Spit cake translates as "tree cake". Baumstriezel is made of a batter made with yeast, and has a caramel crust while the Baumkuchen is not baked with yeast but with baking powder, and has no crust of caramelized sugar. Baumkuchen has as its ingredients eggs, marzipan, sugar, butter and flour. Baumkuchen is served plain or with white sugar icing or covered with chocolate. This type of cake is known in Austria as Prügelkrapfen and in Luxembourg called Baamkuch, traditionally served on special occasions, such as weddings. The Austrian Prügelkrapfen or Prügeltorte is a variety of spit cake with a liquid base dough
Pound cake use of different shapes and sizes of tins, a wide variety of traditional German cakes are made. For example, this dough or a minor variation of it is often used to make cakes made in a loaf tin ("Orangenkuchen" - orange cake; "Nußkuchen"- hazelnut cake), marbled cakes in a bundt tin ("Marmorkuchen" ) and other flavor combinations in shaped tins "(Falscher" "Rehrücken" - fake venison saddle with bitter chocolate and almonds , "Osterlamm" - Easter Lamb with vanilla and rum). Pound cake Pound cake refers to a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: