Today’s term was yanked from one of the tasks on this past week’s Amazing Race, which was to gather up ingredients for Kuchen.
Quoted from Food Lover’s Companion.
Kuchen [KOO-khehn] : A fruit – or cheese-filled yeast-raised cake, usually seved for breakfast but also enjoyed as a dessert. It originated in Germany but is now enjoyed in many variations throughout much of Euope and the United States. The word Kaffeekuchen is German for ‘coffee cake.”