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Apfelkuchen
Thuringian apple cake with shortcrust pastry and a sour-cream topping.
About Apfelkuchen
This Thuringian apple cake has a shortcrust base filled with closely arranged apple slices. The regional tourism recipe finishes it with a sour-cream glaze.
Sweet-tart apples and cinnamon sugar balance the rich butter pastry. Sour cream gives the topping a mild dairy flavour.
Juicy fruit sits inside the pastry rim beneath a creamy topping. The cake is cooled before serving and presented as a classic for the coffee table.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Egg, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Apfelkuchen
Thuringian apple cake with a sour-cream glaze.
- ButterCooking medium
- SugarSweetener
- EggBinder
- SaltSeasoning
- FlourBase
- ApplesFilling
- Cinnamon sugarSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Sour creamTopping
- Egg yolksBinder
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Butter: Milk
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Egg: Egg
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Flour: Wheat (gluten). Standard wheat flour supported by the documented conventional shortcrust butter-and-egg pastry context; exact grade/product and catalogue approval remain separate.
- Apples: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Cinnamon sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Named cinnamon-and-sugar mixture; separate exact blend record unresolved
- Sour cream: Milk
- Egg yolks: Egg
Recipe-specific unresolved details
- Source ingredient list names sour cream for glaze, while its method once says butter; the ingredient list and introduction consistently support sour cream.
- Ice cream/whipped cream are separate serving suggestions and are not ingredients of this cake.
- Exact wheat flour grade is not specified.
Origins & food traditions
The regional tourism board presents this explicitly as a Thuringian classic.
Cuisines & regions
- Thuringian Cuisine
- Thuringian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- German CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.