Sticky Carrot Cake Bites

This is one of my most loved recipes. I changed a regular carrot cake recipe into a sticky version. It's great party food! I always make this cake for my friends or my family during Easter. 

And: it is so easy!

Ingredients for ±20 bites:

- 1 large orange

- 100 grams of hazelnuts

- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon

- 140 ml of sunflower oil 

- 250 grams of sugar 

- 2 eggs

- 250 grams of self-raising flour

- 300 grams of carrots

- 200 grams of cream cheese 

- 50 grams of powdered sugar

- Almonds and white decoration pearls (optional)

Method:

1. Zest and press the orange after cleaning it. Take two tablespoons of the juice and set aside. 

2. Grind the hazelnuts and mix them with the orange juice, zest, sunflower oil, sugar and the eggs. Don't add the juice if you don't want your carrot cake to become sticky. 

3. Mix in the self-raising flour and preheat your oven up to 150 degrees.

4. Start to zest the carrots. It takes quite some time. Add the carrots to the batter.

5. Grease in a brownie baking form. Add the batter to the form and bake the cake for 50 minutes.

Make sure the cake is completely cooled down before adding the icing.

6. Mix the cream cheese, the powdered sugar and the two tablespoons of orange juice. Cover the cake with the icing and decorate with the almonds and the white pearls. The icing doesn't have to be flawless because you're making bite sized treats. Cut the cake in to pieces and enjoy!

Good luck!

Student Apple Cake

Sadly it's getting colder...

But that means it's time for warm apple cakes and pies!

Here is my version of an easy cake with some liquor. 

It's for all ages because the alcohol will disappear during the baking and only the taste will remain, but you can always decide not to add alcohol.

Ingredients for one cake:

- 5 up to 7 small apples (sour!)

- 160 grams of butter

- 100 grams of sugar + 75 grams to cover the apples

- 2 tsp of vanilla sugar

- 3 eggs

- 200 grams of self-raising flour

- 3 tbsp of milk

- 3 tbsp of Apfelkorn

- 1/2 tbsp of cinnamon

- powdered sugar

Method:

1. Grease your baking tin and cover it with baking paper. Place the ring back on the tin and cut off the excess paper.

2. The apples will be wet so add some bread-crumbs!

3. Cut the apples in to small pieces. Mix up the 75 grams of sugar and the tablespoon of cinnamon. You can add more sugar if necessary. Mix the apples in the cinnamon and sugar and set them aside.

4. Mix the butter, the sugar and the vanilla sugar until it's soft. Add the eggs.

 

5. Add the self-raising flour. Your batter should be sticky and look like the picture below.

6. Cover up your baking tin with the batter, also the sides! Preheat your oven up to 150 degrees.

7. Add the Apfelkorn to the apples. Mix them shortly. Place the apples in the cake.

8. You can add some raisins or sugar candy.

9. Place the cake in the oven and bake for about 30 minutes. The nice thing is that the batter on the sides will melt over the apples. So all the gaps will be filled! Let the cake cool down completely. It's ok for the apples at the top to look dried. They will taste good!

10. Decorate your cake with some powdered sugar and you are finished!

Good luck!