delicious, dairy-free cake: The mother-in-law-cake

I was challenged a few weeks ago with the task to bake a dairy-free cake. Something I never had to do before.
I asked family & friends, and my brother in law's wife recommended me the "mother in law cake".
It was delicious, so I gonna share the recipe with you.

Schwiegermutter-Torte - mother in law cake:

12 pieces

Knead-Dough:

1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 stick butter or shorting
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking powder

soften butter, and knead everything until combined.
Press into a spring form

Drain a jar off cherries, Spread one jar of cherries on top

 (Use the juice to make a delicious beverage: 1/3 of juice, 2/3 seltzer oder sparkling water. It is called Kirsch-Schorle in Germany and can be made with any kind of juice)

Now make a sponge-mixture:

4/5 Stick butter or shortening
3/4 cup sugar
add 3 eggs, batting for 2 minutes after every egg
1 cup almond meal (trader joes), or any other nut meal (filberts should be great!)
1/3 cup all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Spread the sponge mix over the cherries.

Bake in the oven on 325 Degrees for 60 Minutes.

Spread 1 cup of melted semi-sweet chocolatchips (add a knife point of coconut oil) on top (or substitute for frosting, as desired). Decorate, if you want to.
Enjoy!

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Enjoy!

please let me know if you have any questions and if you liked it.

PS I tried to get a clue why this cake is called mother in law cake, but I didn't find anything.

I guess, because this cake is easy to make but tastes great, so you can easily impress your mother in law.

(Or, because she is allergic to nuts and this is a sure way to kill her)

Pfannkuchen - german pancakes

Recently somebody posted a picture of "german pancakes" on Facebook.
They looked delicious - but not at all like german pancakes :-)

So I thought you might be interested to see how I make them:

Basically, you need

Eggs, Milk, Flour, a bowl and a beater, a hand-mixer is even better.

German girls learn that per person you need one egg, 2 Tablespoons (with biiiiiiig mountains!) of flour and a shot of milk. That shot of milk is kind of the tricky part, because you need to have it in your guts *g*

I measured for you, and I used about 1 1/2 cups of milk for 4 eggs and 8 tablespoons (overloaded) of flour.

If you want these pancakes to be healthier, you can either add whole wheat flour or almond flour, or both.

My kids prefer plain white flour, but they usually don't complain if I use half white flour, 2 Tablespoons of whole wheat and 2 Tablespoons of almond flour. 

You just beat the eggs, add the milk (beat) and then the flour (beat) - that's it. Usually, you will have a little helper around

Then you heat up a pan (medium to low), add some oil, and bake one pancake per time

Flip around once when the surface becomes solid

Traditionally, you will just sprinkle some sugar on your pancake (about 1 teaspoon per pancake)

But of course there are other options:

Apple-Pancakes (Slice an apple and put the slices in the cake while baking. The flipping will be the a little tricky)

Cheese Pancakes

Just sprinkle some cheese (Mozzarella, Monterey Jack, Gouda, ....) after flipping.

Or add some applesauce after baking

even better with a little bit of whipping cream *g*

Or add some greek vanilla yoghurt (after baking)

Or ham or bacon, corn, mushrooms, bell peppers... while baking.
Delicious: chopped spinach and lox.

If there are leftovers, sprinkle with sugar, roll up

cut in stripes - and you have already part of your kids lunch for tomorrow

Please not, that traditionally in Germany, you would eat pancakes for lunch or dinner, not for breakfast.
(Though they are great for breakfast, too. We make it sometimes)

French crepes are very similar, just really thin, so you will add some butter to the batter to make it more flexible. (And at some cognac. But just for adults, please.)

French crepes are always sweet, if they are savory, you will call them "galettes" and the batter is made with buckwheat instead of wheat.
Try them with cheese, ham and an egg - this is called "galette complete"