Pumpkin Cheesecake and Vanilla-Chocolate-Swirl Fudge

Since it is quite a while since I made those, I can only guess how I made them...

Ok, the base apparently consisted of the usual crumbled cookies and butter base plus some oats.

Add some left over pumpkin purree...

Whip up some curd cheese, sugar and eggs (500g, 100g and 2)

Bake for about 40 minutes on 175°C.

And there you go :)

 

For the fudge, melt marshmallows with sugar and condensed milk. Pour the melted mixture over chopped chocolate and stir, stir, stir. Pour into a prepared pan and let it cool for several hours.
For a more detailed description have a look here:
http://lockenwicklerundpuschelhausschuhe.blogspot.de/2012/12/marshmallow-mint-fudge.html

Well, I should definetely make fudge again... It's been way too long.

Easy Vanilla-Cream Cake

Today's cake is one of the easiest ones you can imagine. Actually, the only real baking you have to do is while making the shell.

When it is cooled down, spread some tablespoons jam or preserve into it. I used black currant.

And now comes the lazy part:

I used instant no-cooking vanilla Pudding powder. Just mix in some milk and whip it up until it thickens. Pour it into the shell and sprinkle on some sugar decoration.



Orange White Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

Today, there are cookies again. Those are not necessarily Christmas Cookies, but yummie nevertheless :)

All you need is:

 

100 g butter

grated zest of 1 orange

150 g flour

75 g sugar

1 egg yolk

 

Knead it all together and refrigerate for half an hour.

 

Next, mix up

 

100 g white chocolate (melted) and

65 g orange preserve

 

Roll out the dough very thin, about 3 mm, cut out 4-cm-circles and bake on 200° C for about 6-8 minutes.

 

When the cookies have cooled down, spread some of the orange-chocolate cream on half of the cookies and sandwich with the other half.





Ready to eat :)

Vanilla Glass Cupcakes

Be careful what you wish for...
Some cupcakes I made for a friend's birthday. Simple vanilla muffins with simple vanilla frosting, BUT the first time I made sugar glass.