I usually prefer to bake and eat healthy treats without refined sugar and any other processed ingredients. But there are a few occasions where I put my health goals aside. For example weddings! Celebrating love calls for something extraordinary and is about nourishing the mind…
Every year when rhubarb season starts, I get super excited about all the amazing things I can cook and bake. And although I’ve already discovered some of my favorite recipes like this rhubarb crumble cake or this rhubarb blueberry galette, I never get tired of…
It’s been over three years now that I left New York and moved back to Munich. And while it took me a while to readjust to living in Germany, I feel more at home in Munich than ever. Nevertheless, I do miss New York City.…
I love to search for new recipes and explore alternative baking methods or ingredients. While my primary source is wonderful online blogs, I enjoy browsing real paper cook and baking books (find the sites and books that most inspire me here). One of the first “healthy”…
Carrot cupcakes in October? Sure, usually, you bake carrot cake in spring or summer when it’s warm and sunny outside. But last weekend we celebrated my best friend’s baby shower, and she loves carrot cake. So I had to put the apples and pumpkin aside…
It’s only one more week until Easter, and at home, we would typically make a Hefezopf, a brioche-like braided yeast bread, for our Easter brunch. I like baking with yeast. It’s like magic when the yeast is working, making the dough to rise until double…