christmas – Beary Strong

Festive Apple Hazelnut Cake with Cinnnamon Crumble

Crumbly, creamy, cinnamony.

I love easy bakes full of flavor but quick to prepare, without a ton of steps to follow. However, there are occasions where something more soffisiticated is just the right thing to do. While watching a baking show, I came across this gorgeous combination of ingredients and textures, which tingled my baking nerve. The single components aren’t difficult to prepare and with the proper timing it won’t take long until you have a scrumptious festive cake to serve to your guests.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We can’t believe it: it is our third Beary Christmas 🙂 It is a great occasion to say thank you to all the great people, friends and customers who supported us. Even if it is just by reading our blog, subscribing to the newsletter, sharing and liking our posts on social media, we profoundly appreciate it. A special thanks goes to our trainees, who despite the difficulties that 2021 brought, believed in us and kept training hard.

Team Beary Strong will take some time off from the blog and social media until January 1st, but feel free to contact us for whatever question you have or support you need to reach your goals. In the meantime, enjoy Christmas with your beloved one, eat protein and start strong in 2021! 😉

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Your Beary Strong Team, Chantal&Stefan

Happy Holidays!

Dear BearyStrong-Blog Reader,

we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed the days with your beloved ones. The Bearystrong team (Stefan & Chantal) is taking some days off, therefore the next post will be on Thursday, 2nd of January 2020. In the meantime:

let this article inspire you building a new training plan to get even stronger in 2020!
read our all-time favourite article: the hypertrophy range myth
make a refreshing zero-calorie granita or
a comforting pomegranate beef stew , depending on your mood and how much you ate during the last days 😉
read about habits before making New Year’s resolutions.

We at Bearystrong wish you a Happy New Year and a lot of gains for 2020! Special thanks to all the friends and clients who supported our business this year. You rock!

Chantal & Stefan

Mailänderli

Three generations of Christmas cookie-baking.

Our regular readers know that we are alternating a recipe and a fitness-related article every week but for Christmas we decided to give you one more recipe to have one more batch fresh cookies before Christmas. It is also a perfect match to the last week’s Hazelnut Kisses as you need only the yolks for this very traditonal Swiss recipe.

Hazelnut Kisses

Hazelnut scent and childhood memories.

Actually, hazelnut kisses (“Haselnussbusserl” or “Haselnussmakronen”) are a classical Christmas cookie recipe in Austria. But do we need Christmas to eat cookies? We personally do not think so. This recipe has a great advantage: you can use up egg whites that are left over from other recipes, like for sabayon (zabaione) or Mailänderli or Carbonara. It is also very flexible and you can experiment with other nuts. On top this in one of my personal favorites: an easy recipe, passed down to me by my mum, a treasure, almost a heirloom. Enjoy!