Plumcake with yogurt and lemon - Plumcake co yogurt e limone - Plumcake s jogurtom i limunom

Each cake has its typical shape and sometime the experiment to change cake's shape doesn't give the perfect result! I'm not totally satisfied with the look of spheric plumcake, it's similar to a volcano that starts to erupt, but its taste was really good and very lemony. At the end it was a funny change. To be honest,  I've decided to bake this plumcake in a spheric baking pan, because I like cakes with spheric shape and I wanted to see how would the typical plumcake chaps look like in a spheric form. It means that I need to re-cake this plumcake in its natural shape to get less coloured cake too,  because it took around 20 minutes more time of baking in a spheric baking pan. So if you look for the perfect "cut", bake your plumcake in rectangular baking pan!
The idea was to decorate the cake with candied lemons I have prepared too, but I will use them for another cake!
This recipe is not a copy of somebody's recipe, but my interpretation of what I've found in the web.
There are so many recipes for plumcake with lemon juice and other citrus fruits in the web. I red so many of them and did a combination of few and best recipes, at least those that mostly inspired me. 

Peach Clafoutis – Clafoutis con le pesche – Clafoutis s breskvama

Happy solstice and midsummer! We have reached the longest day in the year and already half of the year passed by. It’s incredible how the time is running and how quick seasons are changing…so we need to stop and slow down a bit and try to enjoy “our” moments. For this special day I have baked this cake that has all sunny coloures, so it is perfect for the celebration. The taste of peaches go so well together with the freshness of mint, so mint tea was the perfect choice to accompany this clafoutis. I have some mint plants growing in the vase on the windowsill, the plants I have planted last year from the branches I’ve brought with me from my mother’s garden. These plants have survived the winter and now are in the bloom. I’ve picked some fresh mint leaves and prepared the mint tea while my kitchen was already full of perfume of peaches and vanilla.

Puff pastry pies with summer fruits - Sfogliatine ai frutti estivi – Pite od lisnatog tijesta s ljetnim voćem

After some time away from the kitchen and from the blog I ‘m back now! I’m starting slowly again with my usual kitchen activities and day after day things are going better and my mind is running through so many ideas. I don’t want to lose any moment and any new ingredient. I can’t stop doing something, or thinking about new things to do next. It seams crazy, but that’s it! This is me!

But I don’t want to exaggerate anyway, so let’s start with something easy, coloured and tasty, something full of summer flavours.
Again I have used ready puff pastry, my faithful fellow in tough moments….and a lot of fresh season fruits (I ate a lot of fruits while I was preparing these pies too!).

Najosnovnije! - The essence! - L’essenziale!

Najosnovnije!

Sjećam se da smo oduvjek imali kod kuće staklenku štaub šećera (der Staubzucker) s mahunom vanilije. Stijenke staklenke bile su bijele od šećera i nazirala se crna mahuna uronjena u prah. Aroma vanilije davala je šećeru karakterističan mirisi i okus prepoznatljiv u svakom biskvitu i koji je fantastičan posipan po keksima.

Danas imam identičnu staklenku u kredencu moje kuhinje . . . i tradicija se nastavlja.