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

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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.

Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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

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 effort. It is quite a rich cake, so a small piece is quite suffic. Baumkuchen became the "king of cakes" and even represented the confectioner's craft as a whole with its depiction on the official emblem.

Steps 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.

Following the tree cake's triumphal procession, centers of the art of baking Baumkuchen established mainly in the east of Germany. Among those, the town of Salzwedel undoubtedly formed the capital. Baumkuchen is a traditional German cake. The appearance of the cake resembles a tree's growth rings. It is labour intensive cake if you make it in the traditional way, but I am going to show you how to make this beautiful cake at home the easy way!

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