Where The Original Tree Ring Cake Comes From | Baking Baumkuchen In Salzwedel, Germany | DW Food

Baking the world-renowned German “Baumkuchen” (or tree ring cake) is a complex undertaking. It’s baked in layers, one after the other over a roller, giving the impression of the annual rings formed in tree trunks. It’s popular in Germany, but also has a large fan base in Asia, especially in Japan. German confectioner Karl Joseph Wilhelm Juchheim introduced the buttery layered cake there a good century ago. The oldest surviving recipe can be found in a Heidelberg manuscript from 1450. We went to the small German town of Salzwedel, which is considered the birthplace of the original Baumkuchen, to see how this traditional tree ring cake has been baked in the same way for over 100 years.
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Love hearing this narrator in both German and English !!

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Salzwedeler is the BEST ! 😍Can't wait to come to Germany and get one again. Always my favourite birthday cake :D

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Danke für den spannenden und leckeren Einblick! 😍 Wir waren vor kurzem auf Städtereise und dabei in Salzwedel zum Baumkuchen-Tasting für unser Reiseformat. Einfach so leckere Empfehlung! 😋❤

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my next bucket list destination besides Austria ✔

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I need to visit this place

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I would love to visit this place if i ever visit Germany

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I volunteer to eat all the ends!

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My absolute favorite cake

[@TheEigylyte]

we lithuanians have similar cacke sakotis , so similar to this but looks more like tree and always so tall , our muts have on the table cacke :)

[@kaleoarnold3709]

I always thought it looked like a used paint roller lol (it taste pretty good tho)

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Oh wow that looks so so good

[@rutkiuss]

In Lithuania we have a variation of baumkuchen (bankuchenas in Lithuanian), which we call Šakotis (English translation would be branch-y). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0akotis

[@vitkomusic6624]

Actually Germans have a variation of baunkuchen.

[@winter10x06]

If you’re based in Asia and the pacific and Austria is too far for you, try Baumkuchen out in Japan, too! It’s also just as moist and tender there and not too sweet like a lot of western desserts I have encountered! Baumkuchen has become so popular in Japan that even 7-11 convenience stores have started to sell Baumkuchen as a pastry that’s packaged!

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This is so cool .i was just eating one matcha flavor my sister received from a previous wedding she attended .I was curious how it is made so here i am 😊

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I tried it & it is the most delicious ever!!!

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why do you lie? its not more delicious than apple pie

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I dont know,it s always warm my heart to hear German Languange,coz l have been experiencing a lot of sweet memories wurh thrir personaluty..

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Thank you for this video. I saw a little clip about them on GBBO but they didn’t cut into one or talk about the flavor- this was so interesting!

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Our pleasure!

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In indonesia have a smilliar cake like this we call it " lapis surabaya "

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Lapis legit 18 layer. Lapis surabaya 3 layer

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Lapis legit. Not lapis surabaya.

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Ja dieser Kuchen ist sehr lecker.

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I just had it today, sari roti made it

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"Ein sehr bekannter Baumkuchenbäcker aus Tokio war mit seiner Kru hier"

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Crew

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kings of convenience :)

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ohh lue lapis wkwk. gegara maruko nihh

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At indonesia, its name Lapis Legit

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German pastries and cakes are the best.

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Looks amazing, but please please please put some gloves on when handling food 😒

[@vitkomusic6624]

It originally was cooked in Eastern Europe. When Germans took lithuania in ww2 they adopted it. Poles did too.

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You heard that they talked about the year 1807?

[@dafosaddikk]

Could we be talking about cultural appropriation from the Hungarian chimney cake, which might be the origins of this?

[@CptToast_]

Chimney cakes have one layer of thicker dough wrapped around the cylinder it’s baked on. Baumkuchen has multiple layers of dough applied one after another. Tbh I really couldn’t care less if it was inspired by chimney cakes or not. There’s so much shared culture on that continent. And if you go by that logic, most European foods have been „appropriated“ and adeptness over time. Every European country has their own version of some meaty filling wrapped in pasta dough like Ravioli, Maultaschen or Piroggen. So maybe let’s not throw the word „appropriation“ in there.

[@IRINUK26]

Diferent cakes , flavour and texture ..

[@sonatine3266]

German, Austrian and Hungarian cuisines have a lot of similarities. Take a look at Rouladen, Gulash, Baumkuchen... our food traditions are very close. :)

[@daimonbreitmaier1176]

Both chimney cake and Baumkuchen are different variations of spit cake, there's no cultural appropriation going on

[@Kackpuh]

They are completely different cakes. Nobody knows how old the Kürtőskalács really is and famously enough nobody knows who invented it, the Germans in Romania and the Hungarians in Romania both claim it as their own.
And cultural appropriation is just a silly cincept. If you would really take that seriously most people in the world wouldn't be allowed to use computers or cars.