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…
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German Iced Coffee (Eiskaffee)
For those of you that don’t already know, I’m in Germany for the next several weeks. Why, you might ask? Well, it’s because I’m putting together the finishing touches of our wedding in September. I have to laugh because I keep getting the question from some of the guys in my life as to why I need…
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…
Dark Hot Chocolate (Zartbitter Heisse Schokolade)
It’s a sunny 63 degrees out while I sip my deliciously dark hot chocolate on this beautifully balmy afternoon. Not exactly classic hot chocolate weather, but then, who ever said hot chocolate was only for when it’s cold outside? It certainly wasn’t me because I’ll drink it at any time. Heisse Schokolade or hot chocolate holds warm…