Sweet Noodles

I've been indulging in some sort of creamy parmesan sauce topped with noodles. Yes, I said topped with noodles, since I tend to go a little sauce heavy to the point of declaring it a soup. However, someone brought up sweet noodles in conversation the other day and I thought it would be an appropriate topic to cover here. If you have never heard of sweet noodle dishes, they exist. The Italians even do sweet ravioli, those crazy bastards. However, the Germans are not to be outdone and top their noodles with sugar, fruit compotes and even sweet curd cheese. They invented an entire sweet noodle category and you can have a different dessert noodle every day of the week.
I remember eating them back home but have not made them here yet. Not sure how spaghetti covered with sweet cheese sauce would go over with my husband. Although he has adapted to the role of culinary guinea pig pretty well at this point.
To get your imagination flowing, here are a few pictures of various dessert noodle dishes. Keep in mind that these are not actually eaten for dessert as they are the main attraction, so they would replace your nice big juicy porterhouse steak. Yeah right.

If it looks like sweet lasagna, guess what, it is

 

 

 

This is akin to rice pudding, but made with macaroni

 

 

Both of these pictures are milch nudeln, which means milk noodles - noodles dunked in sweetened milk - the first is topped with vanilla and stewed plums and the second is topped with cinnamon