German Buttercream (in Germany this is just Buttercream) is a variant of Creme Mousselline, but with a much higher butter content (about 50% more). It is an ideal cake filling and for me far preferable to Standard Buttercream which I find too cloying and sweet. As with creme Mouselline you make a basic Creme Pat…
Category: German Buttercream
Porcelain Marzipan Buttercream Cake in Dresden
I have been neglecting my blogging duties and services to baking. We have already been back from “us holidays” for a week and I completely failed to make a single blog post whilst travelling through Germany. I also somewhat failed to indulge in the delights of Kuchen. What went wrong? Well I put it down to…
Chocolate and Orange Layer Cake – a lesson in German Buttercream
What do you do when make too much cake and you have left overs. Well normally in the UK we break it all up and make a delicious alcohol soaked Trifle. However I made a Gateau Fraisier last week and I made far too much sponge and having sliced off the 2cm of sponge I…
A Gateau Fraisier for a Garden Party
Strawberry season is definitely here with a bang and strawberries in season taste so much better than the imported variety bought out of season and they are quintessentially part of the British summer. However it is the French who turn the humble strawberry into a work of culinary art with the Gateau Fraisier, which sounds so…
Prinzregententorte, a very exacting Bavarian treat
Heinz Georg Erbhäuser must have adored Prince Regent Luitpold when he invented this cake in the Prince’s honour because this was not a straightforward bake. Now I admit fundamentally there is nothing complicated here – a bit of genoise sponge (well 7 layers of sponge), sandwiched between chocolate butter cream and covered in chocolate is…
A Bavarian Treat, The Prinzregententorte
I was thinking this week might be the week to try biscuits, something I don’t make very often. I had found some marvellous ones on Hanuma kocht, the blog that helped me with the Kardinalschnitte, but I realised I can’t bake next weekend so have decided to keep biscuits to next week’s challenge as it…
The Cottage Loaf 