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

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Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to 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):

1. Take For the cake
2. Prepare 5 eggs
3. Take 1 pinch salt
4. Make ready 75 gr caster sugar
5. Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
6. Get 40 gr corn or potato (flour)starch
7. Get 1 good pinch of cinnamon
8. Get 1 pinch ground cardamom
9. Make ready 30 gr ground blanched almonds
10. Make ready 80 gr flour
11. Prepare 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. Take 75 gr icingsugar sifted
16. Prepare I/2 of grated orange peel from unwaxed or organic orange
17. Make ready thick apricot jam (optional)
18. Make ready For the chocolate frosting
19. Take 150 gr best bitter cooking chocolate, little palm fat
20. Prepare Or readymade chocolate frosting to cover cake

Traditionally, baumkuchen is made on a spit over a fire, which creates the classic rings and hole in the middle. Apple Cake Vienna Style - Traditional Recipe • Best German Recipes. Germany is the country of making the best cakes. 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. Traditionally, the layers for this cylindrical cake would be made over a revolving spit. The apricot adds another flavor profile to the cake, so while perhaps not traditional, I'm going to stick to it. The Baumkuchen "Tree Cake" that I made last year went viral and I loved it!

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