Couple of years ago there was this great make-it-yourself strawberry cake here. After searching it for vain for some time now i decided to contact the manufacturer directly and they told me it is available only in Holland anymore.

If one of you Amigans living there in Holland could do me a favor and find me this do-it-yourself strawberry cake:
http://www.oetker.nl/recepten/kwarktaart-recepten/kwarktaart-aardbei/

And mail it to me.

I would pay you 20 Euros in advance through paypal. I suppose this would be amount enough to cover your expenses of buying and mailing it and also leave you with 10 Euro profit. If its not enough to leave you 10 Euros, then I will pay you more.


If that cake is the same one as was in sale here in Finland (I dont remember there being strawberries, but strawberry jam), or it otherwise is similarly good tasting, then I would ask you to buy me 10 - 20 packages more and I would pay you (in advance again) couple of tens of euros extra from your trouble.


pm me or answer to this thread, either way you like.

@Bugala

Why not just make it yourself? It's simply a gelatin-based strawberry cheesecake, easy enough to make from scratch. Do you want a recipe?

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@Yo

Sure, I can give it a try.

Although last time I tried making a real cake I asked from shop specifically for something that is easy for first timer to make and she gave me this cake thing from shelve that you cant get wrong, and this was the result:

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@Bugala

OK, so... it won't win ribbons for presentation, BUT!!! It LOOKS like it was delicious. You could call that a 'Deconstructed Cake' and get away with it, or a 'Plated Trifle'.

You're welcome.

OK, I'll have a think and come up with something a beginning cook could create, how's that? I'll just need to do a little research into what is available ingredient-wise in Finland.

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@Yo

What I would like it to be is not to be one of those cream cakes (like the picture cake i made was) but to be like that Dr. Oetker cake was where it looks maybe all red and it feels like jelly (I guess that cheese does that pudding like effect)

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Although last time I tried making a real cake I asked from shop specifically for something that is easy for first timer to make and she gave me this cake thing from shelve that you cant get wrong, and this was the result:

I heard that last time you made beans on toast it took 3 weeks to scrape the beans out of the toaster.

@Rob

Well, actually. Last time I used my previous toaster its cord caught fire.

@Bugala

You don't want to see the lovely thing I just baked then (for the record it is an experimental chocolate marble cake - which has cherry and butterscotch flavours - chocolate portion being cherry, and he white part being butterscotch flavoured). I'll be making an Irish cream custard to go with it in a bit


But in all honesty, depending on the recipe and instructions, you usually don't go too far wrong. I've seen some recipes that were truly awful in describing how to make the thing, resulting in a failed mess, and others that do not explain to an amateur that cooking times will vary significantly because not all ovens heat evenly (fan assisted ones will usually need less time than a conventional oven).


The main benefit of doing it yourself is knowing exactly what has gone into it. In fact one of the hardest things to get right so far of the things I have made, is custard - as it is the easiest thing in the world to scramble and destroy (as I discovered when following some instructions on how to make it). I now have my own variation on the recipe which works really well.


Yo has posted some lovely things on here in the past which shouldn't be too hard for anyone to follow and make (her brownie recipe for example).

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This all sounds familiar! I used to bake quite a few cakes and experimented, by taking a basic recipe and adding all manner of things to it...



As for recipes from Holland, I thought they'd specialise in pancakes!

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@RoqueFort

Interesting leaf motif on that cake. Is it a speciality cake from Holland too?

@Rob

I don't know about Holland, but that probably would be a speciality in Amsterdam.

That particular cake was by ME, so sadly I didn't actually have any Panama gold to put in it!

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Rob wrote: @RoqueFort Interesting leaf motif on that cake. Is it a speciality cake from Holland too?

Why do they put Sycamore leaves on cakes in Holland?



I would think they'd be more likely to use Cannabis Sativa leaves?

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Babe, you ain't had shit till you've smoked some real class sycamore.*







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I would think they'd be more likely to use Cannabis Sativa leaves?

Don't know what that kind of cannabis is, I'd be willing to try it!

If you can get me some, I'll bake it into a cake for us all to share!

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