Our Zwetschgenkuchen or Pflaumenkuchen is a sheet cake or fruit pie made from yeast dough or shortcrust dough that is thinly spread onto a baking sheet and covered with pitted prune plums. It is popular as a summer cake and has different local labelings throughout Germany.

Augsburger Zwetschgendatschi In Hessen, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland is in known as Quetschekuche, in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and parts of Austria it's called Zwetschgendatschi and in Rhineland and the Eifel Prummetaat. "Datschi" is supposed to derieve from the dialect-word '"detschen" or "datschen" that can be translated as "pinching" (as the plums are pinched into the dough). Although it's common to serve it with Streusel (a crumbly mixture of butter, sugar and flour) the original recipe serves it plain without any toppings. Wolfgang does it with the Streusel.
Since this years season is short, don't miss to get YOUR cake to share with friends and family.