German Recipes

All the recipes on this page are either classic German recipes or inspired by the German kitchen. I’ve lived in beautiful Bavaria for many years, and love to cook and eat good German food.

Speculaas Dutch Spice Cookies
Classic German Cheesecake käsekuchen with fresh fruit
Plum Cinnamon Streusel Cake
German Dominosteine Chocolates Title Card.
Flammkuchen German Pizza
A plate of Vanillekipferl or Vanilla crescent cookies surrounded by Christmas decorations, walnuts, clementines and a candle.
Red Currant Crumble Cake
Title card for Spitzbuben, showing cut out unbaked spitzbuben cookies on a tray and completed spitzbuben.
Bee Sting Cake Title Card
The best oktoberfest recipes title card showing Oktoberfest roast Chicken and Bavarian pretzels.
Peaches and Cream Cake
Red Currant Crumble Cakes
Easy German Apple Cake
German Cinnamon Star Cookies zimtsterne.
Eierlikör Linzer Cookies Title Card.
Zigeuner Schnitzel or Gypsy Schnitzel on a plate served with french fries and a glass of beer
Blueberry Streusel Cake Title Card.
Real Bavarian Roast Pork
German Potato Dumplings Title Card.
Quarkbällchen German Donut Holes title card.
Black Forest Cherry Cake
Marillenknödel Apricot Dumplings Title Card.
German Christmas Stollen Title card showing two pictures of Stollen.
Buchteln German Sweet Dumplings filled with fresh cherries and served with vanilla sauce
Fried Apple Rings Title Card.
German Käse-Sahne Torte on a cake stand.
Obaztda is a delicious Bavarian Beer and Cheese Spread, perfect for picnics, the beer garden, or for lining your stomach before you start on that litre of beer - and it is super easy to make at home!
Homemade marzipan title card.
Spinach and Ricotta Dumplings
German Nut Plait Nusszopf Nußzopf
German Braised Red Cabbage title card.
Authentic German Beef Rouladen title card.
Eierlikörtorte Advocaat Cake
German style Gingerbread hearts
Wurstsalat or Sausage salad title card.
German Nut Corners Nussecken Title Card.
Asparagus with Sauce Hollandaise
Real Bavarian Pork Schnitzel Title Card
Homemade Bavarian Pretzels Title Card.
German Butter Cake or Butterkuchen Title Card
Authentic German Apple Strudel
German Sauerbraten recipe card.
Bavarian Potato Salad
German Strawberry Cake or Erdbeerkuchen is made from a heavenly combination of soft sponge cake, creamy vanilla custard, and fresh spring strawberries,