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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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3. August 2025
Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting + a Sea Salt Caramel Drizzle

It’s my best friend’s birthday weekend and pretty much every year, she asks for Red Velvet “something” — from cake to cupcakes to whoopie pies. This year, I went back to the cupcake plan, but went a bit overboard with the white chocolate (which she also loves) cream cheese frosting, topped with an over indulgent a sea salt caramel drizzle, Yum. Too bad that she actually won’t get these cupcakes for her birthday, because my car ended up at the repair station on Friday afternoon and won’t be ready until Monday, so I ended up not at her place, but I’ll remake them next week hen I see her again and in the meantime, the mechanics at the shop will get a nice treat when I pick up my Volkswagen

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20. July 2025