Here are a few recipes for kuchen. Start with the basic kuchen dough. You most often see apple and plum, but you can use any kind of topping that you can imagine. Some Kuchen's use just a Streusal topping, while other's have a custard filling, like Bienenstich Kuchen.
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Basic Kuchen Dough Recipe This is the basic Sweet Dough to make a kuchen.
It is a rich sweet dough with eggs and butter but not too sweet.
Another characteristic is that it has grated lemon peel in it.
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Apfelkuchen
This is my grandma Emma's recipe for apple kuchen |
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Plum Kuchen
with step by step pictures showing you
how to make it |
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Pizza Style Plum Kuchen
This is a kuchen that is baked like a pizza but still using the
same dough. I like this style because you can eat it is finger food,
and the crust bakes nicely thin and crispy. |
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Nectarine or Peach Kuchen
One of my most favorite fruits.
Peaches or nectarines make the perfect Kuchen.
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Olga's Recipe for Fruit Kuchens
apple, pear, nectarine, peach-almond kuchen |
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Butter Kuchen
this is a basic kuchen topped with butter and sugar |
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Bienenstich Kuchen
this is a kuchen that is filled with cream filling,
a honey-like glaze and toasted almonds.
This is very popular kuchen through out most of Germany |
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Rhubarb Kuchen
Blechkuchen
This a Ruhbarb Kuchen that is baked in a sheet pan. |
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Kasekuchen
This is my grandma Emma's recipe for cheese cake Kuchen |
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German Apple Cake Kuchen
This recipe from my friend Heike is more like a cake and uses a batter instead of a dough. It is such a cool way of making a cake that exposes the fruit on top of the dough. |
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German Plum Cake Kuchen
Same cake as aboveonly using plums and I made it in a round and also a square glass baking dish. |
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