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Vegan Carrot Cake

Vegan Carrot Cake

Who doesn’t love carrot cake?! I think there is acutally nobody on this planet who doesn’t like carrot cake! For me it is a go-to recipe that everyone loves! Especially around Easter a lot of people make carrot cakes and are looking for a nice 

Plum Cake (with Yeast Dough)

Plum Cake (with Yeast Dough)

We recently have discovered our love to yeast dough. It is so simple and turns out great. You just need a little bit of time and you need to watch it, so that it doesn’t rise too much! Perfect for our current situation where we 

Plum Crumble Cake

Plum Crumble Cake

Fall is here and now completely – with the good and bad sides! We have been enjoying the beautiful weather but at the moment it is raining again – perfect for an cozy afternoon at home with some coffee and some selfmade cake! Maybe a PLUM SHORTCRUST CAKE?

For us, fall is a special time of the year. You are starting to spend more time inside and you got time for things that you haven’t done in the summer. It is also a time to relax and awesome holidays are coming up like Halloween, Thanksgiving and then Christmas. And all of those holidays include FOOD and just so much AMAZING FOOD! Maybe you are looking for an easy and amazing recipe with plums, that are so typical for this season, for one of the holidays? Then this is just perfect for you!

Fall also offers so many yummy fruit and vegetables that you can only get during that time of the year or that can be stored but were just harvested. Amazing examples are plums which have just the perfect taste – a mix between sweet and sour! Maybe you haven’t noticed but for me this is all I need in a fruit!!! But there are also other great vegetables like carrots, spinach, cabbage and so much more.

Anyways let’s get back to the sweet things in life, in particularly this PLUM shortcrust pastry! The recipe is so easy, so just take a little time and try something new and you will be so happy about the results.

One last tip regarding the PLUM CRUMBLE CAKE: It will taste even better on the second day as the shortcrust gets a little softer by then. So if you are planning to make it for a special occasion, maybe you wil make it a day before which will give you even more time to prepare on the next day.

So here is the RECIPE and it is VEGAN!!!

Plum Crumble Cake

Zwetschgenkuchen mit Mürbteig und Streuseln
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time50 minutes
Cooling Time1 hour
Total Time2 hours 20 minutes
Course: Cake
Keyword: Cake, Fall, Fruit, Healthy, Plums, Vegan

Ingredients

Shortcrust

  • 120 g flour
  • 120 g shredded nuts (I use hazelnuts but almonds will be fine too!)
  • 160 g vegan butter (cold)
  • 60-70 g sugar
  • cold water (if necessary)

Crumble topping

  • 150 g flour
  • 100 g vegan butter
  • 70 g sugar
  • ½ tsp vanilla sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Fruit

  • 500 g plums

Instructions

  • Cut the cold butter in small pieces. Then add all other ingredients for the shortcrusts and knead them with your hands to a smooth dough. If necessary, you can add some cold water for the right texture.
  • Place the dough in plastic wrap in the fridge and let it cool for at least an hour.
  • During this time wash the plums and core them. I usually use as many plums as fit on the cake. So depending on how you like it best use more or less than 500 g of plums.
  • Now add all the ingredients for the crumble topping together until you get the wanted texture.
  • Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (Ober-/Unterhitze).
  • Coat a baking tray with butter and flour.
  • After the shortcrust dough has cooled down, roll it out and use a fork to prick into the dough.
  • Now arrange the plums as you want and place the crumbles on top.
  • Bake the cake for 50-60 minutes.
  • Now you just need to wait until it is cooled down and then enjoy!

Did you give this recipe a try? If so, we would love to get some feedback from you! Just comment below, we really would appreciate your opinion. And if you took some pictures, just tag us on Instagram.

Basil Pesto

Basil Pesto

Finally we are back home and have some time to share our BASIL PESTO recipe! Both vegan and the traditional version! It is just the best! For us, BASIL PESTO is a must sometimes, especially when we are graving pasta but don’t want the usual 

Green Smoothie

Green Smoothie

Are you also searching sometimes for a healthy way to start into the day from which you can get a lot of vitamins and energy? A perfect choice then is a green smoothie!!! It tastes so much better than most people think if you choose 

Pesto Pasta Salad

Pesto Pasta Salad

Summer is slowly coming to an end, are you feeling it as well? I don’t know if we are really ready for fall. This summer was so amazing and we enjoyed the sun and the nice weather. We are holding on to those last beautiful summer days that we got right now, what about you? Are you so ready for fall or do you wish to have a lot more summer days to come?

BUT let’s just enjoy the last summer days and what is more important than the suitable food?

This Pesto Pasta Salad has been on Instagram for a while but has not made it on the blog yet but finally it does. This is the perfect summer salad! We love it as an side dish for a BBQ with friends but sometimes it is just like this our lunch or dinner.

We use usually our own pesto and at this time of the year the tomatoes from our balcony, which is just sooooo yummy! If you cannot find asparagus, you could also just use zucchini. This tastes also amazing!

So maybe you will give it a try? It is so simple easy but so delicious! Let us know what you think about it.

Pesto Pasta Salad

Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: Italian, Mediterran
Keyword: Healthy, Pasta, Pesto, Side dish, Summer

Ingredients

  • 500 g noodles
  • 5 tbsp pesto (the best one is homemade basil pesto)
  • olive oil
  • balsamico vinegar
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 1 feta
  • 2 tomato
  • 250 g green asparagus

Instructions

  • Boil the noodles in salted water and let them cool.
  • Cut the asparagus, tomatoes and the feta in two cubes.
  • Fry the asparagus in a pan.
  • As soon as the noodles are cold, mix everything together. Add the pesto and olive oil, balsamico vinegar, salt and pepper as wanted.
  • If you want, decorate it with fresh basil.

Did you give this recipe a try? If so, we would love to get some feedback from you! Just comment below, we really would appreciate your opinion. And if you took some pictures, just tag us on Instagram.

Homemade Apricot Jam

Homemade Apricot Jam

What do you need for your breakfast? Are you a cereal lover or do you like some bread with some yummy jam? If you are the second type, this blog post is for you! We love bread or buns with jam or nutella on the 

Vegan Apricot Nicecream

Vegan Apricot Nicecream

You are looking for something to cool down while enjoying the sun? You don’t want to eat the usual ice cream that is packed with a huge amount of sugar and where you don’t know what ingredients are all included? Or you just want to 

Vegan Mini Apricot Galette

Vegan Mini Apricot Galette

What are you doing during those hot summer days, especially when you have guests over? What are you baking or cooking with or for them?

During these hot days we try to use our oven as little as possible but for this recipe it is so worth it to turn it on for a minute!!! We love galette in the summer topped with a scoop of (vanilla) ice cream – just the best!

Galettes are the perfect summer cake – super light, simple and just super delicious. If you don’t like apricots, you can fill it with your favorite fruit. We chose aprictos as they are the perfect mix of sweet and sour and Marie is an apricot lover anyway!

Compared to the usual Galette we changed the dough a little bit up and replaced some of the flour with shredded hazelnuts which adds an additional flavour to it. If you are allergic to nuts, you can replace the hazelnuts with usual flour or shredded almonds. This will be almost as good as with the hazelnuts!

Just give these VEGAN APRICOT GALETTES a try and let us know what you think, especially in when it is cooling up a little at the moment.

We hope you have a fabulous weekend and enjoy these summer days! See you soon!

Vegan Mini Apricot Galettes

Prep Time1 day 30 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Resting Time1 hour
Total Time1 day 1 hour 50 minutes
Course: Cake, Dessert
Cuisine: French
Keyword: Apricot, Cake, Dessert, Galette, Ice Cream

Ingredients

  • 150 g shredded hazelnuts
  • 150-200 g flour
  • 180 g (vegan) butter
  • 60 g sugar
  • 50 g cold water
  • 600 g apricots
  • apricot jam

Instructions

  • Mix the hazelnuts, the flour and sugar in a bowl. Cut the cold butter in pieces into it and mix it together with your hands or your (kitchen-aid) food processor. Add the water step by step and stop when you get a smooth dough.
  • Now let the dough covered in plastic wrap rest in the fridge for at least an 1 hour until you roll it out.
  • While the dough is resting, wash the apricots and cut them into slices.
  • Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius (Ober-/Unterhitze).
  • Cut the dough into 3 pieces, so that you get later 3 mini galette. If you want one big one, than leave the dough in one piece.
  • Roll out one of the pieces on an flour-covered surface into a round shape.
  • Place it now on a baking sheet and add in the middle some apricot jam and 1/3 of the apricots slices.
  • Now fold the sides of the dough over the filling as far as possible. Then you'll have a beautiful galette.
  • Repeat step 5-8 for the other two mini galettes.
  • Now bake one at a time for 15-20 minutes. Until the dough turns golden brown.
  • Let it cool down a little bit and then serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Did you give this recipe a try? If so, we would love to get some feedback from you! Just comment below, we really would appreciate your opinion. And if you took some pictures, just tag us on Instagram.

Seafood Salad

Seafood Salad

SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER – do you feel this way too? We had some super hot day last week and starting tomorrow there are more to come! For us this just screams summer! What have you guys planned for your summer? Are you going on vacation