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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. It is relatively simple but a little time consuming, as every layer needs to be slightly cooled, however it is well worth the.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sig's traditional baumkuchen (tree cake) using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake):
- Take For the cake
- Make ready 5 eggs
- Take 1 pinch salt
- Make ready 75 gr caster sugar
- Take 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
- Make ready 40 gr corn or potato (flour)starch
- Make ready 1 good pinch of cinnamon
- Take 1 pinch ground cardamom
- Make ready 30 gr ground blanched almonds
- Make ready 80 gr flour
- Make ready I-2 tablespoon best dark rum or Amaretto
- Prepare 50 ml milk
- Take 125 gr grated baking marzipan
- Get 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
- Make ready thick apricot jam (optional)
- Get For the chocolate frosting
- Prepare 150 gr best bitter cooking chocolate, little palm fat
- Get Or readymade chocolate frosting to cover cake
It resembles tree rings when the cake is sliced. The cake can be cooked on a rotating spit. Another method is to bake the cake in a special oven with a cylinder-shaped core that rolls inside the oven. Whip butter and sugar well until creamy.
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.
Another method is to bake the cake in a special oven with a cylinder-shaped core that rolls inside the oven. Whip butter and sugar well until creamy. Gradually add egg yolks and the rum, zest, salt, almonds, flour and cornstarch to the butter-sugar mixture until a light, foamy batter forms. Beat egg whites until very stiff and fold gently into the batter. Baumkuchen is a kind of layered cake.
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