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 Onion Tart – Onion Cake Zwiebelkuchen

onion cake

The German Onion Tart or “Zwiebelkuchen” is a popular dish of the South. This local specialty is often served with “first wine” in October. This wine is called “Süsser” or “Suser” , or in the Rhineland it’s “Federweisser”. In the region around Freiburg in…

Easy German Plum Cake Using Italian Plums

easy plum cake

With this easy German Plum Cake you will get a lot of compliments. It is a great German cake, proven and authentic. You should use the German plums (Zwetschgen) that are called here Damson or Italian plums. The dough is a biscuit dough, so…

German Apple Tartlets

german apple tartlets

These German Apple Tartlets are a classic and ideal for a nice cake buffet or perfect when the apple season has started. This is an original German recipe and it’s perfect for baking beginners. Happy Baking! Ingredients German Apple Tartlets For the Shortcrust Dough…

German Cherry Biscuit Roll

german cherry biscuit roll

In summer we published the recipe for a strawberry biscuit roll, and today it is the recipe for a German Cherry Biscuit roll. It’s a cake perfectly for fall and the holidays. For making the roll it’s good to have some baking experience. The…

Apple Cake with Quark Filling

apple cake with quark filling

The German Apple cake with quark filling is per my husband “the best cake that you ever made”. For the quark filling I used a mix of sour cream and cream cheese (50% of each). And it tastes great! This apple cake is a…

German Plum Butter Cake

german plum butter cake

Germany is the country of Italian plums, they are harvested normally in September and sometimes even in October. These plums are called “Zwetschgen” in German and are hard to find in the USA. If you can get them you will love this German Plum…

German Raspberry Chocolate Roll

raspberry chocolate roll

Cake rolls or Rouladen are very popular in Germany and quite special as you cannot get them in the USA at all unless you find a European bakery. Learn today how to make the raspberry chocolate roll. You don’t need any special baking utensils…