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Grease baking molds faster and more economically
May 2024

Grease baking molds faster and more economically

No matter whether you grease your baking tin with a brush, paper kitchen towel or hand: It is quicker and more economical (that is, with less margarine / butter) if you put the mold SHORT in the...

Warm spaghetti with hot water
May 2024

Warm spaghetti with hot water

If spaghetti is left over, then it is usually a bit "awkward" to warm it up again. If you put them directly into the sauce, it will (depending on the gravy) often dry or sticky, also it can be in...

Bake half a tin of cookies - with a viscous mass
May 2024

Bake half a tin of cookies - with a viscous mass

The cookie baking season has begun and today I faced the following problem: I only wanted to make half the amount of a certain type of cookie. Unfortunately, with this recipe comes on a dough sheet a...

Pie filling: chocolate cream instead of butter cream
May 2024

Pie filling: chocolate cream instead of butter cream

TimeTotal preparation time: 20 min. Instead of a luscious buttercream, I fill pies with chocolate cream. (White chocolate, whole milk, bittersweet or whole milk mixed with bittersweet) ingredients...

Save time when baking and sugaring Vanillekipferl
May 2024

Save time when baking and sugaring Vanillekipferl

Guess I'm at the Christmas bakery! So if I make Vanillekipferl, then often three or four times the amount and when it comes to it, the Kipferl still hot roll in powdered sugar, at about 250 pieces,...

Gingerbread man for Lazy
May 2024

Gingerbread man for Lazy

When at my baker's of confidence, I saw that this finished gingerbread dough (500g) was selling. You only need to roll it out, cut it out and bake it. I punched out the dough with a little man's...

Blind baking of cake bottoms with a trick save
May 2024

Blind baking of cake bottoms with a trick save

Blind baking means to cover and bake a "cake dish", ie the so-called cake base, in a baking dish with dry bean kernels. So the bottom stays flat, otherwise it would be uneven. With a little trick...

Hard cookies become soft again: aluminum foil & moist kitchen crepe
May 2024

Hard cookies become soft again: aluminum foil & moist kitchen crepe

Many hobby bakers have been annoyed by Christmas cookies that have become hard. The tip to put apple slices in the can is good, but some do not like the cookies to smell like it. Or, what happened...

Cake in water bath form / cooked cake
May 2024

Cake in water bath form / cooked cake

TimeTotal preparation time: 1 hr. 30 min. With us a cake bubbled on the stove, very gently, that's important. In the meantime, it was time to look at the TheFruitAndFlowerBasket pages and there we...

Frosting variations
May 2024

Frosting variations

Now, at Christmas time, the baking time starts again for me. I love baking cookies and decorating cookies! The other day I came up with the idea to mix sugar icing with liqueur and it works really...