It’s that time of year again for Krapfen. Those wonderful, fried, sweet yeast dough confections that are filled with jam or marmalade and topped with powdered or conventional sugar. Why not have an easy Krapfen recipe on hand to break out whenever you want a doughnut? Yes, these are basically jelly doughnuts but they’re doughnuts with meaning and history! Okay, so I hesitate…
Baking
Red Wine Cake (Rotweinkuchen)
Red wine and dark chocolate. What a decadent combination. These are the two stand out ingredients in this luscious red wine cake. There’s also a touch of cinnamon that edges the flavour into a slightly more “spiced” realm. With it’s somewhat dense texture and boozy red wine icing, I consider this cake to be more of a Sunday or company…
Vanilla Anise Drop Cookies (Anisplätzchen)
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Every year for Christmas when I was young we would get a big package sent over from Germany by my Oma and Opa. Thinking back on it now and how many kids and grandkids they had overseas, this couldn’t have been cheap. Within that big box, amid all the wrapped gifts and…
Classic Marble Cake (Marmorkuchen)
The English like their afternoon tea and the German like their afternoon coffee and cake. Marble Cake is a quintessential German coffee cake. I’ll admit that in my childhood I wasn’t terribly fond of marble cake as I always found it a little boring and rather dry. Recently, I decided to see if that was still…
Mini Krapfen (the mini Berliners)
Ich bin ein Berliner! No, John F. Kennedy wasn’t actually saying he was a jelly doughnut but that phrase and the German pastry has become forever linked. It’s not really a bad thing because I’m sure that’s how many of you first heard about this delectable treat. In Germany, they go by many names but the most…