Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, sig's traditional baumkuchen (tree cake). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Handmade Noodles Making Master / 手工麵線製作達人- Taiwanese Traditional Food. The Baumkuchen "Tree Cake" that I made last year went viral and I loved it! That's why I decided to bring it back with a whole new twist for Give the cake a generous brushing of the sweet rum syrup.
Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have sig's traditional baumkuchen (tree cake) using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake):
- Get For the cake
- Take 5 eggs
- Get 1 pinch salt
- Take 75 gr caster sugar
- Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
- Make ready 40 gr corn or potato (flour)starch
- Make ready 1 good pinch of cinnamon
- Get 1 pinch ground cardamom
- Prepare 30 gr ground blanched almonds
- Make ready 80 gr flour
- Prepare I-2 tablespoon best dark rum or Amaretto
- Prepare 50 ml milk
- Make ready 125 gr grated baking marzipan
- Get 180 gr soft butter, but not melted
- Take 75 gr icingsugar sifted
- Get I/2 of grated orange peel from unwaxed or organic orange
- Make ready thick apricot jam (optional)
- Take For the chocolate frosting
- Prepare 150 gr best bitter cooking chocolate, little palm fat
- Take Or readymade chocolate frosting to cover cake
Lena, the Incredible Baumkuchen Tree Cake. Getting a grandmother's recipe is like receiving a nugget of gold or being the recipient of gleaming treasure. Layer after delicious layer (schichttorte means "layer cake"!), this traditional German dessert is total fruit and chocolate satisfaction. Baumkuchen is a German variety of spit cake.
Steps to make Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake):
- Preheat oven to 220°, you do need use the griddle function of the oven for this cake. Grease a springform pan. I use a square one but you can use any. Line this with baking paper.
- Separate the eggs. First whisk the whites to a peak with a small pinch of salt then whisk in the sugar and vanilla sugar, carry on whisking for a few more minutes.
- Mix the flour, fine ground almonds, cinnamon and cornflour, gently lift under the eggwhites until combined, set aside.
- Grate the marzipan with the milk and rum, then puree them together, set aside. In a bowl cream the butter and icing sugar, then add each egg yolk separately, mixing them in. Add the marzipan puree. Grate and add the orange peel, mix in. Gently lift the egg white mix under.
- Now you scoop about 2 and to 4 tablespoons of the mixture into your cake tin depending on size of tin and spread evenly across the bottom of the tin. Bake in oven for a few minutes until slightly browned, remove from oven, slightly cool layer, spread another 2 tablespoons of mixture over repeat process until you used up all mixture. Depending on size of tin this makes about 10 to 12 layers.
- Cool the cake, lift out of tin. Cut the cake lengthways in half. Spread with jam. (optional) top with other half of cake.
- Melt chocolate gently with a spoonful palm fat or readymade chocolate cake covering. You can now either cover the whole cake (but you will need twice amount of chocolate) or you can pour the melted chocolate over the top of equally cut separate traditional triangles. Really hope you enjoy this cake.
- Serve with either clotted or whisked cream and or a little of the apricot jam if you not used it in the cake if you like. Enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea.
It is a traditional pastry of many European countries, and also a popular snack and dessert in Japan. The characteristic rings, which resemble tree rings when sliced, give the cake its German name, Baumkuchen, which literally translates to "tree cake". Baumkuchen, translated as tree cake, is a many-layered sponge cake baked on a rotating cylinder. Baumkuchen comes in two traditional styles: smooth and rough. Smooth cakes are made by dipping the rotating cylinder into a vat, which coats it with a very uniform layer.
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