Hedonistin of low budget cooking asked to bake cakes that are “with chocolate, healthy or completely different” for her event “Kleine Kuchen” (“small cakes”). A carrot cake sounds very healthy but if you take a look on the ingredients list you will recognize that this cake belongs in the category “with chocolate”. You can’t taste the carrots but they make the cake wonderful moist.
For my cousins birthday I bake the dough in the muffin pans and top the little cakes with chocolate cream.
The recipe is from “Handbuch für das tägliches Backen” from Pfeifer & Langen in which I wrote the amount of the ingredients for a small springform next to the recipe years ago. Continue reading
I like carnival only in very small doses. Because I am working in one of the strongholds of carnival in Rhineland and because I am living in a small town that is as “jeck” as cologne its impossible for me to avoid carnival and all the drunken people. Drunkard are the most annoying part of carnival for me. But carnival has a delicious side, too. There are all the baked goodies you can get at this time of the year. I like Berliner, a kind of jelly filled donut, very much. According to 
When I have to stay in lab until late in the evening, I need some carbohydrates somewhere at the late afternoon or early evening to refresh myself. One or two cookies are perfect for that, best with some coffee and a chat with my colleagues.
After a week with experiments which seemed to fail one after another and long evenings spend in lab to figure out what went wrong, I was not in Christmas mood last weekend. Friday night I leave the lab happy because of one experiment worked at least, but I was so exhausted that even baking seemed to much work on this weekend.
I bake them rather seldom but this fluffy muffins are a nice snack for a long travel or a delicious treat to share with co-workers. And what I like most about this recipe is the fact that I have to only one dough to get two different kinds of muffins. I would just change one thing next time: I would add some chopped chocolate to the dark muffin variation to make them even more delicious.
After our lab moved to the new bio center we are now nearly back to everyday life. Some things are not working as they should, but it gets better every day! In our coffee room we miss the new kitchen (it will be delivered later this month) but we have already tables, chairs, and a coffee machine, so we have all things which are essential for a nice break. Thats why I could bring my birthday cake (with a month delay).
I do not bake often cake just for my boyfrind and me, because this means eating days and days the same cake! But since I got a small springform (Diameter: 18 cm) for Christmas last year,I can bake tiny little cakes now which are very fast eaten 😉
Since