Halloween and pear cake ¤¤¤ HALLOWEEN UND BIRNENKUCHEN

For Halloween Mark decided to be a lion...

AN HALLOWEEN WAR MARK EIN LÖWE...

He looks like it anyway, doesn't he?!

DOCH SO SIEHT ER AUCH SONST AUS, NICHT WAHR?!

But before that he wanted to make a scary pumpkin-face... but then we had this old melon lying around...

DOCH ZUVOR WOLLTE ER EINEN KÜRBIS DEKORIEREN...

and he thought he would crate a spooky version of Bart Simpson...

ABER WIR HATTEN NOCH EINE ALTE MELONE UND SO WARDE DARAUS EIN BART SIMPSON...

Mind you the garden looked spooky as well...

DER GARTEN SAH GESPENSTISCH AUS...

and really, really dark and wintry...

SCHON RICHTIG DUNKEL UND NACH WINTER...

We just managed to get the last pears in time. Would you believe it? This one tree must have had half a ton of pears on it!!! All ecological and BIG and very delicious pears. you really don't get that sort of thing in the shops... My oldest son, David, took a whole car full of pears and apples to Copenhagen and gave it to his friends.

ABER DIE OBSTBÄUME WAREN DIESES JAHR GANZ PHANTASTISCH GEWESEN...

But now here the pear cake. Simple version because it's be and I don't have time to fuzz around for long, plus it should be healthy, even though it's junk:

Dough: ½ kg quark (fromage blanc or créam fraîche), 4 eggs, baking powder, semolina and 6 spoons of flour if you like, vanilla and cane sugar. Mix ingredients until you have a dough that meets you likings. Pour it into the baking tray and put 3 kg of pealed and sliced pears on it. Some may want to add cinnamon, my guys don't like it anymore.

Bake at 200 degrees for about an hour. But it depends on your oven, you might need to do it for a shorter or longer time. But do it until the pears are done and the dough is baked through!

Enjoy! it's more of a desert than a cake and tastes best when it's still warm - almost pancake-like, but without all the fat and stupid calories...

UND HIER NOCH EIN SCHNELLER BIRNENKUCHEN, DER EHER WIE DESSERT IST:

½KG QUARK MIT 4 EIERN, BACKPULVER, VANILLE, ROHRZUCKER, EIN WENIG MEHRL UND VIEL GRIESS VERRÜHREN UND AUF EIN BACKBLECH VERTEILEN. 3 KG BIRNEN, GESCHÄLT UND IN SCHEIBEN, DARAUF VERTEILEN UND BEI CA. 200 GRAD CA. 1 STD. BACKEN. KANN AUCH MEHR ODER WENIGER SEIN, DAS HÄNGT VOM OFEN AB. MANCHE LEUTE MÖGEN ZIMT DRÜBER. MEINE MÄNNER NICHT SO GERNE.

GUTEN APPETIT!

However, if you think we've had a boring Halloween, here're some folks who's party most certainly wasn't dull:

Got the pic from LazyKing who always has the most amazing ideas...

http://unboredme.blogspot.com/