Happy Birthday Charles Dickens!

While driving through this morning’s -13° cold, I listened to WDR 5‘s Zeitzeichen. Today they featured a story about Charles Dickens that made this morning’s drive that much more enjoyable. When I arrived back at the desk I saw this lovely design on google:     Only then did I realise that today is the [...]

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Mrs. Prosch’s Olde Bakery IX: Rainbow Cake

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 [...]

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Mrs. Prosch’s Olde Bakery VII: Birthday Cupcakes

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 [...]

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