Apricot Butter Cake – Original German Recipe

apricot butter cake

This is a great cake for summer when peaches or apricots are ripe. But it’s also delicious with canned fruit to make this original German cake. The cake base is a yeast dough (not that difficult to make) topped with with apricots/peaches and sliced…

Classic German Bienenstich – Yeast Dough Version

bee sting cake bienenstich

This is a recipe for the Classic German Bienenstich Yeast Dough Version (bee sting cake). It takes some time to make this cake and we recommend that you have some baking experience. If you like to use a different version that is using a…

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…

Raspberry Chocolate Cake

raspberry chocolate cake

The raspberry chocolate cake is super easy to make and is a great cake for baking beginners. You can use different fruit such as blueberries or apricots. Of course fresh fruit would be the best but it works very well with frozen fruit too….

German Baumkuchen Recipe – Most Special Cake

german baumkuchen recipe

Find out today how to make the most special cake there is. We found an authentic German Baumkuchen recipe that is called in English “tree cake” because of all the layers as you can see in a tree. It is a heavenly cake! In…

German Countess Cake or Komtess Kuchen

countess cake

You may have not heard about this cake, the Countess Cake or “Komtess Kuchen” in German.  We searched the history why this cake has this unusual name but could not find anything about it. We only know that Komtess means “Countess”. The cake is…

German Buttermilk Sugar Cake

German Buttermilk Sugar Cake

This German Buttermilk Sugar Cake is very much on the sweet side as it is using sugar and a special one called “Kandis” suga, a rock sugar that comes in coarse pieces. This kandis sugar, when heated, changes the color to brown which which…

German Apricot Cake with Sour Cream

german apricot cake with sour cream

This is a cake for the apricot season in summer. If you can get fresh apricots you must bake this German Apricot Cake with Sour Cream. It’s so easy to make. Takes only 15 min of your time. You can use alternatively different fruit…