German Cakes are NEXT LEVEL (American reaction)
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- Опубликовано: 31 окт 2022
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The "german" choclate cake is totally unknown in Germany. The name of the inventor was "German"
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German chocolate yeah like the green glass pickle in the Christmas tree is such a wonderful and true German tradition
It infuriates me on a regular basis what America does here …
I was about to say. I have never seen that cake in my life.
This question came up on a recent edition of the German Quiz programme "Wer Weiss denn Sowas?
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@@lennartstockl5826 it is a thing here in America
But as said the guys name was German
And now America thinks it is German
Zwiebelkuchen / Onion cake is absolute god-tier. Just disregard the 'cake' part, that's just german humour.
Zwiebelkuchen with Neuer Süßer/ Neuer Wein / Federweißer...
@@Warentester *Most* & *Zwiebelkuchen* --> _"Der Mostkrug"_
>> Früher in Dorfgemeinschafts-Backhaus (meist im Zentrum des Dorfes), im Herbst, wenn der erste *Most* bereit war, daher auch der Begriff *Mostkrug,* ausgeschenkt.
*Origin aus Swabia* & *Tyrol,* dort wurde auch im *15 jahrhundert* das *Mostmass* entwickelt.
Frischer Zwiebelkuchen mit Most, 2 traditionele versionen, mit Most-Äpfel oder mit Most-Birnen (spezielle dafür gezüchtete früchte), viel kleiner und viel groberer & ruppiger Schalung.
_>> Wiki "Most"_
_Übliche Früchte sind Äpfel (Apfelmost), Birnen oder Trauben (Traubenmost als Vorstufe zum Wein, Federweißer)._
Bekannt war der Most historischen Zeugnissen zufolge schon bei den Kelten, die den Obstwein jedoch vor allem zur Verdauungsförderung tranken. In späteren Jahrhunderten wurde der Most geschätzt, da ihn jedermann kostengünstig selbst herstellen konnte.
Im späten 15. Jahrhundert (1487) ist die Verwendung einer Maßeinheit für *Most („Meraner mostmass“) aus dem Südtiroler Untervinschgau* bezeugt. Aus einer Ortschronik vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts geht hervor, *dass Most auf der Schwäbischen Alb in dieser Zeit eines der wichtigsten Getränke war.* Dort heißt es: *„Zweites Frühstück Most und Brot, Abendessen Brotsuppe, Kartoffeln und Milch; in dieser Weise nähren sich alle Kategorien der hiesigen Bevölkerung, bloß haben die Reichen mehr Fleisch. In manchen Häusern wird neben Most auch ein wenig Branntwein verabreicht. Bier wird bloß sonntags im Wirtshaus auf eigene Kosten getrunken. Getränke: täglich 2 Liter Most, in der Ernte 4 Liter für männliche Arbeiter, weibliche die Hälfte. Frauen und Kinder trinken nur wenig Most, Branntwein gar nicht.“*
Mfg
It's like a quiche. Only called Zwiebelkuchen. There are lots of savory " cakes"
You can compare it to US pie. Like pumpkin pie or sweet potatoe pie…
Ziebelkuchen und neuer Wein. I lived in Stuttgart for a fe years. Love that tradition.
German chocolate cake...i've _never_ heard of that one before...
_from Wikipedia:_
German chocolate cake, originally German's chocolate cake, is a layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. Originating in the United States, it owes its name to an English-American chocolate maker named Samuel German, who developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe.
*It is not German by nationality.*
Lol, _I knew it!_
Now that's a twist!
Nobody knows "Amerikaner" in America and I've never saw those "German chocolate cakes" shown in the video in Germany before. :D
@@vomm But "Amerikaner" is simply a Donut without hole and baked instead fried; one sided and frosting (sometimes choclate / decor) on the flat side so it stay soft / fluffy / moist.
@@Blazeor2 Yes it is the same as a donut only very different
Was about to comment exactly that.
Not once in my life have i seen a "german chocolate cake" here before.
"here" being germany, obviously.
You absolutely have to watch the second part from this Lady.
Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, Sachertorte, Eierlikörtorte, Schokosahnetorte, ...
You know the deal...
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Greetings from Germany.
I agree Ryan has to watch part 2... The Torten will blow his mind because he already got so excited about the Kuchen in this video.
Sacher is austrian. And Austria has the best mehlspeise of all. Kardinalschnitte
@@alien777 I know, that Sacher is Austrian, but this cake is also well known and popular in Germany.
What I like to eat is Linzer Torte.
Schwarzwälder Kirsch.. was ein Traum
Sachertorte is the most famous Austrian cake from Hotel Sacher in Vienna.
The "Marmorkuchen" = marble cake is I think the most favorite cake for kids here. You find it everywhere and on all the children's birthday buffets. It's fun to eat when you have the chocolate and the vanilla parts. Kids always try to get the piece with more chocolate in it and it's very easy to eeat with your hands :D Everyone loves this cake, it's not really a boring adults cake
The cake is good for dipping in hot chocolate, which is also fun for children.
From what I experienced the lemon cake with icing is the kids favorite.
@@lennartstockl5826 Oh yes I loved that one aswell!
@@vomm Or, if you are an adult, perfect in combination with coffee.
And it's quite easy to make. If you need a cake but don't have much time or aren't good at baking I guess this one's perfect
I think it's funny that you thought the "Marmorkuchen" is a boring adults cake. In my family on birthday partys we make the cake because of the children and I loved this cake as child.
Yes true :D Kids love this cake here :D
Exactly. It's easily the number one favorite cake among kids. Probably because it has chocolate in it, and you can eat it with your hands.
I'd consider it as kind of joker. You can never go wrong with that
I hated it as a kid xD and I still do. Its just not my cake
@@nobodysgirl7972 true
In Germany we have a lot of "Blechkuchen" (tray cake). That's cake baked on a tray, instead of a form. It's meant to be easily cut in rectangular pieces to serve many people. Intuitively many Germans will associate a tray cake or a dry form cake like Marbelcake with the word cake and would differentiate this from Torte (Tart). I would disagree with the video though that cakes can't be multi-layered (e.g. Bienenstich, Donauwelle etc).
Blechkuchen is often a somewhat simple cake to prepare and cheap to buy, making perfect for everyday afternoon tea or even to bring to a work meeting.
When ordering it at the bakery you'd mix and match several types of Blechkuchen and typically the first information you share with the baker is how many pieces you want in total as this determines the size of tray/box the baker will use to pack them for takeaway.
Boah ich liebe Donauwelle, das ballert übelst krass
Oh, Bienenstich. It name is translated to "bees sting" but the cake is very yummy.
Actually as Blechkuchen usually is made with "Hefe" - yeast - it is not that simple. The simple cakes are sponge cakes as you just mix dough together and put it in the oven - without waiting times.
"I would disagree with the video though that cakes can't be multi-layered (e.g. Bienenstich, Donauwelle etc)."
She did not say this. She said "usually" one layer, this does not mean that there can't be Kuchen with more than one layer.
Torte: Multiply Layers of dough that are usade with unbaked stuff to create the Torte.
Kuchen: You put all in the oven and bake it
Donauwelle or Schneewittchenkuchen are Torte and not Kuchen. Bienstich with a filling is also Torte because you add this later, after baking.
@@geneviere199 Which is why a lot of people use Quark-Öl-Teig in place of Hefeteig nowadays. It's easier and you don't run the risk of the Hefe being overpowering.
German cheesecake and American cheesecake are not the same. While American cheesecake is actually literally made with cheese (cream cheese 🙂), in Germany we usually use Quark for the cake, a dairy product completely unheard of in the US and most parts of the world outside of central and eastern Europe. The closest equivalent would be greek yoghurt, I was told, but those two are definitely not the same and thus the cake really has different properties in regards to fluffiness and density.
Quark is actually a type of cheese, but like a really early form, even more earlier/fresher than Mascarpone which is already a step bevor cream cheese
So while it is still Technically cheese its more similar to a thicker/creamier and more rich yogurt
Zwiebelkuchen (Onion cake) is more like a quiche made with onions. I know it has "cake" in the name but it's really a hearty, heavenly autumn-meal, white wine or federweißer go perfectly with it! Hope you'll get the chance to try it when you come visit Germany!
Also there are regional differences .. in my region it is baked on a tray without cheese, we also have a version consisting of leek that goes well with potato soup
Exactly! It has technically nothing to do with cakes in the traditional sense.
Fun fact, German chocolate cake only exists in the US ;)
German cakes tend to be less sweet and more dry than American cakes. I once had something called 'banana bread' while in Texas. It was more sweet than any German cake I ever had and I was very confused it was called bread.
However, there is also a whole genre of layered cakes called 'Torte' which are much more creamy and sweet and generally more to American taste. Also seasonal fruit topping cakes are pretty good and also nice and sweet.
Fun fact, for many Germans it's kind of a compliment if a cake or cookies aren't too sweet. They will eat your cake and say something like 'Oh this tastes excellent, and not too sweet'. The all over preference goes to less sweetness
In Germany exists "Herren Torte!" It's Full of Choctlate, but different.
@@Roenick272 Herrentorte ist herrlich ;) and much better than American German chocolate cake!
Thats true. It does not refer to cakes only, but any other food, too. You will find juices be more sweet almost everywhere else in the world, no matter whether north or south...
If you already liked those "simple" cakes (sorry😅), then you HAVE to watch a video about multi-layered cakes. Those are HEAVEN and they come in so many different variations! We have a really good bakery/confectionery near where we live and the area with the cakes literally looks like food and sweets heaven!
yes yesy yes :D
In german "Torten" thats just another thing, but yeah, i hoped for Schwarzwälder Kirschkuchen.
@@apfelbaum6331 I think Schwarzwälder Kirsch will be in the other video :)
Yes, multi-layered ones would be Black Forest Gateau and the likes.
Frankfurter Kranz, Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte...
Look also times at the following cakes or pies:
*Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte)
*Poppy seed cake (Mohnkuche)
*Frankfurter Kranz (Frankfurter Kranz)
*Danube wave (Donauwelle)
*Bee sting (Bienenstich)
*Strawberry cake (Erdbeerkuchen)
*Butter cake (Butterkuchen)
*Sacher cake (Sachertorte)
*Lemon cake (Zitronenkuchen)
*Mulled wine cake (Glühweinkuchen)
*Chocolate banana cake (Schoko-Bananen-Kuchen)
*Mole cake (Maulwurfkuchen)
*Currant cake (Johannisbeerkuchen)
*Carrot cake (Karottenkuchen)
*Zucchini cake (Zucchinikuchen)
*Rhubarb cake with meringue (Rhabarber Kuchen mit Baiser)
*Banana bread (Bananenbrot)
*Sour cream cake with tangerines (Schmandkuchen mit Mandarinen)
*Kiwi cake (Kiwi Torte)
*Nut cake (Nusskuchen)
*Yeast nut plait (Hefe-Nusszopf)
*Gooseberry cake (Stachelbeerkuchen)
or
*Beet cake (Rote-Bete Kuchen)
When I was a chiid my mom made sure that we had coffee and cake EVERY afternoon, not only on sundays. 4 pm in the afternoon was Kaffee und Kuchen ;) And of course no baking mixes were used, everything is always made from scratch in my family
my grandparents eat coffee and cake every single afternoon of the week ;-) and if you are strolling the streets of any city in germany,you see people in bakery shops or coffee shops doing the same in the afternoon. it's a good occasion to meet and talk.
coffee and cake are going well together. in the US when eating a cake you don't drink a coffee?
very true :D older people often go out and have their cakes.
In the US a cake is often considered a dessert.
The best German cakes are by far: Zwetschgendatschi, Schwarzwälder Kirchschtorte (Black Forest cake), Bienenstich (bee sting cake), Schoko-Nusskuchen (chocolate nut cake with or without some cherries), Mohnkuchen (poppy seed cake), Apfelstrudel und Karottenkuchen (carrot cake)! 🥰 But I have to say that German cakes are way less sweet than US American cakes (for my taste in most cases still way to sweet but that's personal preference) so I don't know if they will taste great to you on your first bites.
this is the way.
Zwetschgendatschi? Die Diskussion hatte ich mit meiner Nürnberger Frau auch immer. Aber das Ding heißt nunmal Prummetaart.
@@arbeitnehmeranwaltstuhler-4432 Nachdem ich davon noch nie gehört habe, hab ich das jetzt eben mal gegoogelt und wir reden von zwei unterschiedlichen Kuchen so wie's aussieht. Zwetschgendatschi ist ein Blechkuchen mit Hefeteigboden und ist sssssuuuppper saftig. Prummetaart scheint ein runder Kuchen, zu sein, oder wenn in Blechform, dann sieht es sehr trocken aus, und ist wohl aus Quarkölteig mit versteckten Pflaumen.
@@lovelyisabelle2028 Nein, wir reden schon von dem gleichen Kuchen ;-) Aber bei meiner Frau hießen Rievkooche auch irgendwie immer Baggers ....
The best fact is that we as Germans bake these cakes most of the time on our own. It's common to buy one piece of cake every once in a while but most of the time we bake them on our own. Buying cake is very expensive and if the cakes are homemade they are much cheaper and even better than the ones from the bakery (even though the quality of bought cakes is very good as well)
There are frozen cakes (Germany) at the supermarkets which are not much more expensive than doing it at home which are quite good.
@@reinhard8053 Just no.
@@dorisschneider-coutandin9965 Yes. We mostly bake ourselves, but the Donauwelle from Aldi does it in a pinch, too. (Still more expensive than baking yourself, but way cheaper than in a bakery, and very tasty).
You really need to watch "Why German History is Different" by "Then & Now". I have never seen a video catch the german spirit and soul as good as this one. Lots of work and effort went into that video and it shows
Fun fact about the Butterkuchen: since it's a rather easy to prepare cake and almost everybody likes it, it's also a common cake for the so called 'Leichenschmaus' which is basically a post- burial reception and there for the cake also is colloquially known as 'Norddeutscher Beerdigungskuchen', that will translate to something like 'nothern German burial cake' 😃
Reading that, it's even a little halloweeny 😄👻
Its mostly a cake that esscorts you trough out your life, when you life in the north. Every biger family birthday party, Confirmations, funerals, golden wedding days, theres always Butterkuchen. ALWAYS. Also other cakes and stuff but not family party withput Buxtehuder Butterkuchen.
And there are mayn diffrent ways to make it.
I also prefer it as the cake to bring on b-days to the office. It easy to make, not taht dry, you ca serve crem with it. And i never find a single soul who dosen't like it.
Also i already made lactose free versions. veggi version is hard, because butterkuchen wihtout butter its not the same.
@@redzora80 Jawoll, absolut!
Nix! Zitiere das bloß nicht herbei, bitte. Ansonsten gibt’s was Hinden drauf! Booo!!! 🕸🧙♀️
You could start your own family tradition of coffee and cake on Sunday afternoon. If you have a local bakery or deli, they may sell German cake, and Aldi often stock them too. It's a little like the English afternoon tea tradition, just with coffee.
yes!!!! I love these kinds of family traditions.. It gives us a cosy, comfy feeling, stability and later on in life a lot of nostalgia....
At our family gossip there is always both coffee and tea and delicious cakes.
@@blondkatze3547 xD
there is also another cake: Elsässer Flammkuchen
it's called cake, but it's rather a pizza with onions and bacon...
so, not everything cake is a "cake". like just because you call it "salad", it becomes healthy. like potato "salad"
Or Wurstsalat/Sausage salad :D
Pizza is misleading to Americans because they imagine a very thick bready dough. Flammkuchen has an extremely thin dough about 2-3 mm or 1/10 inch thick.
And it's French not German.
@@xXxSkuzzelBuddxXx lets not start THAT topic. the region is NOW french, but it wasn't in the past.
@@alicemilne1444 so Flammkuchen is more like italian pizza?
fun fact "german chocolate cake" isnt a german cake :D the name cames from a guy with lastname: German. We never had this here
Zwiebelkuchen with a glass of "new wine" is heavenly and surely not restricted to "coffee time", but also served as lunch or dinner. Can be bought at every decent bakery in autumn too. For me, as for many other Germans, "coffee time" is also a general term for eating/drinking something around 3/4pm and it doesn't have to involve coffee, despite the name. And it can be a daily routine, at least the way I was brought up
Time for Federweißer 💜
We are not unique in having our afternoon break.. famous british afternoon tea or high tea is , next to the breakfast, the best meal you can get in Britain.
As a kid, I loved Marmorkuchen bc of the colours. It's simple, too. So probably the first choice for parents to shut up their children quickly, haha. There's also a distinction between Kuchen and Torte in German that I'm not entirely sure exists in English.
I think this difference is a very important one to know about. Torten are in my experience even greater and more impressive then cakes ^^
In germany we have two kind of cakes: "Kuchen" and "Torte". A "Torte" is a layered cake (so cake and cream stacked) and importend a Cream cover on the side and top, if the cover is made of something other many german may say it is a "Torte" but per "Deutscher Backordnung/-norm" (german backing norm) it is "Kuchen". "Kuchen" on the otherhand is more a collective term for tray cakes, cakes made with a backing mold and some other cakes.
The "Baumkuchen" is mostly popular during the christmastime. And you can get it in Bakeries as well. They are delicious. It tooks hours to bake theme, because of the multi layers and the round shape.
I enjoy your clips 😀
Much greetings from north Germany
I hope you react to the multilayered cakes aswell. They are called "Torten", while the ones in this video are called "Kuchen". I think the american cakes are more like our "Torten" with buttercream and so on...
American cakes and torten are almost every time made from a ready(baking)-mix, consisting of an awful lot of sugar and chemicals. Nothing to get excited about. It is extremely rare someone bakes a traditional cake from scratch over there.
I would translate the more or less dry ones as 'cake' and the "Torten" with unbaked creamy layers 'fancy cake' or 'gateau' (which is the english version of the french word 'gâteau', which means cake (Kuchen) again. Tell me, if I am right or wrong. Thanks
Onioncake is in my family a dish we would eat as lunch or dinner. The plum cake is something my generation ( i´m 20) would consider an older people cake. It's something usually your grandma would buy / make
also you can make so many crumble cake - my favorite is Crumble cheesecake or "Mohnstreuselkuchen " (Poppy seed crumble cake ) which is a cake with a thick layer of poppy seeds and crumbles on top.
We always made plum cake in the fall because we had a garden with a plum tree when I was a child :)
Hmmm... Granny cakes are the best.
I work in a bakery in it’s true mostly older people will buy the plum cake
Onioncake is awesome!!! - But I like plumcake a lot, too....- Maybe that is cause I am in my fourtys.... rofl.... - I never have thought of plum cake as a old people cake^^
I wouldn't call it an "older people cake", it is more a seasonal cake, something you enjoy when the plums are in season - though I admit I adjusted the recipee and use a Quark-Öl-Teig instead of a Hefeteig by now. (And it is mostly older people who buy it because younger people who like it might still go through the trouble to bake it, since it is a fairly easy cake to make).
Coffee and cake time - always in the afternoon at the weekend. Ryan - make this to your weekly routine now. 🙂
I just saw the first minute, so its not just on Sunday, it's every day. Maybe not many divers cakes but even a cup of coffee with a cookie or just a "dry" cake like Streuselkuchen (crumble cake but without the fruit) is nice to a little chat with neighbor or friends.🙃
It depends.. In my childhood we had coffee and some kind of cake or cookies every afternoon, but I think nowadays most people are still at work then. Sundays however everyone has freetime so it's a very big sunday tradition also for those who work hard all week. :) Every sunday I see sooo many older people lining up in front of the bakerys for their cakes ^^
@@voyance4elle 😄Because they have not to babysitting their grandchilds.😉
Maybe I have a different impression because I had a job with weekend worktime. But even my family and friends are talking about new gossip out of these "Just let meet us for a cup of coffee/cake chat" in cozy privat kitchens.
It's not a thing for working people at workdays but when I visited my mom every afternoon there was some kind of cake. Most of it homemade.
@@claudiaernst6225 I would love that for my future.. spontaneously asking a friend from the neighborhood to come around for a cup of coffee or tee ^^ At the moment everyone is always busy, always working...
@@voyance4elle I'm pressing my thumbs for you.😁 Or for the better understanding by the english speaking guys: 🤞🤞
What about "Frankfurter Kranz" , "Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte", "Bienenstich" , "Herrensahne" and "Donauwellen"? Or "Windbeutel"? I have to stop here, I'm getting hungry.
Many of those are multi-layered cakes that she will probably cover in her other video
You can get Dresdener Stollen outside of saxony, they sell really good ones in the supermarkets. Especially the brand with the white red packaging is great and originally from Dresden.
Edit: the brand is called Emil Reimann
You can trust every Stollen which has the "Stollensiegel" - its a golden Label and its not easy to get
Bienenstich, Donauwelle and Lebkuchen would come to my mind in addition to those mentioned.
But man this reminded me that there will be some good Stollen soon and i cant wait. (there are so many varieties of it, i saw raisins, cranberrys, nougat, etc. inside some)
When you broil onions till they get really soft, the hot spicy goes away and they get a little bit sweet. So the cake is hearty (with a little sweetness) but not hot spicy as you may assume. The cake is often eaten as a meal.
Can't believe Papageienkuchen (parrot cake) was left out! Maybe its more of an east German thing but every kid goes absolutely nuts when they see those vibrant colored cake slices at the bakery and will definitely beg their mum to get one for them.
Never heard of that (West Germany). The colors, especially the blue, don't look tasty at all.
@@reinhard8053 the cake doesn't really have much going on in flavor, the dough is merely mixed with different kind of food colorings, all in all its just a colorful sponge cake with a sugar + lemon frosting. But sugar, color and sprinkles is all it takes to make children go crazy it seems
Yes! And I miss the "Paradieskuchen", also called "Verkehrskuchen" in East Germany. It was my favourite cake in kindergarden.
Onioncake and Federweiser. I love it! ❤❤
Hi Ryan and greetings from Germany 🙂 My Granduncle was a baker and pastry chef, and I would like to share one of our family recipes with you ^^ First I have to say that we don´t use cups in Germany, so you need a scale.
Marmorkuchen (the cake from 3:53 )
For the yellow dough you need:
200 gram butter (creamy)
200 gram sugar
3 Eggs
4 teaspoons vanilla sugar
375 gram wheat flour
125 gram starch (potatoe starch, not corn starch)
6 teaspoons baking powder
125 milliliters milk
For the chocolate dough:
100 gram sugar
50 gram cacao powder (baking cacao, I hope you have it in the USA)
50 gram ground almonds
2 or 3 Spoons of milk
Mix the butter with the sugar. When it looks white take the eggs one by one in the butter-sugar-mixture. Mix the flour, starch, baking powder and vanilla sugar in another bowl. Put some of the flour-mixture to the butter-mixture, than add some milk. Than flour-mixture again, than milk and so on until everything is in the bowl. Now you need a Gugelhupf cake tin. Make some butter inside of the whole cake tin and put the HALF of the dough in it. Now you take the rest of the dough and mix it with the ingredients for the chocolate dough. Take the dark dough on top of the yellow dough. Now you need a fork. Put the fork into the dough and lift it up and down. Now you have the marble effect. Bake it in the oven (temperature 180° Celsius / 356° Fahrenheit) for 70 or 80 minutes. Maybe your take don´t need so much time or more time, thats different from cake tin to cake tin and from oven to oven.
These recipe was created by my great-great-grandmother and it´s around 150 years old.
Viel Spaß beim backen und schöne Grüße von der Nordseeküste 😉
Happy baking and greetings from the North Sea coast 😉
The cake-video is the best example for the differences between north Germany (where I life) and the rest of our beautiful country. We have our teatime every day. But we don´t eat cake every day ^^ We have so many different types of tea in north Germany. Assam tea, Earl Grey, Lady Grey, Madame Grey, Lapsang, Orange Pekoe, Ceylon tea, Borengajuli, Darjeeling, Oolong, Ostfriesen tea, english breakfast tea... and theese are only the black teas, we have also different types of green tea and fruit tea 😅 The Ostfriesen tea is a little bit special, because you don´t just drink it. First you take some rock candy sugar in your cup and then you add the hot tea. Now you put liquid cream on top, it should look like a ring of cream. Now your tea is ready. It is a tradition that everyone waits until the oldest woman at the table has started drinking. When she started you can drink your tea too.
@Saga Fox-Wilde falls Du aus Deutschland bist, die Stärke vom Hersteller Mondamin ist z.B. aus Kartoffeln.
I love onion cake. One of the most savory things I know. Only the base I usually do not like :D She could have mentioned that German cheesecake is made with quark, not cream cheese like in America. That's why it is more airy in Germany. But cream cheese as an ingredient is becoming more and more popular here.
you should watch her video of the multi-layered cakes as well, they are the best cakes or as we call them Torten.
That's interesting: You have called the Marmorkuchen an "adult cake" and I think the Marmorkuchen is the most common cake at kids birthday parties 😅
I have tried at least three different variants of cheese-cake. They all were yummy.
I will have to correct her on the Baumkuchen, because there are places where you can get a freshly backed Baumkuchen with a lot of different "toppings", like cinnamon, dried raspberries, coconut flakes, vanilla sugar, etc. One of the most common places being Christkindlmärkte, which you can find everywhere during christmas time.
But maybe it's an Austrian thing...
No, not an Austrian thing. There is a region in eastern Germany where there are several local bakeries that are famous for their Baumkuchen. I once did research for a TV show there and was allowed in into the place where the magic happens. But even at home (southern Germany), my Mum made Baumkuchen a few times. It is so much better than the one from the supermarket. And not all Baumkuchen are covered in that thick layer of chocolate.
@@jamaike1185 Also the Baumkuchen I know doesn't really have those innerlayers, which of course makes it a lot easier to bake and sell at places like the Christkindlmarkt.
(I know that I could've written it in german.)
@@jamaike1185
In Northern Germany you can get fresh baked Baumkuchen mostly on Christmas markets. Delicious. 😋
But you're right, the best Baumkuchen is from East Germany.
The best in my opinion comes from Salzwedel.
My relatives from GDR used to bring some with them when they came to visit their family in West Germany. Not with chocolate on the outside, but with white frosting.
I actually like that better than the chocolate version.
@@anunearthlychild8569 I don't know a lot about german Baumkuchen... Since I live close to Vienna.
I lived in the USA for some time and the German chocolate cake is only German by name but it originated in the USA . I as well have seen some people make German pancakes that weren’t German at all lol
There’re so many cakes here in Germany and every region has its own cake recipes as well as different names for their baked goods , here in the region where I live a jam filled doughnut is called a Berliner, then in some regions it’s called a Berliner Ballen or a Krapfen and so on but in Berlin it’s called a Pfannkuchen and a Pfannkuchen in region where I live is a Pancake ! Confusing I know !
Yes. Team Berliner! 😉
Sunday, when I was young, there was coffee and cake for the larger family, grandparents, uncles and aunts and so on. During the week, mostly for summer and fall, we were mostly in our garden plot and there was fresh cake almost every day with self-grown and self-cared apples or plums or cherries or strawberries or redcurrants or rhubarb. With freshly whipped whipped cream. Oh mein Gott! lol A great time! Liebe Grüße! And btw your facial expessions were next level, too :)😅
I really don't know why but I totally misheard your intro today...
I understood: "Thank you for joining me! - Today I'm Ryan." and had to immediately think "okay, and who are you on the other days?"
My mind is munched potatoes
Sunday afternoon (not at 8pm) is coffee and cake time. It is a longstanding tradition. You bake yourself or you buy it it advance on Saturday. Grandmother was strong on this. She would have several cakes baked on Saturday to serve on Sunday, eating the left overs during the week. Marmorkuchen was always one of them. Plumcake ist the best! Zwiebel Kuchen, ist nothing but a quiche... and it is awesome!
You can get really great cake at every bakery in germany, some of them even sell cake for a few hours on sundays (where most stores are closed by law). BUT you'll get the best cakes from typical german grannys on family meetings! Most of them have their special recipe which they have perfected over the years (and they are very proud of it, but mostly play it down)
I'll have Apfelkuchen mit Sreusel this afternoon for Kaffee unhd Kuchen. The apples are from old apple trees, the flower is from a local mill and the butter for the Streusel is from a cow living some 200m away from my home, the eggs are from our own chicken...
Zwiebelkuchen is savory. Think quiche or deep dish pizza. The Federweisser that she mentioned is grape must, unfinished wine. Very close to juice but already starting to ferment. The combination is awesome. But the onions and yeast combined turn the bowels into a rocket engine, for some people.
Great reaction again 😮 greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
And Germany
Grüße aus Basel 🇨🇭👋❤🇦🇹🇩🇪
Wo aus Österreich???
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@@79Testarossi nice ich war original 1 mal in Graz leider hab ich außer eurem Stadion nicht viel zu sehen bekommen. Aber das möchte ich irgendwann mal nachholen.
I was sure Frankfurter Kranz would be on there -
and Apfelstrudel as well.
cheesecakes are yummy - and you can vary them s lot!
No Bienenstich, also...
Zwiebelkuchen is also very tasty
but then you really have to love onions XD
a very important information is, that this cakes at the weekends are generally hommemades. Me and my family, our relatives, our neighbours and my friends we bake this cakes at home - without ready-made store-bought cake mixes. When you make a walk at weekend in the neighbourhood, thats also an traditon at the weekend, you will often pass houses where a scent of a freshly baked cake emanates. And - quite honestly: such a cake is ready super quickly!
If you want to try the Baumkuchen (the tree cake) from a bakery instead of a supermarket version you need to go to Salzwedel in Germany. But be prepared that it is very expensive xD A cake that size could easily cost 50 bucks or more, depending on where you buy it. But it is waaaay better than the store bought version xD
And don't cut it like in the video!🙄
There is a video here on YT about the Original Salzwedler Baumkuchen.
Oh yes, I love it, preferably with icing and not with chocolate, as my uncle or great-aunt used to bring it with them when they went to West Germany. 😋
What size? you mean like the one shown in the video. Those are usually 300g or 400g.
A cake of that size costs around 14€ at the Salzwedler Baumkuchen GmbH or about 2 to 3 times the amount you pay for the ones at the super market, which is actually quite normal.
@@maximilianmaier3950 oh you're right, it is only 300 grams.. it looked way bigger.. i always thought those supermarket things are about 1kg xD the 300g single ring you can buy at the bakery you mentioned looks so much smaller than the store bought version.. i guess it's much denser then
@@sorvahr8761 actually no, the bakery one is even lighter and much more delicious. Looks can be really deceiving especially on pictures. The hole in the middle of the bakery cake already has a much larger diameter than the store bought ones.
You can almost fit an entire supermarket Baumkuchen inside the Salzwedel baumkuchen
I'm German and this is actually a tradition in my family. Every single sunday my grandmother bakes a good old original Schwarzwälder Torte (black forest cake) and we go to visit her. The whole family is there and we laugh, talk and eat. I love sundays.
My father always wanted Königskuchen ( The king's cake). 1 pound of flour and 1 pound of raisins ( soaked overnight in rum).
Onion cake is amazing. You should really try it as there are a lot of variations that are propably easy to make at home. Just don`t expect it to be sweet like a traditional cake. It is a savory dish.
Also "Gugelhupf" is usually used for all cakes of that shape not for a certain recipe.
9:18: " it looks like a part for your car. " Laughing and i thought the same. Crying by laughing.
I love the Christmas time in Germany ,with the beautifull lights inside and outside . Everything is so colorfully decorated.I always bake a Christmas Stollen from yeast dough or a Honey cake traditionally at Christmas time which is very delicious baking it yourself always tastes best.🥪🍪💕🙂
For your information, german chocolate cake is not from germany. If I remember correctly, the "german" in its name comes from the last name of the inverter for that particular baking mixture.
she forgot the „Donauwelle“ Donau-wave, which is my really favourite. I buy that once a week deepfrozen. This badboy is really from another universe ;)
It's about Kuchen not about Torte.😁 She mentioned that she made another vid about multi layered cakes. The Donauwelle is in there.
Oh Yeah! Savory Onion Cake and young wine. Love that stuff.😋
Greeting from southwest germany.
Hello! I'm from Dresden :) I love our Stollen! Usually the bakeries make the Stollen around August or September and then the Stollen "rests" until December. It is reeeelly sweet. My Mum has friends in Denver and tried to send Stollen twice but they never got it :/
You can buy 1kg (~2,2 lbs) or 2kg (~4,4 lbs) or a half of the Stollen. Last year the price for 1kg Stollen was about 20 to 30 euros/dollar
Kaffee und Kuchen is at 3 PM (usually), as it would be to late to do it at 8 pm if you wanna sleep during the night xD
Zwiebelkuchen counts more like a main dish.
Ryan, when we lived in Germany, 1957 - 1974, the big meal in Germany is at lunch. Wives spend the morning cleaning house and preparing the hot meal of the day. Her husband comes home from work or from the store at lunch and enjoys the hot meal. At larger plants, where the people can't go home for lunch, hot meals are served to the employees.
After her husband goes back to work, and the dishes are washed his wife puts on a good dress, and goes downtown to meet her friends. Together they go window shopping or, do actual shopping. Between 3 and 4, they then go to a Conditorei - a specialty bakery that only makes cakes and tortes, and serves tea or coffee.
This is a place you have to visit. Put on your drool napkin and get ready to be amazed at the assortment of gorgeous tortes that are being offered.
They are all freshly made every day from the very best ingredients. Master bakers demonstrate their skills, and the competition between various conditoreis is fierce.
In the evening, "dinner" consists of cold cuts, various cheeses, a beer or maybe tea.
Then it's time to open a bottle of wine, fill our wine glasses, turn on the TV, and enjoy your evening.
until the late 1990's (when my Grandpa died) we had obligatory Kaffe-und-Kuchen every Sunday at 3.30 pm - 3 generations (later 4) at one table. We had to dress nicely and be on time! My Grandma made the cakes herself till she was near 80 years old, often it was "trockener Kuchen" like Marmorkuchen, Zitronenkuchen or Kirsch/-Schokokuchen vom Blech, sometimes Torte (cakes with cream or fillings) like Dobostorte, Donauwellen or Erdbeerkuchen. We also had fresh Salzkipfle (hearty croissant-like bakery with caraway) and butter and Zwiebelkuchen in fall. I never was able to reproduce her bakings despite having nearly all her recipes. But the best thing was to meet the family regularly. Oh, how I miss these family reunions...
Loved this video just like the rest of them. And you, Ryan, are simply just so lovely and likeable! I love how enthusiastic you get about all things German.
I almost expected Bienenstich (Bee sting cake) to be in this video. Really delicious!
Gugelhupf is a yeasted yeasted cake. This lady is showing homebakers ' favorites that are more everyday cakes. Sunday is usually where the fancy cakes come on the table.
"Coffee & cake time" is not just for sundays but just the german version of the english tea time often just a little earlier & many have it on daily basis.
Onion Cake is the best! ♥
Today is a holiday in Germany ... so I made cake! But a different one ... with wine, marmelade, 4 layers (2x cacao pudding, 2x vanilla pudding), roasted almonds as cover ... was great! :)
I recommend a coffee and cake break as often as possible (despite I am not drinking coffee 😂) - German cakes are really amazing.
When I think about tray cakes, I think of old people "partys" or funerals. But in fact, u can find tray cakes in every bakery and u can never go wrong with them.
Onion cake is the goddess of warm cakes. Sometimes with bacon, salty, spicy and absolute fantastic
Ryan, it is always fun to see you! Thank you!
We had coffee and cake every day when my father came home from work. Later in the afternoon (16:30 - 17:00). We then sat together and talked about the day and other things. The daily newspaper was also read and discussed.
My mother baked a fresh cake every 2 days (the rest was then frozen) or sometimes made delicious waffles. And if there was no time for it, there were delicious cookies for coffee (or tea).
It looks like a part for your car🤣🤣🤣 how I love your comments Ryan, you and your family HAVE to visit us here in Germany, it`s a MUST🥰
My mother makes a really great Lachstorte (Salmon Cake). Which is basically flatbread with cream cheese, horseradish, smoked salmon and other stuff on top. Maybe not a traditional cake but very tasty.
I remember attending a "Zwiebelkuchenfest" = onion cake festival. The cake was baked on the spot in a huge tent. It was delicious, but you smell like a grilled, baked and cooked onion for the next two weeks..... It is held in the region around Freiburg, South Germany.
My grandma was baking every single day and we had coffee and cake every day at 3pm
😂it’s always good to watch food videos, when you’re starving…🤣short before licking the screen
Do you have the 'tradition' of young wine - still fermenting, still bubbling like beer - in the US? It's called Federweisser here and other European countries have this as well. At the time of the year when this process of wine making is running, several restaurants announce the availability of this seasonal product by showing decorated bushes in front of their venues.
Onion cake is a very traditional dish going along with Federweisser - they fit perfectly! Onion cake is often served still a bit warm and the Federweisser has to be chilled - great combination 👍
3 pm . Sir, not 8 pm
i was (mentally) yelling this each time he mentioned time! he's human, he missed it!
the regional differences are worth exploring ry-dawg. munich vs the ruhr vs berlin, rural vs metro etc. same with your aussie videos. hmu if you want some suggestions for more "colloquial" aussie youtube channels to react to.
thanks mate!
Imagine Ryan misunderstanding too many information of the videos. Then he visits Germany for the first time and is like "Guys it is 8pm where is your cake and coffee, I am ready for a long night"
Zwiebelkuchen (Onion cake) and Federweißer (Fresh made wine, bubbly because the fermentation is in full progress, and sweet) together not only taste good, but will also make you fart like you never farted before ;)
German here!
I absolutely LOVE the onion cake/zwiebelkuchen, or Flammkuchen. i've never seen such a huge one myself, but no i wanna try make one.
I live in the western region but have been visiting the south of germany plenty of times in my life, so i adapted the tradition of onion cakes and love it. it's super easy to make and i like keep telling myself its more healthy like a cake or a pizza :D
i like the low version, 2-3 cm high, cube chopped onions, small pieces of Bacon, salt, pepper, sour cream and caraway mixed together, put it on a thin pizza dough and bake it like one in the oven.
some use cheese as topping, i dont.
A recipe for onion cake:
Base: a yeast dough like for pizza.
Filling: 1.5 cups of sour cream, 3 eggs and lots of sliced onions.
Fry the sliced onions in a pan until they turn glass-like.
Then mix the sour cream and the eggs, add the onions, season with salt and pepper and caraway to taste. You might also add some crumbled ham, some regions do so.
Put the pizza dough in a spring form, as bottom and as side wall. Fill in the creamy onions. Bake at 180 degree Celsius /350 Fahrenheit. A very delicious and healthy main meal.
The special thing about "Baumkuchen" ("tree cake") is how it's made. Basically think of a cylinder, slowly rotating close to a fire. Pour a kind of thin pancake batter over it, as littly as necessary to prevent the batter from dripping but to bake it. The cake gets one layer thicker with every turn forming these visible "tree rings".
Nowadays stainless steel cylinders are used instead of wooden ones, in a specialized bakery instead of in front of the home cooking fire. Only very view backeries do that, partly because of the labor-intensive process and because of the dangerous mixture of open fire and flour at the same place.
I need you to react to Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte or Donauwelle. These are the real god tier cakes.
Bumkuchen is made in a VERY specific way and no simple bakery would buy the tools needed, as it gets very complicated. There are a few traditionl Baumkuchen bakeries that packge and deliver for the entire country
She missed to mention the Schwarzwaldkuchen of Blackforest cake that is originated in Germany but I think she will menstion it in her next video "Germantorten". Ryan please follow her next video. Thanks.
It's not just on sunday. My parents have the luxury to both work at home, so they make there 'Kaffepause' (Coffee break) a "Kaffe und Kuchen Zeit" at around 3 pm wherever possible. That wasn't the case when I lived there, since back then my dad worked somewhere else. But now, whenever I'm there, I notice that we do it almost daily.
Look up the "Schwarzwälder/Schwarzwaelder Kirschtorte"
Schwarzwälder Kisrchzorte=best cake
@@wondermouse4398 It's not a cake = Kuchen but a Torte = Gateau. A Kuchen is not layered.
@@NellsTravelKitchen you really had to do this?
Zwiebelkuchen is the best and a must have in fall season. Just baked it myself for my birthday party 😂
When she said Gugelhupf can be also called other names and than said Rodon, I remembered how my grandma had a small high round form from porcelain out for decoration in her kitchen on the wall calling it "Gugelhupf-Form" and she said Rodon and Gugelhupf are not the same since her cake form for a Rodon is way larger and a bit more flat. The difference also was the form she used for Rodon was more like a spring form wich means 2 pieces of metal while the Gugelhupf form is only 1 piece. My grandma baked the Rodon multiple times a year so thats besides cheesecake the cake I had the most. But for cheesecake we only ever had a frozen cake since my grandma thought it wasn't worth it to bake a cheesecake yourself
It is very common in Germany, when you visit your family members or friends, you arrive between 3 and 4 pm and start with some coffee and cake. Not only on sundays.
I have only once come across a bakery that sells "Baumkuchen". They only sold smal pieces and they were expensive, but delicious. You could also watch then bake the cake on like a pike, turning over the heat. To my understanding, they need to bake all those layers individually. For most bakerys it is way too expensive to make.
Yes, making Baumkuchen is a very time consuming task and you also can't make it with normal Bakery equipment. You need a special apparatus to make it.
That's why bakeries that do make Baumkuchen pretty much only make Baumkuchen and nothing else, while for normal Bakeries, it wouldn't be reasonable to start making Baumkuchen at all.
She explained "Baumkuchen" (number 8.) insufficient. It consists of dozens of layers that are baked over each other. You start with one layer, bake it, apply the next layer, bake it, and so on. In the end you have that cake. The whole in the middle comes from the pin used to rotate the cake.
My favorite is missing. Bienenstich (Bee sting) made with a layer dough, vanilla cream another layer dough and a topping of almonds & sugar.
You don't buy cake at the grocery stores. You go to a cake shop, cafe, bakery ... in Germany.
Fun Fact: The second one, marble cake is an absolut child's cake. When I was a kid, there was one at nearly every child's birthday.
Usually German cheese cake is made with Quark and not cream cheese. Quark is more fluffy than cream cheese and therfore, the cake is too. :)
She did not mention one of my favorit cakes: Bienenstich (bee sting), a very soft and and sweet cake with almonds and honey. In Thuringia you may find some cakes like Schneewittchenkuchen (Snow White cake) which is made with cherries and light and dark batter (quote from the fairytale "The girl should be red like blood, white like snow and dark like ebony.", LPG-Kuchen (Agricultural Production Cooperative cake) which is topped with to layers, Leibniz style butter cookies dipped in Rum and over that a rich chocolate frosting (symbolising the small "fields" making "one cake" = the cooperatively used farmland), and Mooskuchen (moss cake) which has a dark batter with fresh whipped egg white sprinkled with coffee powder which turnes the egg white green after some minutes.
Since my childhood in the 80s we had every day at 3pm coffetime, not only on sunday.