What is a King Cake, you ask? I can best describe it as a celebratory confection that is similar to a coffee cake-cinnamon roll hybrid covered with sanding sugar in traditional Mardi Gras colors: green, purple, and yellow. There is much debate as to what, if anything, these delicious desserts should be filled with. The…
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Frohe Weihnachten: Ringing In The Holidays With Traditional German Stollen!
While learning German in high school, I was gifted an old set of Dr. Oetker cookbooks from a caring neighbor who not only happened to be a native German speaker, but also the German Professor at the local university. Within the pages, there were numerous recipes similar to what I had grown up with when…