by Hannah Walker Inspired by the gluten-free version of Herman on your website, I went ahead and made a gluten-free Herman starter, and have handed out some of the portions and made a cake with the remainder. It came out brilliantly! For the starter, I simply used Doves Plain White gluten-free flour blend, instead [read more...]
by Elspeth Barraclough My mother always told me not to play with my food, but I often find myself unable to resist. Having contemplated it for a while, and then been spurred on by the discussion in the comments, I decided to have a go at a ‘real’ sour-dough cake, that is one raised using [read more...]
by Barbara I love your site I refer to it all the time. I had my first Herman a few weeks ago and since then I am hooked and have made 3 myself. The basic, a strawberry and white chocolate and my 3rd and so far best Herman cake a crystalised ginger, apricot [read more...]
I live in Britain, so use grams, because we do not have standard cup sizes. This makes a moist cake which is inspired by cherry bakewell tarts. The use of sour instead of glacé cherries cuts through the sweetness of the cake with a delightful tartness. I use less sugar that the standard Herman [read more...]
Ultimate Sticky Carrot, Apple and Pecan Herman cake We have a tradition of Bake week where I work at Logistik, and when a colleague gave me a portion of traditional Herman and it was my turn to bake for the office, I wanted to see what happened if I took Herman to the [read more...]
by Doreen Essex I was recently presented with the active starter mix for a Herman the German Friendship Cake. I suffer gluten and dairy intolerances and had to consider this without demonstrating an unfriendly attitude and wondered what would be the outcome if I continued the process without adding gluten and dairy. On [read more...]
by Sarah Hancock I opted for a carrot cake this time, very yummy it was too, so much so the picture isn’t of a whole cake (giggle) Some Herman veterans were likewise impressed and thought it didn’t taste like a typical Herman, probably down to the week of neglect the poor thing suffered [read more...]
Last week I decided to make my own Herman starter then bake a nice Herman cake. What I wanted to do was to experiment a little to see if I could answer some of your questions that have been sent in. Can you freeze a starter to continue with at a later date? [read more...]