Today my friend Julia (the one from my book who makes the Macarons, www.monkeyjolie.de) is visiting. Although, it´s kind of sad, as she'll be moving to Switzerland soon. In order to make sure not to become too melancholic, I decided to bake something that combines her two most favorite cake ingredients. Apple and Cinnamon. I am sure she likes it.
I know, the weekend where we take down the Christmas decoration will come eventually every year, but when it´s actually there this means a couple of thing. Worst of all, no denying, it means "Christmas is over". I wish it could have lasted longer, but that´s how it is. The second thing is, we have to work more or less the entire weekend to take down the decorations and store them in the attic. On the pic you see just…
A Pumpkin Cinnamon Swirl Bread served as a French Toast is the perfect thing to put your new year`s resolution stamina to the test. Do you still obey your 'less sweets in the new year' resolution or is this rule melting away in this rich maple syrup topped piece of yummieness?
As we had an entire "no snow"-Christmas, I wanted to take a "Happy New Year" picture out in the sun. However, it was a little colder than I thought, so I quickly added a Pumpkin Spice latte to the scenario for a proper last day of Dec feeling. Happy New Year.
with Sticky Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls & Eggnog Frosting and Gingerbread Man Shaped Granola. After Christmas, I wanted to do some fun breakfast. Question #1 was: How to combine my favorite Christmas items pumpkin, cinnamon and eggnog to something yummy? I decided to slightly change the recipe for cinnamon rolls from my book. Instead of adding potatoes, I used pumpkin mash. For the filling, I added pumpkin spice and one cup of eggnog to the original cream cheese frosting. As granola…
I have have spent the last two saturdays at the sewing machine. The idea was to make christmas stockings for a couple of friend's pets. I am convinced that every cute furry creature needs it`s own stocking where all the christmas gifts are stored. The challenge was, that the stocking matches the style of the owner. So I made a glamorous 'Flamant' colored stocking for Anna's not yet existing but highly anticipated puppy 'Caramel'. Gropius and Jack, two cats, got…
I admit it, I just love this song. So we decided to re-record it in German for this year´s Christmas video from Cute Cottage Overload. Wishing you a very happy Christmas, Frohe Weihnachten and a great new year. I still have some 'un-posted' Christmas pictures so they'll be coming up over the next days.