Comments on: The Donauwellen recipe

By: mony

mony — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:48:12 +0000

My mother and I used to make a multi-layered (12layers)almond flavored chocolate cake with a filling in between each layer and a chocolate glaze over the whole cake. My mom passed away many years ago so I can’t find the recipe, it was in a german cook book, something like “kuchen macht freude” or “backen macht fruede”. Has anybody heard of this recipe? I would love to make this cake again with my own 12-year old daughter. PLEASE HELP!!

By: KY

KY — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:37:45 +0000

Hello Emmie-Lu, you are very welcome and thanks for stopping by. I’m glad you and your German friend like it!

By: Emmie-Lu

Emmie-Lu — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:37:33 +0000

Thank you so much for this recipe… I found it through a search of google and yours seemed the clearest of the ones I found. I made it last nite for my german friend for her birthday today – she seemed to like it although I couldn’t get quite the correct cherries in the grocery store… I improvised!!! I also made confectioner’s custard for the topping instead of the buttercream because again, i couldn’t get that product at the store. still, if i say so myself… it was very tasty and i’ll definately make it again!!!

thanks again!

By: KY

KY — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:00:25 +0000

Hello Jarra,
Thanks very much for stopping by .

By: Jarra

Jarra — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:18:57 +0000

greetings to you Misty.

i have enjoyed looking at your website blog.
originally, i came looking for a donauellen recipe and your pictures intrigued me. They, the pics are lovely, and so is the proverb stated, continuing, yes how right is that. We as humans are so conditioned that it is relevant to all this saying. Still, i hope to revisit your site many times over. I am also interested in Germany. Take care and thank you for your time and creativity. Its wonderful and i greatly appreciate it..
Blessings always Misty..
Jarra

By: KY

KY — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:30:26 +0000

Hello there,
The pronunciation in German is quite easy, you just pronounce it as it is like Bahasa Baku in the Malay Language (if you know a bit of the language from Malaysia.)

Or if you pronounce the English way, it is ‘Dou-now-wellen’ and ‘zucker’ is just ‘zuc-ker’, see, it’s easy .

By: Stardust

Stardust — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:53:46 +0000

Hi there!! =D

Thanks so much for responding. I hate to trouble you but this Donauwellen looks mouthwatering good! By the way, how should it be pronunced? And for zucker, is it just plainly said, ZUC-KER? =D Hahaha, this is so much fun!

Have a nice day!

By: KY

KY — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:56:30 +0000

Hi Stardust, yes, ‘zucker’ is sugar

I’m sorry about the buttercream, I’ll see whether I can find out any alternatives to using vanilla pudding powder and let you know.

By: Stardust

Stardust — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:37:03 +0000

Guten Tag!

Thank you for your reply! I think the buttercream making may be a problem as we do not have vanilla pudding powder here. =( Looks like I have to give this a pass…

Oh, does ‘ zucker ‘ means sugar? ;P

By: KY

KY — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:01:07 +0000

Hello Stardust,

I have looked all over the internet to find the correct translation for Vanillin Zucker but the closest I could get is ‘vanilla sugar’. If you can’t find them in supermarket, use 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence instead.

As for using the vanilla pudding powder to prepare the buttercream, it is the easiest way (I think). I haven’t tried other ways of making buttercream (yet). However maybe this may help .