Here’s an apple cake with a crusty exterior and delicious apple filling. Thomas used this recipe. Preheat your oven to 180ºC (350ºF) and grease an 18cm (7″) cake tin. Melt 125g (4.4 0z) of butter in a large saucepan, then add 90g (3 oz) of sugar and stir to dissolve. Add 1 cup of self-raising…… Continue reading apple cake
Tag: german food
whole grain bread
I decided to revisit my childhood with a German-style bread. It’s a heavy, satisfying and tasty bread full of grains and seeds. In a small bowl combine 2 teaspoons of dry active yeast, 6 teaspoons of sugar and 2 cups of warm water and let it sit for 5-10 minutes. Meanwhile, in a stand mixer or…… Continue reading whole grain bread
poppy seed cake
This is more like a slightly sweet bread than a cake. It’s delicious for breakfast and is actually traditionally eaten as a wedding breakfast amongst the Sorbian people, a Slavic race who number only 60,000 and live in Saxony, Germany. The recipe is adapted from the book Culinaria GERMANY. To make the dough mix 4 cups of flour with 2¼ teaspoons of dried yeast,…… Continue reading poppy seed cake
baumkuchen
Like the cross section of a tree trunk, this Bavarian baumkuchen or ‘tree cake’ is traditionally painted onto a rotisserie grill in thin layers forming the ‘rings’ of the tree. This version is cooked in a cake tin and the layers are horizontal. This cake is best made one or two days ahead and keeps well.…… Continue reading baumkuchen
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