Heidesandcake

Hi Folks,

there are still a few days until christmas... So I'd like to share my favorite christmas cake with you. The cake is called "Heidesandkuchen". I couldn't find a translation but I think that doesn't bother anyway.

Sorry, the cake doesn't become as beautiful as the pictures you are always see at the internet but it tastes nevertheless yummy - This is real life! 

Maybe you can bake it the whole year but I like it most around Christmas, because I think with the filling it's christmassy .

Here's the receipe if you like to bake it yourself:

Ingredients

250 g	butter
250 g	plum jam
2 tbs	rolled oats
1 ts	grated lemon zest
250 g	flour
50 g	cornstarch
3 ts	baking powder
1/2 ts	cinnamon (optional)
150 g	sugar
1 pak	vanilla sugar
1 pinch	salt
4	eggs
	Cake icing

Instructions Tanning the butter and set aside until cool and creamy.
Mix Jam, oatmeal and lemon zest and set aside.
Create a sponge from all the other ingredients. Stir in the cooled butter.
Divide dough into 3 parts. Fill alternating with the jam mixture into the form.
Bake at 160°C for 50-60 minutes. Let sit for 10 minutes then overthrow the cake.
When the cake has cooled, cover the cake with the glaze.

Enjoy you cake!

                   

   

Hazelnut-spicy Christmas cookie-creme

Hi Y'all!

Like last year I gave a little present to my colleagues. It's not especially for St. Nicolas or Christmas. I would like to say, it's for christmas season. 

I made hazelnut-spicy Christmas cookie-creme. I used the receipe: Homemade Nutella-Spekulatius-Creme from "Zuckersüßes von Tina und Lina". In addition I gave a funny walking santa and and a little bit of choclate.

All was wrapped in a brown paper bag. Decorated with bakers twine and little bit of greenery.

It's absolutly the time for a sweet tooth and not for diet.

Have a tasty time

                        

Candied almonds with a little difference

Hi Y'all!

Today it was that time again to candy almonds, like I do every year in the christmas season. As I did last year and the year before and the year before and so on. But this year I tried something new. I tried spicy almonds. I put on a bit of pumpkin pie spice and it turned out great. It's something new for me but I like it and I think I will do this again.

BTW: Yesterday, my little blog turned 1 year (yeah, happy birthday!) and I am glad that I still here to share what I do. Do you remember my first post of all? It was Wooden Snowmen welcome. Although I try to publish articles regularly, unfortunately it's not always possible. I hope y'all still enjoy my little blog-land and maybe my readership will growing even a little. Whatever, for me only remains to say: 

Thank you for reading my blog!

                

Canning, decorating, transforming and crocheting

Hi Everybody!

I had this week off and it was very relaxing, but also very busy. I had planned many fun things and ultimately all done. Finally I had enough time, to do all the things I wanna do. So here is a little summary of the things that I've done this week.

Autumn is canning time and therefore of course I also canned some things.

First I tried canning pumpkin puree because many recipes for e.g. pumpkin pie or pumpkin bread, requires pumpkin puree and you can't have canned pumpkin in Germany. At least I could not find one until now. So I made my own. I had 3 kinds of squash: Hubbard, Spaghetti and Pumpkin. Now I'm prepared for everything with pumpkin.

Second was trying a new jam. I had heard about zuccini-jam years ago and since that time I wanted to try it. So now was the time. I made a zuccini-apple-jam and what should I say except yummy?

If I did not  canned, I have done other things. Like to decorate the front door for Halloween,

transform an old suitcase to a cat bed

and I crocheted a lot. Here are the results:

    

Credit for the ladybug: The pattern is created by craftyshanna. You can find it on Ravelry.

Credit for the plane: The pattern is created by Angela Van Camp. You can find it also on Ravelry.

These three are my favorits:

The Unicorns were based on the pattern of Rachel Hoe. I have modified it according to my wishes. You can find the original pattern on Ravelry.

So you see, I had a lot of fun this week. Hope you had a fun week too.

                

Pumpkin soup

Hi Everybody

recently I told you about my "big" pumpkin harvest. Here's the first product that I've made ​​from the pumpkins. Super yummy pumpkin soup, according to my mom's recipe.

If you'd like to cook at it, here is the recipe:

Ingredients (about 4 servings)

2          small leeks 

60 g     butter 

500 g   pumpkin (peeled and diced) 

300 g   potatoes (peeled and diced) 

¼ ltr.    water 

¼ ltr.    milk (whether 3.5% or 1.5%)

1 pack creme fraîche 

            salt and pepper

1 pack cooked ham

Preparation 
Peel, dice and wash the pumpkin and the potatoes and set aside.

Cut and wash leeks. In the meantime, heat the butter in a large pot. Sauté the leeks in the butter. Add milk and water and bring it to boil. 

Put in the pumpkin and potato pieces and cook until everything is soft (about 30 minutes). Remove the pot from the heat and puree everything. (Side note: Pay attention! Puree could be a total mess.) Finally, stir in the creme fraîche and season with salt and pepper to taste. 

Dice the ham and spread it on your plate, fill the soup over and enjoy.

Till next time

All nuts

It's tradition  to make candy almonds while the christmas season. My mother taught me years ago. But this year I wanted to try something new. I tried to crystallize hazelnuts, walnuts and peanuts, too. This is the result:

There is nothing other to say than: Y U M M Y!!!

Thanks for dropping in!