kuchen

plural kuchens

1. countableuncountableAny of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee.

   “Shall we go down and have coffee and Kuchen?” he asked.

   1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC

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   French pastry and bread, Vienna rolls and German kuchens will also be included in the list of articles placed on sale.

   1915, National Baker, volume 20, page 72

   Peanuts can be substituted for other nuts in the multitude of German kuchens, tortes and such goodies.

   1970, The Culinarian: Official Publication of the Chefs Association of the Pacific Coast, volume 15, page 24

   It is baguettes, bagels, braided challahs, big black Russian pumpernickels, light and fluffy German kuchens and Syrian pitas large or small.

   1989, Martin M. Pegler, editor, Successful Food Merchandising and Display, Retail Reporting Corporation, →ISBN, page 7, column 1

   We always make up two crusts at a time, lining two pans with the kuchen dough and keeping one in the icebox until ready to bake.

   2010 [1949], Marion Flexner, Out Of Kentucky Kitchens, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 226