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German Apple Cake or Pie?

  • My husband's grandparens (deceased) came to the US from Germany. My husband constantly yearns for an apple pie/cake that his grandmother used to make. He recalls her rolling a dough or pie like crust onto a cookie sheet and lining it with apples in rows. They had it every christmas. I have showed him the recipe for German Apple Christmas Cake and he says that is not it. I assume it was a german recipe because they cooked all german foods. I would love to make it for him and his mother if anyone has any idea what it could have been!! Perhaps it was even just a "poor mans version" of the apple christmas cake? Any ideas?

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    This sounds like a yeast cake with apple slices. There's a similar recipe at http://www.quick-german-recipes.com/crumb-cake-recipes.html that's easy without using yeast. It has a streusel or crumb topping. For another delicious German apple cake that's easy and so pretty, try http://www.quick-german-recipes.com/german-apple-cake-recipe.html . For more German recipes that are easy to duplicate, see the website below. Perhaps you could surprise your husband with a complete German meal of rouladen, red cabbage, and potato dumplings before bringing on the apple cake :-) Or have him help in the kitchen???? Guten Appetit!

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Nothing German.

Allysa

I found these, although not german but they use cookie sheets. Although I know that anything won't ever be exactly the same as a Grandmother's recipe but maybe you can get close. http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Cookie-Sheet-Apple-Pie http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1937,149182-253202,00.html http://www.dvo.com/recipe_pages/taste/Cookie_Sheet_Apple_Pie.html

Silvertones

Maybe Apple Strudel or Apfelstreusel-Kuchen ... Show him this: http://www.germanfoodguide.com/sweets-cakes.cfm http://www.quick-german-recipes.com/crumb-cake-recipes.html http://germanfood.about.com/od/introtogermanfood/u/Traditional-German-Recipes.htm#s5 Germans (especially grandmothers) often make yeast risen cakes.

Juana

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Your neighbor

could be apple kuchen. If it had a custard like filling on the apples and cinnamon as well thats what it could be. The thing with us Germans, whether we are directly from Germany or came by way of Russia first is, we are an inventive lot and she might have taken a couple of traditional recipes and whipped up a version of her own. I also wouldn't worry about what kind of pan or cookie sheet it was made on. That can also be changed depending on how many she was baking for or is that was the only pan she had available. Some recipes are family specific. My own family make kuchen and I have never tasted or seen kuchen made in just that way anywhere else. No recipe book has it the way my grandma and aunts and mother made it. Luckily, my daughters and I all make it like that too as I learned how at my mothers knee. Good luck looking for that recipe.

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