Cakes & Tortes

Fresh plums and buttery streusel make this easy traditional German Plum Cake an easy and delicious dessert!

Using simple pantry ingredients, this cake is easy to whip up for a spontaneous afternoon Kaffee und Kuchen!

These easy dump cake recipes are guaranteed crowd pleasers!

The easiest chocolate dessert to satisfy your sweet tooth craving! All you need are 2 simple ingredients and 1 minute.

This 3-layer German Apple Streusel Cake is easy, beautiful, and absolutely delicious!

If you love honey and almonds, you’ll swoon over German Bee Sting Cake (Bienenstich). This traditional German treat has two layers of yeast cake, a vanilla cream filling, and a crunchy gooey honey almond topping. If you’re looking for an easy authentic German dessert that will fly off your cake plate, this is it!

Cake decorating is something that seems like it would be difficult to do but really isn’t. And it can be so much fun. As long as you have the right tools and some creativity, decorating your own cake can be easy. No more need to rely on grocery stores to provide special occasion cakes! I …

We all love a tender, moist, scrumptious cake, whether for a wedding, birthday, or just an afternoon at the nearby coffee shop — a slice of cake makes a special day more memorable, and an ordinary day a whole lot brighter. However, the magic isn’t just in the perfect taste. It’s spiced up even more …

An easy and delicious no bake Estonian Cookie Cake with chocolate and strawberry, perfect for summer!

  One thing I always look forward to when I go to Germany? Cake! Germany has the best cakes. So many different and while I prefer some over others, they’re all basically delicious. And different from many of the cakes that are typical in the US. So I thought I’d share some cakes with you …

An Australian favorite in an easy roll cake form!

This tres leches ghost cake is an updated vintage cake recipe perfect for Halloween. Don’t want the ghost shape? Make the tres leches cake in a rectangular pan. This cake is delicious, no matter what shape it’s in! Raise your hand if you had the Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls when you were a …

Bûche de Noël (Yule Log Cake) is my kind of dessert. It’s is a beautiful French Christmas cake that looks impressive but is actually very easy to make!  I’ve made made Bûche de Noël before but I’ve never made one with meringue mushrooms, so I decided to give it a try. It’s worth the effort …