Let's start! (incl.cake^^)

Hello world,

Three weeks ago some friends came over for a chat while eating a Gugelhupf I made. I followed a simple but very yummy recipe for a cake that I had already blogged about in German years ago. Yesterday I met up again with those friends for cooking and chatting. And since that's quite a fun activity we've decided to do this on a regular basis. And blog about our experiences :-)

And to make it interesting for the world out there, we'll share the recipes we try out. And our stories of success (or not...). And pictures. Not that there's a lack of recipe sharing places around the web. But since cooking with friends is so much fun, we wanted to share. Who knows, some of you might enjoy it, just like us.

So, as a start, we'll give you a translation into English of that simple cake recipe:

Aunt Chef Cake

A simple but good cake, using a cup of yoghurt as ingredient and as a measuring device :-)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of yoghurt, 250 ml
• 3x the same cup, filled with plain flour
• 2x the cup with sugar (one cup is enough unless you want it really sweet)
• 1x oil into the cup, one finger high (1-1.5cm)
• 2 eggs
• baking powder, 1 pack
• vanilla sugar, 1 pack

Mix everything together into one homogenous mass. Grease a cake pan with oil or butter and sprinkle it with flour (so the cake won't stick). Pour the mass into it and put it into the oven for about 40 minutes at 150 degrees Celsius.
To check if the cake is ready, you can put a thin skewer into it. If some of the dough sticks to it when you pull it out, the cake still needs more baking.

Variations: add half a cup of grated hazelnuts or almonds. Or coconuts. Or cacao.
Especially with cacao: do a marble cake! Mix the cacao into the second half of the dough after putting the first half into your cake pan. Then pour that cacao-half on top of it, and go through the whole dough with a fork once or twice. Mmmh, marble cake!

Anyways, since we want to blog about our experiences here: three weeks ago we just the did the classic version with none of the variations. Even after years of baking this cake, it's amazing to see how fluffy it turns out. And how yummy it is to eat!

Mahlzeit, everyone!
(explanation: the English language doesn't have a proper way for saying 'Bon appetit!', so we will use its German short version here, i.e., Mahlzeit!)