Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special 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.
Great recipe for Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake). This is another of Germany's traditional Christmas bakes. It has many layers and is griddled in the oven.
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To begin with this 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 cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake):
- Take For the cake
- Get 5 eggs
- Prepare 1 pinch salt
- Prepare 75 gr caster sugar
- Get 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
- Prepare 40 gr corn or potato (flour)starch
- Prepare 1 good pinch of cinnamon
- Take 1 pinch ground cardamom
- Make ready 30 gr ground blanched almonds
- Get 80 gr flour
- Make ready I-2 tablespoon best dark rum or Amaretto
- Prepare 50 ml milk
- Prepare 125 gr grated baking marzipan
- Get 180 gr soft butter, but not melted
- Make ready 75 gr icingsugar sifted
- Get I/2 of grated orange peel from unwaxed or organic orange
- Take thick apricot jam (optional)
- Prepare For the chocolate frosting
- Make ready 150 gr best bitter cooking chocolate, little palm fat
- Take Or readymade chocolate frosting to cover cake
Following the tree cake's triumphal procession, centers of the art of baking Baumkuchen established mainly in the east of Germany. Among those, the town of Salzwedel undoubtedly formed the capital. Baumkuchen is a traditional German cake. The appearance of the cake resembles a tree's growth rings.
Step by Step 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 labour intensive cake if you make it in the traditional way, but I am going to show you how to make this beautiful cake at home the easy way! Baumkuchen is a German variety of spit cake. 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.
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