# Germany's favourite cakes and tortes

The cakes and tortes Germans love most for 'Kaffee und Kuchen', according to bakery trade surveys and top lists. Cheesecake comes first.

- 5 votes · 13 items
- Mar 4, 2025 · Carina Herrmann
- https://even.best/en/l/157/germany-s-favourite-cakes-and-tortes

## Top 12

1. **Black Forest gateau** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Chocolate sponge, cherries, cream and kirsch: THE German torte.
2. **Apfelkuchen** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Covered, with crumble or as 'sunken' apple cake.
3. **Streuselkuchen** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sheet cake with butter crumble, especially in Silesia and Saxony.
4. **Frankfurter Kranz** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sponge ring with buttercream, cherry jam and brittle.
5. **Marmorkuchen** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Bundt cake of plain and chocolate batter, the Sunday classic.
6. **Käsekuchen** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Quark filling on shortcrust, Germans' favourite cake.
7. **Bienenstich** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'Bee sting' yeast cake with almond-honey crust and vanilla cream.
8. **Donauwelle** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Marble sheet cake with cherries, buttercream and chocolate glaze.
9. **Zwetschgenkuchen** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Plums on yeast dough with cream; 'Zwetschgendatschi' in Bavaria.
10. **Butterkuchen** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — North German yeast sheet cake with butter, sugar and almonds.
11. **Rhubarb meringue cake** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spring cake with tart rhubarb and a meringue top.
12. **Prinzregententorte** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bavarian torte of seven thin sponge layers with chocolate buttercream.
13. **Eierschecke** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Saxon sheet cake with quark and custard layers from Dresden.

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