In my last post, I told you about my old Mondamin baking tin and my mission to find the cake it was actually made for.
And I found it!
After lots of searching, I finally came across an old Mondamin cookbook on eBay Germany.
And there it was — on page 15:
Wiener Nuss-Kuchen.
The exact cake named on my little baking tin!
Seeing the original recipe printed in an old cookbook was such a lovely feeling. I had been searching for the recipe, and suddenly I was looking at it.
Now I have the tin and the recipe.
The only thing left is to actually bake it.
And I’m very curious to see what this little piece of baking history tastes like. ❤️
To be continued…
Ilze
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How fun, Ilze! Have fun baking this cake and I’d love to try a piece. Have a great week and I hope you are feeling much better. 😊
Thank you, John! I don’t know if i’m better or not, I’ m confused…. and tired
Yayyy! Let the baking begin 🙂
I hope to bake soon!
Hey Ilze, is now the moment when we’re supposed to exchange our addresses so you can send us the cakes? 😂😂😂
Yes, what were you thinking? Actually making us hungry with a recipe? And then the next article featuring a beautiful photo of a cake, while leaving us sitting here with empty stomachs? Aaah nooooo! 😱😂😂😂
Just kidding, of course… but seriously, that cake does look dangerously good! 😂😂😂
I agree with you, dangerously good! I have no experience sending cake to blogging friend BUT I have received a cake (yes, a cake through snail mail) from a very dear blogging friend – Dimi, who is no longer with us… unfortunately…
Read more here: https://latvianmom.com/2018/02/20/happy-35th-birthday-to-me/
Ha, that was quite a nice surprise! I just had a look. I bet you never expected that – really nice and very thoughtful!
NEVER in a million years!!! I don’t know how he did that. Latvian Post office didn’t allow me to send any herbal tea (mint, linden, etc) to the uk 🙂
Hope you aren’t disappointed! Personally, I love these sorts of cake.
It sounds delicious! I will try tomorrow… or later 🙂 Need to find hazelnuts in the local shop.
So glad you found the book! I am intrigued by the English fruit cake and Queen Victoria slice.
I have certainly eaten a cake by that name (we actually spoke German and not Estonian at home in my childhood!) whilst a kid and probably later – methinks you will like it as it is not too sweet 🙂 !
German, not Estonian? Why?
Ha! Ha! Please do not take this seriously but my maternal grandparents were of Baltic German Baronial descent mostly living in St Petersburg ere moving to raise 9 children in Tartu (!) and my paternal grandmother was a Swedish Baroness . . . since my Dad was ‘big’ in Government it was not patriotic to mention that but my parents did speak German at home except with the staff. So I spoke German, Estonian and French from age 4 !!! If WWII had not happened was due to go to boarding school in Switzerland to geta ‘proper’ education . . . ended up as a poor migrant in Australia instead!!!
Oh my goodness, what a story! 😂 From Baltic German barons and a Swedish baroness to nine children in Tartu, speaking German, Estonian and French from the age of four — and then Switzerland being replaced by Australia! That really sounds like something straight out of a novel.
And I can only imagine how different your life might have been if WWII hadn’t changed everything. “Ended up as a poor migrant in Australia instead” is quite the plot twist!
But also, I hope you had a lovely life full of real treasures!