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It’s spring again, although in Germany it doesn’t really look like, and I realized that I completely forgot to add my vegan version of the rhubarb cake in the blog!
You can find my mother in law’s version and my modified version here (with eggs and cream).
It took me a lot of experiments to get to this final vegan version, but I can say it was worth it!
Continue reading “Vegan rhubarb cake – Veganer Rhabarberkuchen”Did you enjoy the poppy seed cookies? Then you will love this cake!
The original recipe is a vegan poppy seed cake with cherries, you can find it here.
I made my version without cherries, my own vegetable milk and vegan butter, and slightly different quantities.
Continue reading “Mohnkuchen – Poppy seed cake (vegan)”Poppy seeds are another ingredient that I started to use only when I moved to Germany. My favourite dessert with them is the Mohnkuchen (the poppy seed cake), but I still have to test some recipes before I can write it on the blog. Today I show you how to make these very easy and quick cookies with poppy seeds: it takes just few minutes to prepare them and 15 minutes to bake them!
Continue reading “Mohnkekse – Poppy Seed Cookies”The best thing about Germany in spring? That’s Rhabarberkuchen!
I had Rhabarberkuchen (rhubarb cake) for the first time some years ago, as I was visiting my partner’s family in Germany for Easter (we still lived in Italy back then). His mom said she would make this Rhabarberkuchen. I had never seen rhubarb and had no idea of how it looked or tasted like. As I saw her preparing this cake, it looked to me as it would be a sort of… ehm… celery cake. So I thought it would be a “salty” cake that we would eat for dinner, not a dessert.
But it turned out that rhubarb is NOT celery and it makes wonderful cakes and jellies! Unfortunately it is not very common in Italy, and I could start making my own rhubarb cake only once I moved to Germany.
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I recently tried to make this margarine (vegan butter) out of curiosity. I have nothing against butter or commercial margarine, but it’s very difficult to find them without plastic packaging. Actually, even this version is not really plastic free, as I could find cocoa butter only in a plastic bag, but at least I buy a large quantity every time and use it also for cosmetics (yes, I check that it’s also for food).
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Here’s a simple recipe for oat-based müsli that you can have for breakfast with some yogurt, milk or with flaxseed pudding, Budwig cream, or chia pudding.
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These mini-cakes are a tribute to one of my favorite childhood snacks, the Italian Camille by Mulino Bianco.
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This is a typical Swabian cake (from south Germany, in particular Baden-Württemberg). I learned some Swabian recipes because my partner comes from there, and they’re awesome!
Continue reading “Versunkener Apfelkuchen (German apple pie, vegan version)”[Qui trovate la versione italiana di questo articolo]
I love to bake bread. It took me a while to find a recipe that worked for me when I moved to Germany, because Germans have like 3456 different types of flour and I’m still very confused when I have to choose the right one to bake bread or a cake or biscuits.
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