Mr. Fox likes cake !
From September 10, 2025 in Korea
at Edition Hippopotamus from February 2026
You can't just read and eat books,
but also bake!
So here you will find the ingenious birthday cake recipe from master confectioner Monsieur Eclair (Eclair-ssi is his name in Korean)
also known as: Valerie Meinitzer, from Vienna. She is a master-class cake baker, even though she does something completely different in her job: she is one of my German editors 😆 So if you want to bake this delicious raspberry and pistachio cream cake, make sure you find someone with baking experience! This is a real master birthday cake! But it's worth the effort!
So have fun baking and reading!
This makes eating books even more fun!
Ingredients (dough):
6 eggs
250 g yogurt
1 teaspoon baking powder
220 g powdered sugar
150 g ground pistachios
150 g flour
a pinch of salt
Preparation (dough):
Step 1: Separate the eggs first and then beat the egg whites until stiff. You can put the egg whites to one side.
Step 2: Now mix the egg yolk until it is creamy. Then carefully add the yogurt, baking powder, flour, powdered sugar and ground pistachios.
Step 3: In the meantime, you can preheat the oven to 180 degrees (hot air).
Step 4: Now carefully fold the egg whites into the batter.
Step 5: Now you can line a springform pan with baking paper.
Step 6: Pour the batter into the springform pan and bake in the oven for approx. 40-50 minutes. It is best to test the cake with a skewer after the specified baking time (insert a skewer into the warm cake and check to see if any batter sticks to the skewer). If some batter is still sticking, leave the cake in the oven a little longer).
7th step: Once the cake is ready, leave it to cool completely before removing it from the tin.
Step 8: Now cut the dough lengthwise into two equal pieces.
Ingredients (cream):
250 g curd cheese
Lemon juice of one lemon
150 g sugar
350 g mascarpone
250 g yogurt
250 g raspberries
Preparation (cream):
Step 1: Mix the mascarpone, curd cheese and yogurt with lemon juice and sugar until creamy.
Step 2: Wash the raspberries and spread them over the cake base. You can then spread the cream on top.
Step 3: Place the second half of the cake on top of the cream.
Step 4: Finally, place the cake in the fridge for a few hours.
Ingredients (decoration):
250 g cream
Raspberries
Pistachio slivers
Preparation (decoration):
Step 1: Whip the cream until stiff.
Step 2: Now you can spread the cake with cream and decorate with raspberries and pistachio slivers to your heart's content.
We did it!
Of course, you can also decorate your cake in a completely different way! As always, there are no limits to your imagination!
And if it doesn't turn out at all, the cream and the cake base taste just as good!
Mr. Fox dances books
The music video
Bücher kann man nicht nur lesen und fressen, sondern auch tanzen!!
Mr. Fuchs shows this in this Music video (brilliant song by Nils Kacirek - even sung by himself!) together with a few children who know how to do it! Based on the book "Mr. Fox likes books!", "Mr. Fox dances books" is a 360° project in which the question of WHY READING? can be answered in many different ways... Music, Literature and dance connect here and call for to join in! There are How-to tutorialswith which you can teach yourself the fox dance, a fox mask for the right dance outfit, Singalong and subtitle versions of the song to sing along to, Sheet music and of course various fox bookswhich you can enjoy after the work is done.
This makes eating books even more fun!
Mr. Fox dances books
The reading food song
Here you can see an animated video of the Lesefutter song. The song was written by Nils Kacirek and the drawings are from the book "Mr. Fox likes books!"
The figures were brought to life by animator Sonja Schneider. Great, isn't it?
Mr. Fox dances books
How-to tutorials
Choreographer and dancer Tara Bredemeyer shows you seven videos,
Step by step the reading food dance! Let's go!
How-to-tutorial Video 1
Hello!
Before Tara teaches you the reading food dance, she introduces herself here! Let's go!
How-to-tutorial Video 2
Warm-up
In 7 consecutive how-to videos, dance teacher Tara teaches you the Lesefutter dance step by step. In this video you can warm up a little first. Let's go!
How-to-tutorial Video 3
The refrain
First, Tara teaches you the individual elements of the chorus. Of course, each movement also has a meaning. Once you have memorized the individual movements, you can dance them to the music. Let's go!
How-to-tutorial Video 4
Verse
In this video, Tara shows you the individual movements for the verse. The good thing is that the first and second verses are danced in exactly the same way. So you don't need to worry about getting your head or legs in a knot? Let's go!
How-to-tutorial Video 5
Verse and chorus
Wow! You've come quite a long way now! Now you can put the verse and chorus together - er... dance. Let's go!
How-to-tutorial Video 6
Improvisation part
This is a special part of the dance, because it's up to you: think of movements that fit a situation in which you are reading books. In this video, Tara shows you what this could look like or how you can develop ideas for it. Let's go!
How-to-tutorial Video 6
"Mr. Fox dances books" - complete
This is the last part of the how-to tutorials. Now you have learned all the individual elements of the dance and can dance it all the way through. Let's go!
"Mr. Fox dances books!"
Would you like to sing along to the song?
You can find the text here!
Reading food lyrics
Reading food - Sing along
"Mr. Fox dances books!"
Would you like to play the song on the piano?
You can find the notes here!
Reading food song notes
"Mr. Fox dances books!"
The great fox mask to make yourself!
Now you can also make yourself the perfect outfit for the fox dance.
First print out the crafting sheet. Then grab some colored pencils, scissors, glue, a rubber band and a needle. And off we go!
If you scroll further down, you'll find an instruction video. I'll show you how to make a fox mask!
It's best to take a look at it first! :-)
Have fun!
"Mr. Fox dances books!"
Making-of
in the Hamburg Central Library
In this video you can see a complete run-through of the fox dance as we filmed it in the Hamburg Central Library. We played the music through a speaker and you can hear other children in the background who were watching us filming, as well as the instructions from Tara, the dance teacher. You can't see her in the picture.
So that's what it could look like for you afterwards.
"Mr. Fox eats books!"
BOOKS!
And once you've danced your way through the whole fox dance, take a little break! Have a drink, make yourselves comfortable and just read a book.
Maybe you'll like one of these!
Bon appétit and have fun, wishes you Franziska Biermann
Mr. Fuchs likes books
Mr. Fuchs likes books. What does like mean here? Actually, he liked
little Mr. Fox loves books so much that whenever he finds one
I finished reading and ate it with a pinch of salt and some pepper.
But books are quite expensive and in the long run the small wallet was
from the fox is not up to this large expenditure of money...
At first, the little fox, driven by his hunger for books, gets into trouble,
actually goes off the rails. But in the end, he turns his need into a virtue
and discovers his own great talent as a writer.
Mr. Fox likes Christmas
Mr. Fox, the famous writer, travels almost to the North Pole and accidentally eats - no, not books, but something even more delicious!
Unfortunately, Santa is in trouble because of this. But luckily
the little Mr. Fox is not only voracious but also quite clever!
Can he save Christmas after all
(after first putting it in serious danger) ?
Mr. Fox likes blue-checked adventures
Mr. Fox loves books, preferably with salt and pepper!
Fortunately, he is a famous author and writes his own reading material.
Diesmal hat der kleiner Herr Fuchs Appetit auf ein Abenteuer. Doch wilde Piraten zu
finden und den sagenhaften blaukarierten Papagei, das ist kniffliger als gedacht.
Um Bücher zu schreiben (und sie dann verschlingen zu können),
muss man erst einmal was erleben. Herr Fuchs ist nicht zu bremsen!
”Herr Fuchs” RuckZuckZeichenkurs
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