German desserts

Blini (also blinis or bliny; ; blin; ) are Russian pancakes, often made with a yeast-raised batter of buckwheat and/or wheat flour and milk. They may be served with smetana, cottage cheese, caviar and other garnishes, or simply smeared with butter. They are a traditional dish in Russian cuisine.

Stollen ( or ) is a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar and often containing marzipan. It is a traditional German Christmas bread. During the Christmas season the cake-like loaves are called Weihnachtsstollen (after "Weihnachten", the German word for Christmas) or Christstollen (after Christ). A ring-shaped Stollen made in a Bundt cake or Gugelhupf pan is called a Stollenkranz (stollen wreath).

custard sauce

Buchteln (from Czech , pl. , also in German: pl., sing. ; also , , ) are sweet rolls made of enriched yeast dough, filled with powidl, jam, ground poppy seeds or quark, brushed with butter and baked in a large pan so that they stick together and can be pulled apart. The traditional buchtel is filled with powidl. Buchteln may be topped with vanilla sauce, powdered sugar or eaten plain and warm. Buchteln are served tepid, mostly as a breakfast pastry or with tea. In the 19th century, they could be boiled similar to dumplings.

thumb|' bakery in Regensburg thumb|right|Christmas Dampfnudel A '''' (; ; plural ', Alsatian: '''''') is a dumpling eaten as a meal or as a dessert in Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and in France (Alsace-Moselle). It is a typical dish in southern Germany.

'''''' are Austrian, German, Swiss, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian small, crescent-shaped biscuits. They were originally made with walnuts, but almonds or hazelnuts can also be used. They get their typical flavour from a heavy dusting of vanilla sugar.

Spaghettieis (), or spaghetti ice cream, is an Italo-German ice cream dish made to resemble a plate of spaghetti. In the dish, vanilla ice cream is extruded through a modified Spätzle press or potato ricer, giving it the appearance of spaghetti. It is then placed over whipped cream and topped with strawberry sauce (to simulate tomato sauce) and either coconut flakes, grated almonds, or white chocolate shavings to represent the parmesan cheese. Besides the usual dish with strawberry sauce, one may also find variations like ice cream with dark chocolate and nuts, simulating spaghetti carbonara i

'''''' (; meaning 'curved cake'; : ) is a Norwegian cookie made of flour, butter, eggs, sugar, and cream.

Rødgrød (), rote Grütze (), or rode Grütt (), meaning "red groats", is a sweet berry pudding from Denmark and Northern Germany. The name of the dish in Danish features many of the elements that make Danish pronunciation difficult for non-native speakers, so , literally "red porridge with cream", has been a commonly used shibboleth since the early 1900s.

no-bake fridge cake dessert

deep-fried batter

Makówki (, Lower Silesian: Mohn Kließla, , ) is a sweet poppy seed-based bread dessert from Central Europe. The dish is considered traditional in Silesia (southwestern Poland), where it is served almost exclusively on Christmas Eve. It is also popular in other parts of Poland as well as in eastern Germany, Slovakia and in Hungary.

Springerle () is a type of South German biscuit or cookie with an embossed design made by pressing a mold onto rolled dough and allowing the impression to dry before baking. This preserves the detail of the surface pattern. While historical molds show that springerle were baked for religious holidays and secular occasions throughout the year, they are now most commonly associated with the Christmas season.

Pfeffernüsse are small spice cookies, popular as a holiday treat with Germans and ethnic Mennonites in North America. Similar cookies are made in Denmark, and The Netherlands, as well. They are called (plural, singular is ) in German, pepernoten (sing. pepernoot) in Dutch, päpanät in Plautdietsch, pfeffernusse or peppernuts in English, and pebernødder in Danish.

The Apfelküchle is a traditional German pastry, consisting of sliced apples dipped in batter and fried to a golden-brown color. It is popular in Baden-Württemberg, a federal state in southern Germany. The Apfelküchle has spread throughout Europe and the US. It is similar to an apple fritter but is made more like a pancake, and can be prepared in several ways. While it is traditionally eaten as a complete meal, because of its sweet taste, Apfelküchle has also become popular as a dessert.

Rumtopf (), which literally means rum pot, is an Austrian, German and Danish dessert of mixed fruit and alcohol traditionally eaten around Christmas. It is also made in northern Italy, especially in the valleys of Trentino, where it became traditional in Valsugana.

scandinavian dessert

type of doughnut

thumb|A classical thumb|, a cinnamon star with orange zest in the middle A '''''' (, ; pl.: ) is a Christmas cookie, originally from Swabia in Southwest Germany, made from foam of whipped egg white, sugar, at least 25% almonds, cinnamon and a maximum of 10% flour. It is most popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace.

type of dried fruit filled bread from Bremen, Germany

thumb|Traditional holiday cookie plate with green tree-shaped spritz (), also called a spritz cookie in the United States, is a type of biscuit or cookie of German and Alsatian-Mosellan origin made of a rich shortcrust pastry. When made correctly, the cookies are crisp, fragile, somewhat dry, and buttery.

Kirschenmichel (; other names include Kirschenplotzer, Kerschemischel, Kirschpfanne and Kirschenmännla) is a traditional dessert of German cuisine, especially popular in the regions Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, South Bavaria, Franconia and the southern part of Hesse. It is kind of a pudding and similar to bread pudding and bread and butter pudding.

thumb|Pflaumentoffel Pflaumentoffel (probably etymologically related to , meaning 'stupid, clumsy person') is a traditional German edible sweet in the shape of a human figure made from dried or baked prunes and produced by bakeries, pastry shops and gingerbread makers for children for Christmas.

thumb|right|"Herrencreme" Herrencreme is a German pudding. It is a vanilla pudding mixed with cream, chocolate shavings and a good amount of rum. Typically Herrencreme is a dessert eaten after a large meal, such as at a wedding.

Götterspeise (, ) is the German name for a dessert made of gelatine or other gelling agent, sugar, flavourings and food colouring, it is similar or identical to jelly or jello and other gelatin desserts. The name refers to the food of the Greek gods. Other German names include ("wobbly pudding") or (; "Wobbly Peter"); green Götterspeise is also known as ("frog jelly"). Götterspeise is usually eaten with whipped cream or vanilla sauce. The best-known flavours are the following:

Wibele are very small, sweet biscuits originating from the Franconian city of Langenburg in Germany, though nowadays they are considered a Swabian speciality. The dough is made from egg white, icing sugar, flour and vanilla sugar. They are similar to "Russisch Brot" ("Russian bread"), another form of German biscuit, but instead are only baked until they are slightly brown. They are in the shape of a figure 8, and are formally supposed to be 22 millimeters long and 12 millimeters wide.

Two-layered German pudding

Muskazine is the name of a German specialty made from almonds, spices, sugar, flour and eggs. It is produced by two cafés in Dettelbach, Germany, throughout the entire year. The biscuits look like a Saint James scallop. It was first mentioned in Literature in 1691 and originated in southern Germany. It is also known in Austria, where it was first mentioned in 1790.