany so I had to go to Italy and find something nice to bake. Lemony sweet and spring-appropriate colors – I could not ask for more ;)
Today is all about feeling good and homey with a help of a classic German cake. A delicious German Apple Streusel Cake my mom baked, her mother, my grandmother’s mother and her mother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandfather…. etc. I guess you know where I am going. They all knew how to make a good apple cake, so it certainly can’t hurt to have such a delicious treat in your own repertoire, right?! ;)
Today’s recipe is something you can cook if you have less time than usual in the kitchen. One-Pot meals like this One-Pot Gnocchi with Italian Sauce are normally easier to prepare, you need fewer bowls, pots, and kitchen gadgets and everything is done much quicker… well and it tastes damn delicious. The best part – there is much less to clean afterward ;P
The month is almost over again – that means it’s time for another “Bake Together – The Baking Surprise” with Andrea from Zimtkeks & Apfeltarte. This time we’ve picked a very special topic: choux pastry aka. pâte à choux! One of my “mortal enemies” you could say. I made it quite often already, but somehow choux pastry and I will never be friends I guess ;) Well… I hope you can’t tell right away looking at this delicious Mousse au Chocolate Cream Puff Cake ;P
Some of you might know already from previous articles that I was born and raised close to the Swiss border. For a few years, I even lived in Switzerland. That’s probably the reason why I love me some Swiss Carrot Cake aka. Swiss Rüblikuchen. One of the best cakes you that emerged from the Alps with little marzipan carrots on top. Looking at it makes my mouth water every time… must be Pavlovian conditioning :P
I love my job, but in between I love to bake and try new things in the kitchen. A lot of my friends and colleagues encourage me to bake - for a very simple reason: they get the leftovers - and it seems they like it most of the time ;)
