Sweet things

Sweet cakes and desserts

This page contains some of the sweet things that I have made. Unfortunately I do not always take photos, so not everything is present :(. And most photos are from a SmartPhone at the office or so. So they are not the best.

Right now it is mostly a list of photos and names. Getting all the recipes together will be a work in progress between other activities. Also, most of the photos are taken directly in the kitchen or at my employer. So the setting might not always the best .

Note that most cakes these days I take 3/4 of sugar from the recipes, it really works well in many ca(s|k)es.

Strawberry chocolate cake

Apple cinnamon cake

Pancake-pie

Raspberry cheesecake

Simple apple cake

Baci di Silvia

A variation on 'Baci di Dame'. This one is for you, Sil!

Danish 'Wienerbrot'

One of my all time favorites. If you are in Denmark, definetly get one. You will not be disappointed .

Pink birthday cake

A pink birthday cake, first time use of food coloring

'Karnemelk' and nuts ring

Strawberry 'vlaai' without baking

Coconut cake

Stroopwafel parfait

A parfait, with the typical Dutch stroopwafels. It's really good!

Upside down pineapple cake

Quite an easy cake to make. The result is always a good looking, and even better tasting cake!

Pear-chocolate-spice cake

Pear and chocolate is a great combination.

Bienenstich

One of my personal favorites. It's a German recipe

Strawberry pannacotta

It was definetly a great pannacotta, but this size (a plastic cup size) was just a bit too per person.

Spicey pear cake

Coconut cake (another one)

Chocolate layered coconut treats

Homemade marzipan

It's quite simple to make your own marzipan. Much better than from a store

Nanaimo bars

A Canadian dessert

Apple 'kruimel' (crumb) cake

A very typical Dutch apple cake, with crumbs on top.

Chocolate cake

A chocolate cake! Always a treat. This one was without any dairy products, to make sure some other colleagues could have it .

Orange cake

A straight forward orange cake, Orange and lemon make great cakes.

Lemon cake with lemon cream topping

Amazing cake, amazing cream topping. Liked by many colleagues and friends

Coconut pannacotta

Served as a desert, on a small layer of circular cut cake. Quite easy to make, but makes a wonderfull dessert.

Swiss roll experiment

Trying to make a swiss roll, it worked out quite well; had to use a lasagna shape for it which makes it a bit impractical. Tasty though!

Chocolate truffles

First experiment making chocolate truffles, worked out rather well!

Czech honey cake (Medovnik)

A Czech honey cake! Quite labor intensive, but might have been one of the most tasty cakes thusfar.

Amaretto cheesecake

Amaretto cheesecake, also very delicious . Covered in some baked almonds with pastry sugar.

Almond flour cookies

Almond flour, sugar and some butter, makes excellent cookies!

Apple cake made out of slices

This was a test to see if the slices would stay nicely together.

Blue berry cakes with Creme di pasticceria

Pasta frolla (sand dough) shells filled with yellow vanilla cream and topped with blueberries.

Whole grain bread

Nothing wrong with some home made bread .

Blueberry cake with homemade butter-milk

As an experiment made some butter, and the by product is butter milk. The butter milk was used to make this cake.

Carrot cake

Carrot cake is among my favorites to make and eat!

Blueberry / raspberry cheese cake

Chocolate ganache filled cake

Great chocolate filling!

Coconut cake

A simple coconut cake.

Irish potato cake

A cake that worked out suprisingly well. Recommended to make!

Kwark brood

No idea how to translate to English, ("pronounce it as quark bread"), but it is based upon a typical Dutch dairy product.

Layered Caramel cake from BBC Good Food

Amazing cake that is more than a 10.000 calories. Made this already a couple of times. Serve small pieces! Recipe for this cake.

Lemon Curd cake

Simple lemony cake with layers of lemon curd in the center. Perfect for summer!

Orange cake

Orange cake with slices of baked orange on top.

Orange or Mango or Mandarin cheese cake

Cannot remember exactly what this was, but it was good!

Oranjekoek

Oranjekoek ("Orange cake") is actually pink. Any Frisian person will be able to tell you, so it is always a great test to see if someone is from the north-west of The Netherlands.
Every bakery has their own recipe. Can definetly remember to try it at some time, or just to make it yourself (but not as good as in a true bakery..). This version was a bit too pink.

Pandan cake

Indonesian Pandan cake, using extract from Pandan leaves. Sweet and fluffy taste. Recommended to bake! When cut properly, looks like the Open Source logo .

Rice cake

Rice cake. It contains mostly rice that has been cooked with vanilla beans and milk, some eggs. Nice for dessert!

Tiramisu

This list would not have been complete with atleast one Tiramisu.

Random chocolate cake

A random chocolate cake. As it had chocolate, I am sure it was good!

Radicchio di Chiogia cake

Cake with radicchio (maybe not from Chiogia in this case). Was inspired by a visit to Chiogia in Italy.

Pumpkin cake

Always wanted to make a pumpkin cake completely from scratch, without any canned puree. This worked out well!

White chocolate cheesecake with raspberries

Think this is a cheesecake with raspberries and white chocolate.

Charlotte cake

A strawberry Charlotte cake