At the moment we have fresh strawberries from the little strawberry stall every day – those little vitamin power houses are one of the most precious summer memories for me and it is my wish that my children later remember exactly that.
In order to honor them appropriately (The strawberries. Not the children.) I set up a small stage for them on the porch outside: fresh buttermilk mousse with strawberry topping, a cool cheesecake and this season’s prettiest cake stands!
Cake
Stands, as they are called in the Anglo-American parts of the world –
more on that in a minute…
This
time I picked some simple yet elegant cake stands – I love the
slightly maritime design and the “vacation by the sea” feeling
they convey. A little like a coffee break on a summery afternoon in
Sweden.
Someone
who shares my enthusiasm for cake stands – especially the American
models – is Jörg Benecke, the founder of Home
of Cake.
His
online store is a real treasure trove full of the most extraordinary
cake stands, partly directly from a glass manufacture in Pittsburgh
and partly even manufactured in-house. I can definitely assure you of
one thing: at Home
of Cake
you will always find the most up-to-date cake stand models and the
prettiest selection paired with passion and the best service.
By
the way, in order to protect the delicacies outdoors there is also a
great selection of cloches: matching
any cake and any dessert (or appetizers. Or little sandwiches. Or
tomatoes with mozzarella. Or….it isn’t even lunchtime yet and I
am already getting hungry. Great.)
From
playfully romantic to very simple and modern, pastel-colored or
patterned, high or low: at Home of Cake you are guaranteed to find
your favorite
cake stand.
So
go ahead and pick out something beautiful, because today I am giving
away….
... a 80,-€ gift card for Home of Cake!
What you have to do to participate:
1. Tell
me your favorite product in the Home
of Cake-Shop
2. If
you share the link to the give-away on Facebook you have DOUBLE the
chances of winning.
If you
link the drawing on your blog, you have an EXTRA chance of winning!
Please
feel free to take the last image with you for this.
Please
leave a note in your comment to let me know, too.
Everyone
can participate – with or without blog.
Important:
you have to be registered to be able to leave a comment – to avoid
mistakes and multiple drawings.
You
can do it quite quickly and simply: HERE.
Please
NO mails, you will be considered ONLY by leaving a comment.
The
competition is open to all readers from Germany, Austria and
Switzerland (readers from Switzerland have to pay for high shipping
fees themselves, depending on the sponsor).
Participation
for minors only with consent of a parent or guardian.
Jurisdiction
of a court is excluded, prizes cannot be paid out in cash.
IMPORTANT:
Please note that I do not contact the winners in writing – I publish them on the blog at the bottom of this post.
If the winners of the draw do not get in touch within two weeks I will raffle off the prize again.
The
competition starts now and ends on May 30, 2014.
½
quart of buttermilk
¾
cup plus 2 Tbsp sugar
2
organic lemons
heaped
½ Tbsp gelatin powder
17
oz whipping cream
approx.
¾ dry pints of strawberries
Wash
lemons, grate peel, press out the juice.
Mix
grated lemon peel, buttermilk and sugar.
Gently
heat lemon juice and dissolve gelatin powder.
Mix
buttermilk and lemon juice-gelatin mix and place into refrigerator
for about 10 minutes.
In
the mean time wash and hull strawberries and thoroughly puree with a
handheld mixer (depending on your taste you can add more sugar; I
didn’t).
Whip cream to stiff peaks and fold into the buttermilk mix.
Keep
the mixture in the refrigerator for about 5 hour.
Then
top with strawberry puree.
The recipe for the cheesecake is taken from this book ;).
My cake stands are made of bone china and you can find them HERE and HERE.
I got the little blue glass stand HERE.
Everything at Home of Cake.
Love,
Joanna
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