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!

Summer Chocolate Fruit Cake

Summertime! This lovely chocolate cake is fudge. It has a nice bite because of the melted chocolate and it is topped with a soft buttercream and berries!

Ingredients:

- a box of strawberries

- a box of blueberries

- a box of raspberries

- a box of blackberries

- 75 grams of dark chocolate

- 3 dl water

- 90 grams cocoa powder

- 250 grams self-raising flour

- 500 grams sugar

- a pinch of salt

- 10 grams vanilla sugar

- 3,5 dl buttermilk

- 130 grams sunflower oil

- 3 eggs

- 250 grams powdered sugar

- 175 ml milk

- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method:

1. Boil the 3 dl of water. Solve the cocoa powder in it. Use good cocoa powder.

2. Keep on stirring until you see a chocolate paste. 

3. Mix in a bowl the self-raising flour, the sugar and the pinch of salt. When this is a good mixed powder, add the vanilla sugar, the buttermilk, the oil and the eggs.

4. Add the chocolate paste in to the batter.

5. Let the batter rest for an hour.

6. Preheat the oven up to 180 degrees. Bake the cake for an hour and let it cool.

7. Melt the dark chocolate au bien marie and cover the cool cake with it. Wait until the chocolate has solidified. 

8. Mix the powdered sugar, the milk and the vanilla into a moist paste. Cover the cake with the buttercream icing. It doesn't have to be neat. Just apply it, it will give your cake a way better look then when it's looking pretty.

9. Start by adding the blueberries and slowly fill up your cake.

Mothers Day Cake

Ingredients for the cake:
- 250 grams butter
- 250 grams sugar
- 250 grams self-raising flour
- 4 eggs
- 1 dash of milk
- 1 dash of vanilla extract
- 1 heart shaped cutter (the size should be smaller than your cake!)
- red or pink food coloring

Ingredients for the frosting and decoration:
- 125 grams powdered sugar
- 40 grams butter
- 40 ml milk
- 2/3 drops vanilla extract
- Heart shaped decoration
- chocolate sprinkles
- pink sanding sugar

Method:

1. Preheat your oven up to a 150 degrees and grease a baking tin.
Mix the eggs, the milk, the vanilla extract and the sugar. Add the flour and the butter.

2. Take about 6 tablespoons of the batter and color it pink or red. Put the colored batter into a baking tin and bake the cake for about 40 minutes and wait until the cake is completely cooled!

3. Cut your cake into slices and cut out the hearts with your heart shaped cookie cutter. The slice should be as thick as your cookie cutter. Crumble the remaining cake and set aside.

4. Take your baking tin again and grease it. Cover up the bottom with the white batter. Place the pink hearts on the batter. Make sure that they connect. Cover up the cake with the white batter and bake the cake for about 50 minutes. Let the cake cool completely.

5. Lets start with the frosting. Mix the powdered sugar with the butter and add the milk. Add the vanilla extract to the frosting. Take your pink or red cake crumbles and decorate the cake with it.

6. Add the rest of your decoration such as heart shaped sweets, chocolate sprinkles or pink sanding sugar.

Good luck and enjoy your Mothers Day!

Marshmallow Coffee Ice Cream Cake

Ingredients:

- Apple pie cake mix

- Coffee ice cream

- Fudge icing
- Marshmallow fluff

- 2 bags marshmallows

Method:

1. Bake the pie but only the cake itself! So do not add apples or anything!

2. Fill the cake with the coffee ice cream and put it in the freezer for 30 minutes. Take it out and add a thick layer of fudge.Let the cake set overnight in the freezer.

3. Take the cake out of the freezer just before serving! Add some marshmallow fluff and then the marshmallows.Carefully burn some marshmallows. Pay attention to the melting fudge!