Dresdner Christstollen

Christmas season was coming again, and this year I decided to prepare a Stollen, the typical German sweet for these feasts 🙂 It is a fruit bread that originated in Dresden, and it has a long history, and like most of the recipes with long history it has changed during the years. At the beginning…

Torta di Mele – Apple Cake

I think almost everyone have an apple cake recipe, and if they are made with good quality ingredients they are all good 🙂 the apple cakes are those cakes that make us think to the “grandmother cakes”, they are probably the more “homey” of the cakes and they are usually quite easy to make. And…

Kaiserschmarrn (Traditional Austrian Dessert)

Kaiserschmarrn is a quite simple dessert, that kind of dessert that makes you comfortable and that gives you a “home atmosphere”, especially if you serve it in the old way inside an iron pan, as they often do in Austria or Bavaria 🙂 Kaiserschmarrn is a sort of pancake which is then broken into smaller…

“Autumn Glass” :)

This is a simple and fast idea I had today, while thinking what to do with the last 2 persimmons remaining in the house 🙂 I used ingredients I had at home, and I have to say that though improvable, it was really good 🙂 And since the persimmon is one of the most typical fruits…