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For some reason unknown, I wrongly thought that my husband doesn't like muffins. There's no excuse - it's something one should be able to find out over the course of 11 years. But in fact, he likes them, even prefers the same versions as I do (chocolate or with blueberries).

Therefore, I went and bought a muffin baking tin by Kaiser (I'm such a terrible traditionalist when it comes to bakery) and made 12 chocolate muffins with a standard recipe.



Yes, I only post to tease you :)

EDIT: They taste...strange?! Inedible, really. Obviously my error was that I simply used natron instead of baking powder - and overdosed. Therefore they taste soapy. Damn. The first failed bakery in decades.

My husband has a slightly wacky health today and hit his already aching head while cleaning the dressing room. I hope he's better soon - he even didn't want a fresh muffin right away, which is a bad sign...*cuddles poor hubby*

After a rather productive day, I had a weird moment and tried another round of "Hildabroedle". Last time, they tasted well but looked terrible, because they are made of shortpastry which sticks to everything, everywhere.

This time I worked around that problem by a) using my rolling pin of doom and b) gigantic amounts of flour. Therefore, they almost look like they should.
( pics of the kitchen chaos, after the chaos and the result )

However, AFTER they were in the oven, I had a closer look at the recipe again and found that you should actually bake the Broedle in halves first and assemble the unit with jam afterwards *bonks head*

Well, next time...husband will eat them anyway, and they taste great.

And the 1$ question about a Backbrett (wooden pastry board with one slat up on one side and another one down on the other side). Until tonight I thought it's a common German bakery tool, but it's not...? But at least I found it also on US websites!
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