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My grandfather Alden used to make this every holiday family get together. We loved it so much as kids that he used to make each of us our own Kuchen to take home. Kuchen is a German sweet bread that comes in a lot of different forms. There are a ton of different ways to make it, but this is my family’s traditional recipe. I’m surprising my brother with this for thanksgiving this year since we haven’t had it in a very long time. I tried the recipe a couple weeks ago to make sure I got it right and it took me way back with instant unlocked memories from my childhood. I halved the sugar cinnamon topping because the first time I made it, it had way too much sugar on top and I dumped a bunch of loose sugar off that was just sitting on top. If you decide to make this recipe let me know! I’m always interested to know what other people think about it.
TripUpStairs
It's really sweet that you made one for your brother.
gentledruid
This looks very interesting. Usually in Germany we translate Kuchen with cake and its usually not made out of bread so this is very interesting to me, that it got that name though its bread.
Yupurineutah
mit Kaffee?
msjparrish2
This looks simple AND delicious!!! I'm trying it!! Thank u
WisconsinHome
Thank you, I’ve been looking for German recipes lately
gentledruid
If you would like some I could try finding the ones you want.
WisconsinHome
Thank you! Sauerbraten and jagerschnitzel are favorites
Laser2000
I hope that's not too disappointing to you but "Kuchen" is just the german word for cake, not bread :) If you have a fancy one and you put some cream on it: it would become a "Torte". Both Kuchen and Torte would translate to english as cake. Even though I'm unsure how "pie" is fitting into that. You might know tho.
jwillustrat
I didn’t know that. This one is made with frozen bread dough so I’ve always seen it as a sweet bread rather than cake.
Laser2000
That makes sense. I don't think there is a precise line between bread and cake bc Kuchen can be anything that is fancy, baked and made out of some kind of flour (most of the time sweet but sometimes also savory) so tbh: Call it however you like, the important thing is to bake it, love it and share it, so feel free to ignore my overexplaining comment. It's an interesting recipe, I never seen anyone base Kuchen on bread dough. Which kind of bread dough would you use for it? Like a yeast one?
jwillustrat
It took me a while to find the right bread dough since the recipe only says “frozen bread dough” I found a bagged frozen white bread dough at the grocery store. It’s got yeast so it does have to rise twice before baking. I don’t know a whole lot about baking so excuse me if I get any explanations wrong. The milk and sugar mixture in the recipe makes a kind of custardish topping that’s really thick and creamy in spots. Then cinnamon and sugar on top for some added crunch.
gentledruid
You know this reminds me of a desert in Germany we call Ofenschlupfer (translades roughly to slips into the oven) it uses old bread cut into slices and then just interchamge layers of them and apple slices and douse them innthe same mixture you have there and bake it. Its different but it reminds me
Laser2000
Makes sense, I mean sourdough would probably taste weird in that context (and there's also yeast involved in that so my question is a bit dumb in hinsight) It reminds me a bit of "Arme Ritter" which wiki says is just "French Toast" in english. I'm not sure about French Toast but Arme Ritter is often made with a similar mix of cinnamon, milk, eggs etc. Very similar base ingredients, slightly different procedure in making it. Having said all of that: I'm also no expert in baking. Enjoy the kuchen!
gentledruid
I am also wondering it sounds like a mixture of Arme Ritter or Dampfnudeln. Or even Ofenschlupfer.