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

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Kase Sahne Torte

  For the sponge cake:
Egg (s)
1 tbsp Water, hot
60 g Sugar
Vanilla sugar
1 pinch Salt
60 g Flour (wheat flour)
40 g Butter, melted, cooled
  For the filling:
½  Vanilla bean (s), including the Mark
100 ml Milk
egg yolks
175 g Sugar
8 sheets Gelatin, white,
500 g Whipped cream
600 g Quark), 40% fat(if quark is not available use half sieved riccota full fat and half marscapone)
  Icing sugar, for dusting

Preparation

For the sponge eggs, water, sugar, salt and vanilla sugar with a whisk until smooth and then put over a warm  water bath with a hand mixer at the highest level. Sieving the flour and fold in,  at the end add the butter, pour into a springform pan and bake in a preheated oven at 375 degrees for about 12-15 minutes until golden brown. With a finger cake should feel firm, but also a firm sponge . The biscuit covered with parchment paper and lightly weighted cool until the next day. Cut the biscuit into horizontally with a stiff thread ( I use fishing line). Lay bottom back in sprinform pan.   For the filling slit open the vanilla pod and leave it in the draw milk over low heat, remove the pod after a time and scrape the pulp into the milk. The milk with the egg yolks and 150g sugar until fluffy over a water bath. The gelatin sheets in to melt for 10 seconds in the microwave and pour into the ground. The whipping cream until stiff. Underscore the quark through a fine sieve and gently mix with the Eischaummasse, then stir in the cream. Spread teh filling onto the bottom sponge in spring form then cool in fridge over night, then add top sponge. . and sprinkle with powdered sugar. I score the top sponge into pieces triangles and then add to the top. This makes it easier to cut through

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