German Cakes look AMAZING (American reaction)
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german chocolate cake isn’t from germany, it was invented by a man called german
True, but almost EVERY American thinks, it came originally from Germany... I mean, at first it was called "Baker Germans Chocolate Cake", the Baker got lost and here we are, confusing every ordinary American
@@voldavkuk hey, at least hamburgers aren't that confusing
@@HappyBeezerStudios Hamburg is also the capital of McDonalds. 😉😅
Yes. Samuel German
If you are looking for a great chocolate cake, search for french chocolate cake
The American German chocolate cake doesn't come from Germany, but is named after American baker Samuel German. ;)
Ich bin Deutsche und weiß nicht, was "deutsche Schokolade" sein soll.
@@eva3414 ??? lies den Satz richtig
I am so sad she didn’t mentioned Donauwelle… my grandma used to make them and they are so good
Me, as a Grandma, have to make them so often... My family loves them, too
Oh yeah, Donauwellen taste so very good!
Actually, I am making a Donauwelle for a potluck next week! Love this cake!!!❤❤❤
@@craigwestbrook8932 time and place, pkease!
Donauwelle, best cake ever ❤
The Dessert fork isnt sharp, its just thicker, so you dont deform it😅
In my country, it's often sharp, so it can cut through marzipan or thick "frosting" without deforming the whole pastry.
I have some sharp dessert forks at home, probably from my grandma. Nowadays, the dessert forks are just smaller forks. I don‘t even think they are thicker.
Cakes and tarts are often made by hand in Germany and do not come from industry. The range goes from sheet cakes topped with apples or plums. Also layer cakes or cream cakes. Marzipan, quark cake, chocolate, there are many variations. But also hearty variants such as tarte flambée through to pizza.
The many German regions and neighboring countries have produced a great diversity.
In the north of Germany, tea is preferred, while coffee is popular in the center and south.
This is probably due to the fact that in history the Turkish troops came just before Vienna.
In the north trade with England brought tea.
True... Handmade
North German Cities rather use coffee.
Meeehh. it really depends. These Days alot of Bakeries getting their Cakes frozen
@@Wildcard71Except for East Friesland.
@@MrVyse People rather make their own Cake, sometimes when you forget to bake or yoou are short on time, you do get to the Bakery to get some Cake, but this is rare.
I know this becouse I live there.
Yes, Kaffeeklatsch is absolutely what women in Germany do over their coffee and cake. It's part of the fun of meeting in the afternoon to have some time to relax and chat.
In addition, the Latte Machiato mothers have been around for years
I'm from Slovenia, we have the same ritual of coffee and cake every day! I bring some cake from the supermarket or bake something by miself and eat it in the afternoon with my mom and sister.
For my grandma it's a fixed appointement in her social calendar; men go the "Stammtisch" and women meet for "Kaffeeklatsch".
@@ninkazajc I just checked Slovenia's cakes,.. THEY ARE VEEEEEEEEERY NICE !!!!
@@aw3s0me12 jap, our pastry and cakes are delicious! Potica it's the most tipical, with a lot of different fillings, flavours! In our home, the most baked it's strudel, you know it right? 🤤 so simple but so yummy!
Have a nice day!😄
The sharp edge is sharp enough to cut cake, but not sharp enough to cut meat. It's perfectly safe.
People always want to have something for every shit they can buy. Eat cake with a normal fork that you already have? Much too simple! No you need an extra fork! Very important. If you can not buy something for absolutely everything then people do not care.
@@vomm The cake fork is quit smaller than a regular fork. Also the one edge is bigger, so backward in times the material (mostly silver) was softer and so the bigger egde wont bend while separating a piece from the cake. Also the bigger edge often has a little spike on top wich was made for picking up raisins (as seen on 4:43).
@ I did not say that there are no differences but that it is unnecessary. You can eat a cake with a spoon without problems. No one needs a special fork for cake.
@vomm you must be fun to be around while eating cake
@@vomm : You can also eat with your hands, on the table then you could say that cutlery and plates are "unnecessary" ... they are still useful. Same for the dessert fork as some crusts are hard to break with a normal fork, you might then need a knife or a dessert fork.
And it's not because you don't know any cake that might need a dessert fork or a fork and a knife that they don't exist. 😁
Little fact: American "German cake" is not German, but was invented in America by a guy called Samuel German.
Well that's something Samuel German should have considered earlier when he imprinted a truly American cake lol
German Cake is an american cake invented by a guy named Samuel German. It has nothing to do with Germany. :)
It's called german because there are germs in it
You get vegan cake and food nowadays almost everywhere, maybe not in small villages, but not only in Berlin and it’s not a niche thing anymore…
Auch schon auf dem Dorf, bei uns in der Südpfalz 😊
She forgot the beloved German cheesecake
There was a cheescake in the video but not a traditional firm one but cheese cream cake ( that is cheaper).
Her explanation of the difference between Torte (tart) and Kuchen (cake) is not quite correct. Torte: only the batter/dough is baked, everything else is put into/onto it after baking. Kuchen: everything is baked in the oven. So, there is a difference between an Obsttorte and an Obstkuchen. Obst is a generic term for fruit (apple, pear, peach, cherry...).
Kaffee und Kuchen was a big part of family gatherings for me. We met up at my uncle's and aunt's, or (during that time they were still able to) my grandma's or great-grandma's. We had coffee, but being from northern Germany most importantly black tea. We usually had simple sheet cakes but occasionally my aunt whipped out some chocolate or marzipan cake. The Kaffee und Kuchen events were also how I got to my great-grandma's apple cake recipe, and I got later honoured by being asked by her to make it for her 100th birthday, because I was the great-grandchild that "inherited it the best"
Coffee and Cake is essential in german house holds. You can have it at home, at cafes, at your friends house, mostly at sundays but other days of the week are fine too. Sometimes family or friends come to your house with a selfmade cake just for coffee, cake and a "Kaffeeklatsch". This visits are spontaneous sometimes but who would send someone away when he brought a cake!?
I also saw it a view times, but not often, if there is a party (like birthdays in my parent's generation) which started in the evening you just have a coffee and cake at midnight.
on newyear, at midnight we always had first some drink to toast, followed by Pfannkuchen (which some people call "Berliner") with a cup of coffee.
Don't tell me you never heard of a Kuchengabel or dessert fork?😂
Or „Tortenheber“ ^^
@@xxcu83xxxx4 or Gebäckzange
And isn't table spoon in the USA,
tea spoon in GB and
coffee spoon in GER?
Only restaurants are open on a Sunday in Germany so there’s time for family and friends in the afternoon. It’s just sociable and fun to have coffee and cake. Most people don’t eat a hot meal in the evening. Dinner is Abendbrot in German and means evening bread. People usually have bread with cheese/meat bread toppings. Therefore it’s no big deal to have cake in between. Kindergartens, schools and clubs have open days and events and they usually ask people to bring homemade cake to sell there with coffee.
Not only restaurants but coffee shops and cafes are open on Sundays.
@@grandmak. And corner shops, museums, petrol stations, theatres, concert halls, libraries depending where you are.
And up north in the coastal regions of Schleswig-Holstein supermarkets and regular shops are free to open every day of the week. This is called "Die Bäder Regelung" (the bath rule) 😅
@@grandmak. in the cities yes. Smaller places not
@@hightidemidafternoon Living in the Baltic Sea area I can confirm that.
@@scarba Sorry but I used to run a little cafe in a village of 2600 inhabitants and we were open on Sundays - that was actually the most popular day for our business. The same for cafes in surrounding villages. ( Landcafe / Hofcafe ).
Europe is mostly Coffee, think of all the Italian coffee varieties (Espresso, Macchiato, Cappuccino,..) and how French love a cup of coffee with a croissant for breakfast or Spaniards with their Churros.
I think only England is predominantly tea.
Usually American cake is very similar to British cake; a bit more cake than filling, often biscuit dough and if there is filling, it’s buttercream.
German cake has more filling per dough and even if they use buttercream it’s lighter and therefore moister.
Also cheesecake is probably originally German but there is is done with Quark and has more protein and less fat than the American double cream cheese version.
Asia is the tea continent
Honestly, "Kaffeeklatsch" is something everyone does during coffee break.
German cake has nothing to do with Germany^^ It is named after Samuel German (1802-1888). It is funny that nobody knows that in the states^^
When I grew up my mom made Cake for "Kaffee und Kuchen" every single day around 3 or 4 pm. Not only on Sundays. And this cake always was made from scratch - never bought in a store....It's definitely a very german thing.
that sounds not very healthy tho
German Chocolate Cake is named after Samuel German (an American) who invented the cake.
just too clarify the "German choclate cake" confusion: (source wikipedia) "German chocolate cake, originally German's chocolate cake, is a layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. Originating in the United States, it owes its name to an English-American chocolate maker named Samuel German".
so, no german-guy and no germany involved.
Vegan cafe - „ooh she doesnt even use eggs“
Rly Ryan?
Well in the beginning of veganitism (?) most of the people were lacto-ovo-vegetarians and only very few 100% vegan.
I like how Ryan on purpose always mentions german cake to raise the amount of comments saying it is from Samuel German not germany. ;-)
Was it the 4th or 5th time?
3:22 The Oreos got me.🤣
Yeah, put some of the most chemical tasting cookies in a cake and wonder why it tasts like oreo.
I have to agree. I have no idea what the Oreo hype is about, they have no real taste.
Where I live here in the States, there are a number of German bakeries where we can get various Kuchen and Torten. My favorite is actually Austrian, and it's called Papa Haydn's. I spend a lot of time in Germany, and no, they really don't have 'pies' as we know them, although a few Germans I know are very familiar with them, and sometimes bake them at home. But usually it's Kuchen. BTW, your video about 5 difficult German words to pronounce was hysterical. LOL! Try this one: Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften (Rechts-legal; schutz-protection; versicherung-insurance; gesellschaften-companies, so insurance companies that also provide legal protection services.)
Lots of people also drink tea. In the department I work in (with around 25 people), about 1/3 of them drink coffee every day, some of them 2-3x per day, the others don't drink coffee at all and half of them drink tea regularly, but not multiple times per day. So usually people who drink coffee drink more coffee than the amount of tea people drink if they drink tea; and I think outside, in cafés or to go, more people drink coffee
Du you live in England or something?
Yeah that Coffe and Cake culture is pretty widespread. My mom meets regularly with relatives for Coffee and cake at around 3pm-ish.
Yep and most times on saturday too
German chocolate cake is not German. We do not have this!
Tea is also a big thing in germany, but mostly in the north.
True, my North-Western German wife hates coffee but loves tea. As an Englishman in the UK, fresh strong ground coffee for me and never tea.
An important ingredience of the Black Forest gateau is Black Forest kirsch, a cherry brandy - but the cherries also within the gateau would rather be from the Kaiserstuhl (Emperor's chair) region at the western foots of the Black Forest.
The German chocolate cake is not from Germany, but was created by a guy called Samuel German.
And oh 'fruits on it' with cherries either drank with alc or sugar are not really 'fruits' anymore.
As you correctly guessed in the video, pies are not so common in Germany, instead the filling is typically rather spread on top of a cake (and sometimes sealed by another layer of dough). I'd say pies are rather considered a French thing with them being called tarte here 😅
I always loved the tea/coffee and cake afternoons at my grandma`s. It was always so nice when we all sat together , drank teaor coffee , ate grandma`s homemade cake and talked to each other a lot in a relaxed atmosphere had. It just tastes best at grandma`s💕🫖🥧
5:01 Luckily the „sharp“ edge isn’t exactly sharp like a knife. It‘s more like the cutting edge technology of a fish knife. Narrow enough to get you through your object of desire but wide enough so you don‘t cut yourself. 🙂
Happy 4th of July, Ryan and family. German cakes are very good, but they are not as sweet as they would be in the U.S. There is a difference.
My ignorance radar going over 9000 everytime an American goes on about German Chocolate Cake... 😫
It's not only going out for Kaffee und Kuchen, but it is also a big issue in family life. Every family celebration starts with coffe and cake in the afternoon. When we come together my daughters and nices will bring home made cake or torte. Before that it were my sisters and I, and before that my mother and her sisters in law. You see the pattern? Coffe and cake sometimes can come with sweet liquor such as Cointreau, Amaretto, or Baileys. As long no children are involved. In everyday life in our family it is standard to bake 1 cake at least once a week, certainly a simpler one like loaves or tray bake. Hope it's understandable, had to use the dictionary a few times...
the "sharp"edge on the small fork is just sharp enough to cut cake with, you wont cut your mouth on it
Dear Ryan. Do you actually ever read any of the comments? Because then you'd know, that German Chocolate Cake is not German at all, as already mentioned below and in previous vids on German food culture.
I still live at home with my parents and my brother and we have coffee time every day between 4:30 and 6 pm ☺️ sometimes we eat dinner first and then a coffee with a sweet treat like biscuits afterwards.. on the weekend a bake a cake from scratch that we eat between (late) breakfast and dinner 😍
Vegan hopping on here to clarify: just vegan doesn’t mean healthy guys. Vegan butter or normal butter, vegan cream or normal cream, sugar is the same … weird statement 😅
Yes. I still use the same amount of oil and sugar and carbs and all of the stuff which is labelled as „unhealthy“ as I did before going vegan.
Oh and I also prefer calling them plant based rather than vegan. Because plant based is just naming the ingredients as they are and vegan is a lifestyle.
You can have Kaffe und Kuchen with tea as well. It's more of a phrase nowadays to come together, chat and enjoy a sweet snack with a drink :)
And no, there aren't really pies like you have in the US over here. The closest things to this may be "gedeckter Apfelkuchen", apple pie with a dough cover (the translator just called it apple pie), or french tartes.
Although all 3 tastes similar but different.
Gedeckter Apfelkuchen empasizes taste if apples ( bigger cut parts),
tarte des pommes emphasizes taste of dough ( more fluffy),
Apple pie emphasizes sugar.
@RyanWass you have to visit Germany and France.
well, in my opinion, the coffee and cake tradition is more Austrian... because there is usually an extra break at work for coffee and cake, or if you are a craftsman and are currently working for a customer, it is considered good manners for the customer to artisan offering coffee and cake
Your German cake looks very American🤣
No Bienenstich oder Apfelriemchen I feel insulted.
Now I need a Puddingplunder to calm down, curse you!
There was Bienenstich. But not even Donauwelle. What was the production doing here smh
1:25 Why do you think europeans don't drink coffee? Europe is not England... It's Italy, France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Sweden, etc. all pretty big coffee consumers (although you put more water in it in the USA).
"German Cake" is still NAMED AFTER A BAKER MR. GERMAN, he couldve also had the name MR HERMAN, it is JUST A NAME, and he was american.
over a year people yell the same thing at him, and still it didnt reach him >_
I guess why she's using cake for both "Torte" and "Kuchen" is because she's from the UK. "Torte" would usually be "cake" and "Kuchen" would usually be "pie", but the british have a VERY different understanding of pies - being these hot pieces of pastry filled with meat and stuff.
that"s not correct. Most kuchen are not pie. Germany actually has very few pies.
@@stefan0325 it would be pie in american english, hence the confusion
@@HappyBeezerStudios like I said almost no Kuchen is a pie. Pie has a crust and a filling. Kuchen often have a bread-like airy texture or a too dry filling to be considered a pie. The closest German thing to a pie is a Strudel.
I would say calling an American pie a Kuchen might be OK, but calling a German Kuchen a pie is usually incorrect, as it doesn't match the definition of pie.
She is not from the UK, she is actually Austrian 😂
@@stefan0325 ever heard of 'gedeckter Apfelkuchen' ? That's definitely a pie. And Strudel is Austrian.
The cherry on top makes the cake a healthy food. 😁
I had to laugh, too. 'Kandierte Kirschen' are more sugar than fruit.
Germany is definitely a coffee and cigarette country. And beer, never forget the beer. But many of us also drink tea, many even both.
5:52 I'm German, but a large part of my family emigrated to the US in the 20th century and one guy actually made a living by opening a German cake bakery over there, heh
the 'German chocolate cake' that you know, does NOT exist in Germany.. sorry to burst this bubble for you
2:05 Why is it "a random idea" having a cup of coffee with a pastry in the afternoon? It often sounds almost like you americans were all Amish or something. Never enjoying life?
If you ever want the really good (and really filling and unhealthy) cakes, Thüringen is the state to go in my experience. They're excellent bakers but half of that is just because they're not afraid to throw a whole stick or brick of butter into a small cake. (And likely another on top.) It's a very delicious experience that one probably shouldn't repeat too often.
Regenbogen Buttercreme Torte is the best example.
You can honestly eat only a single slice, otherwise you get sick lol
The cake is basically made from what feels like 80% butter, 10% sugar and 10% food coloring.
Wenn's ungesund ist, doppelte Menge rein 😂
Bin aber gebürtige Hessin bzw lebe seit fast 30 Jahren in Bayern 😊
You need to se danish cakes, the most danish is a lagkage 🎂, a cake in layers with cream in betwern the layers, and fruit as well. There has to be whiiped cream on the top and sides. It's for birthdays.
🤣😂🤣Until he mentions it, I totally forgot about indipendence day.
For us it is just one good and one bad movie.
Bienenstich is one of my favorites, as well as many hazelnut Kranzes which are a birthday tradition in my family
Apart from the fact that Germany is really a beer country (but there are also wine-growing regions where wine is preferred), Germany is primarily a coffee country. Only in East Frisia, in the north of Germany, is tea mainly drunk. The East Frisians have the highest tea consumption per capita in the world. There is even a special tea ceremony there, as otherwise only in England, Japan, China, Nepal and Morocco.
I really enjoyed your videos and comments and learning more about the world around me. Hope to try many of these types of food
Very simular here in Belgium, no surprise since we border Germany.
We have Dr Pepper in most of Europe in regular stores. Austria here. I love the stuff, its my favorite soda.
We also have American snack stores (in Vienna there are ca 10) that sell all kinds of American candies, sodas, snacks etc.
They're popular in Germany too.
... and you have "Sacher" and "Dehmel" ;-)
I never saw one ...
I hope that it's not just in Berlin because that sounds good to me as a vegan who lives in Dortmund
I love to bake. My favorite project is to make traditional cakes and Tartes into small portions like Muffins. Last time I made Donauwelle in Muffin size. One day I will make a Black Forest muffin (cupcake)
Where is the recepy?!
This reminded me of the cake my aunt used to make. It was a layer cake of sponge, butter or margarine and jam. All of them very thin. She died over 25 years ago so I was still too young to appreciate it but for a few years now I wanted to recreate it because I loved it so much. I also keep forgetting to ask my cousins whether they have that recipe.. I need to remember to ask them! If they don't then I need to try making it from scratch. (So thank you for reminding me!)
it never occured to me until now that having coffee and cake in the afternoon might not be a thing in other countries! It's pretty much the definition of normality in germany
If you want to try these things, there are tons of German recipes in English online that you can just try yourself ^^
Did she mention "Bienenstich" or did I miss it? Its one of the most famous and eaten cakes in Germany. Literally translated to "Beesting".
No, she didn't mention "Bienenstich".
Yeah, she did. He was just pausing so much at that moment in her video that it probably got lost.
3:22
Ah thanks 👍🏻
@@DanniPf You are right, Iwas wrong.. Sorry
The Frisians, especially the East Frisians, are record holding tea drinkers, while the rest of Germany prefers coffee since about 200 years.
Dr. Pepper Zero sounds like a reason to stay away from America 😅 We do have it here though, a very small amount of them at very big supermarkets, because nobody really buys it. But here's a reason to come to Germany: Fassbrause.
Fun fact: The German state collect more coffee tax than beer Tax. Without the northwest area called Ostfriesland, we are mostly coffee drinker.
Yepp but the Friesians alone outdrink the Brits on tea😂
Happy 4th of July! Very nice video again! When you googled for German cake, I googled for American cake and found Red Velvet cake, which looks delicious, cake with pineapples and cherries on top and chocolate cakes with lovely patterns. :D When our Aldi had American week, they actually sold Rocky Road cake, that was sooo yummie!
If you are interested in German cakes, maybe you could get the ingredient and bake on on the stream, and then taste it with guests?
Kaffee und Kuchen is like tea time in the UK
8:12 - The "German chocolate cake" in the USA has nothing to do with Germany, but the name of the manufacturer was Samuel German. You won't find a real German cake in America either, because the original ingredients don't even exist in the USA.
out of curiosity, what are the original ingredients? I only ever found recipes by Americans so they sure only used what's available...
my favorite is rhubarb crumble cake
Never liked cakes much in the UK or in the States when visiting, although it has improved, at least in the UK.
Used to do "Kaffee und Kuchen" most Sundays with my German inlaws. A pot of strong fresh ground coffee and the Mother-in-law would always make me a fresh Cheesecake with a pastry base, as I'm not keen on sponge, lovely! Then again back then on a Sunday, most places were shut!
Geman fresh coffee is usually superior to most British fresh coffee and definitely better than much of the American excuses I've had. At least in most cafés. My wife still regularly makes "apfelkuchen", unfortunately I can't stand it, so when it goes stale, she feeds in to the chickens.
Drinking sparkling water here like a proper German! Cheers 😊
nothing beats fresh-ice cold sparkling water for me in the summer.....a big gulp and you have tears in your eyes...
the cake fork is not really sharp, it’s just not that rounded at the edge, so you can part the cake a bit more conveniently
Americans would still only use their hands?
Hi Ryan, British and chinese drink tea, germans love their coffee, the coffee and cake is not only a sunday or weekend thing, atleast at my house, my grandmothers house, we had coffee and cake every afternoon at like 4pm
Have you tried almdudler. Its a real clean and refreshing tasting herbal soda. Its from austria but available in germany as well.
i'm from austria and had a lot of canadian and american friends visit me and they all think our beloved almdudler is just some ginger ale 😭
@@goose-lw6js hm i see your point.
There are many vegan Cafés in many German cities, especially in big citites and cities with lots of students :) For example I lived in Bonn for a while and there were many amazing vegan Cafés and Restaurants - not so niche ;)
You should search a cake from Germany called Baumkuchen (Tree Cake)
Known as the King of Cakes
I bake it nearly every special occasion
I think it is too dry. Ryan would not like it.
I tried 3 times in 3 centuries and was disappointed each time.
@@MiaMerkur Guess it depends on where you get it (The commercial Baumkuchen is horrible and dry) but some of the homemade ones are much more moist and fresh tasting
Rayne, for Americans I would recommend the Frankfurter Kranz. This is probably the sweetest cake.
Black Forest gateau, eggnog, torte and sponge cake all contain alcohol. If you have children with you, you should ask beforehand.
Hey Ryan!!! Greetings from GERMANY!!! Yes, i've been here on holiday for three ways and YES the desserts are SO DELICIOUS!!!! Best thing about this country!
You can have it any day. At my parents' place there's first coffee and cake right after lunch and second coffee and cake around 5pm.
We have Plumkake from Augsburg. In Bavaria it's called Zwetschgendatschi. Or Datschi. So the people from Augsburg are called the Datschiburger 😂
4:10 To your question about cakes and pies, I think "kuchen" could be better translated as pie than cake, also as described properties 5:10 would indicate that, and on the other hand cake is better translated as "torte", so they did not get the translation entirely right because they used cake everywhere. So Apfelkuchen - Apple Pie, but Marzipantorte - Marzipan Cake.
Except that German Apfelkuchen is nowhere near American apple pie ... The closest equivalent to U.S. apple pie would be "gedeckter Apfelkuchen", which isn't the same thing as regular Apfelkuchen where you got a kind of spongy base with apple slices on it. Kuchen, in Germany, can mean both, something more tarte-like (as in French tarte), with a "pie crust" base and fruit on it (like Erdbeerkuchen) but also that spongy type of cake (think Schokokuchen or Marmorkuchen or that kind of thing) that's nowhere near what's considered pie in the U.S. I'd rather say that "Torte" is a specific sub-category of "Kuchen". You can invite someone for "Kaffee und Kuchen" and still serve them a Torte as Kuchen. But you can't invite someone for "Kaffee und Torte" and then, serve them a plain Schokoladen- or Marmorkuchen.
Vegan cake is the German answer to Pizza with broccoli. ;) Cake dough needs eggs. Nowadays that is for example 6 eggs in a marble cake baked from 280g flour. In our grandparents' times, no cake was made with less than 15 eggs. I think I will try that. :)
In the past, cutlery was made of silver (silverware) and when cutting harder cakes (e.g. crumble) the thin prongs would bend, so one prong was reinforced. However, this prong is not sharpened.
This american German cake you showed was never seen in germany. That's a pure american invention - only called german.
Ryan, first of all Americans have no clue what coffee is. Kaffee und Kuchen is a very old tradition and is very wellknown.
Yes, the US has some variation on the classic Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte (Black Forest Gateau). Obviously not exactly the same thing, but a nice look alike. However, seeing what the FDA considers safe for consumption, is often banned outside the US. (Think crap like Red 40, Yellow 5, etc etc) So, probably the ones you can get in the US, are forbidden for consumption in Germany.
Before the introduction of tea drinking, beer brewed in the country was the main beverage, but tea was able to push this back strongly via a cheaper price. However, it had to be imported. This was also the reason for temporary efforts by the authorities to suppress tea consumption. It was hoped that by promoting the consumption of beer, the outflow of large sums of money abroad could be prevented. However, such efforts were unsuccessful.
The beginnings of East Frisian tea culture date back to the early 17th century. Around 1610, ships of the Dutch East India Company brought tea to Europe for the first time. Soon after, tea may have reached East Frisia for the first time through East Frisian skippers who sailed on Dutch account. Around 1675, however, tea was initially administered only as a medicine. Around 1720, there was already an extensive tea trade in East Frisia.
The consumption of tea spread throughout East Frisia in the late 18th century - at about the same time as the potato became a staple food - and was initially also promoted by Frederick II. After the failure of the Royal Prussian-Asian Company (Ostasiatische Handelskompanie) in Emden, he attempted from 1768 to break the East Frisians of their habit of drinking tea. This dispute with the estates, which lasted until 1780, is also known as the "tea war". During this time, in 1778, the Royal Prussian Police Directorate in Aurich, for example, issued a decree stating that tea drinking was wasting money and tax revenue and causing damage to the state. It was suggested that it would be better to drink lemon balm or a type of parsley instead of the "herb" from China.
They also demanded that more beer be brewed, since the ingredients were grown in sufficient quantities in their own country. People in East Frisia reacted to the law with increased smuggling, civil disobedience and secret tea drinking. The East Frisian estates wrote a letter on May 11, 1779, in which they declared: "The use of tea and coffee is so general and so deeply ingrained in this country that man's nature would have to be reversed by a creative force if it were to say good night to these drinks all at once." After another two years, the King of Prussia, frustrated, gave up his plan and again allowed his East Frisian subjects to drink the "Chinese dragon poison."
During the Napoleonic Continental Blockade (1806-1814), the East Frisians once again engaged in extensive smuggling to ensure continued supplies of tea.
From the beginning of the 19th century until the early years of the 20th century, the major East Frisian tea trading companies that still exist today were founded: Bünting (1806), Thiele (1873) and Onno Behrends (1886). Today, the Bünting Group is one of the largest employers in East Frisia.
In the 20th century, East Frisia again experienced a "teenage emergency" in connection with the two world wars. In the course of the First World War, tea, which had been highly taxed anyway since 1909, became increasingly scarce. In 1917, the shortages were at their most severe. By 1919, moreover, over-aged or otherwise inferior lots dominated the trade.
Also during World War II, the East Frisians initially received 20 grams per month per adult (from the age of 35) as an allocation due to a shortage of foreign currency. In the course of the war, the ration was increased to 30 grams, which still seemed too low to the East Frisians; pre-war consumption was about ten times that amount (300 grams per month per adult). This was still a privilege, because in the rest of the Reich such an allocation for such a "dispensable luxury food" was not provided for at all.
The East Frisians received their monthly tea rations on food stamps. The stamps read "Teetrinker-Bezirk Weser-Ems," which corresponded to the National Socialist Gau Weser-Ems.The East Frisians additionally helped themselves with "tea tablets" made of flavorings and sugar, but were soon deeply displeased by the near deprivation of their favorite beverage.
Immediately after World War II, a period of hoarding began. East Frisians drove to the Ruhr to trade miners their hard-worker tea allowances for bacon, butter or eggs. Conversely, the wives of miners, the "Teewiefkes," mainly from Westphalia, also came to East Frisia with tea from miners' special rations for this exchange. After currency reform and the founding of the state, it took until 1953 before the tea tax was reduced to a tolerable level and people in the area could once again afford as much tea as they wanted.
"Schwarzwälderkisch-Torte" is my favorite! I can eat a whole cake...
I guess our "gedeckter" Kuchen is nearly like a pie.
Surprisingly, German chocolate cake is not a cake from Germany. Dude named German created it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake
If a German meets up in the afternoon it’s usually at 3 pm for coffee and cake and that could be any day not just Sundays
You thought Germany is a "tea" Country? Most of us, don't even know, what tea is! We're at least 95% Coffee drinkers. Well, maybe I lie, I don't know the exact %.😃
Thee wird im Norden getrunken. Dort gibt es ganze Zeremonien und das Bünting Thee Museum in Leer.
Ich bin zwar aus dem Südwesten, aber weder hier noch im Norden wird "Thee" getrunken, sondern Tee. Und das Museum ist ein Teemuseum (ebenfalls OHNE h)
On DW, they speak British English, that's why it's cake and not pie.Your German cake looks like a mix between Prinzregententorte and Sachertorte.
Just to clarify Ryan, German Chocolate Cake is NOT from Germany. It was created by someone named German. I actually just came back from a three week trip to Germany and I can confirm that they don't do cakes like we do here. Their cakes and Tortes are actually made with pure ingredients and not any preservatives like here in the states. They would actually find cake mixes like Pillsbury and Duncan Haines to be TOO sweet
While a traditional German cake isn't exactly healthy, it isn't that much of a sugar bomb either compared to what passes in the US as a cake or a pie. Especially not when it comes to "Blechkuchen"....those are cakes which are made on the baking tray (and also have the form of one). One layer of dough, one layer of seasonal fruits, done. A little bit of cream on the side for those who enjoy this kind of stuff, more isn't needed.
Around christmas time "Kaffee und Kuchen" is btw replaced with the "Adventskaffeetrinken"...which basically means that you replace the cake with traditional christmas treats and light a candle.
Not surprised you haven't heard of a "cake fork". To be fair I haven't met many Americans that can use cutlery correctly if at all? It's like toddlers eating! And yes, it's generally just Americans, Europeans don't seem to have that problem.