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This weekend, I finally wanted to make a special Bavarian cake - the Prinzregententorte. So I looked for some other Bavarian dishes to go with it.

Potato soup with Frankfurters

Pork roast with potato dumplings

Prinzregententorte

I started with cooking potatoes for the dumplings. Then I cleaned more potatoes, onions, garlic and greens for the soup. I browned the onions and garlic, then added the other vegetables. Then add a liter of water, salt, pepper and vegetable broth. It should cook for 20 minutes.

In the meantime, I washed the meat and salted it. Then I put it with the rind on a frying pan in the heated oven (220°C) and showered it in a quarter liter of water. Let it cook for 15 minutes. Then turn it around and cut a grid in the rind. Put some cloves in the cuts and let it fry for another 45 minutes.

Back to the soup: I pureed the soup, but not too fine. Then I added creme fraiche and marjoram.

I peeled the boiled potatoes and put them twice through a potato press. I mixed the pressed potatoes with salt, muscat, potato starch and 2 eggs and made a soft dough. Roast some croutons in butter. I formed dumplings and put in the center of each some roasted croutons. I put them in boiling water and when they started swimming, I switched off the heat and let them rest for 20 minutes.

Put some water on the roast and add some chopped greens to it and let it cook another 20 minutes. Brush the rind with salt water from time to time to make it crispy. Then I took the meat out and poured the gravy in a pot. I pureed the greens and added a water/ starch mix to bind it and seasoned it with salt, pepper and Maggi. Serve with dumplings and vegetables.

After lunch, I got the full team (mom and Victor) to help me with the cake more or less. For the cake, we made a dough and bake six biscuit cake grounds. While they cooled down, we stirred butter, powdered sugar, egg yolks and melted chocolate into a cream. I spread the cream on 5 of the six biscuits and stack one on the other. The final one went without cream. Then I covered the whole cake in chocolate and added some chocolate decorations.