From Food & Wine

Frankies co-owner Frank Castronovo's wife, Heike, a talented home baker, created Prime Meats' outstanding jam tart with cocoa-flavored pastry. "If she entered it in a country fair in her hometown in Germany, she'd win a blue ribbon," says Frank Falcinelli. "But she has an unfair advantage, since her father is a professional baker in Freiburg, Germany."

Linzer Torte

From Midwest Living

This firm butter cake is studded with toasted almonds ("mandel" means almond in German). The recipe for kuchen is similar to a pound cake.

Mandel Kuchen

From Midwest Living

Fresh peach slices are covered in a custard filling for this dessert. It's finished off with a crumbly cinnamon-sugar topping.

Peach Kuchen

From Better Homes and Gardens

This fancy chocolate cake recipe, topped with reduced-fat frozen dessert topping and cherry pie filling has only 1 gram of saturated fat and less than 1 milligram of cholesterol per serving.

Black Forest Cake