Rememberence of Those Goods Days With Friends Over Coffee

Recipes~Decorating~ Rememberence of Goods Days With Friends Over Coffee

Many a good day was spent with friends over coffee and cake. Just like the Golden Girls we had our cheesecake moments too. There were stories of ALL kinds.

It all started in Germany, I was born in a little house on the Freudenberg Hills. The war had been over for several years and people were settling in to a time of new growth, and prosperity. As an Army Brat we traveled a lot but, I was never as Happy as I was in that little old house. It was a short bus ride or an adventurous walk to the River Rhine, where we would stroll along the tree lined colonnade amongst the ducks, and swans the smell of spring flowers perfuming the mid day air. We would pause for a late lunch at outdoor cafes and watch as people leisurely sailed their boats down the river. On late afternoons we would enjoy the coffee houses, were we would enjoy coffee and the most sumptuous cakes and pastries. On hot summer days I would enjoy my favorite lemon ice cream. Even today if I think on it I can still taste the tart, sweet flavor.

This little bog is to be dedicated to just that. Coffee, Conversation and Sumptuous cake recipes. So I hope you will all join me, and share your stories of days gone by, and recipes old or new, shared by some one today or passed down from generation to generation. Love to you All, Micki

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

White Chocolate Cake with Ginger

Weißer Schokokuchen mit Ingwer

Ingredients                                                  16                         Portion (s)

Ingredients
250 g chocolate, white (aka chocolate)
200 g butter, soft
100 g sugar
4 pcs eggs
1 pinch (s) salt
100 g flour
25 g cornstarch
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoons cream
50 g grated coconut
80 g ginger, preserved in sugar syrup
20 g pistachios, chopped
50 g coconut chips (Health Food)
1 tablespoon mint leaves
Per serving as:
279kcal
23g F
18g KH
3g E

Preparation time in minutes:
25
Koch-/Backzeit:

And how it's done
1. 150 g chocolate chop, melt in water bath and cool down a little. Butter and sugar until creamy. Separate the eggs. Egg whites with salt until stiff. Flour, cornstarch and baking powder. Alternating with the yolks and stir the melted chocolate to the butter cream. Add the cream and stir. including raising the coconut and fold the beaten egg whites.

2. 60 g ginger from the syrup, take some leave to drain and chop coarsely. Fold into the batter. Into a box lined with baking paper form (30 cm long) or fill semicircular shape parfait. Bake in preheated oven 45 to 50 minutes baking. Let cool and then run to the wire rack.

3. 100 g chocolate chopping and boiling water. The surface of the cake to coat it. Sprinkle with pistachios and coconut chips. The remaining 20 g ginger Drain and cut into slices and place on the cake. Garnish with mint leaves.
Notes and cooking tips Electric oven: 180 ° C, 350 F gas mark 2, convection oven: 160 ° C
Baking time: 45-50 minutes
You can take for the dough a little fresh ginger. For this, a shell about 4 cm long piece of ginger into it and rub directly on a fine grater in the dough.

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