Chocolate Peach Crumble Cake

Hello you darling people,

today I wanna share another recipe for a delicious cake: a late summer chocolate peach crumble cake. Yummy!

La Torta Caprese a la Isabella

Hello everybody,

after talking so much about the good Italian food and the amazing Italian pastries I thought it might be fair to offer an actual recipe.
As I mentioned in my last post our host Isabella was my personal Queen of Cakes. She baked different cakes (all very good) during our stay, but I fell mostly for the torta caprese, an extremely delicious chocolate-almond-cake. Luckily, Isabella was kind enough to share her recipe with me, which I am now going to share with you. :)

What you'll need

• 170g butter
• 170g dark chocolate
• 5 eggs
• 150g sugar
• 400g almonds
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 20g baking powder
• 1 espresso cup Amaretto

How it works

Start by melting the the butter and the chocolate over a pot of boiling water.

Beat the eggs and the sugar until frothy.

Add the melted chocolate-butter-mixture and then one by one all the other ingredients using a mixer.


Cover a springform pan with wetted baking paper. Fill it with the batter and put into the pre-heated oven (170°C). After 45 minutes lower the heat and continue baking for another 15 to 20 minutes.

Done! :) 

Have a beautiful evening!

Yours,
Tulip

PS: This post was also added to Karly's Create & Share DIY and Recipe Party on her lovely blog three in three.

All images by Stefanie Reichl

Baked Elderflowers with Maple Syrup

Hello everybody,

sorry for the long break, but we had a crazy week at work with this year's season finale (and season finale party ;)...
Today I want to share one of my favourite (sweet) summer recipes with you: baked elderflowers with maple syrup. At this time of the year you can find elderflowers almost everywhere in Austria. I got mine from Steinhofgründe as Katja was so nice pick a bag full for me at one of her evening runs.

What you'll need (for 4 persons)

• (about 10-12) elderflowers (try to mix bigger and smaller ones)
• 300ml soy milk (or normal milk)
• 150g spelt flour
• 2 tablespoons baking powder
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup for the dough
• vegetable oil (I used canola oil but any kind of vegetable oil will do)
• maple syrup

How it works

Put the elderflowers heads down into a bowl of water for a few minutes and carefully wash the stems. For the dough mix the soy milk, the spelt flour, the baking powder and the maply syrup with an eggbeater. Stir well!

Heat up the oil in a pan. Pull the elderflowers through the dough and put them into the hot pan. 
When the dough starts to get solid you can cut of the long green stems of the elderflowers. Flip the elderflowers and bake until both sides are golden brown.

Put the elderflowers on a plate and sweeten then with maply syrup. Done! :)

Have a great day!

Yours,
Tulip

All images by Stefanie Reichl

Mango Chocolate Cake

Hi folks,

today I wanna share a recipe for a simple and tasty mango chocolate cake with you. Furthermore the cake is kind of healthy as it's almost completely free of refined sugar. Instead I used maple syrup and that worked just fine. :)

What you'll need

• 150g flour (I used spelt flour)
• 3/4 tablespoon baking powder
• ca. 40g maple syrup
• 1 package vanilla sugar  
• 15g cocoa powder
• 100g ripe mango
• 100ml buttermilk
• 2 egg whites
• coconut flakes

How it works

Preheat your oven to 170°C. Combine the flour, the baking powder, the sugar, the vanilla sugar and the cocoa.

Blend the mango using a hand-held blender. Mix the mango and the buttermilk with the dry ingredients and stir well.

Whisk the egg whites until stiff and gently fold in the cake batter.

Put the batter into a buttered and floured cake tin and let the cake bake for about 25 to 30 minutes. Leave the cake to cool for some minutes, than sprinkle coconut flakes over it. Cut the cake into pieces and enjoy!
For an extra kick of sweetness you can add some more maple syrup to the cake and whipped cream also goes perfectly with it.

Have fun baking!

Yours,
Tulip

All images by Stefanie Reichl