Desserts

If there is something that I love, it has got to be a good dessert.

A multi-course-meal without a sweet ending would be like an Austrian Xmas without snow, don’t you think? Feeling somewhat incomplete and slightly wrong?
And couldn’t it sometimes just be a multi-course-dessert-meal with biscuits and cupcakes and cakepops and tartes and ice cream… well, I am lost.

PS: I am aware that desserts are in general not what you could call healthy. And while I believe that now and then a sweet treat is quiet alright in an overall balanced diet, I do have a bit of an obsession with the sweet department and I am trying to get it all:
the amazing taste of a “traditional” dessert, the great looks that make you wanna eat the whole tray of mini cupcakes ’cause they are so cute AND be more to our body than just white sugar, white flour and unfavourable fat. Also get some – or better a lot – of the good stuff traveling down to our bellies on that chocolate cake.
So that is my quest here :–)

pumpkin pie roasted almonds

Honey-roasted almonds, pumpkin pie & hopes around Xmas

Here we are, already in the middle of Christmas season, right in the second Advent weekend. Which means almost half-time for all the Xmas-fun! Seriously, in 2016 time has been moving way to fast for my liking. I haven’t even managed yet to decorate the house at least a bit or take some time to put on merry music and bake our favourite Xmas-biscuits in-between sung along “let it snow, let it snow, let it snow”s and “Rudolph the red nosed reindeer”s. Suppose it doesn’t help that I am not in decent Christmas mood yet. For me, it is simply missing snow […]

healthy chocolate cake & the nature of time

Sometimes I wonder if time is moving faster as you get older. Do you know this feeling? I remember, when I was a kid, time seemed to strech endlessly in front of me. Especially when there was an exciting event just lurking around the corner. Like Christmas, or birthdays. These days, I feel like I have to set up several reminders in my phone to make sure time is not rushing me past those events, without me realizing! A few days ago I was very aware of this phenomenon again, as it was time to celebrate with my beloved husband Douglas: […]

Crumble in the forrest & Crumble in the oven – Autumn (–:

Autumn – what a BEAUTIFUL season! And it has finally hit Austria :–D Not that I don’t like our Summers too. But after those last few days, when Summer was really showing off and putting us through some sweat-sessions, I am definitely relieved for coat-and-hat-time to have arrived! Now it even makes sense again to have a wardrobe full of clothes. Didn’t see much use of that during our hot Summer days ;–) I am SO looking forward to the coming weeks, spending time outdoors with my family, enjoying crisp Autumn-air. Especially with my almost 1 1/2 year-old boy. I think he will be really impressed to see […]