German Walnut Cake with Apples

The German Walnut Cake with apples makes a great cake for any occasion. In Germany we call such a cake “Gugelhupf” which is Bundt cake in English. It can be for the holidays, birthdays or for the coffee and cake Sunday afternoon. Try this…

German Streusel Cake with Vanilla Pudding

German streusel cake

There is nothing better than a German Streusel Cake with Vanilla Pudding combined with a cup of coffee or tea. This is an authentic and proven German cake recipe. Streusel means “crumbles” and in English that would be a “Crumble Cake”. The German Streusel…

German Poppy Seed Cake with Streusel

german poppy seed streusel cake

The German Poppy seed cake has a delicious filling that is made out of vanilla pudding and poppy seeds, with a layer of Streusel on top. The best is to get the German poppyseed filling from Dr. Oetker. You can use this filling for…

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…

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….