The flavour of Christmas – Yeasted waffles Panettone style

December 22, 2016 by nadel&gabel

Before this blog goes into a little Christmas break and I fully immerse into real life with family, presents, a lot of game dishes, cookies, sweet liqueur,… I have a last recipe for this year left for you – obviously Christmas inspired. It’s warm crisp waffles and (kind of) Panettone or Christstollen, all in one! Hooray for Christmas! I boroughed the waffle base from Molly‘s challah waffles recipe, itself an adaption on the classic Belgian Gaufre de Liège. They’re pillowy soft, buttery […]

Categories: around the world, bread, cake, cookie & dessert, dairy-free, diets, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, seasons, snacks & small dishes, vegetarian, winter • Tags: bake, candied, challah, christmas, Christstollen, festive, lemon, liege, orange, Orangeat, panettone, pearl sugar, peel, recipe, sweet, waffle, winter, yeast

Alien – Spiced cake bars

November 27, 2016 by nadel&gabel

   There are times, when I’m surrounded by a bubble that follows me wherever I go. It’s a shield that protects me at least to a certain extent from this crazy, disturbing place our world has become. It’s desperately needed to distance from all the hate an alienation that we’re faced with these days. It’s a wall, too: Invisible, but preventing full immersion, full connection with others. Always one step aside, an alien amongst groups of insiders. Do we have to resign, accept all […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, diets, In the kitchen, seasons, vegetarian, winter • Tags: anis, bar, cake, cardamom, christmas, cinnamon, easy, gingerbread, glaze, hygge, recipe, spice, warming, winter

Ornamental christmas tradition – Springerle

December 6, 2015 by nadel&gabel

With christmas time – besides other things – I associate the following situation: I’m coming back to my parent’s home from the cold snowy outside, putting on my knitted socks, leaning my back to the tiled stove and warming my stiff cold fingers with a cup of hot tea. In between taking sips of the hot tea, I am dipping my Springerle cookie into it, let it soak and take a bite. Finally the fingers have warmed, the stomach as well, […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, dairy-free, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, Uncategorized, vegetarian, winter • Tags: anise, aniseed, christmas, cookie, cutter, easy, engraved, floral, geometric, model, modern, mould, ornamental, pattern, picture, recipe, rolling pin, springerle, stamp, sugar, tea, winter

A little something – Homemade truffles and a DIY gift box

December 21, 2014 by nadel&gabel

Now it’s the time when you can count the days till the christmas holidays are finally here. And before I retreat solely to the analog world for a few days, enjoying time with my family and long not seen friends, here’s a last christmas gift idea, that you still can easily whip up in case of urgent gift shortage. I made this nice collection of truffles for some of my colleagues. But your neighbours, your postman, your aunts and uncles […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, craft & DIY, digital design, freebies, gluten-free, In the kitchen, paper, storage, vegetarian • Tags: box, brigadeiro, caramel, chocolate, chocolates, christmas, coffee, condensed milk, Craft, dark, flavour, gift, hibiscus, orange, package, praline, present, rasberry, recipe, sweet, tag, template, treat, truffles, tutorial, white, wrap

Sensuality – Poppy seed marzipan waffles with warm sour cherries

November 15, 2014 by nadel&gabel

Comfort food  is what I am craving these days that are mostly grey and rainy … cause food can be so much more than just nutrition: it’s not only the contemplating effect during the process of preparing, food can revive your senses, bring your soul back into balance! Too pathetic? Look at these waffles for example! They stop your collywobbles, ok, but they do so much more! First of all I think they feed your eyes – and then the […]

Categories: autumn, breakfast, cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, vegetarian, winter • Tags: almond, autumn, baking, belgian, cherries, christmas, maker, marzipan, poppyseed, recipe, sensual, sour, spice, star anise, sweet, waffles, warm, winter

Merry christmas! … and last minute gift wrapping ideas

December 24, 2013 by nadel&gabel

All my gifts are wrapped… ..and now I am totally excited to finally give them away and spend the holidays with my closest ones! When it came to gift wrapping, this year I stayed with kraft paper, black & white, geometric and a dash of gold (wire). The christmas cards I designed myself, fixed – of course – with masking tape [btw: Yes, I long thought about it, but as a font addict finally I couldn’t resist and bought the […]

Categories: craft & DIY, digital design, paper • Tags: black&white, card, christmas, decoration, gift, gold, holidays, kraft, paper, present, tag, wrapping

Recipes, gift wrapping & free labels – Homemade hot chocolate powder and marshmallow starlets

December 16, 2013 by nadel&gabel

The christmas preparations are reaching their final stage. After making or buying all the “big” presents, now it’s the turn of the the small ones: a little something for some colleagues, neighbours,… You know what I mean! This is just the right purpose for a small gift from your kitchen. I came back to my “little bags of sweetness” – nicely packed homemade hot chocolate powder. But instead of cinammon this time I added some dried and grounded orange zest. […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, craft & DIY, digital design, drinks, freebies, gluten-free, In the kitchen, interior, paper, vegetarian • Tags: bag, chocolate, christmas, craft & DIY, design, drink, free, gift, label, marshmallow, paper, present, recipe, tag, tutorial, winter, wrapping

Worth waiting – Magenbrot

December 11, 2013 by nadel&gabel

Besides my christmas sewing marathon and some christmas decoration I’ve also started the big baking project … although … actually I’m not higly ambitious to bake masses of christmas cookies, starting some kind of competition. It’s rather that I have a few recipes that are on my list to try for a while, f.ex. torrone (nougat), salted caramels, spicy marshmallows or panettone. Nice to give away – or to eat yourself! And then there are those things that you want […]

Categories: autumn, cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, vegetarian, winter • Tags: autumn, baking, bread, chocolate, christmas, cocoa, fun fair, german, gingerbread, icing, spice, Swiss, winter

Already this time again – Paper stars and balls

December 1, 2013 by nadel&gabel

Is it already this time of the year? Yes, it is! The christmas countdown has started. The first door of the advent calendar is opened. And if one advent calendar is just not enough for you, check out these virtual advent calendars of bloggers (with real things to win): Sodapop advent calendar, Gaarn advent calendar, Kwerfeldein advent calendar, Backbube advent calendar, relleoMein advent calendar, handcrafting [special] advent calendar, 24 Merry Days 2013 …I brought at least some advent feeling into […]

Categories: craft & DIY, interior, paper • Tags: 3D, ball, christmas, Craft, folding, Fröbel, german, origami, ornament, paper, pattern, star, tree, tutorial