Everybody needs a hobby

Hi Folks!

Long time no see, I know. It's been crazy busy, but I promised myself, that I have to continue writing here. No idea who is reading it, but well, I hope you like it!

Today was one of those rare days, when I had off and nothing was up! Haven't had a day like this in months and that's why I just wanted to relax and what relaxe better then baking some yummy stuff?

I found two recipes the other day, which sounded very nice and worth trying. But I decided to combine both, because to me it just sounded delicious together. The one I saw on the TV Show "Enie bäckt" and the other I found in the www.
Anyways it's a very quick and easy recipe, that everybody should try. And here it is, the recipe for my "newly" created (or mixed up) Cherry- Cinnamon- Mascarpone-Cupacke:

Ingrediens:

For the Muffins:

4 Egg Whites

140 g Butter

100 g Powdered Sugar

50 g Flour

60 g Grounded Almonds

100 g Cherries

For the Icing:

300 g Mascarpone

250 g whipped creme 

40 g Powdered Sugar

Cinnamon

a bit Cherry Juice

Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius and melt the butter and let it cool down to room temperature.
Whisk the egg whites till they have a stiff texture. Gently fold in the flour and almonds. Add the melted butter and cherries and fold it in as well, but be gentle so the texture is still kind of "fluffy".
Fill the dough into a muffin form and bake it for about 10-20min (depends on the side of your muffin form).

Whisk together all the ingredients for the Icing and put it into your refrigerator.

Let the Muffins cool down and just start icing the muffins when they are really cooled down all the way, otherwise the icing will melt. Decorate it as you love too and then enjoy!


While I made the cupcakes I had an idea, because I had some Mascarpone left. I made a really good second dessert, which turned out really jummy and you can use the leftovers from the recipe above if you want too.

Ingredients:

Some traditional spicy Christmas Cookies (Spekulatius)

100g Raspberries 

50 g Sugar

about 100 ml Cherry Juice 

cinnamon

Mascarpone Icing from above

Put the raspberries, sugar, Cherry Juice and cinnamon in a pot a let it cook for a while, till it gets a thick texture, then let it cool down.

Take dessert glasses (or what ever you feel like. You can also use little nice drinking glasses) and crush the cookies and put in the bottom of the glass, follow with the raspberries and the icing. Just continue layering the ingredients as you wish. 

I hope you like my recipes and I would love it if you try and let me know how you'd liked it!
Keep on baking and enjoying life!

Take care!

Minion Muffins

Hi Folks!

Last week I started a little project with the kids I love to spend time with. I was an Au Pair for 2 years in New York and at the moment I have the great opportunity to stay here for a visit for a while.

So, after the girls discovered all the baking youtube videos, especially from NERDY NUMMIES, we try now to bake something every week.
So we started with MINIONS CUPCAKES and I tell you, the result was very cute AND yummy (but sweet).

For this we had our helper Nana, so we had an extra pair of hands to handle the fun baking mess. I have to say, the whole recipe is based on MARTHA STEWARD banana muffins with some MINIONS decoration on top. And the recipe is very easy! My girls are just 3 1/2 years old and they are able to measure by themselves with a little help and are able to put almost everything in the bowl.
They had a blast with baking, but of course the most fun part was liking the bowl, which they always looking forward too.
But also the decorating was fun, they didn't want to stop anymore and went on and on and on.
Basically what you do, is decorate TWINKIES with the Minions faces and put them on top of the banana muffin. So not a big of a deal.

Just as a little tip from my side, if you are able to handle a little mess and are fine with cleaning up after the kids go to bed, just go ahead and try it even with Toddlers. As I said my girls are 3 and a half and they sure make a mess but to see the happy faces and the passion they already have for baking is worth every cleaning afterwards.
Don't be afraid to do stuff like this with your kids. Not even that they develop their motor skills, they also learn to share and take turns (if you have more than one) and best, how to make delicious desserts.

Here the Link from the original video and let me know if you also tried it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAQjn6_JaJ0


Take care everybody