Today is World Baking Day! Yay! What do you do on a day like this? Baking, of course! It doesn’t matter what you are baking – the most important thing is to get the oven ready and create something nice to munch ;) Today I made a super delicious little Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Well… maybe not so little, it’s actually quite a bulky piece of cake.
If you ask people from all around the world which cake they like the most, you will often get the answer “cheesecake”! In the US you will also find a lot of people that like carrot cakes a lot. Her in Germany we are not that fond of carrot cakes – even though Starbucks does a good job in trying to convince us. Their carrot cake is awesome ;) Anyway. I am a huge carrot cake fan and love to bake it. I am not eating much of it though (because of all the sugar) but my friends and colleagues are very happy each time they get a slice of goodness ;P
Everybody knows cinnamon rolls. They are quite popular. Delicious and fluffy yeast rolls with a thick cinnamon cream cheese glaze on top. Hmmmm… So good! These ones here are a seasonal version with cherries. Since cherries are all over the place right now, you have to use them for baking, right? ;)
There is no cake for you today in this house! I did not heat up the oven… well, actually I did, but not to bake a cake. Nope. Today I got some nice ice cream for you. Ice cream inspired by a cake. Can’t get rid of the cake topic completely. Somehow they are everywhere involved :P
I guess you all know NY Cheesecake already. These rich and delicious but mostly pale cheesecakes every coffee shop around the world offers nowadays ;) Why are they all so pale and why is this one here still an NY Style Cheesecake even though it looks different? Important questions of life…! :P
These kind of cakes are really easy to prepare – throw everything in one big bowl, do some mixing and then you are basically done – similar to a pound cake ;) The batter for this cake is done in no time, off to the oven and then all you have to do is wait…
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 ;)
