For special occasions my mom would make my grandmother’s recipe for German Kuchen. In all our years living in Germany I never had a Kuchen that quite matched my grandmother’s recipe, but years later I did find the same Kuchen at a grocery store in North Dakota. I don’t know the whole history of this particular recipe, but it is delicious. It definitively seems to be a regional recipe because multiple bakeries in the are sell Grandma’s Kuchen. My mom’s best friend recently asked for the recipe which inspired me to bake up a batch.
My Grandmother’s Kuchen Recipe
Crust
2 cups Sour Cream
3 Eggs
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 cup Sugar
3 tsp. Baking Powder
1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
5 1/2 cups Flour
Custard Filling
3 cups Milk
3 cups Sour Cream
6 Eggs
2 cups Sugar
2 Tbsp. Flour
Topping
Any Dehydrated Fruit (apples, pears, raisins, prunes, peaches, nectarines)
Cinnamon
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Mix crust ingredients together.
- Roll into a ball and divide crust into 6-8 portions.
- Roll portions out and press into oiled pie tins. The crust will rise so don’t worry if it is very flat.
- Mix custard ingredients.
- Pour custard over crusts.
- Cut up dehydrated fruit and drop them into custard.
- Sprinkle with Cinnamon.
- Bake for 20-26 minutes. My grandma’s directions say until the custard cracks. I use a fork to check the center until the fork comes out clean.
- Allow to cool and store in the fridge.
