Baked goods seem to be a staple of German cuisine. You can find bakeries everywhere. There are locally-owned bakeries, chains of bakeries and even bakeries in the subway stations! You're never far from fresh bread or pastries in Germany.
Apfel-creme-plunder, which is a type of apple pastry.
I really liked it! The dough is like a cross between a croissant and a doughnut, and the filling reminded me of American apple pie.
First, the baker has to mix flour, yeast, sugar, salt, eggs, milk and vanilla to make the dough. Then the baker rolls the dough out with a rolling pin, folds it over and rolls it out again until it's four layers thick. After chilling the rolled dough in the fridge, the baker cuts it up and wraps it around the filling made out of apples, cream and jam, then bakes it.
Apples are almost as important to German cuisine as bakeries are. Apples grow easily in all but the most northern parts of Germany. Germany produces around one million tons of apples every year, and some people follow a tradition to plant an apple tree first when they start a new garden at home.
