5 Sweet Treats Dresden Has To Offer

If you’re making your way across Dresden, it’s best to have a plan of attack for all your meals. There are such a wide variety of foods to enjoy that you might never hit up your most anticipated hot-spots otherwise! But while you’re busy planning out lunches and dinners, don’t forget to squeeze in room for German desserts to reduce your travel stress! 

Here are five German desserts you can get in Dresden that will blow your socks off.

Quarkkeulchen

First on the list of things to eat when traveling to Dresden, Germany is a dish that doubles as both sweet and savory. The star of the show is a dough made from raisins, boiled potatoes, and curd cheese. These dough balls are then flattened and pan-fried. It’s the toppings that really make them special, though. While you can have them served with fried mushrooms or gravy, many prefer dessert versions with hot cherries, applesauce and cinnamon, or vanilla ice cream. German desserts like this one will blow you away!

Dresdener Eierschecke

If you’re a fan of cake-like desserts and puddings, you’ll definitely want to give this one a try. This is one of the most popular German desserts in Dresden and can , almost anywhere in the city. It features a fluffy, yeasty dough for the base, which is then topped with quark cheese crème. The top layer features a pudding made with milk, butter, vanilla, and eggs. This treat sometimes comes coated in chocolate or finished with raisins.

Dresdener Christstollen

Similar to a fruitcake but with a heartier punch, Christstollen is one of the most popular Dresden food exports. In fact, it’s become so famous that it has been adopted by the country on a whole as a holiday treat. This dessert has rum-soaked raisins, almonds, butter, plenty of spices, and candied orange and lemon peel. You can enjoy this treat just about anywhere if you’ll be visiting during the winter season. They also make for great souvenirs and come in nice, easily carried containers that are often decorated for the Christmas holiday. This is one of those German desserts you can try to make yourself but is best straight out of Dresden.

Pulsnitzer Pfefferkuchen

If you haven’t tried a traditionally-crafted gingerbread before now, then you’re in luck. This dish isn’t a seasonal product despite the state of most gingerbread-like desserts, so you can get it all year round. This gingerbread comes in many different varieties, but one defining feature is the thick chocolate coating covering the entire square. It’s one of my favorite German desserts!

Gaffee Un Guchn

Gaffee Un Guchn isn’t a food, but rather a phrase that means “coffee and cake” in Sachsen dialect. It’s used to refer to the combination of sweets (usually cake) served alongside coffee, and can be shorthand for the café culture in Dresden. No one does coffee and German desserts quite like this city, so leaving Dresden without stopping by a few cafes to drink some coffee and taste their desserts would really be a missed opportunity.

Now that you know which German desserts to enjoy, it’s time to get your travel plans in order! Germany has an intricately networked public transportation system, and there are also options like renting cars from CarRentals.com that will let you travel in luxury. However you get there, your palate is definitely going to thank you for going.