Cakes

Christstollen is a fruitcake made from yeast dough, butter, raisins, almonds, candied citron and candied orange peel. It has an almost bread-like consistency and is a wonderful staple of traditional German Christmas baking.

Here is my Mom's recipe for Christstollen. It is less sweet than the Stollen you may be able to find in stores.

A sponge cake filled with chunks of pumpkin, and covered with a pumpkin-and-cream icing.

For our son's birthday, I made an apple cake. This recipe for a "sunken" apple cake ("Versunkener Apfelkuchen" in German) is from my Mom. This cake is simple to prepare, tastes great and is best with sweet apples like Golden Delicious. Fortunately, we have an apple tree in the backyard.