Doing things I love
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wiseheart... and a few that I don't, but that's inevitable if you have to run a household. ;)
In any case, I started the day with baking a phenomenal coffee cake. It was a new recipe from the cookbook Backvergnügen wie noch nie - well, new in the sense that I've never made it before. The book itself is at least thirty years old. *g* I chose the recipe because I had some baking ingredients (including margarine and ground hazelnuts) to use up... and because it was really easy to make. The only actual work I had to do was to chop the milk chocolate, and that wasn't too tedious, either.
Coffee cake
Ingredients:
200 g butter or margarine, melted and cooled + some for the baking tin
200 g sugar
200 g ground hazelnuts
150 g milk chocolate, chopped
4 eggs
1/4 l strong coffee, cooled
1 pck baking powder
1 pinch of cinnamon
1 pinch of salt
300g flour + some for the baking tin
If preferred, 8-10 tablespoons of strong, very sweet coffee for soaking the sponge.
Method:
1) Melt the butter/margarine and let it cool.
2) Make the coffee (I used Nescafé and hot water; it's easier that way and works like a charm.
3) Pre-heat the oven on 175°C.
4) Chop the chocolate.
5) Mix well the hazelnuts, the sugar, the baking powder, the spices and the flour.
6) Lightly beat the eggs and add to the dry ingredients, together with the coffee.
7) Fold in the melted butter/margarine and the chocolate.
8) Pour the dough into a 28 cm long Kastenform (sorry, no idea what it's called in English) that has been buttered and strewn with flour. Smooth the surface and bake it on 175°C for about an hour, depending on your oven. Take it out of the tin and let it cool.
9) If you want it to be even more moist and falvourful, make little holes in it with a toothpick and soak it with the strongly sweetened coffee while still hot.
No picture because it turned out yummy but ugly again: it had several tears on the surface. Either I haven't smoothed it well enough before baking or I haven't stirred it enough, I don't know. But it is fantastic: light, moist and delicious. Mum approved it very much. Plus, it helped me to get rid of some of the Nescafé I got as a present but we never use it for, you know, actual coffee. We hate the aftertaste. But in the cake, it worked well.
I also did a nice bit of crafting today. The Heineken Santas are all finished, and so are two of the little seraphs. I've done the sequin work on all four of them and hope to finish them in a day or two. When they're done, there will be a picture, together with the newest baubles. I've got very little storage space of the iPad mini left, so I have to save it when I can.
The rest of the day was spent with household chores: taking down the washing, packing for tomorrow's cleaning frenzy and the likes. I'm trying to ignore those parts. *g*
In any case, I started the day with baking a phenomenal coffee cake. It was a new recipe from the cookbook Backvergnügen wie noch nie - well, new in the sense that I've never made it before. The book itself is at least thirty years old. *g* I chose the recipe because I had some baking ingredients (including margarine and ground hazelnuts) to use up... and because it was really easy to make. The only actual work I had to do was to chop the milk chocolate, and that wasn't too tedious, either.
Coffee cake
Ingredients:
200 g butter or margarine, melted and cooled + some for the baking tin
200 g sugar
200 g ground hazelnuts
150 g milk chocolate, chopped
4 eggs
1/4 l strong coffee, cooled
1 pck baking powder
1 pinch of cinnamon
1 pinch of salt
300g flour + some for the baking tin
If preferred, 8-10 tablespoons of strong, very sweet coffee for soaking the sponge.
Method:
1) Melt the butter/margarine and let it cool.
2) Make the coffee (I used Nescafé and hot water; it's easier that way and works like a charm.
3) Pre-heat the oven on 175°C.
4) Chop the chocolate.
5) Mix well the hazelnuts, the sugar, the baking powder, the spices and the flour.
6) Lightly beat the eggs and add to the dry ingredients, together with the coffee.
7) Fold in the melted butter/margarine and the chocolate.
8) Pour the dough into a 28 cm long Kastenform (sorry, no idea what it's called in English) that has been buttered and strewn with flour. Smooth the surface and bake it on 175°C for about an hour, depending on your oven. Take it out of the tin and let it cool.
9) If you want it to be even more moist and falvourful, make little holes in it with a toothpick and soak it with the strongly sweetened coffee while still hot.
No picture because it turned out yummy but ugly again: it had several tears on the surface. Either I haven't smoothed it well enough before baking or I haven't stirred it enough, I don't know. But it is fantastic: light, moist and delicious. Mum approved it very much. Plus, it helped me to get rid of some of the Nescafé I got as a present but we never use it for, you know, actual coffee. We hate the aftertaste. But in the cake, it worked well.
I also did a nice bit of crafting today. The Heineken Santas are all finished, and so are two of the little seraphs. I've done the sequin work on all four of them and hope to finish them in a day or two. When they're done, there will be a picture, together with the newest baubles. I've got very little storage space of the iPad mini left, so I have to save it when I can.
The rest of the day was spent with household chores: taking down the washing, packing for tomorrow's cleaning frenzy and the likes. I'm trying to ignore those parts. *g*
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Date: 2023-10-29 06:54 pm (UTC)I think we have that book as well.
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Date: 2023-10-29 06:54 pm (UTC)I think we have that book as well.
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Date: 2023-10-29 06:54 pm (UTC)I think we have that book as well.
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Date: 2023-10-29 06:54 pm (UTC)I think we have that book as well.
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Date: 2023-10-30 07:14 am (UTC)It does sound like an easy enough recipe, but it has a list of ingredients and several steps — out of my league :D
Perhaps I could persuade my mom...
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Date: 2023-10-30 05:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2023-10-30 03:41 pm (UTC)Recipe sounds yummy! Soaking the cake with coffee- even more yummy. And it´s pretty easy to halve the ingredients. And maybe coat the cake with coffee-flavoured whipped cream...
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Date: 2023-10-30 05:51 pm (UTC)I've just strewn some icing sugar on the cake — by today it has soaked in the sugar and it makes the impression as if it had a glazing, even though it doesn't. *g*
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Date: 2023-11-04 03:27 am (UTC)Yum — sounds delicious!