A Brunch Bunch Favorite - My Recipe Rotation - Apple Kuchen

The countdown to the start of our annual adventure has begun. We will be spending October in Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan. For most of the trip, I will not have access to the internet, so I've put the blog on autopilot to assure you have something to read when you link here. This year, I've picked 35 recipes from my personal recipe rotation to share with you while I'm gone. When, and if, I am able,  I'll bolster these recipes with pictures and verbal reflections of the trip.  November should see the return of business as usual. Hopefully, we'll be able to talk before then. 

From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...The Silver Fox comes from a family of German ancestry. His mother was a fabulous pastry cook and her kuchen puts any I make to shame. That, however, does not keep me from trying to best a pastry whose taste, I'm certain, has been enhanced by memory. While it is a bit of work, I love the kuchen I'm featuring today. The aroma of apples and fall spices brings back memories of a childhood that included bonfires and the smell of burning leaves that was enhanced, of course, by the aroma of cinnamon and cloves melding in the oven. I find it impossible to think of a fall kitchen without apples and this kuchen is so pretty, and, I might add, so tasty, that if I could only pick one apple dessert to last a lifetime, this would be it. The kuchen first appeared here in November of 2008. Here's what I had to say about it at the time.