Baked anything tasty lately?

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