The "german" choclate cake is totally unknown in Germany. The name of the inventor was "German"

Zwiebelkuchen / Onion cake is absolute god-tier. Just disregard the 'cake' part, that's just german humour.

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!_

You absolutely have to watch the second part from this Lady. Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, Sachertorte, Eierlikörtorte, Schokosahnetorte, ... You know the deal... 🤤 Greetings from Germany.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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!

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?

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.

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)

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 😄👻

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.

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"

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

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.

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...

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.

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.🙃

What about "Frankfurter Kranz" , "Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte", "Bienenstich" , "Herrensahne" and "Donauwellen"? Or "Windbeutel"? I have to stop here, I'm getting hungry.

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

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.

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 😉

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...

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 !

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 🇦🇹

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

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 ;)

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

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"

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.

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.