When I was in NY I brought you the cheat’s way of making cinnamon swirls (see here). Right now, I am in Berlin and I am bringing you a receipe for cheat’s redcurrant swirls. This kind of fruity and slightly sour swirl suits Berlin a lot more than NY’s cinnamon swirls, especially right now, in the height […]
June is a strawberry month in England. You get tasty strawberries in all the shops but sometimes I drive out to a farm to pick them myself. Strawberry picking always reminds me of the summer holidays when my cousin, sisters and I used to do this with our grandmother. The farm I go to here […]
Now that it’s summer, even I can’t always have sweet cakes for brunch and breakfast. Baking is also not that great an idea if the apartment is already heated up through the sun… If it’s warm I feel like something lighter instead, something without the carbs and without cream or butter as cutting the calories a […]
This kind of muffin caught my eye on a recent morning in a little local NY coffee shop – it wasn’t called ‘black bottom muffin’ but ‘farmer’s friend’. After a bit of online research I found that most people seem to call them ‘black bottom cupcake’ but there are also some names featuring farmers, […]
I’m a fan of a good lemon pie… In New York my favourite lemon pie is from a shop called Four & Twenty Blackbirds in Brooklyn. Their lemon pie features a crispy pastry with a generous amount of a tangy lemon filling and is tastiest when eaten with a little bit of whipped cream on […]
The Sweetest Brunch 