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Deliciously moist and with raw apples. You need to bake this German dessert asap! Easy German Apple Cake, also known as Apfelkuchen in German, prepared with raw harvest time apples. This is a traditional recipe is authentic and from my region Tyrol Austria and Bavaria Germany. Easy German Apple Cake Recipe – Apfelkuchen Dessert just the way your Oma made it. What is the German Apple Cake?
To prepare the German apple cake, a dough is mixed together and the apples are cut and placed on top of the cake before being baked. This is the fundamental difference to say a French apple cake. The German Apple Cake, as the name indicates comes from the central European region. To be more precise the apple cake, aka Apfelkuchen is a Bavarian German dessert AND an Austrian cake. Bavaria and the touching Austrian regions have everything in common. Apple varieties Apples are the main harvest in September and October besides other local tree fruits such as pears and plums.
In those two months, you end up eating more apple desserts than ever! We grow a lot of different apple tree variations, it’s hard to put a number on paper. Most farmers have an apple tree, most people have a house and a garden with apple trees growing. Apple trees are to Bavaria and the alpine regions in Austria and Switzerland, what maple trees are to Canadians! The list of apple varieties in English is super small compared to the extensive list of apples in German which includes the regional German dialect names as well. This alone is an indication that we have a huge cultivar of apple varieties in central Europe. In fact, the garden association promotes grafting of lesser known, almost extinct varieties of apples.
My dad grafted over 5 apple varieties on one young tree, that way we get to taste different apples! Therefore, you have to understand, the choice of apples for this German apple cake is of minor importance. People use what’s in the garden. People rarely go to buy apples in villages because they can get apples from their local farmer or the neighbors gave them apples. I personally I love my apple cake with a sour apple variety because I don’t like my cake overly sweet. Which apple you pick is up to you and you get to control your cakes outcome that way! Ingredients To prepare a traditional apple cake, you will need only a few basic ingredients.
