https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:14:22 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671895 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:46:04 +0000 Anya 2671895@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My Hungarian family eats something that looks just like that, with poppyseed filling, but calls it something else. I can't think of the name right now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671894 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:44:28 +0000 rachiecakes 2671894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaG: Yes! Ours was more of a crumb cake, too... apple, cherry. Kuchen is a big tradition on my mother's (German) side. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671888 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:39:07 +0000 MamaG 2671888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, Kuchen = cake, but we always had more like a crumb cake with fruit as a Kuchen. What you describe sounds more strudel like to me. But regardless of what you call it, it sounds yummy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671882 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:34:16 +0000 JenGirl 2671882@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We often have kuchen at church potlucks, along with other German dishes! Gotta love those German Lutherans! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671880 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:32:51 +0000 Pumuckl 2671880@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>As a German I can tell you that kuchen is the German word for cake. We see these types of cakes/pastries often here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671878 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:32:18 +0000 MrsBrewer 2671878@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: It kind of looks like a really fancy coffee cake/pastry! yum!! Let me know when you have it next, and I'll invite myself over ;-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671877 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:30:06 +0000 Umbreon 2671877@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husbands family makes it. I'm positive it's a German dish. I have never tried ito but my husband loves it. I'm not big on pastry in general. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671871 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:25:32 +0000 mediagirl 2671871@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsBrewer, @t.h.o.u. This is a picture of what ours looks like. A Google search says it is a German nut strudel. Makes sense because my Grandmother's ancestry is German. So maybe it's a German thing and not a midwest thing. :)</p> <p>[attach=251/16/oj05ek.400x268.6bb27dddba5e3c89ab5fb6ed33c4927d.jpg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671869 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:24:14 +0000 MrsBrewer 2671869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: Hmm! I live in the midwest, and I've never heard of it either! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671868 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:23:10 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2671868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is it like the polish potica? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671867 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:22:52 +0000 mediagirl 2671867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsBrewer: my family was from the midwest so, maybe? No one in any state I have ever lived in on the east coast had heard of it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671866 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:22:00 +0000 MrsBrewer 2671866@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Never heard of it! But it sounds delicious! Is it a regional thing? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-what-kuchen-is#post-2671863 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:13:55 +0000 mediagirl 2671863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have an old family recipe for what we call kuchen. Everyone in my family loves it but everyone who marries-in is skeptical about it at first. It's a rolled pastry with nuts or poppyseed filling in it. We eat it for breakfast (or any time of day) but it is great with coffee. </p>