Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake)
Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake)

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Making Tree Ring cake (Baumkuchen) Baumkuchen is a German variety of spit cake. It is a traditional pastry of many European countries throughout, and also a. Baumkuchen is a German variety of spit cake.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to 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):
  1. Make ready For the cake
  2. Take 5 eggs
  3. Make ready 1 pinch salt
  4. Take 75 gr caster sugar
  5. Get 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
  6. Make ready 40 gr corn or potato (flour)starch
  7. Take 1 good pinch of cinnamon
  8. Take 1 pinch ground cardamom
  9. Prepare 30 gr ground blanched almonds
  10. Get 80 gr flour
  11. Take I-2 tablespoon best dark rum or Amaretto
  12. Take 50 ml milk
  13. Take 125 gr grated baking marzipan
  14. Take 180 gr soft butter, but not melted
  15. Get 75 gr icingsugar sifted
  16. Get I/2 of grated orange peel from unwaxed or organic orange
  17. Take thick apricot jam (optional)
  18. Prepare For the chocolate frosting
  19. Take 150 gr best bitter cooking chocolate, little palm fat
  20. Make ready Or readymade chocolate frosting to cover cake

The layers are absolutely stunning and take the traditional. The German version of spit cake, known as baumkuchen, is just one of many similar cakes found throughout Europe. The cake is often additionally coated with sugar or chocolate glaze. Miniature, cut up slices of this cake - called baumkuchenspitzen or tree cake tips - are usually glazed in chocolate.

Instructions to make Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake):
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Mix the flour, fine ground almonds, cinnamon and cornflour, gently lift under the eggwhites until combined, set aside.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Cool the cake, lift out of tin. Cut the cake lengthways in half. Spread with jam. (optional) top with other half of cake.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.

Baumkuchen is a very interesting cake. The reason why it is called a tree cake is because of the many layers of cake that when sliced through resemble the rings of a tree (the Indonesian Lapis cake is similar looking although not round). Baumkuchen is generally quite expensive and hard to find. Original Salzwedel baumkuchen (tree cake) is undoubtedly the Altmark region's most famous speciality. The cake is not cut into wedges like a torte, but served in small crescent-shaped slices.

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