Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, sig's traditional baumkuchen (tree cake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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".
Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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):
- Make ready For the cake
- Take 5 eggs
- Take 1 pinch salt
- Get 75 gr caster sugar
- Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
- Take 40 gr corn or potato (flour)starch
- Prepare 1 good pinch of cinnamon
- Prepare 1 pinch ground cardamom
- Take 30 gr ground blanched almonds
- Prepare 80 gr flour
- Prepare I-2 tablespoon best dark rum or Amaretto
- Get 50 ml milk
- Get 125 gr grated baking marzipan
- Take 180 gr soft butter, but not melted
- Make ready 75 gr icingsugar sifted
- Make ready I/2 of grated orange peel from unwaxed or organic orange
- Prepare thick apricot jam (optional)
- Prepare For the chocolate frosting
- Prepare 150 gr best bitter cooking chocolate, little palm fat
- Take Or readymade chocolate frosting to cover cake
Baumkuchen is a ring-shaped layer cake that's a household name in Japan. As a result, the cake has multiple concentric rings, resembling a tree trunk (baumkuchen means "tree cake" in German). At Hoshino Resorts RISONARE Tomamu, you can bake traditional baumkuchen by layering batter. Baumkuchen, translated as tree cake, is a many-layered sponge cake baked on a rotating cylinder.
Instructions 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.
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. 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. Allow for syrup to cool slightly, and enjoy!
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