Cheesecakes are popular in Germany. Unlike the German cheesecake I posted a few months ago, the filling in this creamy cheesecake i...

The Träubleskuchen is a great Swabian summer tradition. It’s called Johannisbeerkuchen in non-dialect German and translates as redcu...

This cake evokes a lot of childhood memories of coffee and cake afternoons with friends and relatives. Fresh fruit cakes or tarts ar...

Yesterday I made an incredibly sour rhubarb crumble. I didn’t add enough sugar and there wasn’t any sweet custard, either, so it was...

It’s been a quite while since I have posted my last cake on my blog. Two months in fact! It’s not that I haven’t done any baking at ...

My boyfriend just told me that these little cakes are his favourite from all the things I have ever baked. OK, I have to admit that they t...

This is a very simple and traditional southern German recipe. Semolina, cherries and cinnamon are a classic combination and most German c...

There is a ridiculous number of recipes for apple cakes in Germany. It’s a very popular type of cake and it is kind of odd, admittedly, th...

Buttercake, consisting of a fluffy yeast-dough base and topped with sweet and crunchy sliced almonds, is very traditional and often served...

German cheesecake is quite different from American-style cheesecake, which is most common in the UK. The German version is always baked an...

The ‘special’ ingredient in this recipe is not sand but corn flour, giving this cake its specific ‘sandy’ texture. To be honest (and as ca...

New year, new recipes. Having been a bit slack over Christmas and the New Year – enjoying cakes and biscuits baked mostly by my parents ...

This is the second recipe with poppy seed on my blog (the recipe for my poppy seed plait is here) . Again, there is no story to go with thi...

This is a very simple sponge cake and I can’t really think of any interesting facts or anecdotes to go with it. It is just a classic and ve...

Marble cake is an absolute classic in Germany, and for good reason. I must have baked this for the first time when I was about 10 years ol...

Sweetened and plaited breads are popular in Germany – for breakfast at the weekend (or on any other morning of the week if I get the chance...

Streuselkuchen – cakes with a crumbly topping – are a great favourite in Germany and they come in many shapes and forms. A tasty and tradit...