Do you like cupcakes? How about a delicious Walnut Chocolate Cupcake along with a cup of coffee? Sounds good, right?! We always have something baked in the house on the weekend – otherwise, the coffee breaks on the weekend would not be perfect ;) Some cookies would be fine as well, so you have something you can dip into the coffee, but if there are cupcakes… we choose the cupcakes, of course! ;P
October is almost over. It’s time for a new “Bake Together – The Baking Surprise”! Many of you probably expect something for Halloween today but unfortunately, I do not have anything bloody for you today. Sorry! Just a delicious Apple Pecan & Cranberry Streusel Cake. Nothin’ overly fancy. If you want it to be Halloween-themed you could pour some red fruit sauce on top and stick a few knives into it… but the cake is actually fine as it is here :P
Halloween is coming up soon and, of course, I could not resist baking a little sweet treat for this special day. Not because I’m going to celebrate with a party. My Halloween bakes are just for fun. Because I like to bake something spooky from time to time. If you’ve been here on the blog in previous years around Halloween, you have probably seen some of these bakes already. Today I got some delicious and only slightly creepy cupcakes for you. Delicious Audrey II Cupcakes from the musical „Litte Shop of Horrors“ – some of you probably heard of it ;)
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
Blueberries are available in stores all year round. If you can’t get fresh ones, there are always frozen blueberries in the aisle with the frozen products. Depending on what you want to do with them, you have to choose between fresh or frozen. In most cases, you can use frozen berries without any problems, because the small berries kind of disappear in the bakes anyway. The blueberries in these Blueberry Streusel Bars merge into one thick blueberry layer, so frozen berries work perfectly here ;)
Black Forest Cake is a classic German bake. Loved by many, hated by many others ;P Let’s put it that way – it’s a controversial cake. Turning that classic cake into cupcakes is probably even more controversial for some people. But I could not care less – the cupcakes are delicious and that’s all that counts ;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 ;) 
