Almond apple cake
Recipe a little adapted from here (I didn’t add the booze or glaze, and added some vanilla extract)
Friands
Moist sponge cakes made with almonds and egg whites. Basic recipe here - it says it makes 12 but i got nearly 4 dozen small ones out of it!
I added an espresso and vanilla extract to one batch, and blueberries and lime zest to the other.
Black bottom cupcakes
Cheesecake on top, dense choc sponge underneath. Surprisingly easy to make despite looking fiddly! I think the cheesecake’s meant to seep into the middle a bit more, but I like how it’s almost like a frosting - saves making a separate one.
German plum cake
A Nigella recipe which I was hoping would replicate the yummy cake we ate in Berlin. It has a yeast-risen base which I’m not too keen on, a bit chewy and tough - normal pastry would have been nicer. But the plums and the pecan-crumble topping are lovely.
More kaffee und kuchen
Amazing cake with sponge base, berries and soft meringue - at Eins in Berlin
Kaffee und kuchen in Berlin
A very fine city for an afternoon snack break. I need to find a recipe for that kind of fruity tart-come-cake with crumble topping..
Squillionaire cake
Similar to millionaire shortbread but with gooey condensed-milk caramel and a digestive biscuit base.
