FeòragBavarian breakfast.
Native German speakers - is there a functional difference between Kuchen and Torte?
tamaratram@feorag Kuchen is dry, usually baked in one go, Torte is based more on cream, needs to be assembled in multiple steps.
@fearandloathingintheprovinz It’s confusing to U.K. English speakers, because “cake” would be used to describe a Torte, and the Streuselkuchen I had would be a “tart” (because of the pastry shell).
sbi@feorag @fearandloathingintheprovinz Actually that looks more like an Obstkuchen with Streusel topping. (Pflaumenstreusel?) A pure Streuselkuchen is just a yeast dough bottom with crumbles on top. (No, if the yeast dough is fresh and the crumbles are good, that's not too dry.)
A Torte is when you take a ready-baked dough and add things, mostly (but: Erdbeertorte) also cutting the dough into layers. Between the layers mostly goes cream.
A Torte is when you take a ready-baked dough and add things, mostly (but: Erdbeertorte) also cutting the dough into layers. Between the layers mostly goes cream.
@sbi @fearandloathingintheprovinz - it has a bit of fruit in the crumble, but I’d mostly a pastry like a soft shortbread.
@feorag well, germans also took "cakes" and butchered it into "keks", so we've got kuchen which are tarts, torten which are cakes, and kekse which have nothing to do with their namesake cakes.
Christian@feorag Kuchen is prepared then baked, Torte is baked then prepared. There are lots of exceptions to this rule though.
Jens T.@feorag It is a kind of cake vs. pie situation. The shorthand is: Torte has some form of cream in it, and Kuchen doesn’t.
Michael