Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sig's traditional baumkuchen (tree cake). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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):
- Get For the cake
- Get eggs
- Take salt
- Prepare caster sugar
- Make ready vanilla sugar
- Take corn or potato (flour)starch
- Get good pinch of cinnamon
- Get ground cardamom
- Make ready ground blanched almonds
- Get flour
- Take I-2 tablespoon best dark rum or Amaretto
- Take milk
- Make ready grated baking marzipan
- Take soft butter, but not melted
- Prepare icingsugar sifted
- Take I/2 of grated orange peel from unwaxed or organic orange
- Take thick apricot jam (optional)
- Make ready For the chocolate frosting
- Get best bitter cooking chocolate, little palm fat
- Prepare Or readymade chocolate frosting to cover cake
Steps 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.
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