Welcome to my 100th post! Yup, that’s what the countdown was for. Since I started posting odd tidbits back in July 2007 it has amounted to a whole lotta rambling about cooking and craziness. Today I’m celebrating my milestone with some great news and a wedding cake (or: a cake I made for a wedding – don’t expect any tiered white horrors with sugar flowers fit for a coffin).

But first, the news:

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Tags: dark chocolate, hasselnødder, hazelnuts, hindbær, mascarpone, mørk chokolade, passion fruit, passionsfrugt, raspberry

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Last night I had my little half-sister over for some baking and Kung-Fu Panda-watching. In keeping with the black and white theme, she wanted to make a marbled cake and brought a recipe. And now I have the perfect kiddie-cake for you to try. It’s dead easy and different enough for the adult to be entertained too. Well, it probably also helped that we did the baking in the roles of Eric, the brutish male baker and Connie, the annoying customer who kept asking if the cake was done yet. 

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Tags: cocoa, kakao, marbled cake, Marmorkage, randform, Valrhona, vanilla, vanille

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You know how fresh bananas are really nice? And then in no time, they turn on you and show their true colours. That happened to me, yes, thank you, scuse me while I grab a Kleenex. Anyway, what better way to get rid of that traitor fruit than to mash it up and throw it in a deliciously buttery cake?

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Tags: Banana Cake, buttery cake, delicious, nesa kogebog

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Anyone who has ever read a recipe in a women’s magazine would probably recognize the expression “great for when you have unexpected guests dropping by” but I’m not going to perpetuate that illusion. I’m pretty sure the mobile revolution has killed off that kind of spontaneity a long time ago. Anyway, this little delicious number is an adapted version of one such recipe and it usually comes in handy in the morning when I feel like bringing a cake to work or when I’m struck by a sudden craving. In other words: It’s damn easy and fast.

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Tags: chocolate, coconut, muffins, raspberries

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This time I won’t even bore you with excuses for my absence. Suffice it to say that I’m still going at it in the kitchen and here’s what I’ve been up to lately:

Tags: almonds, butterdej, custard, hindbær, mandler, puff pastry, rabarber, raspberry, Rhubarb, Spandauer, vanilla, vanille

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