My bakes for Easter sometimes get out of control. If you have a lot of people around for an extensive breakfast or brunch, you need something good-looking and sweet… and I am not talking about me ;P I mean cake. A nice and big Easter cake like this Hazelnut Eierlikör Layer Cake with Amicelli. Big, beautiful, and a carb disaster… I love it! ;)
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?! ;)
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
It might be a good time to start thinking about Easter and what to bake for that holiday. Easter is not only “around the corner” it basically blocks the isles in the supermarkets everywhere with chocolate Easter bunnies and Easter eggs for weeks already. What are you going to bake? Are you baking? I mean… we are still in lockdown, so there should be enough time to do some baking ;) We are definitely making this delicious Carrot Cake Cheesecake this year. It’s the perfect cake for Easter… really.
Easter is getting closer – there is no way around it. Many will celebrate this year in a smaller group I assume. A huge cake is probably not a good idea this time – unlike you love to eat a lot of sweets ;) How about some small Crème Brûlée Cheesecakes instead? They are the perfect treat for an occasion like that – especially if you can’t have all your friends and family around for Easter.
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 ;)
