GERMAN FRESH PEACH KUCHEN
One of the delights of summer in Germany is fruit kuchen, an open face fresh fruit pie served warm from the oven. It's made with pastry crust or raised yeast dough crust; a custard mixture is poured over the fruit before baking. In this recipe fresh ripe peaches is used, plus a crispy, rich biscuit crust, somewhat like shortcake. Kuchen can also be made with canned or frozen fruit. Fragrant peach kuchen is especially delicious with whipped cream or a la mode. Time the kuchen to bake during dinner so that it will be at just the right temperature to serve for dessert. The batter may be mixed ahead of time, turned into a baking pan and refrigerated for as long as 3 hours. At brunch, serve kuchen instead of coffeecake.
Provided by Olha7397
Categories Dessert
Time 45m
Yield 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Pour enough boiling water over peaches in large bowl to cover.
- Let stand 1 minute to loosen skins; then drain, and plunge into cold water for a few seconds to prevent softening of fruit.
- With paring knife, pare peaches; place in a large bowl.
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Sprinkle peaches with lemon juice to prevent darkening.
- Slice into the bowl; toss to coat with lemon juice; set aside.
- Onto sheet of waxed paper, sift flour with the sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- In large mixing bowl, using fork, beat eggs with milk and lemon peel.
- Add flour mixture and melted butter, mixing with fork until smooth1 minute.
- Do not over-mix.
- Butter a 9-inch Springform pan, or 9-inch round layer-cake pan.
- (If cake pan is used, kuchen must be served from pan.).
- Turn batter into pan; spread evenly over bottom.
- (At this point, kuchen may be refrigerated several hour, or until about 12 hour before baking.).
- Combine sugar and cinnamon; mix well.
- DRAIN peach slices; arrange on batter, around edge of pan; fill in center with 5 peach slices.
- Sprinkle evenly with sugar-cinnamon mixture.
- Bake 25 minutes.
- Remove kuchen from oven.
- With a fork, beat egg yolk with cream.
- Pour over peaches.
- Bake 10 minutes longer.
- Cool 10 minutes on wire rack.
- To serve, remove side of springform pan.
- Serve kuchen warm, cut into wedges, with sweetened whipped cream or soft vanilla ice cream.
- Makes 8 to 10 servings.
- McCalls Cooking School.
PEACH KUCHEN (GERMAN PEACH CAKE)
Peach Kuchen is a delectable German peach cake made with either fresh or canned peaches. Simple custard cream and cake batter is baked together creating moist and delicious cake
Provided by Holly Ford
Categories Dessert
Time 1h
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 400˚F. Grease a 9-inch springform pan and set aside.
- Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, mace in a mixing bowl and stir well with a whisk. Add the cold butter pieces and incorporate to blend with the flour until it becomes fine crumbs.
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk milk and egg well. Pour the milk mixture over the flour mixture. Mix with a fork just until it becomes wet.
- Spread the batter on the bottom of the prepared pan. Arrange the peach slices on top. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
- To make the custard cream, combine 1/4 cups of cream with flour in a medium mixing bowl, and whisk together to get rid of big lumps. Add the rest of the cream, sugar, egg, vanilla, and salt; whisk well to mix.
- Take the cake out of oven, and pour the cream mixture on top. Put the cake back in the oven, and immediately reduce the heat to 350˚F. Continue to bake the cake for 35-40 minutes.
- When the cake top is puffed, the edges are deep golden and starting to separate from the pan, the cake is done. Cool the cake in the pan for 15 minutes, then remove it from the pan and let it cool completely on a cooling rack.
PEACH KUCHEN
"KUCHEN IS a filling dessert for this German meal. It's not too sweet, and you can use virtually any of you favorite fruits. As a child, I took great pride in arranging the fruit in the pan. We always made this dessert on the same day of the meal so it would be warm and fresh. A dollop of whipped cream on top was an added treat!
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 1h5m
Yield 10 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- In a small bowl, combine flour, confectioners' sugar and salt. Cut in butter to form a dough. Pat lightly into an ungreased 11x7-in. baking pan. , Arrange peaches over the crust; set aside. In another bowl, beat eggs. Whisk in the sugar, salt, flour and sour cream until mixture is smooth. Pour over the peaches. , Bake at 450° for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 325°; bake 35 minutes more or until center is set. Serve warm or chilled. Store in the refrigerator.
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PEACH KUCHEN - GERMAN PEACH CAKE (BREAD MACHINE)
German Kuchen is a cake is a cake made by my parent's friend who came from Bavaria and who immigrated to the US in the 1960's. She would make both Plum Kuchen and Peach Kuchen for our yearly cook outs. I've finally found a recipe that is close to the Kuchen that she made. I've made this about a dozen times this past Summer while...
Provided by Mathilde Teitgen
Categories Cakes
Time 2h30m
Number Of Ingredients 22
Steps:
- 1. Put Yeast Dough Ingredients into the Bread Machine pan following your Bread Machine's Directions.
- 2. Use the "dough" setting and start (usually takes about 1 1/2 hours)
- 3. Grease a 15 X 11 inch pan for a thinner dough. Or grease a 13 X 9 inch cake pan. I like the thinner dough. If you use the smaller pan, you might need less peaches.
- 4. Fresh Peaches: If using Fresh Peaches, give yourself about 1 hour to peel and slice the peaches.
- 5. Canned Peaches: You can do this 15-20 minutes before dough is ready. Drain the peaches well.
- 6. Frozen Peaches: Take Peaches out of freezer about 1 hour before using.
- 7. Optional Streusel Topping: Make this before dough is ready from machine. Make streusel topping by mixing flour, sugar, and cold butter together to get a crumbly mix. Crumble over fruit before baking.
- 8. Once dough cycle is finished, put dough onto a floured board and roll into a rectangle about the size of your pan. Carefully pick up dough by folding it in third and place in pan. Use your fingers to pat the dough in place.
- 9. Pierce dough all over with a fork.
- 10. Arrange fruit on dough in rows.
- 11. Let rise in a warm place for about 15 minutes.
- 12. If using Cinnamon Sugar, sprinkle Cinnamon Sugar over peaches. -OR- If using alternate Streusel Topping, crumble streusel topping over fruit before baking.
- 13. Preheat oven to 400 F.
- 14. Bake 25 - 30 minutes or until yeast pastry is puffed up and golden between fruit.
- 15. Cool slightly in pan and then cut into squares.
- 16. Serves about 8 - 10 portions.
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