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August 2025

Lemon Dream Streusel Bars

As you all know, I am the queen of “bars” — any variation and combination, I’m up for it. These are a little different than my usual fruit bars though, as I use condensed milk, which gives them almost a cheesecake like quality; very light and creamy and lemony. You can never have too much lemon in my opinion. These wouldn’t have made a good giveaway though as they are too creamy for mailing. Nevertheless, I did give them away to some friends locally who googled them up this week. Would make a great addition to a potluck dessert table.

29. August 2025

Breakfast/Brunch, Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Blueberry Almond Bundt Cake

This is a quick and delicious recipe that you can actually do with a few types of berries — blueberries of course, but also blackberries or currants or raspberries (although I would par-freeze raspberries before mixing them into the batter as them can be a little mushy. Also, this recipe as written is for a fairly small bundt cake (like smaller than your usual) so you can also double it for a regular sized bundt cake pan. If you like, this size can be made into a 4 x6 loaf pan though. Anyway, it is delicious, works well as a breakfast cake or a cake for tea and it travels well (isn’t too “fall-apart-y”) so would serve nicely at a potluck!

21. August 2025

Breakfast/Brunch, Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Wildbeer-Rhabarer Strudel for One

( also known as Mixed Berry Rhubarb Hand Pies)

As many of my friends and followers know, almost every time I go home to Germany, I go with a friend to Innsbruck, Austria to a very specific cafe for strudel. Yes, that strudel is that good. Well, it is also a good excuse to go on a road trip, but yeah, the strudel is perfection. Last week, he had the occasion whilst on his holiday in Austria to go to Cafe Kroll and in a fit of jealousy, today I baked my own strudel and went on my own little road trip to Cape Ann, here in Massachusetts, with my strudel in tow. Not quite the same and it’s really faux strudel because I used puff pastry instead of strudel dough, but it’s the thought that counts I suppose. It’s “wild berry rhubarb” which just means mixed berries — raspberry, blackberry, blueberry and rhubarb. Delicious and strudel craving sorted until the next Munich trip.

16. August 2025

Breakfast/Brunch, Sweet Snacks

Red Currant Crumble-Top Coffee Cake

Monday morning, pre-dawn breakfast baking! It’s going to be a long week. I have some big work deadlines that need to be finished bit by bit this week before Friday, it’s to be HOT again this week. And I forgot to buy my usual breakfast food at the shops over the weekend. So, as I am always awake before dawn, I decided to bake this Red Currant Crumble-Top Coffee Cake. Sweet and tart and delicious. Don’t have red currant, this recipe can also be made with fresh or frozen blueberries, raspberries, cranberries or stone fruit like peaches, plums or apricots, cut to 1/2 inch or less pieces (note: if going for the fruit vs berries option, I would cut the fruit and then par-freeze before mixing in to the batter.

11. August 2025

Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Apricot Streusel Tart with Saffron Sugar

My mom really likes apricots and the season is so short that I decided to make this little tart this weekend. The difference between this tart and some of my others is that I found, and sprinkled on, some saffron sugar. It’s got a lovely and unique sweet flavor and adds just a little bit of a golden color to the streusel. If you can’t find saffron sugar, turbinado would also work to add a level of richness.

3. August 2025