**Grandma Schultz's Apple Kuchen: A Culinary Journey into a German-American Delight**
In the realm of comforting and nostalgic desserts, Grandma Schultz's Apple Kuchen stands tall as a testament to the enduring charm of German-American baking traditions. This delectable treat, with its tender crumb crust, sweet and tangy apple filling, and golden-brown streusel topping, has captivated taste buds for generations. Our article unveils the secrets behind this classic dessert, presenting two cherished recipes that embody the spirit of Grandma Schultz's kitchen. The first recipe, rooted in time-honored techniques, guides you through the process of creating a homemade masterpiece from scratch. For those seeking a more convenient yet equally delightful experience, we offer a simplified recipe that incorporates store-bought puff pastry, ensuring a delightful kuchen with minimal effort. Whether you're a seasoned baker or a novice in the kitchen, these recipes will empower you to recreate this beloved dessert, filling your home with the aromas and flavors of a bygone era.
OMA'S APFELKUCHEN (GRANDMA'S APPLE CAKE)
My husband's German family calls this Oma's apfelkuchen, which translates to "Grandma's apple cake." They've been sharing the recipe for more than 150 years. I use Granny Smith apples, but any variety works. -Amy Kirchen, Loveland, Ohio
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 1h5m
Yield 10 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°. Let egg yolks stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Starting 1/2 in. from 1 end, cut apple halves lengthwise into 1/4-in. slices, leaving them attached at the top so they fan out slightly. Set aside., Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. In another bowl, sift flour, cornstarch, cream of tartar, baking powder and salt twice. Gradually beat into creamed mixture. Add milk; mix well (batter will be thick)., Spread batter into a greased 9-in. springform pan wrapped in a sheet of heavy-duty foil. Gently press apples, round side up, into batter. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with moist crumbs, 45-55 minutes. Cool on a wire rack 10 minutes. Loosen sides from pan with a knife; remove foil. Cool 1 hour longer. Remove rim from pan. Dust with confectioners' sugar.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 422 calories, Fat 23g fat (14g saturated fat), Cholesterol 148mg cholesterol, Sodium 177mg sodium, Carbohydrate 50g carbohydrate (28g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 4g protein.
EASY APPLE KUCHEN
One of my mother's favorite recipes. Great with your morning coffee or a cold glass of milk.
Provided by pwsweet
Categories Desserts Pies Apple Pie Recipes
Time 55m
Yield 15
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Beat milk, shortening, egg, and vanilla extract together in a bowl until smooth. Stir 1 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder, and salt into milk mixture until dough comes together. Spread dough out into the bottom of a rimmed baking sheet.
- Spread apples over the dough on the baking sheet.
- Stir 1 cup sugar, melted butter, 1/4 cup flour, and cinnamon together in a bowl until topping is combined. Sprinkle topping over apples.
- Bake in the preheated oven until apples are tender and topping is golden, about 40 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 223.4 calories, Carbohydrate 38.7 g, Cholesterol 21.2 mg, Fat 7.2 g, Fiber 1.8 g, Protein 2.4 g, SaturatedFat 3 g, Sodium 205.7 mg, Sugar 25.3 g
GRANDMA'S BEST APPLE KUCHEN
Grandma's Best Apple Kuchen recipe is now yours-and be prepared to share the recipe, because it's a crowd-pleaser!
Provided by My Food and Family
Categories Dairy
Time 50m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cut the butter into the dry cake mix until it is crumbly.
- Press the mixture into a greased 9x13 baking pan in order to form the crust.
- Bake the crust for 10 minutes.
- Place apple slices on the warm crust.
- Mix together the cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle over the apples.
- Whisk together the sour cream and eggs and drizzle over the apples.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until the edges look light brown.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 0 g, Fat 0 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, TransFat 0 g, Cholesterol 0 g, Sodium 0 g, Carbohydrate 0 g, Fiber 0 g, Sugar 0 g, Protein 0 g
GRANDMA'S APPLE KUCHEN
My grandma worked as an accountant full time and baked every Saturday for the week. This is one of many Kuchens she baked every week. Apple was always a favorite.
Provided by Marsha Gardner
Categories Sweet Breads
Time 1h
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- 1. In a stand mixer, mix the warm water, honey, and yeast until the honey is dissolved. Let the mixture sit for 10-15 minutes until slightly frothy.
- 2. Mix in flour, eggs, salt, and canola oil until just combined. Switch to a dough hook attachment and knead until the dough comes together. Ball up the dough on the bottom of the bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let sit for 2 hours. Dough will rise to double in size and get a little poofy.
- 3. Place a 9-inch spring-form pan on a cookie sheet and coat with cooking spray. Mix cut up apples with cinnamon and sugar (I used more cinnamon than the original recipe because I love it).
- 4. Transfer dough to a greased surface and flatten in a rectangle (about 8x10 inches). Place half the apples down the center of the dough (long-ways) and fold over half the dough. Then, place the other half of the apples on the folded part and fold over the other side. With a knife or pizza cutter (I thought the pizza cutter was easier) slice the dough down the middle long-ways and then slice about 8 times on the sides. The apples will fall out, don't worry about it.
- 5. Place the dough pieces on the bottom of the spring-form pan so that they are all smashed together. Place any of the fallen apples on the top. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 1 hour.
- 6. Preheat oven to 325-degrees. Brush the top of the bread with an egg wash (1 egg and a tbsp of water) and sprinkle with sugar. Bake for 55-60 minutes. Mine took 60. Serve warm and drizzeled with honey if you want!
GRANDMA GELDNER'S APFEL KUCHEN (APPLE KUCHEN)
This comes from a rich German heritage. Grandma always made the best "apfel" kuchen. Her recipes were always simple, but tasted great!
Provided by WI Cheesehead
Categories Dessert
Time 55m
Yield 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Mix 1 1/4 cup flour, baking powder, 2 tsp sugar, and salt and sift once.
- Cut 1/2 cup butter into dry mix with a pastry blender to pea size.
- In a small bowl, beat egg with 2 T milk and add to dry mix.
- Mix thoroughly and pat dough into a greased or oiled 9x13-inch baking dish.
- Pare and core apples.
- Cut into thin wedge slices and place on dough in rows until covered. We would cover the thin end of one apple with the thick end of the other.
- Dot apples with 2 T butter and mix 3/4 cup sugar, 1 1/2 Tbs flour and cinnamon together.
- Spread dry topping over dotted apples, and bake in oven for 30-45 minutes, until golden brown.
APPLE KUCHEN
These bars should be made by patient bakers with a bit of time - they look best when the apples are lined up in neat columns. This is not to say that it makes any difference in the way they taste.
Provided by Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 35m
Yield 20 to 25 pieces
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Lightly grease and flour a 9x13-inch pan.
- To make the crust: Place the flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl or food processor fitted with a steel blade and mix to combine. Add the vanilla and butter, a little at a time, and mix until it resembles cornmeal. Press into the prepared baking pan and transfer to the oven. Bake until slightly golden but not brown, about 12 to 15 minutes. Set aside to cool.
- Lower the oven temperature to 400 degrees.
- To make the filling: Place the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla in the bowl of a mixer fitted with a paddle and beat until creamy. Add the egg, mix to combine, an pour over the cooled crust.
- Place the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl and mix to combine.
- Place the apples on top of the filling in two or three columns. Sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar and transfer to the oven. Bake until firm and a rich brown, about 20 minutes. Cut into 20 to 24 pieces.
APPLE KUCHEN
This simple-to-fix recipe came out of an old Swedish cookbook that my mom always held together with a large rubber band. The recipe is my favorite!
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 55m
Yield 10-12 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Arrange apples in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Combine 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon; set aside 1 tablespoon. Sprinkle remaining cinnamon-sugar over apples. , In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and remaining sugar; beat in the milk and butter until blended. Drop by tablespoonfuls over apples; sprinkle with reserved cinnamon-sugar. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to a wire rack., Meanwhile, in a saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, salt and water until smooth. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly. Remove from the heat; add butter and vanilla. Serve with warm kuchen.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 248 calories, Fat 3g fat (2g saturated fat), Cholesterol 9mg cholesterol, Sodium 166mg sodium, Carbohydrate 55g carbohydrate (42g sugars, Fiber 2g fiber), Protein 2g protein.
GRANDMA SCHMIDT'S APPLE KUCHEN RECIPE
Provided by Jenny_439
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- preheat oven to 325. in mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and butter. Blend with a pastry blender or your hands. In a small bowl, beat the egg yolks. Add the vanilla and milk. Add the egg mixture to the crumbled dry ingredients, stir gently with a spoon until just blended. Press the dough on the bottom and up the sides of an 8x12x2 greased glass baking dish. Arrange the applice slices in 3 lengthwise rows on top of the crust. In a separate bowl, combine the streusel ingredients and blend with a pastry blender or your hands until the mixture resembles peas. Sprinkle over the apple slices. Bake for 35-40 mins until the crust is golden brown and the apples look glazed.
GRANDMA SCHATZ APPLE PANCAKES
I created this recipe from my memory of the pancakes my Grandma cooked for us. These are not cake pancakes, but more like a dumpling dough. The one thing I omit is the melted butter she always added into the batter. Sauteeing the apples in butter, and serving the pancakes with butter, in my opinion, is, as Grandma would say, "gut genug!" (good enough!)
Provided by Divaconviva
Categories Breakfast
Time 25m
Yield 2 9-Inch Pancakes, 2 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- I start with two ten-inch non-stick skillets on my two front burners. This way, the two pancakes are ready at the same time -- and cleanup is very quick for non-stick pans.
- Heat 1 tablespoon butter in each pan.
- Wash and core apples. Do not peel. Cut in half. Then cut each half into about 8 slices.
- Put slices in each pan, arranging them in circle along edge of pan, and fill the center with 3 or 4 slices or as best they fit.
- Sprinkle generously with cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Allow apples to cook until softened over low to medium heat. They will caramelize a little; just don't let them burn. This takes about 5 to 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, scramble the eggs in medium mixing bowl.
- Add flour and salt, stirring in with fork until completely mixed.
- Add milk and extracts, stirring until smooth.
- Pour batter slowly around the apple slices in the pan, taking care to cover all the spaces between the slices and have a solid pancake. The apples will not be completely covered. I just eyeball the amounts to divide the batter evenly.
- Keeping flame low, cook pancake, uncovered, for approximately ten minutes.
- When pancake is solid enough to hold together, slide wide nylon spatula under pancake and flip over.
- Cook for a few more minutes, checking for a little golden browning on the pancake.
- Slide onto plate and top with butter and maple syrup.
- FLIPPING PANCAKE: I usually slide the pancake out onto a dinner plate, then take the frying pan and hold it over the plate like a cover in my left hand; then take the plate with my right hand and simultaneously turn the pan back to its upright position with the plate dumping the pancake directly into the pan. I haven't lost one yet! 8-).
Nutrition Facts : Calories 404.4, Fat 19.3, SaturatedFat 10.3, Cholesterol 250.6, Sodium 474.5, Carbohydrate 46.3, Fiber 4.2, Sugar 15, Protein 12
GRANDMA SCHULTZ' APPLE KUCHEN
I have been really sick for two days, cant cook or bake or even stay out of bed for very long : ( So I decided to go thru my box of recipes. Its a big shoe box filled with amazing recipes from every family member from both sides of my family and also many friends. This is one of the recipes I have found in the box. When Grandma...
Provided by Deneece Gursky
Categories Other Desserts
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- 1. With clean hands mix together flour, salt, baking powder, sugar and butter in a large bowl
- 2. In a seperate smaller bowl beat egg yolks and add vanilla and milk and mix well
- 3. Add the wet mix to the dry mix and stir just till blended together
- 4. Spray a glass baking pan with non stick spray and then press dough into bottom of this. (the larger the pan the thinner the crust)
- 5. Place apple slices on the dough in the pan. Scatter them about so that you get apples in every bite.
- 6. Mix together the topping ingredients in yet another bowl and combine with your hands until crumbly
- 7. Sprinkle this over the apples and the crust in the baking pan.
- 8. Bake in preheated oven (325 degrees) for 40 to 50 minutes or until done.
- 9. Serve warm with a dollop of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream and enjoy!
Tips:
- Use Quality Apples: Choose firm, tart apples like Granny Smith, Braeburn, or Honeycrisp for the best flavor and texture.
- Slice Apples Thinly: Thinly sliced apples will cook more evenly and give you a better texture.
- Don't Overwork the Dough: Overworking the dough will make it tough. Mix it just until it comes together.
- Chill the Dough: Chilling the dough before baking will help it keep its shape and prevent spreading.
- Use a Springform Pan: A springform pan is the best type of pan for this kuchen because it allows you to easily remove the cake from the pan.
- Brush with Butter: Brushing the top of the kuchen with melted butter before baking will give it a golden brown crust.
- Serve Warm or Cold: Apple kuchen is delicious served warm or cold. If you're serving it warm, top it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Conclusion:
Grandma Schultz's Apple Kuchen is a classic German dessert that is sure to please everyone. With its flaky crust, tender apples, and sweet streusel topping, this cake is the perfect way to end a meal or celebrate a special occasion. So next time you're looking for a delicious and easy-to-make dessert, give this recipe a try.
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