Recipes for the most delicious, beautiful and best cakes you can think of, such as sponge, chocolate and cheesecakes or muffins.
Last weekend, I baked two cakes. One of them was an Angel’s cake, and the other one was a sponge cake layered with chocolate cream. My husband, who always licks all chocolate cream bowls and loves chocolate cakes, was surprisingly more eager to eat Angel’s cake this time. The main reason for this was the…
Shrek cake is a beautifully looking cake, the base of which is a sponge cake layered with green cream, white cream, Jaffa cakes and jelly. Green cream is a custard cream that can be prepared by using any type of green-colored juice. You can use a juice from a mixture of green fruits such as…
Waffles are baked goodies made by combining flour with milk, egg, sugar and salt. They are baked in a waffle iron, which gives them a characteristic, usually rectangular shape. Both sweet and savoury waffles are popular. Sweet ones are served with fruits, whipped cream, jam, ice cream or icing sugar. In the savoury version, you…
Linzer cookies come from the Austrian city of Linz. They are shortbread butter cookies, in which the dough is made by combining all-purpose flour with almond flour, butter, sugar, cinnamon and lemon zest. The finished dough is rolled out and cookies of various shapes are cut out of it. Most often, the cookies are round-shaped,…
Gingerbread roll is a perfect match for the upcoming Christmas. The basis of the roll is a gingerbread cake, which I covered with a simple cream made of mascarpone cheese, whipped cream, sugar and cinnamon. Baking a gingerbread cake itself is quick. The cake batter can be made in less than 10 minutes, and the…
Fried bananas in pancake batter is a simple dish that can be served both as a dessert or dinner. To make bananas in pancake batter, you only need generally available ingredients. The batter which covers the bananas has a texture similar to pancake batter, but it is much denser. This batter is made by combining…
Viennese cheesecake is a very simple, yet tasty cheesecake, the main ingredients of which are eggs, quark cheese, sugar and butter. After baking, you can sprinkle it with icing sugar or decorate it with dark chocolate. When it comes to additions, raisins can be found in Viennese cheesecake quite often. Unfortunately, I avoid them, because…
I discovered the combination of matcha and white chocolate quite recently and I really like it. Matcha is a powdered Japanese green tea that is perfect for cakes, cookies and creams. The first dessert I prepared with matcha was a cake, which I baked for my husband’s birthday. The basis of the matcha cake is…
Danish Pastry is a variety of puff pastry with a layered texture. You can make it from yeast, flour, lots of butter, eggs, milk and sugar. Work on the pastry begins with the preparation of yeast dough, rolling it out and covering it with butter. Subsequently, the dough is folded and rolled several times, and…
Sweet quark cheese balls are a very popular dish in Hungary that can often be found on restaurant menus. In Hungarian houses it is served both for lunch and for dessert. The basis of these sweet quark cheese balls is quark cheese, semolina and eggs. Balls are formed from the mass, which once cooked, are…
Baked rice with apples is a delicious dish that works well for dessert or lunch. To prepare rice with apples, start by frying the apples and cooking the rice in milk. The cooked rice should be creamy but still slightly liquid. When it comes to the type of apples, choose the one you like the…
Karpatka i.e. Carpathian cake is made from choux dough layered with custard and butter cream. This is a type of Carpathian cake that I remember from my childhood, I always make this version of it in my home. The choux dough, which is the basis of Carpathian cake, is prepared from flour, water, grease and…