Baking enthusiast from Prague sharing recipes.
For this birthday cake I wanted to avoid heavy buttercream. This mascarpone-based frosting tastes lighter, especially if the mascarpone is partially replaced by quark cheese, and allows the taste of fresh blueberries, blueberry jam and juice to really stand out. Ingredients (for three-layers cake*) 6 eggs, room temperature 220 g caster sugar 180 g plain … Continue reading Blueberry cake
Fast, simple, moist and incredibly tasty! Ideal when you need to throw together something fast, but still want to impress. I love the sweet, milky, taste of the filling. Ingredients Dough: 250 g all-purpose flour (2 cups) 1/3 cup of Dutch process cocoa 1 pack baking powder (corresponds to 12 g) 120 g caster sugar 2 eggs 180 ml of oil … Continue reading Marble tray bake
For quite some time I was looking forward to bake something from yeast dough again. From two reasons. First is I love yeast dough pastries, they might be my favourite type of pastries. The second reason is I want to perfect my technique of working with the yeast dough. These sweet yeast buns (“buchty” in Czech) are … Continue reading Sweet yeast buns (“buchty” in Czech)
I caught myself thinking “I should bake something so that I have something to blog about”. When I started my blog, this was something I promised myself I will try to avoid. To keep this blog as something relaxing and fun and not another responsibility. So I waited..The sugar overdose during Christmas holidays must have been strong as my mood for baking was quite … Continue reading Easy apple pie
I baked this cake already last Friday and wanted to share the recipe during the weekend, but I was down with a cold. I am finally feeling ok, so here is the recipe:) It’s not like a classic cheesecake or German quark cake. The filling tastes different and has also a specific texture. The quark layer is … Continue reading Quark cake with crumbs
