Baumkuchen cranberry slices

AUTHOR
Kelli Murphy
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 4
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 7-10 Tbsp Grease
  • 250 g soft butter
  • 7-10 Tbsp pulp of 1 vanilla pod
  • 250 g + 75 g sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 1 knife tip Nutmeg
  • 5 Eggs (Gr. M)
  • 200 g Flour
  • 50 g Cornstarch
  • 75 g + 125 g whipped cream
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Arrack or rum
  • 10 sheets white gelatine
  • 750 g Edible quark (20 % fat)
  • 1 TEASPOON Lemon juice
  • 100 g + 300 g thickened wild cranberries (glass)

Directions

  1. 1

    Grease square (24 x 24 cm) or round (26 cm Ø) springform pan. Cream butter, vanilla pulp, 250 g sugar, 1 pinch of salt and nutmeg. Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour and starch and add 75 g cream and arrack in turns.

  2. 2

    Spread 3-4 tablespoons of dough thinly into the mould. Bake under the grill of the oven preheated to 250 °C on the middle shelf for about 4 minutes until light brown. In the same way, gradually spread about 6 more layers in the tin and bake until the dough is used up (the Baumkuchen will be about 2.5 cm high).

  3. 3

    Let it cool down.

  4. 4

    Cover the Baumkuchen with the rim of the mould. Soak 6 sheets of gelatine in cold water. Mix quark, lemon juice and 75 g sugar. Whip 125 g cream in a high mixing bowl until stiff. Squeeze the soaked gelatine, dissolve at low heat.

  5. 5

    Gradually stir 6-8 tbsp. quark cream into the gelatine, then stir into the rest of the cream. Stir in 100 g cranberries and fold in the cream. Spread on the Baumkuchen and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.

  6. 6

    Soak 4 leaves of gelatine in cold water. Then squeeze out and dissolve at low heat. Stir in 300 g cranberries by the spoonful. Spread on the cake and refrigerate for about 3 hours. Remove the edge of the mould.

  7. 7

    Cut the cake into 3 strips and cut 4 trapezoidal pieces from each strip.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
530 kcal
CARBS
49 g
FATS
28 g
PROTEINS
14 g

Categories & Tags

MiscellaneousChristmas