Kingdom of Knuffel

I like to try something new every time. But I always pick what I want, lol.

I went with something like this this time, simple dough, lots of cream in between and I chopped pecan nuts after coating them in caramel for the sides. Some fruit on top and on the side and it looked quite festive with the candles. :)

For my husband I tried a fruit pie recipe, made 2 actually, one with apricots and one with rice pudding, for the little one I got back to the "cottage cheese" cake, or kwarktaart and I tried making it with layers like this one. I turned out quite good, did put some more whipped cream on top, 'cause that's always good. lol.

I never made or tried or intend to try those figure cakes with lots of fondant. Not my thing. First of all I hate the fondant/marcipan taste, second of all, I prefer good ingredients and a good taste over look. :) Always see the cake-baking as a gift itself for the birtday kid, try to "make" some family habits. I always save the birthday cards for the day itself, throw some serpentines over their chair, we always hang some garlands in the kitchen. I like that. Also feel we somehow have to compensate a bit for the fact that usually we have no family coming by...

Before we never had a party, little one had none, it's only last year we had one the first time? I asked both big boys to pick one, maybe 2 and with the 3 of my own, that's more than enough. As if you can play with 30 kids at once.

Also, we live in a small town, eldest has 14 kids in his year, middle one only 10. So, even if we wanted to, we cannot get to 30 kids. Lol.

Cream, pecan nuts and caramel. That sounds decadent and delicious.
*noms*

I don't like fondant either.
I even dislike how it looks, because it may allow you to create things but those things do not really look tasty. They hardly look edible.
And even if you remove the fondant, the cake below it is usually very dull - I assume it's because they want it to be so, better an steady but boring plain cake to put all your fondant on.

We always invite the granparents, the uncle and aunt and cousin. And that's it.
He enjoys it, and I don't think he'll be asking to invite friends yet.
But when he does, I think a few friends are enough.


Oh, your town is even smaller than mine. My son has 30 kids in his year (separated into 2 classrooms).

Why don't you make pancakes?
You don't need a oven and they'll be ready to eat in no time.

Or the cakes you can put in the fridge. :) Sugar, cream, cottage cheese, something for taste and cookies with butter as the bottom layer. :3

Or, something we call arretjescake, but is actually originally an Italian recipe I think, mainly sugar, biscuits, butter and cocoa.

Or caramel, can be made on a stove. Or the condensed milk you only need to cook to have it turn into caramel. Dip it with anything, even carrots would be nice. Lol.

I had not eaten out for such a long time, and my tummy is having a hard time digesting the huge amount of food I decided to gulp down.

It was nice to meet a friend though.
We had not gone out with a friend since this whole pandemic started. We missed them!

Is that tiny your oven?
Smallest one I've seen is as large as a microwave, and brownies would fit in. Not a huge load of brownies, but a medium batch would.


Nope, I've never eaten bannana pudding.
What's it like?

I do know banana ice cream, like... Frozen banana beaten to pieces.

And yeah, we also have the microwave one, don't use it anymore, but it could function as an oven. Enough brownies would fit it.

Also, there's deep fried apple pie, one *ping* in the microwave and it'd be hot.

I've seen a weird thing recently, which would pull the cake through a printer/like machine? It looked weird and useless, but it was in Canada, soo... >.<

Aaand, chocolate chips could easily be added to pancakes. We always throw apples in it, but adding chips just before they're done could be an awesome idea. Apart from whipped cream, I'd also add ice cream. <3

Edit: your fault, I had to whip out my private bar of dark Lindt chocolate. >.>

I make banana ice cream with banana and whipped cream. My mother-in-law makes it with banana and yoghurt.
A very versatile fruit, banana. And yummy.


Baked apples!
You can do those in the microwave too, and serve them with some ice cream or syrup.


Yeah, food printers.
They've been used for certain things such as cakes decorations for a while. They used edible ink on edible paper-like surfaces you could put on a cake.
Now they use a wide range of ingredients, but I've heard creamy ones (such as tempered chocolate or buttercream) work very well.
I'm not sure they can "print" a whole cake, but they do very nice layers with some ingredients.