It’s finally the season for figs again. Yay! I love these purple little fellas and I am more than happy that you can get figs quite cheap right now. I know not everyone loves figs as much as I do, but if you ended up here you are probably a fan too and will like these Honey Fig Cheesecake Bars. They are delicious! ;)
Happy Birthday to meeee! Yeah… you guessed right. As a food blogger, you have to bake your own birthday cake. Unfortunately, none of my friends or family has ever come up with the idea to bake a cake for me. Maybe they fear I could criticize them for the recipe they used or something like that (which would never happen)… but hey – that’s how it has been for years now. Well. This year I decided to make a very small cake only. With all the COVID restrictions and social distancing, there is no need to bake a big one. So this year I will have this Mini M&M’s Cheesecake only for me… or let’s say almost only me. There are always some people who can smell cake from miles away and they will definitely show up ;P
It’s the end of the month and it’s time for another “Bake Together – The Baking Surprise”! It feels like the last one was just yesterday ;) Maybe it’s because Andrea and I just published our new “Bake Together Summer Edition Ebook” this month and had a lot of work to do the past several weeks. Well. More on that later. Today is all about this month’s topic: “Kiwi”! I guess you could see that already on the first picture. A delicious vegan No-Bake Kiwi Coconut Cheesecake. So good!
Cheesecake is something almost everybody likes. Today I got a really nice one for you… a delicious Orange & Chocolate Cheesecake. So good! Made with an Oreo chocolate crust, delicious cream cheese filling, and an orange jelly layer on top. It’s a cheesecake I am willing to bake even on a hot summer day when the temperatures in the kitchen are already very high… this cheesecake is so good I am OK with a little heat stroke. Just kidding ;P
Do you have a garden by any chance? Maybe with some tomato plants? Are the first tomatoes ready to be eaten? Mid/end of July you should be able to harvest the first fruits I guess. Most of our tomatoes are still green because we have had a cold and rainy summer so far. The ones ready to harvest were not enough to make this cheesecake with tomato and fennel topping so far. But that could change in a couple of weeks I guess. There is hope ;)
This one here is an absolute classic of all the classic German cakes – with Austrian roots actually ;) I think it’s safe to say that a cake like this Quark Cream Cake with Mandarin Oranges can be found in any bakery here in Germany – maybe not always with mandarin oranges, but the quark cream cake is basically a standard in bakeries here. It’s loved by some, hated by others. Nevertheless, for decades it has been an indispensable part of the afternoon coffee time with grandma, grandpa, and great-aunt Erna ;)
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 ;)
