Cinnamon stars are a very traditional kind of Christmas biscuit. Although I am not conservative about many things I have always preferred t...

Today is the first advent and the start of the Christmas baking season. The baking of a large variety of biscuits is a firm tradition obser...

Yes, this is a Christmas recipe and no, it is not even the middle of November yet. However, these Stollen bites are not as premature as it ...

This is the second recipe with poppy seed on my blog (the recipe for my poppy seed plait is here) . Again, there is no story to go with thi...

This is another traditional south-west German speciality with a silly name – translated literally these twirls are called ‘snail noodles’. ...

  Yes, this looks suspiciously like a Christmas recipe already with its nuts and fruit and cinnamon. With apples as its main ingredient, th...

Once again I was unsure about how best to translate the name of these rolls. Literally, a Hörnchen is a small horn or ‘hornlet’, but this j...

This is a very simple sponge cake and I can’t really think of any interesting facts or anecdotes to go with it. It is just a classic and ve...

The Hefezopf (literally translated this means yeast plait) is another one of those bakery staples typical of south-west Germany, and of the...

Marble cake is an absolute classic in Germany, and for good reason. I must have baked this for the first time when I was about 10 years ol...