German Puff Pastry with Pudding and Fruit

german phyllo puff pastries

In Germany you find many pastries that are made out of puff pastry dough, we call it “Blätterteig” as it is flaky and comes in many layers. Learn today how to make the German puff pastry with pudding and fruit. Here’s more about this…

German Cherry Plunder Pastry

plunder pastry with sour cherries

Find out how to make the German Cherry Plunder pastry that can be found in every German bakery.  In Germany these pastries are made fresh daily. They can be made with vanilla pudding, quark with jam (raspberry, apricot) or assorted fruit on top. If…

German Strawberry Cremeschnitten

strawberry cremeschnitten

Find out how to make the German Strawberry Cremeschnitten or Cream Slices  – This original German cake recipe is a variation of the classic “Cremeschnitte” which comes without any fruit.  This recipe is adding strawberries and it creates a completely new cake.  It is…

Apple Turnovers with Potato Dough – Apfelmaultaschen

apple turnovers

Apple Turnovers or “Apfelmaultaschen” is a traditional and historic German recipe. The specialty is rumored to have been invented by monks of the German monastery Maulbronn (located in Baden-Würtemberg) to conceal the fact that they were eating meat during lent. The monks hid the…

Leipziger Lerche Pastry from Leipzig

This pastry specialty from the city of Leipzig is called Leipziger Lerche, and if you don’t know German, you might not know that “Lerche” is a German songbird that has the most unique sound (in English lark). During the 18th and 19th century millions…

German Sweet Mini Fried Cheese Balls with Quark

mini fried cheese balls

This is another original German recipe that is using quark, the popular fresh cheese that we use for a lot of cakes and desserts. You can find information about quark and how to make it at home on mybestgermanrecipes.com (see below in the ingredients…

German Apple Pastry with Egg Liquor

German Apple Pastry

The German apple pastry contains egg liquor and quark. Both ingredients are not usual items in US supermarkets. You can make quark at home – GO TO THE QUARK RECIPE – and get egg liquor in German specialty stores or for example at Shop…

German Peach Quark Pastry

german peach pastry

This Original German peach quark pastry is not that difficult to make, and if you don’t have a European bakery nearby, you probably will have no other chance than baking them. The puff pastry dough can be purchased from Pillsbury and Pepperidge (Target), Costco…