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Birthdays in Munich

January is a time of birthdays in our family. Both Bess’ and John’s birthdays are in this winter-month. We have been having loads of visitors, especially because we could celebrate Bess’ first birthday. I decided that in stead of making a full cake in our ‘New York style’ kitchen (in other words tiny – thanks
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Homemade eastereggs

Since we are having Bess’ welcome to the world party at easter I decided to try and make some homemade easter eggs with different fillings. I am a great fan of chocolate with filling. I first prepared some marzipan with different tastes. Liqourice, cranberry, kalua and elderflower. I also prepared some nougat with liqourice powder.
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Baking with my sis

So last weekend we went to visit my sister and did a lot of baking. A real lot. We weren’t finished till past midnight. We baked gingerbread hearts, brunkager and pebernødder. For the brunkager you need to slice a frozen tubular piece of dough and its normally quite difficult to do by hand so I
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Dreamcake from Buddinge

I made this cake for my knitting group the other day and they seemed to love it. So I thought I might share it with the world in English. It is a traditional Danish recipe and a quick Google search turned up nothing in English – so here goes! Ingredients: Cake: 450 g sugar 500
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Bertie’s Impossible Pie

This is a pie I learned to make from my mother many, many years ago. It is so simple to make and the reason for the name is that before you bake it seems absolutely impossible that the gloopy mess you have will ever become anything tasty let alone anything resembling a pie. Ingredients 4
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Eddie’s rye bread

It is becoming increasingly easier to buy good rye bread in the UK. Most bigger super markets have a range now which consists of more interesting rye bread than before. However, I still think home baked is really great and since we now have a bread machine at home I thought I’d give it a
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Agnes’ pancakes

This is my Grandmother Agnes’ recipe for pancakes Ingredients   125g Flour 1 1/4dl Milk c. 1 1/4dl beer 1tbsp oil 3-4 eggs bit of salt bit of sugar bit of lemon Process Mix dry stuff Mix wet stuff Mix both together Leave to rest for 1/2 hour Cook thin pancakes with a little fat/margarine...

Agnes’ Danish Christmas “Æbleskiver”

My Grandmother Agnes’ recipe for traditional Danish ‘Æbleskiver’. These are usually cooked on a round pan with dips in it (see illustration). ‘Æbleskiver’ can be translated to ‘apple pieces’ and refers to the piece of apple that is traditionally added to the center of the doughy while it bakes. The texture and recipe of ‘Æbleskiver’
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