Authentic German Apple Spekulatius Cake

apple spekulatius cake

The Apple Spekulatius Cake is a wonderful German cake for the fall and advent/holiday season but also for any other occasion. It tastes so good! It is an ideal cake for Thanksgiving or Christmas. The Spekulatius cookies are very popular during the holidays and…

Marble Gugelhupf Cake – German Classic

marble gugelhupf

The Marble Gugelhupf  Cake is a classic German cake – Gugelhupf in English would mean Bundt Cake. For this cake you use the special Gugelhupf form which can be purchased in the USA. The ingredients are well mixed together and removing from the form is…

Traditional Authentic German Austrian Linzer Cake

Linzer Cake

The Linzer cake is to be said to be the oldest-known in the world. For a long time a recipe from 1696 in the city library of Vienna was the oldest one known. But in 2005 the library director of the upper Austrian Museum found an…

German Apple Casserole or Auflauf

german apple casserole auflauf

This is a delicious recipe for the apple season: German Apple Casserole or Auflauf as we say in Germany. It’s very easy to make, no special ingredients needed. Makes a great dessert or it’s also perfect for a sweet treat. It’s actually not that…

Streusel Cake with Plum Butter

german streusel cake with plum butter

This Streusel Cake with Plum butter (Pflaumenmus in German) is an easy German cake that even beginners will be manage successfully. If you don’t have plum butter  here is the recipe to make it – Go to Recipe – or get it from the…

German Plum Cake with Streusel

plum cake with streusel

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…

German Pastry Donauwellen Cake

This is a very special cake or pastry – The German Pastry Donauwelle Cake – in English it would be called the “Danube wave cake” – comes from the Danube region or the “Donauschwaben” region. The Danube starts in the Black Forest and winds…

Apple Cake with Schmand or Sour Cream

apple cake with schmand

Germany is the country of hundreds of different apple cake recipes, and they vary from region to region. When I found this delicious recipe for a German apple cake with Schmand. I gave it a try because instead of Schmand you can use sour…