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French Flan Pâtissier with Pistachio and Raspberry Flavor

Today is the eighth anniversary of my severe bike accident without permanent damage. For me this day is like a second birthday, each year I like to celebrate it with a decadent cake. This time I made French flan with pistachio and raspberry flavor. Flan originated in Spain, spread during colonization and became very popular in Latin America. I have quite a few recipes on the blog: classic flan, pineapple flan coconut flan, chocoflan, flan with coffee flavor and quesillo from Venezuela, I hope this proves how popular flan has become. Obviously the French also took their take. Instead of simply mixing eggs with some dairy products and have this mixture bake in a waterbath, they decided to make a pudding first. This means that the French version tempers the eggs and then is cooked on medium heat until it thickens. I may be wrong, but I believe that the final result is even creamier this way. Additionally, this could also be described as a custard pie as a pie crust is added. Obviously by adding all these steps, the amount of work increases, however, I believe it is worth all the effort, especially when celebrating that I have no permanent damage.

23/04/2026

Lemon Blueberry Muffins

Lemon and blueberries simply are the best combination, for that reason I wanted to introduce these lemon blueberry muffins. I already have a lemon blueberry cake and lemon blueberry cupcakes on the blog, but I was still missing a great muffin recipe. I decided to serve them with crumbs, you may also sprinkle with sliced almonds or leave the crumbs out and serve plain. I personally liked them best with crumbs.
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03/04/2026

German Heavenly Cake

This German cake has many names, the most famous probably being “heavenly cake”. I can confirm that it does taste heavenly, think a batter created with egg yolks, a layer of meringue, which is sprinkled with sliced almonds and a whipped cream infused with raspberries sandwiched in between. Then you get this cake. It seems to be more known in the north of Germany, at least I had forgotten about its existence until I returned to the city Paderborn and tasted the cake again in the coffeshop Café Markt 5 (I was not paid to mention it). When I looked at the options in the cafe, this cake immediately caught my eye, of all other cakes there was only one at display, but this cake had six (!) cakes at display. Clearly, the favorite cake of all customers so I had to give it a try. I immediately understood why it is so popular. So it was also clear I had to make this cake as soon as I returned back to Munich. When I consulted the internet, I was shocked, so many recipes, so many different fruits, strawberries, apples, peaches, rhubarb, tangerines, the list was long. I decided to make a rather classic version first with frozen raspberries.

29/03/2026

Creamy Passion Fruit Ice Cream

Due to the request of my hubby today you will get creamy passion fruit ice cream. It is made with a custard, which contains egg yolks, cream, and milk. You will need an ice cream machine for this ice cream. You will be rewarded an extremely refreshing ice cream with a distinct passion fruit flavor. We have made it several times this summer. Even though I don’t like ice cream too much (I know, I am weird), I have to say, this one is different. Even I ate my fair share of it. So if you have an ice cream machine and want to make ice cream the classic way, let’s get going, this is so delicious!

15/08/2025

Quick and Easy Plum Cake

If you are short on time and can’t make the traditional German Zwetschgendatschi with yeast dough, you may want to try this version. Instead of yeast, we are going to work with baking powder as the leavener. The base is a sort of cream cheese/sour cream type of dough relying on oil instead of butter. It comes together in minutes and can immediately be baked. No rising times, no waiting. I like my fruit cakes with lots and lots of crumbs on top. These have some silvered almonds included. However, you may omit the crumbs or streusel completely or make the simple version with flour, butter, and sugar. I provide the recipe for a half-sheet cake below. If you want to have a full sheet, simply double all amounts.

08/08/2025

Strawberries and Cream for Wimbledon

Strawberries and cream are THE dessert when it comes to Wimbledon. For that reason I decided to introduce the “recipe” here, it is pretty straight forward, you whip the cream with sugar and vanilla, you also mix the strawberries with sugar and vanilla (so four ingredients in total) and this is then layered into a dessert. According to Wimbledon more than 140,000 portions are served during the two-week tournament. Serving strawberries with cream dates back to Victorian times, it was often served for banquets, picnics, and other summer festivities. As Wimbledon traditionally takes place during the high season of British strawberries, it comes as no surprise why it has been popular for a long time. Wimbledon was established in 1877 and has since then kept this tradition.

13/07/2025

Simple Apricot Cake

This simple apricot cake is exactly what you need for a picnic, I took pictures outside on purpose. Sitting in a green area with a piece of this cake sounds perfect to me. The cake is easy to make and does not require any chilling times. Even though there are only two of us, we gobbled it up quickly. I was inspired by this simple cherry cake, but I would be me if I didn’t tweak the recipe a bit and made it even simpler. If you are looking for some more recipes with apricots or peaches, how about this blog article with 14 apricot and peach recipes.

11/07/2025

Apricot Strudel

Apricot strudel, I just had to make one! Since attending an online strudel class, I have been in a strudel craze. I published one full article on how to stretch out strudel dough not long ago. This time I decided it was time for a summer strudel with a lot of apricots. I am a huge apricot fan, I have a lot of apricot recipes on my blog. So it comes as no surprise that a strudel also had to be filled with apricots. I also added caramelized bread crumbs and almonds.

13/06/2025

Strawberry Tiramisu Roll

Are you interested in an impressive dessert, which does not require any baking and which can be prepared in advance? Then look no further, this strawberry tiramisu roll is perfect for you. We will not turn on the oven, we will only whip up some mascarpone with heavy cream and chop some strawberries, that is mainly it, the rest is taken care of by the fridge. Additional bonus points: this recipe does not require any eggs or alcohol.

26/04/2025

Plum Cake with Yeast Dough

You probably know that it is only my hubby and me so I thought making a full baking sheet of cake would probably be too much. I already have a plum sheet cake on here. So I figured I would make more of a coffee cake in a round form. This would probably not take as long to eat. So I got to working on it and once done, it took very little and suddenly I only saw half of the cake left. Where had it gone? My hubby looked all innocent, he claimed he had only eaten three pieces of cake. If these these pieces were very large chunks of cake I inquired. Well, this depends on how you define “chunck”. Well, well, well… I think it speaks for itself that hubby was so excited about this recipe. I loosely based it on the recipe from Alfons Schuhbeck (in German). he is very famous, especially for this plum cake called Zwetschgendatschi, so I am happy to present this plum cake with yeast dough, lots of plums, and cinnamon crumbs. If you are short on time, I can recommend a much quicker plum cake, which uses baking powder as the leavener instead of yeast.

06/09/2024

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