Recipe: Vanilla Christmas Cupcakes

Eeeeeks, merry Christmas!!!
Today is the day, the most wonderful day of the year! I hope you are having a cozy and magical day with your loved ones!
In case some of you need a last minute recipe for the holiday for which you will surely have all ingredients at home anyways, here I've got a Christmas cupcake recipe for you.
Here's what you need for the dough:
- 250g flour, 250g sugar, 5 tea spoons of baking powder, 250ml milk, 100g butter, 2 big eggs
- Cinnamon, fresh vanilla and some vanilla sugar

What you need for the frosting:
- Fresh vanilla, cinnamon, orange zest
- Curd cheese, butter and powder sugar (the amount depends on the consistency you prefer, I personally like using lots of powder sugar and only a little bit of butter and curd cheese so make it creamy)
Mix all ingredients for the dough and stirr everything until it's a creamy mixture.
Next, fill the creamy dough into your cupcake paper baking tins (fill about two third with dough) and let the cupcakes bake in the oven for about half an hour at 180°C (depending on your kind of oven: because ours is heatened with gas, time and temperature sometimes vary a bit and I can't leave the kitchen for too long without looking at the cupcakes).
Afterwards, mix the powder sugar with the curd cheese and the butter, add some vanilla, orange zest and cinnamon. Put it into the fridge so that you can then easily spread it over your cupcakes when it has the perfect consistency.
Done! :)
Enjoy your cupcakes and have super cozy holidays!!
Happy Christmas!
Lu

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Apple Crumble Recipe and Book Review

Hello, hello! Today I've got a book review and apple crumble recipe for you, maybe this is even a perfect dessert for tomorrow's Christmas dinner!
Before we come to the recipe, I'd love to talk about this awesome book. It's called "Vom Vanillekipferl zum Ribisltörtchen" and is a really special book with baking recipes from a family history of 200 years.
This book is a collection of recipes of Mädi's family. Mädi was born in Berlin in 1932 and her childhood was highly influenced by the war. Maybe these unruly years are the origin of her love for tradition and are the reason why she created this book to preserve her family's recipes and baking traditions and to give them on to the next generations.
This book has been made with Dreimorgen, a design agency in Frankfurt (am Main) who gave me this book for review.
When I first heard about this project, I got super excited because this book carries so much meaning. I got my own copy and started reading it.
The book is not only filled with the most delicious recipes for cookies, bisquits, cakes and pies, it also lets the reader dive into Mädi's family history which is really exciting!
Among all the delicious recipes which have been approved by Mädi and her ancestors over the decades, it wasn't easy to pick a favorite to try out. In the end, I decided to make Apple Crumble and I didn't regret it, soooo incredibly delicous!
What you need:
- 6-12 apples
- 1 tea spoon of cinnamon
- 2 table spoons of brown sugar
- Some raisins
- The juice of a fresh lemon
- Moreover, I also added vanilla and orange zest

What you need for the crumbles:
- 130g flour
- 130g butter
- 130g brown sugar
- A hand full of walnuts, almonds or hazelnuts
Here we go:
Cut the apples, put them into a baking dish, add cinnamon, sugar, raisins, lemon juice, vanilla and orange zest.
This is the orange zest I added.
Then make the crumbles: knead the dough consisting of flour, butter, sugar and nuts. Spread the crumbles all over the apples and bake your apple crumble in the oven for about 30 minutes at 180°.
Tastes perfect with cream or vanilla sauce and can be eaten hot or cold. :)
Enjoy!
At the end of the book, there's even an additional chapter with memories and family stories, this was one of my fave parts. When knowing about all those special stories which are related to Mädi's delicious recipes, they taste even better! :)
I'm really happy about having discovered this awesome baking recipe book, because with all those old recipes and stories related to it, it's way more than an normal collection of recipes.
Moreover, the book is super pretty to look at and the old photos and recipes have been put into a modern layout and design without changing old content's special meaning.
Happy baking and enjoy reading in case you buy the book yourself!
Lu

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Recipe: Easy Cheesecake

Hello everyone! Here's a cheesecake I made for my "Bye bye summer!" sweet table a few weeks ago and it's a recipe I got from my grandmade and her country women club. :)
This is what you need:
- 250g butter, 250g sugar
- 1kg cottage cheese
- 5 eggs
- 1 package of vanilla pudding powder
- 1 package of vanilla sugar
- 1 tea spoon baking poweder
Take a cake pan and spread butter and tiny breadcrumbs all over it and preheat the oven on 175°. Next, take all your ingredients and mix them. Pour them into your cake pan and bake everything for 50 minutes. Then open the oven just a little bit and let the cake cool down slowly before taking it out. :) Serves great with hot raspberries.
Have fun baking!
Lu

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Recipe: Apple Vanilla Cinnamon Cupcakes

Hello and happy Sunday! In case your sweet tooth is craving for something delicious today, here's a tasty cupcake recipe for you to make your cozy Sunday afternoon at home complete! :)
Remember my "Bye bye summer, hello fall!" sweet table I made about three weeks ago? This is one of the recipes which I made on that day to make my guests happy and now you can also make those delicious cupcakes yourself!
 Here's what you need for the dough:
- 250g flour, 250g sugar, 5 table spoons of baking powder, 250ml milk, 100g butter, 2 big eggs
- Freshly chopped apple pieces, cinnamon, fresh vanilla and some vanilla sugar

What you need for the frosting:
- Fresh vanilla & cinnamon
- 300g curd cheese, 50g butter
Mix all ingredients for the dough and stirr everything until it's a creamy mixture.
Next, fill the creamy dough into your cupcake paper baking tins (fill about two third with dough) and let the cupcakes bake in the oven for about half an hour at 180°C (depending on your kind of oven: because ours is heatened with gas, time and temperature sometimes vary a bit and I can't leave the kitchen for too long without looking at the cupcakes).
Afterwards, mix the curd cheese and the butter, add some vanilla and cinnamon. Put it into the fridge so that you can then easily spread it over your cupcakes when it has the perfect consistency.
Done! :)
Yayy, enjoy your super delicious cupcakes!
Happy baking and have a lovely Sunday!
Lu

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Recipe: The World's Best Potato Salad.

Hello, my dear readers! Today I've got a really special recipe for you, my very favorite party salad and in my opinion the world's best potato salad! :) We have been making this salad for many parties for about four years now and each time, the party guests liked it so much that they then spread the recipe among their own friends and acquaintances. It's not difficult to make it and it's super tasty! :)
Ingredients you need:
- Potatoes
- Fresh spring onions, a red onion and fresh garlic
- Dried tomatoes, olives and feta / sheep's milk cheese
- Green pesto (freshly made like after this pesto recipe or just the normal one from your local market)
Cook the potatoes and let them cool down (I prefer boiled potatoes made a day in advance, they taste best). Then cut them into cubes and put them into a bowl. Next, cut dried tomatoes and add them. Also add olives, chopped onions and garlic and the sheep's milk cheese. Last but not least, add the pesto.
Then mix everything and let the pesto's oil soak into the potatoes.
Tastes with some bread or toast and aioli or combined with all your other favorite party salads.
Mhhh, so delicious!
Have fun making your new favorite salad! ;)
Lu

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"Bye Bye Summer!" Sweet Table.

Hello, dear readers! Here's last weekend's big project, a "Bye bye summer!" sweet table! This past Sunday, we were having guests for a little party at our home which I had already been planning for a few weeks. I totally was in the mood for making another sweet table (find the other older party tables here, so I have been thinking about a theme and decided to say bye bye to summer. For this occasion, I then needed a color concept and decided on using a bright yellow in combination with lots of white and natural colors, eeeks!

I made plenty of super delicious apple-cinnamon cupcakes (recipe coming soon) and my very first homemade cheesecake (recipe also coming soon). Moreover, I bought donuts, popcorn and the thing which is called "Americans" here in Germany (but in English-speaking foreign countries, these tasty pieces of pastry are called "black and white cookies" and are usually available in two colors).
To decorate the sweet table, I collected constalks and grasses and bought tiny pumpkins on the market.
Mhhh, my very first homemade cheesecake, it turned out sooo good!
Moreover, I'm especially proud of all those delicious cupcakes. Flo said they were the best I have made so far, yay! :)
As many of the other decor elements, the paper dishes were sponsored by partyerie, my favorite shop for party supplies. :)
Oh, I'm so happy about how bright the photos have turned out and how pure the sweet table looks with this nice combination of color and light.
The honey combs were part of the package that I've chosen from partyerie, but the pompoms are handmade and the tassel bunting, too. I used fabric leftovers, cut it in stripes and Flo was so sweet to help me to tie them onto the cord.
Our party was great and apart from all the tasty sweet things, we also had another food table with savory things, partly prepared by me, partly with things brought by our guests.

I'm so proud of this lovely sweet table and how I was able to capture its prettyness. :) I hope you like it, too, and are inspired for an own sweet table or themed meal!

Like last time when I organized the summer picnic, my cooperation partner partyerie hast sponsored this sweet table project: Birgit let me choose my favorite items for her shop for this project, but see yourself:
All items shown above can be found in Birgit's DaWanda shop partyerie and many of them are also available in other colors for different party concepts. I love working with her and her shop is one of my favorites, not only because of her wide range of items and bright and pretty product photos. :)
Have fun shopping there!

Thanks for reading and have fun preparing your own next food table!
Lu

P.S.: Although some items shown in this blog post were sponsored, this does not influence my personal opinion about this shop!

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