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

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, sig's traditional baumkuchen (tree cake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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 well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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