German Hazelnut Cake

german hazelnut cake

This German Hazelnut Cake is very easy to make! If you don’t have much time this is the cake to make. You can use a loaf bread form, a bundt cake or round wreath from, all the forms are suitable (see on the bottom)….

German Donauwellen Cake

This is a very special cake  – The German Donauwellen Cake – in English it would be called the “Cake of the Danube waves” – it comes from the Danube region or the so called “Donauschwaben” region. The Danube starts in the Black Forest…

Chocolate Pear Cake – Authentic German Recipe

chocolate pear cake

The Chocolate pear cake is an original German cake and is very easy to bake. If you don’t have the packaged vanilla sugar you can make it yourself – See Recipe below OR click here.  The recipe is also using egg liquor which you…

German Sweet Bread with Hazelnut Filling – Nusszopf

german sweet bread

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, and it is braided. This is an authentic and proven German recipe. To…

Lemon Orange Sandkuchen – German Poundcake

lemon orange sandkuchen

Makes the perfect pound or coffee cake: German Lemon Orange Sandkuchen. So easy to make, it just needs 25 min of your time.Happy Baking! Ingredients Lemon Orange Sandkuchen 175g butter, very soft 1 organic lemon and 1 orange 175g sugar 1 package vanilla sugar…

Classic German Apple Cake

classic german apple cake covered

There must be hundreds of apple cake recipes in Germany. Today I want to feature the Classic German apple Cake that w call in German “Gedeckter Apfelkuchen”. The cake is. made out of base cake (Mürbeteig, short cake), a filling and a top, decorated…

German Bienenstich or Bee Sting Cake – Fast Version

bee sting cake

The German Bienenstich, or Bee sting cake in English, is a traditional German cake and can be found in almost every German bakery. The name means literally “Bee Sting cake“. There is a legend where the baker who baked the cake had been stung…

Swabian Apple Cake – Authentic German Recipe

swabian apple cake

The Swabian apple cake is a cake from the South of Germany, the region around Stuttgart. You can find the lady finger cookies at Trader Joes, Big Lots or in special international stores or the international food section in US supermarkets. This is a…