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…
Vanilla
Let’s make Vanilla Sugar (Vanillezucker)
Ahh, vanilla. The smell of reminds me of warmth, simplicity and comfort. It’s a commonplace but highly valued ingredient in baking and any baker worth their salt is going to a good quality extract in their spice cabinet. However, in most of Europe they don’t use vanilla extract. In fact, it’s pretty much non-existent at…