German Cakes Recipes

"This recipe for a traditional Blackforest Cake is taken from a German cookbook, Backen: Das Grundbackbuch für Sicheres Gelingen (1995). It makes a small and understated, but very satisfying, chocolate cake with a whipped cream frosting. I have left in the metric measure of dry ingredients because German bakers measure with weight rather than..."

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Ingredients: chocolate, cocoa powder, eggs...

"Adapted from recipe found in magazine."

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Ingredients: eggs, apple jelly...

"Hello Kiddo, this one is just for you. Now that you have your own kitchen you might want to try and make one of your faves on your own. Love mom"

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Ingredients: potato starch, eggs, hazelnuts...

"The characteristic rings that appear when sliced resemble tree rings, and give the cake its German name, Baum kuchen, which literally translates to tree cake. I made this years ago getting the recipe from bon appetit. All ingredients should be room temperature. This is a dense, rich cake so be sure to slice thin. You can always go back for seconds. Optional: Crushed..."

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Ingredients: cornstarch, dark rum, eggs...

"This recipe came to me years ago. It orignated roughly 2 hours north of the Black Forest in Germany. It is a family recipe and so it may have differences from what may have been enjoyed elsewhere in the country at family homes or restaurants. This is NOT the boxed cake mix and canned cherry filling type cake (torte), though it does cheat with the canned..."

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Ingredients: chocolate, cinnamon...

"I found this recipe on the cooking blog One Perfect Bite. If you don't wish to make your own applesauce, a quart of store-bought unsweetened applesauce can be used. Cake needs to chill overnight before serving."

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Ingredients: cornstarch, sliced almonds...

"This is an old fashion fruitcake recipe. Enjoy."

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Ingredients: dark raisins, ground allspice...

"This is another recipe I found on another website, modified it so it would be sweeter and have more taste, and now I'm re posting it here. The closest I've been able to come to so far to bavarian cream, can't find an actual recipe for it, If someone has an original family recipe I would love to get it. I always make this for my kids birthdays and..."

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Ingredients: egg yolks, milk...

"A kind of baked baseless cheesecake, Quark Kuchen is the German name. This is from an tiny old German baking book. (Quark is of European origin and is something like ricotta cheese or mascarpone cheese, but lighter.)"

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Ingredients: eggs, Quark, lemon juice...

"A German cherry cake based on a recipe from McCall’s Cooking School, page #41 under Cakes, Cookies. The intro says, “One taste of this fabulous dessert and you’ll understand why it is the most famous dessert of the Black Forest region of Germany. Three layers of cake are drizzled with a cherry-brandy syrup and then filled with brandied..."

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Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, Cointreau liqueur...

"This makes a small cake that is big on taste. The secret is the lemon juice in the batter and a strong Vietnamese cinnamon. The recipe doubles easily and may be made in a lasagna pan. The apples may be substituted with cherries. Good for after meals, it's also great as a cinnamon breakfast pastry with some coffee. This is adapted from a children's..."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, eggs, lemon juice...