Apple and Blackberry Kuchen

Name: Apple and Blackberry Kuchen
Cuisine: European, German
Ingredients: approx. 400 grams strong white bread flour; ½ teaspoon salt; 50 grams caster sugar; half a 7 grams packet of easy-blend yeast; 2 large eggs; ½ teaspoon vanilla extract; grated zest of ½ unwaxed lemon; ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 125 millilitres lukewarm milk; 50 grams butter (softened); 1 large egg (beaten); 1 tablespoon cream; 1 pinch of ground cinnamon; 1 small cooking apple (approx 175g / 6oz); 375 grams blackberries; zest of ½ unwaxed lemon; 50 grams self-raising flour; 25 grams ground almonds; 50 grams cold unsalted butter (diced); 2 tablespoons caster sugar; 2 tablespoons demerara sugar; 25 grams flaked almonds

Instructions

Kuchen, in this context, may be simply "cake" in German, but what it means in America, taken there by German refugees, is a sweet, but not too sweet, yeasted dough, baked in a slab and topped as desired with fruit, nuts, or both or neither — to be eaten at breakfast or any time with a cup of coffee. If making yeast dough at breakfast time seems unfathomably demanding, relax in the knowledge that you can make this before you go to bed in the evening, leaving it to rise slowly in the fridge overnight. That way, all you need to do in the morning is preheat the oven, take the dough out of the fridge, then knock it back and press it out over the tin, following on from there.

Updated at: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:09:29 GMT