40 dutch cake recipes

Dutch oven raspberry cobbler made with cake mix and lemon-lime soda for a fluffy topping over bubbly raspberry pie filling. A campfire dessert that works at home too.

Old-fashioned rhubarb pudding with a stale cake or bread base, sweetened stewed rhubarb filling, and golden meringue topping. A Pennsylvania Dutch-style baked dessert that uses up leftover bread.

Molasses shoo-fly cake is the iconic Pennsylvania Dutch pie: alternating layers of dark molasses custard and spiced brown-sugar crumbs in a flaky pastry shell. Coffee, dunked, no negotiation.

Molasses whoopie pies: cake-like ginger molasses cookies sandwiched with a sweet ginger-molasses buttercream filling. The Pennsylvania Dutch lunchbox classic with a warm-spice twist on the chocolate original.

Old-fashioned spiced peaches preserved whole in a brown sugar and vinegar syrup with cinnamon, cloves, and allspice. A Pennsylvania Dutch canning tradition.

Creamy apple pie with a sour cream custard filling and cinnamon crumb topping. Simple Pennsylvania Dutch baking with no spices in the filling, just pure apple flavor.

Pennsylvania Dutch baked spare ribs nestled into tangy sauerkraut and slow-roasted until fork-tender, then topped with fluffy homemade drop dumplings steamed right in the pan.

A super quick and easy Apple Spice Cake with frosting quickly comes together for a weeknight dessert, using cake mix and apple pie filling.