Moving blog from Blogger to Wordpress

Dear readers,

I am currently moving my blog from Blogger to Wordpress, which means the site might be down for a short while. Please bear with me as I try to manage this (I am not exactly a techie) :) Thanks for your patience!

-Ramona (A Dutchie Baking)

Banketletter or Banketstaaf (Puff Pastry filled with Almond Paste)

This recipe is the result of a freezer cleanup. You know when freezers get overstuffed with dough, fillings, buttercreams and in my particular case: veggies? You use half of a certain dough recipe and freeze the rest for a rainy day. Or you use half a bag of veggies and don't look at the remainder again until you dig into the back of your freezer drawer.. I really needed to make room in my freezer and I found some puff pastry leftover from my birthday and almond paste which I had made for my previous recipe for filled speculaas. 1+1=2 and puff pastry+almond paste=banketletter! Absolutely delicious and perfect to bake on that rainy day ;)

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Filled Speculaas (Gevulde Speculaas)

If you know me personally, or if you have been following me for a while, then you might know I enjoy autumn and winter a lot more than spring and summer. The latter two are synonomous to sticky sunscreened skin and sweaty nights while the colder months mean curling up with hot chocolate, playing in the snow and of course, a lot of baking. We Dutchies have Sinterklaas in november and december (I wrote about this holiday before in my pepernoten post), for which we have created many special baked treats. This filled speculaas is one of those special treats!

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My Favorite Carrot Cake Recipe

I remember the first time I made a carrot cake for my family. I think it was my 16th birthday, and I wanted to make something from scratch, something other than a simple vanilla cake. I had found a carrot cake recipe, which I thought was very exotic, and served it up to my willing cake testers. I got some suspicious looks when I told them this was a cake containing carrot, but to my relief, it was a great success! I am now asked to make this carrot cake quite often, for birthdays for example, and it has become a "Christmas classic"!

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GBBO Challenge Final Week: Chetna's Masala Chai Baklava

Well, I'm having a "crackin'" day today: I was featured with no less than three recipes/pictures on the ELLE Food Netherlands website!! I can tell you, when I saw traffic coming from that site, my heart skipped a beat. To me, this is a pretty big deal! I danced around the room a bit, hypered, highfived my mom and took a screenshot before it will eventually come down from the FRONTPAGE! Simply over the moon. The recipes featured are Gevulde Koeken, Southern Dutch Apple Pie and Broccoli and Gouda Cheese Tart. Alright, forgive this slight happy-rant, but I couldn't help but share this with you. Now on to what this post should actually be about: the crispy, sugary, sticky yumminess that is baklava.

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