I adore them, I really do J. When I lived in Germany I would go to the baker’s every other day to get some apple turnovers. But then I liked it better when I made them at home, on my own because I was able to add more raisins, more cinnamon, etc., to my taste

INGREDIENTS for 24 pieces

1 kg of puff pastry ( 4 packages )

5 – 6 smaller apples

5 spoons of sugar + sugar for sprinkling

3 spoons of corn-starch

1 egg

75 g . of raisins

1 ½ spoons of cinnamon

375 ml . of apple juice

2 packages of vanilla sugar

PREPARATION :

1 . peel the apples, core them and cut them into cubes ca . 1 x 1 cm …

2 . put the apples in a pot and add cinnamon, vanilla sugar, sugar, raisins and half apple juice and dissolve corn-starch in the other half …

3 . stir apples well and put them on the cooker. When they boil, cook them just for 2-3 minutes and add the dissolved corn-starch …

4 . cook the apples for a short time with constant stirring, till the corn-starch thickens and you get a thick mass …

5 . mix the egg well and leave it aside …

6 . roll the pastry out, cut it once horizontally and twice vertically so you get 6 cubes …

7 . stuff the pastry well, be careful to leave 1 cm of pastry empty on three sides, to be able to pinch the edges well and leave the fourth side empty for about three 3 cm …

8 . when the turnovers are stuffed, coat three sides with an egg wash, and make a cut with a knife ca. 1 cm from the edge so you get 3, 4 lines ( SEE THE VIDEO ) …

9 . fold the side which is opposite to lines having been cut, over apples and pinch the pastry well on both sides, to avoid leakage of the filling during baking …

10 . coat the side you have folded over apples with an egg wash and put the cut side over turnovers and pinch the edges from all sides, so that turnovers do not open during baking …

11 . fill them till you have used all the pastry and apples …

12 . line the turnovers on a big baking tray covered with parchment paper, coat them with an egg wash and sprinkle with sugar abundantly …

13 . put the turnovers in a hot oven, preheated to 180 degrees for some 20 – 25 minutes ( till they get golden colour ) …

TIPS :

If you want even edges and corners, just make them even with a knife before baking.

In apple filling you can put a bit rum, too.

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Ideal, delicious, simple party biscuits. For any party these biscuits are perfect, children adore them and in a few minutes they are gone. They are a real attraction with their looks, and their taste even more, as you decide on your favourite taste yourself. In this recipe I will describe you two different types of cream for filling, so choose whether you will fill the biscuits with a sort of milk cream like nougat, strawberries, or coconut chocolate or whether you want to use dark chocolate which contains 50 % of cocoa and more.

INGREDIENTS FOR CREAM :

100 ml of cream

270 g of nougat chocolate

FOR DECORATION ( not obligatory)

different decoration pearls, balls, butterflies,

chocolate granules, coloured granules, sprays

coconut – ground, nuts, etc. …

INGREDIENTS FOR DECORATION :

80 g of white chocolate

80 g of milk chocolate

80 g of filled chocolate (to your taste)

INGREDIENTS FOR CREAM WITH DARK CHOCOLATE CONTAINIG 50% AND MORE COCOA :

200 g of dark chocolate

100 ml of cream

OTHER INGREDIENTS :

500 g of mini biscuits ( e.g. Leibniz )

PREPARATION :

1 . put the cream and chocolate in a bowl and melt the chocolate completely, while stirring occasionally …

2 . put the cream aside to cool down, but NOT in the fridge!!! If it is too hot at your place, you can put it into the fridge before use, but only for 5 – 10 minutes …

3 . whisk the cooled cream and fill a decorating bag (or freezer bag) and cut off a corner of the bag …

4 . put some cream in the middle of a mini biscuit, put a toothpick in the middle of the biscuit and cover the cream with another mini biscuit …

5 . do this until all the cream has been used …

6 . put the filled biscuits into the fridge for some 30-45 minutes to cool down and to enable the cream to harden well before decorating …

7 . melt each chocolate separately on steam or in microwave …

8 . dip the cooled biscuits in the melted chocolate to the half and line them on a tray covered with parchment paper. (if you want to decorate your biscuits with coconut or different decorations, do that as soon as you dip them in the chocolate, and after that put the biscuits on the parchment paper.)

9 . put the decorated biscuits in the fridge and take them out before serving so that cream and chocolate do not start melting in summer heat …

NOTES AND ADVICE :

When prepared and decorated biscuits harden in the fridge, you can put them one on the other, but be careful when serving – they must not be put one on the other, when you serve them.

It is not obligatory to use 3 different types of chocolate for decoration, you can use two or just one type, but be careful that you have 240 g of chocolate in total at the end.

Different decoration like granules, butterflies, coconut etc.… are not obligatory for decoration, it is sufficient just to dip the biscuits into the chocolate.

Choose the chocolate you want to use for making cream, to your taste, but be careful about the ratio of cream and chocolate and check the cream you want to make, in the recipe to be sure about the precise ratio.

If it is summer time and your cream is not hard enough, put it in the fridge just for 5 – 10 minutes, but keep an eye on it, so it does not harden too much and you can fill the biscuits easily.

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This is my sister’s favourite cake, she eats the whole cake herself, literally just by herself, of course during the day, not at once. This is one of famous cakes made in Germany where it is called Zwetschgenkuchen, some people call it Pflaumenkuchen, too. There plum cake is made with shortcrust pastry and there are pastry crumbs on the plums, I would say it is a typical German Zwetschgenkuchen, but there are variations, as this plum cake of mine. I prefer this version, which is faster, too.

INGREDIENTS :

FOR PASTRY :

270 g of sugar

5 eggs( L )

525 g of flour

1 package of baking powder

1 package of vanilla sugar

270 g . of butter (half melted ) + for buttering the baking tray

FOR FILLING :

2 eggs

150 g of sugar

2 packages of vanilla pudding

ca. 2 kg of pitted plums

750 g . of cottage cheese ( 15 – 20 % fat or Topfen )

FOR CRUMBS :

1 – 2 tea spoons of cinnamon

360 g . of flour

250 g . of sugar

225 g . of butter (half melted)

PROCEDURE :

1 . wash and pit the plums …

2 . turn the oven on to 180 degrees and let it heat well …

3 . butter a big baking tray ( 38 x 33 ), flour it and tap out the excess from the tray…

4 . preparation for crumbs – put all ingredients in a bowl and mix them lightly with a fork, with your hands or with a mixer – attachment for making pastry or as I did in the video. Be careful when making crumbs – do not make a piece of pastry instead of crumbs !!!

5 . put the ready-made crumbs into the fridge while you prepare the pastry …

6 . mix eggs and butter shortly (ca. 2 – 3 min .) using the attachment for biscuits. Then add all other ingredients and make pastry without lumps …

7 . put the pastry into the buttered baking tray with a spoon and spread it evenly, then leave it aside for a while…

8 . put all the ingredients for filling into a bowl and mix them well …

9 . put the filling on the pastry, spoon by spoon, and spread it lightly and evenly over the pastry …

10 . stick the plums into the filling vertically, one beside another and sprinkle them with crumbs abundantly …

11 . put the cake into the oven heated to 180 degrees and bake for 40 to 45 minutes …

12 . let the cake cool and then enjoy each bit of it …

NOTES AND ADVICE :

When preparing crumbs with a mixer, be careful not to knead pastry; so switch the mixer on at the smallest speed and mind the crumbs.

If you prepare crumbs with your hands DO NOT KNEAD with your palms, but just with your fingers, in this way you will have better control that you really make crumbs and not pastry.

To all beginners I would suggest working with a fork as the best option, in this way you can control how to make the best crumbs.

With light movements, light squeezing and mixing with a fork you will get excellent crumbs with no fear that pastry will be done instead. But you have to be careful with fork, too!

Cinnamon is not obligatory in this cake, but it really goes fantastically with plums.

In the covered baking tray (with a foil) you can keep the cake fresh and tasty for the next several days.

If there is a rest of crumbs, it is not a big deal – do not throw them away, because they can be used again. Put the rest of the crumbs into a freezer bag and put them into the freezer. When needed, when you make any other cake, muffins etc. … you can use them in the way that you put the frozen crumbs on a cake or muffins and you get something special … I always have frozen crumbs in the freezer, so when I need them, I have ready-made ones.

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This is a really quick and simple recipe. Literary, in five minutes nectarines are stuffed and ready for degustation. If you want to try this recipe, it is obligatory to look for Amarettini biscuits, because they have that specific intense almond flavour, I would say that Amarettini biscuits remind me of the flavour of marzipan.

INGREDIENTS :

2 cans of nectarines ( 825 g each)

70 g of Amarettini biscuits + a few biscuits for decoration

200 ml of cream

200 g of Greek yogurt

1 tea spoon of whipped cream fix

PREPARATION :

1 . drain the nectarines and flatten their bottoms with a knife so they can stand straight …

2 . chop Amarettini biscuits …

3 . mix the cream by half (not completely) and add it to the yogurt together with biscuits and cream fix, then mix just for a few seconds …

4 . put the prepared filling into a decorating bag (you can use an ordinary freezer bag, too), cut off a somewhat bigger corner of the bag and fill the nectarines abundantly…

5. decorate the stuffed nectarines with one biscuit each …

ADVICE :

Cream fix is not obligatory, if you do not want to use it.

If you do not add cream fix, mix the cream a few seconds longer.

I would recommend you to use Amarettini biscuits in this recipe or possibly some other biscuits having an intense flavour of almonds, cinnamon or marzipan.

In this recipe you can use ordinary set yogurt or Greek yogurt as I did.

Instead of nectarines you can use canned peaches or apricots, too

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