"poppy seeds"

For me there is almost nothing better than a quiet Sunday morning with a cup of espresso and a yeast based treat. These things are…

Last week another baking disaster happened in my kitchen. This time it involved the letter Q. I wanted to make a Quarkkuchen mit Mohn (curd…

In Germany most people bake cookies only for Christmas. And then they make tons and tons of them. Most of them are pretty simple to…

This marzipanstollen is my version of the traditional German Christmas bread. It’s dense and sweet and it’s flavour increases the longer you store it. No raisins, no candied citrus peel.

Some more thoughts on the topic of inspiration: I think I do get a lot of it from cookbooks. But it’s not the recipes that…