Baked anything tasty lately?

Old fashion apple tart.

Baked these over Halloween, ginger shortbread biscuits, decorating is a bit dodgy but they tasted nice!

Batch of Cinnamon Rolls with a vanilla cream cheese icing.

How do you make those? Thinking might be easier than mince pies as they are so fiddly.

Vanillekipferl in that second pic? That brings back memories, we always used to bake those around Christmas time when I was a kid.

And, since this is a baking thread, I guess it's time to shill the chocolate, cinnamon & red wine cake I baked for work two days ago:

(Thank god, it's finally the right side up!)

I am indeed, top floor in Penrose Dock. I have a feeling that management would not appreciate it if I turned the office into a café, though 😉

I can offer the recipe though, in case you want to try your hand at it yourself.

Red Wine Cake

(As per my late mom)

Ingredients:

• 5 eggs
• 300 g butter
• 300 g sugar
• 2 packages vanilla sugar (I used two small tea spoons of vanilla extract, should have the same effect)
• 1.5 tea spoons cocoa
• 1.5 tea spoons cinnamon
• 150 g chocolate crumbles, sprinkles, or flakes ( in German Schokoladen-Streusel)
• 300 g flour
• 1 package baking powder (16g)
• 1/8 litre (125ml) dry red wine
• Fat and breadcrumbs for form

Preparation:

• Stir eggs, butter, sugar and vanilla sugar with electric mixer
• Add cocoa, cinnamon and chocolate crumbs
• Add flour and baking powder
• Lastly add red wine
• Grease the form well (this dough loves to stick to the form and breaks easily)
• Bake in pre-heated oven
• Normal oven appr. 200 0 C ; convection oven appr. 180 0 C Duration appr. I h 15 and 1 h 30 depending on the oven
• Test with wooden stick. If nothing clings to the stick and the cake smells likes Christmas with chocolate, it should be done
• Optional: After the cake has cooled down and been removed from the form, cover with milk chocolate glazing

Pastéis de nata.