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Pumpkin Bread Mini

Mini but big and fluffy.

I guess this is a belated fall post, at least for the Canada region. Snow has hit us here already, so we are in Winter mode. While we had our short autumn though I browsed the web for pumpkin recipes, or rather, there were everywhere. Being from Germany, pumpkin is not at all a staple in my autumn baking. My family once in a while would have pumpkin sweet sour as a dessert but it never suited me much. Here, pumpkin comes in many forms, mainly as pumpkin pie but also as loaf, muffin, bread, cupcake and anything else you might imagine. I accumulated a good list of recipes, about 10 pages long. I am not sure if I will be able to make them all, but it is good to know you might have the right recipe at hand.

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Snow White Cake

Cake, cherries, butter creme and chocolate equals yummy.

Another one of those family recipes, this time from my aunt. Although I am fairly certain she got it from grandma. Yes, my grandmother is a walking baking (and cook) book.

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Strawberry Torte

Great dessert for summer afternoons

Summer means strawberries and strawberries mean either eat them as you pick them or make a torte. This is a personal favourite of mine and I associate this torte with family get-togethers and fun.  It is easy to make and really light, in my opinion. Using fresh strawberries for this recipe is almost a must.

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Easter Lamb

German Easter Lamb
(picture taken from here )
The Easter Lamb is a family tradition back home, I guess not just with my family but with many German families.

Banana Bread

This is a husband favourite. He was also the one who provided me with the recipe.

Banana bread:

– 3-4 ripe bananas
– 80g butter
– 200g sugar
– 1 egg
– 1 tsp vanilla
– 1 tsp baking soda
– salt
– 180g flour

Cream butter and sugar and add vanilla. Mash your bananas and add them together with the egg to the butter/sugar mixtures. Sift flour and baking soda together and add to the batter.

Grease your loaf pan, dust it with flour and fill with batter. Bake at 175°C for one hour. You might want to cover the top with foil for the last bit otherwise it might burn. Remove from pan, let cool and dust with icing sugar. I should try chocolate at some point. Chocolate glaze makes things better.

Sorry, no picture at this point.

Biscuit Roll (Jelly Roll)

Biscuit makes a very fluffy, light cake and is perfect for a cake base. It is easy to bake and very yummy. I think North American sponge cake is similar to it, though I haven’t done that yet. This was an attempt the other day because I was looking for something to celebrate a birthday at work. So, I figured I try something new and voila, it worked perfectly.

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Chocolate Cake


I made a chocolate cake for a baby shower. The Canadian Cook Book by Nellie Lyle Pattinson provided the recipe

 

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Butter Creme Torte

 

My mother-in-law had her birthday and I offered to make the cake. Buttercreme Torte is a family tradition when it comes to birthday cakes, thus I though I should provide my new family with this delight.

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