Recipes Index - page 2
Whole Wheat Gingerbread - Vollwert Lebkuchen
Gingerbread lends itself well to a whole wheat variation because it is already dark and heavy. While German Lebkuchen is in cookie form or sheet cake, this one-egg recipe is more like the American gingerbread. This coffeecake - style gingerbread has a no refined sugar.
Gingerbread House Dough Recipe - Make One For Christmas
A good and easy recipe for gingerbread dough which is used to make gingerbread houses. This gingerbread dough makes a very hard baked cookie which can be used for the walls and roof of your own gingerbread house. Although this cookie is completely edible, it is very dry and meant to be used in gingerbread house construction.
Yeast Coffee Cake with Egg Custard Topping
This is not a cream cheese coffee cake but has a similar layer made from egg custard on top of yeast dough. This coffee cake recipe makes enough for a 11 x 15 inch sheet cake pan. A traditional German coffee cake recipe which is not too sweet and feeds a crowd.
Recipe for Ice Cream Waffle Cookies - Eiswaffeln Recipe
A recipe for German waffle cookies, often served in ice cream sundaes. This eiswaffeln recipe tastes remarkably like the crispy rolls served in Germany. Real butter, milk and sugar make this cookie recipe taste so good.
Alsatian Apple Cake
Alsace lies on the border of Germany and France and has a wonderful culinary tradition mixing both German and French cuisines. This apple cake recipe is very popular in German kitchens due to its ease and high success rate. It combines two popular tastes, apples and vanilla cream for a crowd-pleasing recipe.
Apricot Cake - Aprikosenkuchen - Recipe for Fresh Apricot Cake
A recipe for an everyday, sunken apricot cake. How to make German Aprikosenkuchen. This is a simple German recipe that everyone can make. Great apricot cake with whipped cream.
Pound Cake with Chocolate Bits - Omas Schokostückle Kuchen
German pound cake recipe with chopped chocolate bits will be a hit with a hot cup of tea. This simple recipe for Schokostückle Kuchen is a type of Rührkuchen, from which Königskuchen, Marmorkuchen and other cakes which are baked in a bread form or Kastenform are derived. How to make a German Rührkuchen with chocolate.
Chocolate and Almond Cream Cake - German Schokosahnetorte
German cream cakes are famous the world over and are simple to make. This German Chocolate and Almond Cream Cake is a typical German cake recipe and contains almond meal and grated chocolate. This whipped cream cake is filled with apricot marmalade and clothed in almond-flavored whipped cream.
Black Forest Cherry Cake - Schwarzwälder Kirchtorte
Black Forest Cherry Cake is a simple layer cake to make. This authentic German cake is made up of a chocolate layer cake with cherries in the middle and whipped cream on top. The top is decorated with chocolate sprinkles. Schwarzwälder Kirchtorte is an easy cake to make.
German-Style Chocolate Sponge Cake
A sponge cake recipe is the basis for many cream-filled cakes or German Torten. This chocolate sponge cake has a hint of cinnamon in it, a typical German addition to chocolate. Sahnetorten are one of Germany's wonderful bakery products. Homemade, cream-filled cakes look daunting, but can be constructed with simple kitchen tools and taste great.
Traditional Viennese Apple Strudel - Altwiener Apfelstrudel
Making Austrian apple strudel from scratch is not difficult. Traditional apple strudel can be time-consuming, but the skill level needed is moderate. Austrian or German apple strudel contains apples, raisins, rum, almonds, bread crumbs, lots of butter, and strudel dough. Try your hand at old-fashioned apple strudel.
Cheesecake with Quark - Käsekuchen
A recipe for German cheesecake using quark for the cheese. The cookie crust is not too sweet, but you can also substitute your favorite graham cracker crust if you like. A German specialty, this cheesecake recipe can use yogurt cheese instead of quark and achieve good results.
Butter Cake - Butterkuchen
This is a German recipe for a very simple, yeasted coffee cake. This German cake is loved by many and very easy to make. Traditionally, it is served in the afternoon, but you can serve it for your morning coffee break or even breakfast. Written in English, it is an easy recipe to follow.
Sheet Cake Recipe with Quark and Streusel - Streuselkuchen mit Quarkfüllung
A German cake recipe in English for your next Kaffeekranz. This sheet cake recipe uses yeast and quark, or yogurt cheese to make a gourmet delight better than any Entemann’s.
Fasching bowties - Faschingsschleifen
A German recipe for deep-fried bow ties which uses baking powder and not yeast. I have included traditional instructions to show you how the German cooks baked by hand 50 years ago.
Fasnet Curls (Schwabia) - Fasnetzöpfe aus Schwaben
A quick recipe for German Mardi Gras. Fasching curls are deep fried and dusted with powdered sugar.
Chocolate Filling for Donuts
Chocolate Filling for Donuts. This filling could also be used for cupcakes or muffins before baking.
Fasching Donuts With 3 Fillings, Vanilla, Chocolate and Jelly
Call them Berliner, Pfannekuchen or Krapfen, donuts have their high season in January and February. You can fill them before or after frying them, or leave them plain, sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Homemade Sourdough Starter
A true sourdough starter is flour and water which is exposed to the microorganisms in the air, either outside or inside the house. It starts growing in 2-3 days.
Vanilla Sugar
Vanilla Sugar (Vanillin Zucker) is found in most German recipes for cakes and cookies. You can buy it online, or make it easily yourself.
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