mothwing | Birthday baking spree

Backdated because baking is boring. Today, Crocky'll have a birthday gathering with a couple of friends from the theatre troupe and I had said I'd do the cooking for it. When Crocky couldn't remember if any of the friends she had invited were vegetarians we abandoned our plans to do a regular quiche for everybody and I sought alternatives while she went out to buy additional sour cream for the filling in case we'd do two quiches. I ended up doing 24 simple muffin quiche which taste nice and are nice as finger food but definitely too much of a hassle to do it on a regular basis as lunch.

Ingredients:

6 Blätterteigplatten (TK) (sheets of frozen puff pastry - depending on the size, of course. I used only two for 12 small muffins)
100g Exquisa Frischkäse Quiche Lorraine (which we didn't have. Instead I used 125g sautéd bacon, leek and 2TS of curd (Quark) because I couldn't find the cream cheese (Frischkäse))
150g TK-Spinat, aufgetaut (frozen spinach)
2 Eier (eggs)
Salz und Muskatnuss (salt and nutmeg)
1 Packung Mozzarella

Line the greased muffin tray with puff pastry, then mix the contents for the filling, put on mozarella slices, bake for 20min at 180°C. For the vegetarian option, I used mushrooms and shredded carrots with the leek and the spinach, which was tasty, too.

I was really happy with the results. The mini-quiche with bacon tasted just like real quiches, the vegetarian option lacked too much salt to be tasty, but with more salt, they would have been fine. What bothers me about these things is how fatty they are and how many eggs go into making them - I wonder if there is a good vegan replacement for egg.

I love how many possibilities these offer in terms of different fillings.

Apart from that, there were blonde cookies and brownies with semi-sweet chocolate:

...which turned out very popular, which made me very pleased - but I guess chewy brownies with extra chocolate always go down well.

... and a weird poppy seed apple cake (German recipe here). I can't really recommend it, poppy and apple did not really work for me, but it was fun baking: