Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, sig's traditional baumkuchen (tree cake). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook sig's traditional baumkuchen (tree cake) using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake):
- Prepare For the cake
- Get 5 eggs
- Get 1 pinch salt
- Take 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
- Make ready 80 gr flour
- Get I-2 tablespoon best dark rum or Amaretto
- Make ready 50 ml milk
- Take 125 gr grated baking marzipan
- Get 180 gr soft butter, but not melted
- Get 75 gr icingsugar sifted
- Get I/2 of grated orange peel from unwaxed or organic orange
- Get thick apricot jam (optional)
- Take For the chocolate frosting
- Take 150 gr best bitter cooking chocolate, little palm fat
- Prepare Or readymade chocolate frosting to cover cake
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! The layers are absolutely stunning and take the traditional.
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 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. Pingback: Baumkuchen (German Tree Cake): A Labor of Love. Ever since you published the German Tree Cake, it has been on my "to make" list.
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