Yummy! Apple Cinnamon Muffins

Perfect for ghastly fall-weather: warm apple-cinnamon muffins.
I used a recipe for normal muffin dough and added half of a grated apple, apple juice and cinnamon. I can't really remember how much cinnamon I used, I just tasted the dough a couple of times. Same goes for the apple juice.
So my modified recipe is this:

• 260 g flour
• 180 g sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 280 ml milk (I used a little less milk because of the apple juice)
• 120g margarine
• 2 eggs
• 1 apple (grate one half and slice the other one)
• cinnamon
• unfiltered apple juice

Preheat your oven (200°). Mix the liquid and the solid ingredients separately, after that put them together. Add the grated apple, apple juice, cinnamon and stir everything. Fill the dough into the muffin cups and put two to three slices of apple on top and add a dash on cinnamon. Put them into the oven for about 20-30 minutes.

It's baking time ... again

Who doesn't love muffins? Jawohl, no one! So far, I've only tried sweet muffins or cupcakes. So I figured, it's about time to make some savory muffins. To be honest I was kinda lazy, instead of grabbing my muffin recipe book from the top shelf, I just googled "herzhafte muffins" which simply translates to savory muffins. Lazy as I am (I'm sorry, I'm working on that :) I picked the first entry which directed me to the following recipe. 

I altered the recipe a bit and only used the basic stuff for the dough: 

• 80ml olive oil 
• 250 g curd cheese (Quark in German) 
• 75 ml milk
• 300g flour
• 2 eggs (medium sized)
• 300 g cherry tomatoes
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 125 g diced ham
• 1/2 piece of mozzarella

Preheat your oven (200°). Cut the tomatoes and the mozzarella. Mix oil, milk, eggs and curd cheese. Add the flour, mixed with the baking powder. After that, add the diced ham and the pieces of tomatoes and mozzarella (I kept some ham, tomatoes and mozzarella for the topping). Don't forget to flavor the dough. Mix mix mix.

Put the dough into a baking pan and add the leftover ham, tomatoes and mozzarella on top. Bake for about 25-30 minutes.

Tada!

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It's baking time again!

Our friend Tina had her birthday party today. So I tried some new stuff baking:
cake pops and heart shaped cupcakes, shaped like real hearts. Why organ cupcakes?
Well, our friend Tina is studying medical science and I found a real cool blog with this .

Isn't that great?! So I tried my best. 




First I baked some muffins. Any muffin recipe will be ok. 

















Then I did some butter cream. I should have colored it red...dark red.
Well, I covered the muffins with the butter cream







I made rolls out of almond paste (marzipan) and stuck a pair of them in each cup cake. 
In the end I blended some blueberries and filled up the two rolls with the sauce.
They should look like the ones from Barbara Jo but...

Well, they look a bit messy.















But we had fun with them. Butter cream is a bit too sweet for the german tongue so three of us shared one heart. 






I also tried to bake my first cake pops. They are still not that famous in Germany so it was a nice surprise for all the party guest to see and eat them. Cake pops are really great but a lot of work to do!

First I baked a yellow cake and crumbled it. 

I added cream cheese until I could form balls which wouldn't fall apart.

 I formed them too big in the first time. I think to form them to the size of small walnuts is the best.

Then I took wooden sticks, put them into melted chocolate and skewered the cake balls.

I covered them with chocolate and sprinkled them.

They were really delicious!

Nice recipe from abroad!

Christina

Apple Pie

Today is my dad's birthday! 
He likes apple pie and I baked one for him. 
But I have to disappoint you: I didn't bake a german one. 
I discovered Martha Stewart's website one year ago and fell in love with it. 
We don't have anything comparable to Martha and her show in Germany. Yes, we have cooking shows and some shows about how to make your home a nicer place but well, we don't have a Martha.

Here you can find the recipe of the apple pie I made. 

First I did the basic pie dough, cut it into half, put it into plastic wrap and refrigerated it for 1 hour.   


















Then I peeled and cut the apples. I put some lemon juice, cinnamon, sugar, salt and flour over the apple slices. (When I use american recipes I leave out half of the sugar because for germans it's too sweet!)

After 1 hour I rolled out two disks and put one over/into the plate. I filled in the apple mixture ....

...and rolled the second disk over them. 
With a floured knife I cut 6 slits in the dough.
I put it in the oven and ...

...voilà! This is what it looks like when a German bakes an american apple pie.











Christina