Whoopi Goldberg in my kitchen.

I saw this recipe during a baking show on TV once and I wanted to try it out ever since. Surfing around the internet I even found a funny little story about the origin of its name:

“According to Amish legend, when children would find these treats in their lunch bags, they would shout “Whoopie!” What’s cooking america

That’s it about history for now, let’s start baking!

 

Chocolate Whoopie Pies

© Jule Helmke

 

 

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups flour

3/4 cup cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup butter

3/4 cup sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup strong coffee or or 1/2 cup water

Filling

1/4 cup vegetable shortening (Magarine)

1/4 cup butter

1 cup powdered sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2 cup light corn syrup

Ring of nougat.

Whenever I have a lot of things that I should be doing, which are boring, exhausting or just plain not fun, I do something unnecessary instead. Like making a to-do-list of the things that I should be doing. Or baking. Well I did the to-do-list at work already, so what was left? Yep, baking

Today I wanted to make my all time favorites: nougat rings (Nougatringe) which you can buy in every bakery in Germany, I guess. All you need to do is to bake some round cookies, mix a butter-nougat-creme, top it with some hazelnuts and cover everything with chocolate. Et voila: 10000000000 kcal on a cookie. Yummie!!

© Jule Helmke

ingredients:

cookie: 200C 7min

100g flour

45g powdered sugar

1 package vanilla sugar

zest of 1/2 orange

1 egg yolk

60g butter

 

topping:

120g crushed hazelnuts

150g butter

350g nougat

zest of 1 orange

2 packages couverture (à 150g)

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Christmas bakery.

Happy 2nd advent everyone! I remember that last year I totally missed to bake some cookies for christmas, but this year is going to be different. My friend Yvonne came over and we decided to make some Hallongrottor (raspberry cave). I’m not sure if they are super christmassy but they are just sooo delicious

© Jule Helmke

 

Ingredients:

200g butter

1 dl sugar

1tsp vanilla sugar

1 tsp baking powder

4 1/2 dl flour

1/2 dl raspberry jam

 

1. Blend butter and sugar till it’s creamy. Mix vanilla sugar, baking powder and flour. Blend them into the mixture. Knead to a nice dough.

2. Form the dough into a roll, 20 cm long. Cut it into 20 pieces. Roll them to small balls and put them into the baking forms. Make i pit with your finger into every ball. Add a little bit of the jam to the pits.

3. Bake under 175 °C in the oven for 18min.

 

 

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