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The Big Gingerbread School

I am going to teach you all things gingerbread today. This means a lot of tips to make your gingerbread dough a success, and of course lots of tips on royal icing and how to successfully glue the gingerbread pieces together as well as decorate them. By the way, gingerbread that is only used for decoration can be stored for several years, check number 6 below for my success tips. Finally, there are various recipes with gingerbread, I hope there is something for you. Let’s get started right away and see how to go about this!

05/11/2025

12 Tips for Cheesecakes with no Cracks

You are wondering how you can manage to make delicious cheesecake without the dreaded cracks? Look no further, below I list twelve tips for perfect cheesecake. The main takeaways are that you bake it in a waterbath even if the recipe doesn’t call for it (I have a super simple method, see point number 7) and that you are patient when cooling it. Remember: cheesecake hates sudden changes of temperature. This holds true for baking as well as for cooling it off. It all should be done slowly and delicately. The best is if you prepare cheesecake the day before as it gives you time to chill and put in the fridge. After providing my tips for perfect cheesecake, you will find 15 recipes for delicious cheesecakes, including some with German quark, some with sour cream, heavy cream, etc. I also include the recipe for Japanese cheesecake and the one from Spain.

You see here a simple sour cream cake with cinnamon topping Continue Reading…

20/06/2025

How to Make Strudel Dough

Guys, you won’t believe how many strudels I have made recently. Crazy! Have you every tried to make one from scratch? I know a lot of people are scared of making the dough. But believe me, it is much easier than it looks, really. I was not paid for this but I took an online strudel class with the Austrian Lamarche, she shared so many helpful tricks, it was amazing! One major thing to keep in mind is that strudel dough has to rest. A lot. Like several times. You first knead it for a long time, then it rests, then you work a bit on it, and it rests again. For that reason I recommend making the dough the night or day before so that you can focus on all that stretching. Below you will have ten tips for perfect strudel dough, the basic recipe, and some extra recipes.

17/01/2025

How to Remove Hard Caramel Fast

Today you will get a lot of tips on how to remove hard caramel fast. You can watch in this reel how I do it. The short answer is: you need (boiling) water and a bit of time. This is possible without any hardcore scrubbing. In addition, you will find my favorite recipe for caramel below plus a lot of recipe ideas using caramel.

I will explain below how you get from the picture on the left to the picture on the right within five minutes

Below is also a recipe for homemade caramel

19/04/2024

15 Brunch Ideas

Are you still looking for last-minute inspiration for your Easter brunch? I have compiled 15 ideas here, pancakes, waffles, cakes, you will also find something savory and vegan dishes, so let’s keep this brief and get going:

Waffles, pancakes and the like

#1 Fluffy Kaiserschmarrn with rhubarb compote #2 Thick pancakes with sourdough (overnight prep) Continue Reading…

26/03/2024

How to Make an Even and Tall Cake

I have been asked over and over again if I could do a post on how to make an even and tall cake, so I finally gave in. For that reason I made videos (yes, plural), to help you practice making a tall and very even cake. If I managed to learn it, you will too. I can tell you, I was scared of cutting a cake in more than half (you know like cutting one big cake layer into three) and my cakes were loop-sided. But I promise you, practice makes perfect, so if I can make a nice even cake, so can you. I mean the below three-tiered wedding cake I made does show that it is possible, right? Yes, this wedding cake was prepared by me and yes, I did overcome my fear.

For wedding cakes it is extremely important that they are even as you are going to stack one on the other and even if you have the proper support, you want to be sure the weight is distributed evenly. You will find the recipes for this wedding cake here.

01/03/2024

How to Make a Heart Cake out of a Round Cake

You don’t have a heart-shaped cake pan, but you would like to make a heart-shaped cake either for Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day? I got you covered. How you can make a round cake into a heart-shaped cake with minimal loss of cake is explained in this blog post. We are going to cut the cake and cover everything with buttercream. I will show this process with photos. In addition, I will list 14 different cake recipes, which may serve as the base of your heart. The recipe for the pictured raspberry chocolate heart is also part of this article.

How to transform a round cake into a heart-shape cake without a heart-shaped cake form

26/01/2024

The Big Empanada School

I am going to teach you about empanadas today, these are the famous turnovers from Latin America. Empanadas are, I dare say, THE snack of Latin America. Empanadas do require quite a bit of work, first you have to prepare the dough and then the filling, then you need to fill and seal each empanada before it is baked or fried. As many dishes, empanadas are originally from Spain. However, Spanish empanadas have little resemblance with the empanadas from Latin America. Spanish empanadas are similar to a pie. The empanada from Galicia for example is big and round, like a pie, usually filled with chicken and champignons. Often the pie topping has some braided elements and is decorated in some kind of way. This is very different from the empanadas from Latin America. In this article we will have a look at how empanadas are made in Latin America. Of course I will give a lot of recipes at the end of this article.

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28/04/2023

Coffee Date in Dresden

It has been way too long that I have drunk a virtual coffee with you, so let’s do that now. This time I invite you to Dresden and Radebeul. We got to spend Easter in Dresden and Radebeul. Dresden will always be in my heart as it is the city I first studied jazz piano in at the Carl Maria von Weber music conservatory, and later switched to the Technical University in order to study languages). Moreover, Dresden is the city I got to meet my Colombian husband and where we got married after many months of red tape and many hurdles. Needless to say that Dresden will always have a special place in my heart even if I still don’t like the Saxon dialect.

During one of our walks to Altkötzschenbroda; the church you see in the back is where we got married 13 years ago

11/04/2023

How to Make an American Pie

After a long break I am going to do another “how to” tutorial. This is geared towards German people and non-Americans because I am going to talk about pie. What exactly is a pie? The most traditional pie has a dough base (pie crust) and a filling, it may have a second pie crust it is covered with. It was already popular among the American pioneers as it didn’t contain any leavener and could all be done by hand. It usually contains few ingredients such as flour, sugar, butter, egg, and milk and/or fruit or meats and has reached popularity also outside of the U.S. The most traditional pie is probably the apple pie, pumpkin pie or pecan pie is another classic you will find everywhere for Thanksgiving. In Germany pie is not that popular, even though the Europeans brought their different pies and tarts to the U.S. in the first place before it became so popular in the U.S.

02/09/2022

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