Today I finally tackled “Mission Fondant”. And I failed miserably. This recipe made it sound oh so simple. And everything went well as I was microwaving the fudge out of my marshmallows. But everything went downhill with adding the powdered sugar. First, my mixer got stuck. I waved it off and decided to mix it [...]
As announced, I got up early at a reasonable time on Saturday to bake lemon curd slices. The recipe called for a rectangular baking pan, but I don’t have one of those and thought my trusted Tchibo pie pan would suffice. It did I used one of lecker’s recipes, as usual: As [...]
It’s been awhile since my last baking extravaganza in May, when I baked the infamous rainbow cake. A lot has happened since then, albeit not on the baking front. For one, I am now maid of honour to the rainbow-cake-birthdaygirl! And I was asked to bake the couple’s wedding cake to which I answered: “Challenge [...]
Today was a friend’s birthday and she deserved something nice and pretty. Since she got a pocket knife as a gift, albeit a pretty one, something special was warranted, something girly. In the last months my dreams were haunted by technicolour cupcakes like those: Oooh, pretty! When my favourite cooking magazine‘s last edition [...]
What was that? You said you wanted to buy me something? My oh my, you shouldn’t… But if you insist: I found some veeeery nice things online. Pretty and useless stuff. Mostly useless. In the sense of “I don’t need this, but I want it!”. The Geek would probably scratch the “pretty” and just call [...]
This one isn’t actually out of an old Leipzig cookbook, but snatched right off a friend’s wife’s blog. When I saw her post my mouth immediately started to water, so I had to try this recipe. After I had thrown the first ingredients into the bowl I noticed that the flour was missing [...]
There are some constants in my life that I wouldn’t want to miss. Next to my grandma’s mocca-cream-gateau and my dad’s moustache is a yearly trip to our dutch neighbors in Venlo. We always take the same motorway, park in the same street and go in the same month: October. But the treasures we find [...]
The cuter the house, the happier the housewife. I’m not exactly a housewife, but that statement is true for me. Need cute pots? Creations Li has them. An adorable lamp-bookrest-hybrid? You can find it at emmo home. You never know where to put your keys? Get this birdhouse. And the bird pendant doubles as a [...]
A friend of ours turned 30 yesterday. A gift was in order, but we didn’t want to get the usual CD/DVD. Why not bake something, with heart and love and muscle-power! The task was clear, it had to be cupcakes! A birthday cake is so 2004, and cupcakes are just nicer for a party, especially [...]
I generally don’t like bake-mixes and there are only two I use on a kinda- regular basis. One of them is a French Chocolate Tarte and the other one Dr. Oetkers “Maulwurfkuchen” (Mole-Cake). Named after its appearance, it looks like a mole-hill. It consists of fluffy chocolate cake with a creamy filling. I usually pimp [...]
