Auswanderer Quatsch

The week went by pretty fast. New job, a lot to do, learn and discover… but let’s talk calories, that’s way more fun! Rolyat, this post is for your belly only

My Chocolate Nemesis

The original recipe (for 8-12 pieces) required 200g chocolate, 200g sugar, 200g butter, 100g flour and 4 eggs. After at least 10 years playing with it I reduced the measures to 120g butter, 150g sugar and only 2 eggs, I also add walnuts to make it more brownie-like:

1. Melt the chocolate and butter together in a pot, when you get a nice fluid consistency, stop heating,
2. Add the flour and stir until you’ve got no “clots” (balls) anymore (the less butter you use the harder it is to keep it fluid),
3. Add the suggar, it should become quite dense,
4. Add the eggs (yellow and white together) and stir again until you have a really uniform dough,
5. There you can add some walnuts, put the whole in a round cup (I use a “tart” cup, about 3cm high and 25cm across) and add some walnuts on the top for the decoration,
6. Put it in the oven at about 180°C for ~15 min (best is to go with feelings),
7. In the last minutes, I check with a knife that the middle of the cake is still “moist” since I want it to be brownie-like… but you can do it however you want.
8. Eat and enjoy your post calorie-nuke nap!

Apfel vom Blech

Let’s talk about apples! For this recipe you will need (for about 20 pieces): 5 apples, 1 lemon (juice and “scratched skin”), 250g butter, 220 sugar, a tea spoon of vanilla-sugar salt, 5 eggs, 375g flour, 3 table spoons baking powder, 50g sliced&grilled almonds and 100g apricots-jelly:

1. Peel the apples, remove the heart and slice them in order to get nice, 1cm large, “apple-rings”,
2. Melt the butter and put it together with 200g sugar, the vanilla sugar, the scratched lemon skin, a pinch of salt and stir it for 8 to 10 minutes (yes that’s awfully long) with an electric beater (it must become creamy),
3. Add  the eggs one after the other and stir 30s more for each egg,
4. Add the flour, baking powder and the lemon juice, stir and lay it on a oven plate (on baking paper),
5. Spread the apple rings (don’t hesitate to press them a little) on the dough,
6. Sprinkle the almonds and 20g sugar on top and put in the (already warm) oven at 200°C for 30-35 minutes,
7. Warm up the jelly and spread it on top of the cooked cake… done!

Streusel-Zwetschgen

For this last one you will need a bit more time. First of all, gather (for about 20 pieces): 200g sugar, 400g butter, salt, 600g flour, 2 table spoons baking powder, 1 TS cinnamon powder, 1 egg, 1.3kg damsons (“prunes”) and 4 eating spoons of breadcrumb:

1. Make a dough with the sugar, butter, 1 pinch of salt, baking powder, cinnamon and and the egg,
2. Spread 2/3 of the dough on a oven plate (on baking paper) and put the remaining 1/3 for 1 hour in the fridge,
3. Remove the cores of the damsons and cut them in halfs,
4. Make some holes in the spread dough with a fork and spread the breadcrumb on top of it,
5. Spread your damsons on the dough (flesh-side up),
6. Break the rest of the dough in many little pieces and spread it on top of the damsons like you would do it for a “crumble”,
7. Put it in a 180°C warm oven for 40 minutes,
8. Enjoy!

I just realized how inexistent my English cooking vocabulary is… shame on me. If you have any vocabulary comments or if some things are unclear, please comment and I’ll edit the post!

Only one thing left to say:  ”bon appétit”