How to pronounce Berliner

Berliner is written Berliner Pfannkuchen where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /bɛʁˈliːnɐ ˈpfanˌkuːxn̩/. In plain English letters that is bair-LEE-ner PFAHN-koo-khen, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Berliner?

Berliner is a dessert of Germany. Where it comes from: Berlin. People usually eat it at teatime and on festive days. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and egg. It tastes sweet.

Where Berliner comes from

Berliner is one of 57 signature dishes of Germany on this map. See all dishes from Berlin.

• Currywurst · Street food · Berlin

  Currywurst was invented in West Berlin in 1949.

• Berliner Weisse Berliner Weiße · Drink · Berlin

  Berliner Weisse, "Berlin white", is a cloudy, sour wheat beer of about 3.5 percent alcohol.

• Sauerbraten · Main dish · Rhineland

  Sauerbraten means "sour roast".

• Brezel · Bread & pastry · Bavaria and Swabia

  The Brezel is a knot of dough dipped in a lye solution before baking, which gives it its deep brown, shiny skin and distinctive taste, and sprinkled with coarse salt.

• Maultaschen · Noodles & pasta · Swabia (Baden-Württemberg)

  Maultaschen are Swabia's big filled pasta pockets: sheets of noodle dough wrapped around a filling of sausage meat, onions and soaked bread rolls, seasoned with herbs and spices such as parsley, pepper and nutmeg.

• Käsespätzle · Noodles & pasta · Swabia (Baden-Württemberg)

  Käsespätzle is the Swabian answer to macaroni cheese.

Food of Germany

Dishes like Berliner in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Berliner:

• Wuzetka · Dessert · Warsaw (Masovia), Poland

  Wuzetka is a Warsaw cake: two layers of cocoa sponge filled with jam and whipped cream, covered with chocolate icing and topped with a swirl of cream.

• Sachertorte · Dessert · Vienna, Austria

  In 1832, 16-year-old Franz Sacher, an apprentice in the kitchen of Prince Metternich in Vienna, had to make a dessert when the head chef fell ill.

• Madeleine de Commercy · Dessert · Commercy (Lorraine), France

  The madeleine is a small egg sponge cake with a scalloped shell shape, which comes from the moulds with shell-shaped hollows in which it is baked.

• Tiramisù · Dessert · Treviso, Italy

  Tiramisù is layers of savoiardi biscuits soaked in coffee and a cream of mascarpone, egg yolks and sugar, dusted with cocoa.