The “Nusszopf” or German sweet bread with a hazelnut filling is a classic German cake or pastry. It is made out of a yeast dough and filled with almonds or hazelnuts, braided. This is an authentic and proven German recipe. To make this German sweet bread you need to have some baking experience. It’s a … read more …
You can find many different apple cake recipes in Germany. Today we feature an apple cake as you can find in Schleswig-Holstein, a province in the North of Germany. There you will see apple plantations with special apples, the so called “Cox Holstein” apple or Cox Orange Pippin. The Holstein Apple Cake recipe is using … read more …
The French are known to be the masters of making tarts but they are not the only ones. I had many apples and 1 pie crust left over so I decided to create a tart that can compete with the French apple tarts. The result should be a thin crust covered with a spicy and … read more …
The filled butter cake from Germany is very similiar to the regular butter cake but this cake has a delicious filling. This filling is consisting of vanilla pudding and if you have some egg liqueur (Verpoorten), you can add it to the filling – that makes a little difference. If you add some teaspoons of … read more …
Find out today how to make the apple streusel cake which is a very popular cake in Germany. The cake has a filling that contains quark which is very common in Germany, and can be bought at every super market. You can make it at home or use a mix of soft cream cheese and … read more …
The German Onion Tart or “Zwiebelkuchen” is a popular dish of the South. This local specialty is often served with “first wine” in October. The first wine is called “Suesser” or “Sauser” or in the Rhineland “Federweisser”. In the region around Freiburg in the Black Forest (Kaiserstuhl) you can enjoy a piece of German onion … read more …
The German plum Cake with Streusel is a popular German cake and if you can get Italian plums you should bake this cake. Even baking beginners will be successful. The cake is very easy to make, you just need vanilla sugar, vanilla pudding and baking powder from Dr. Oetker. In Germany we would use the … read more …
The Italian Plum Streusel Cake is a classic German cake and very popular throughout Germany. For this recipe you would use Italian or Damson plums, we call them in German Zwetschgen. Streusel (or Crumble) Cakes in general can be bought in every bakery. Instead of plums you can use apricots or sour cherries. The dough … read more …