Earlier this month, in my Halloween post, I told you about St. Martin’s Day, a catholic holiday that is celebrated in parts of Germany on November 11. I also told you that a traditional pastry that is given out to the kids on St. Martin’s Day is a “Weckmann” (a pastry in the form of a…
As promised last week, I wanted to share the recipe for the German plum cake with you. I feel like plums or Zwetschgen, as they’re called in German, are not on a lot of people’s radar, especially for baking. And you guys, we need to change this because OMG, baked plums are so freakin’ good….
I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2020 This post has been years in the making. Spritzgebäck is the traditional holiday cookie in my family. Everybody gets involved. My Mom prepares the dough, my Dad and the kids (first my sister and I, then my cousin, now my…
The other day, when I talked about my quarantine baking, I asked if you were interested in the recipe for these quick almond butter oat cookies, so here it is! They require only four ingredients (that I usually have at home at all times) and I’ve used coconut sugar. I hadn’t heard about coconut sugar…
If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I’ve become a quarantine cliché when I started baking bread with sourdough starter back in April. I’ve kept a weekly baking schedule since then, which is my longest bread baking streak yet, and I am not planning to stop anytime soon. But, not surprisingly, quarantine has…
I’ve been trying to find ways to use my sourdough discard. Even though I keep a fairly small sourdough starter, because I only bake once a week, I still have a little bit of discard every time I feed the starter and I’ve been looking for ways to use it. I sometimes have used some…
Alternative title: If you don’t bake, are you even quarantined? So, as you already know if you follow me on Instagram, I am baking again. If there is one thing that you can’t find on the shelves at the supermarkets, besides toilet paper and disinfectant, it’s been flour and yeast (although it seems to be…
