If you’ve ever wandered into a Philadelphia bakery, you’ve probably experienced the smell of freshly baked German Butter Cake: yeast, butter and sugar dusted with powdered sugar. This dessert has a ...

For years I have been trying to find a recipe for Philadelphia butter cake (also known as German butter cake, or as just butter cake in the Northeast at any German bakery). It is not a layer cake, but ...

Maryann Sieminski of Oldsmar "grew up in Philadelphia and (has) fond memories of Bauer's bakery and their German butter cake. Can anyone share a German butter cake recipe?" Cindy Shea of Spring Hill ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- This recipe hails from retired educator Bruce Mohlenoff of Westerleigh whose grandmother, Dora Mohlenhoff, would poke her fingers into the cake before it baked. She'd fill the ...

German butter cake - which also goes by the name gooey butter cake - seems to be one of those dishes that has many meanings to many people in many places. Germany, for example, has a butter cake, a ...