Mini Pink Cakes (Roze Koeken)

Every nineties kid in the Netherlands will feel a sudden wave of nostalgia seeing these pink cakes. Chances were that as a Dutch kid, you were watching a children's show called Villa Achterwerk, which featured a female presenter who was quite addicted to roze koeken - albeit larger ones than these. When my friend Nadine posted these mini cakes on her blog it made me feel sentimental about the time where I would wake up at 7 o'clock on a Sunday morning to sneakily put my (ridiculously large) tv in my room on so that I could watch the show (all the while making sure my parents wouldn't wake up). I'm sure I wasn't the only one doing that!

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Dried Plum Tart with Crème Fraîche Filling

I'm baking in the Frisian motherland again! Yesterday, I moved all my things from Leiden (visit if you're on vacation in the Netherlands, it's awesome for tourists) and stuffed everything back where it belongs. Mostly in the kitchen, as you might have guessed! Turned out that while I was gone, some teeny tiny bugs had taken over my baking cupboards, and so I had the "pleasure" of throwing out loads of baking ingredients. I cleaned everything out and got rid of those nasty intruders. It took me quite a while to vacuum and scrub, so I decided to treat myself to a yummy bake today. Enter this dried plum tart!

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