Pine-Coconut Yeastbun

I was asked if I could bake the "sweet bread" also with pineapple. So I decided to combine this tropical fruit with grated coconut.
Because the pineapple is so sappy it could happen that the pastry will stick at the pan. To avoid this, I greased the pan and covered the bottom with bread crumbs.


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Plum Cake with a sour cream - vanilla topping

I got big semi sour plums in Spanish Lookout and decided to buy some pounds of them.
One part I used for a plum jam and the other part was for a cake.

I baked a plum cake with yeast dough, covered with a sour cream-vanilla mixture. The original recipe asks for a heavy sour creme, but I could not get it here. So I added a little bit of creme cheese in the mixture.

At the time unfortunately I only have a gas oven which heats only from underneath. So the bottom of the cake becomes very dark until the topping is firm.


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Franzbrötchen

...there is no way to translate this into english. :)

A Franzbrötchen is a small, sweet pastry, baked with butter and cinnamon. It's commonly found in northern Germany, especially in Hamburg.

I had to fold and roll the dough several times in succession and coated it with butter. After the dough is prepared and finally putstreched to a thin layer, I mostened it with lime juice and spinkled it with a melange of brown suggar an cinnamon.



I rolled it up, cut in into slices (each about 1.5 inches - 4 centimeters thick).



In the end I pressed a handle of a wooden spoon in the middle, so the filling oozed out sideways.



A good friend of mine told me that she only will visite me, when I can bake this pastry. So... this is the second time I made them and I think she can book her flight now.


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Soul Food is more....

...than only cookies and cakes.




Sometimes it's something hearty you would like to eat and can't get it here. In my case it's gherkins. In some stores you can get pickles but they taste totally different like the ones you can buy in Germany.



To cut a long story short - I got some cocktail gherkins at Farmers Trading Center (FTC), bought dill seeds, white pepper, bay leafs and white whine vinegar and preserved the gherkins. The recipe says that they can last 6-12 month. I think we'll eat ours in less than 6-12 weeks ;)


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Marzipan Apple Cake with a nut base

Thanks to two friends (thanks Anna and Rita) I got marzipan from Germany.
It took me a while to decide what to bake with it. Finally I choose an apple cake with a nut base, covered with a marzipan topping.

Next time, when I'll bake this cake again I'll fold in the whipped egg white in the marzipan-suggar mixture to make it more fluffy.



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