What type of food is a Berliner Pfannkuchen?
Berliner (doughnut) for a pastry. Berliner (doughnut) A Berliner Pfannkuchen (referred to as Berliner for short) is a traditional German pastry similar to a doughnut with no central hole, made from sweet yeast dough fried in fat or oil, with a marmalade or jam filling and usually icing, powdered sugar or conventional sugar on top. They are sometimes made with chocolate, champagne, custard, mocha, or "advocaat" filling, or with no filling at all. The yeast dough contains a good deal of eggs, milk and butter. For the classical Pfannkuchen made in Berlin the dough gets baled, deep-fried in lard, whereby the distinctive
Berliner (doughnut) and serve them together with regular Berliners without telling anyone. The terminology used to refer to this delicacy differs greatly in various areas of Germany. While called "Berliner Ballen" or simply "Berliner" in Northern and Western Germany as well as in Switzerland, the Berliners themselves and residents of Brandenburg, Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony know them as "Pfannkuchen", which in the rest of Germany generally means pancakes; pancakes are known there as "Eierkuchen" ("egg cakes"). In parts of southern and central Germany (Bavaria), as well as in much of Austria, they are a variety of "Krapfen" (derived from Old High