In the early 1900s, many German immigrants settled in the Hill Country of Texas. Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, Schulenburg, Boerne and more towns have a strong German heritage.
In A Texas Flower Farmer Cozy Mystery Series, one of the characters is from Germany and runs the town bakery, Sophie’s Bakery. You might also have noticed the fictional setting is Lutz, Texas. This small town has some connections to Germany.
At Sophie’s Bakery a customer can find healthy foods, but they can also buy German treats.
I’ve never baked a kuchen, but I have helped make Springerle cookies. We have antique molds there were brought to America from Germany many generations ago.
The molds are works of art themselves.
May 28 was the release of Clover Covered Corpse, and I’ll share more about it next week.
Jackie Layton 
I did notice Lutz was the name of a German municipality. Yum, Kuchen and Springerle!
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Of the two, kuchen is my favorite. Springerles may be more of an acquired taste.
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