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

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sig's traditional baumkuchen (tree cake). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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 Really hope you enjoy this cake.

Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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):
  1. Make ready For the cake
  2. Take 5 eggs
  3. Take 1 pinch salt
  4. Get 75 gr caster sugar
  5. Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
  6. Get 40 gr corn or potato (flour)starch
  7. Make ready 1 good pinch of cinnamon
  8. Prepare 1 pinch ground cardamom
  9. Make ready 30 gr ground blanched almonds
  10. Prepare 80 gr flour
  11. Take I-2 tablespoon best dark rum or Amaretto
  12. Prepare 50 ml milk
  13. Take 125 gr grated baking marzipan
  14. Take 180 gr soft butter, but not melted
  15. Prepare 75 gr icingsugar sifted
  16. Take 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. Get Or readymade chocolate frosting to cover cake

The characteristic rings, which resemble tree rings when sliced, give the cake its German name, Baumkuchen, which literally translates to "tree 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!

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.

The layers are absolutely stunning and take the traditional. This cake makes a great alternative to traditional Christmas cake. Baumkuchen is a German layered cake that looks like tree rings when cut into. Layers are made by broiling or grilling each layer of batter. Baumkuchen is a very interesting cake.

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