Ingredient: bicarbonate of soda

Banoffee Muffins

Banoffee Muffins

  My first ever cookbook was a flimsy little thing not even 60 pages long entitled “Even more muffins” – the sequel to “Muffins” (which a part of me always regretted not owning). It is in German with the cover depicting a single blueberry muffin 

HOMEMADE, AUTHENTIC PRETZEL RECIPE

HOMEMADE, AUTHENTIC PRETZEL RECIPE

As a German, in particular a Bavarian, life is meaningless without pretzels (or as it is known in German ‘Brezel’ or ‘Breze’ if you are inclined to be authentically Bavarian). That holds true, even if you are only half German like me… You can eat them 

Luxury Banana Bread

Luxury Banana Bread

I really started extensively baking banana bread a few years ago when my boyfriend/now fiancee/soon to be husband replaced breakfast by just grabbing a banana from the kitchen on the way to work. Some weeks there would invariably be some brown, spotted sad looking bananas