Berliner Brot – a cookie with cinnamon and pimentos reminding the wonderful Christmas time of our childhood. A friend of mine got this recipe from her mother who had to learn it at housekeeping school more than 60 years ago. While posting the recipe the Berliner Brot is baking in the oven and I’ll give […]
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Thumbprint cookies – besides Grandma’s traditional spritz cookies the best Christmas cookies ever. That’s what our children say and that’s why they’re almost the first cookies we do for Christmas. The recipe is quite easy and they’re even better if the currant jelly derives from Grandma’s storage rack. The ingredients are lightly changed because fortunately […]
They look like the first Christmas cookies but weren’t meant to be. I simply wanted to use the remaining egg yolk of my meringue pastry. The original recipe found on “Rezeptwiese.de” proposes to cover the cookies with icing sugar. For half of my cookies I chose a chocolate top which we liked very much too. […]
Potatoes in curd cheese pastry with poppy seeds and tangerines – unusual but really delicious. Thanks to the mashed potatoes the pastry is very mellow. The filling of poppy seeds and the sweet tangerines give it a very fruity note. I’m not sure whether I’m willing to cook some extra potatoes for a cake but […]
There’s nothing special with these potatoes. They just succeeded being mentioned because I had to cook them already today for my tomorrow’s post. The main ingredient of many recipes in a German food magazine called “Gugelhupf” is actually our beloved potato. I was specially attracted by a picture of a cup cake filled with poppy […]
