German Fruit Cake With Glaze

All you need is one bowl to mix the cake and a flan pan to bake it.

German fruit cake with glaze.

The 2 ingredient fruit glaze is a nice touch on this cake. Traditional german obst kuchen is a fresh fruit flan with a sponge type cake base sometimes with a thin layer of custard topped with fresh fruit and then sealed with a fruit glaze. Refrigerate the cake for at least 1 hour and make sure the glaze has set before serving. You always can use the juice of the fruit that you use for the cake eg sour cherries from the jar always have some liquid.

Then you become creative in making this german fruit flan recipe your own. We usually glaze our strawberry fruit tarts with dr. Our favorite tarts are made with strawberries kiwi blueberries and peaches or a combination of fresh fruit. It is a delicious fruit cake consisting of dried or candied fruits raisins nuts cardamom and cinnamon.

Pour spoon or brush the glaze over the cake. For thin glaze 1 tbsp cornstarch or 2 tbsp ultra gel. You can serve the fruit cake without the glaze but it makes the cake more moist preserves the fruit and makes the cake look like it came out of a fancy bakery. Oetker red cake glaze.

You can also order it online. You can also use canned fruit but ripe fresh fruit works best in the recipe. For medium glaze 1 1 2 tbsp cornstarch or 3 tbsp ultra gel my favorite consistency. The resulting flan is similar to the sponge biskuit flans that are available in groceries to buy.

Add 1 cup flour and stir until smooth. In germany you can buy tortenguss or cake glaze which you simply mix with water. One of my favorite toppings is fresh whole strawberries with a red currant or. It can be made with agar or gelatin and sometimes cornstarch.

Add crumbled yeast and mix thoroughly. The glaze will pick up the flavor and slight color of the fruit. Make a red fruit cake glaze use red grape juice for cakes that contain red fruit strawberries blueberries raspberries. Obst kuchen is very typically served throughout germany during the afternoon coffee hour with dollops of freshly whipped cream.

You may need to heat this mixture slightly but do not bring it to a boil or the gelatin loses the ability to set. This glaze works well for fruit in a tart pie fruit pizza cheesecake or regular cake to give it that glossy professional look. All you need is. It s a thin shell to fill any way you like and will serve 6.

Scald milk add 1 2 cup sugar and the salt. Place this mixture in the refrigerator until it starts to thicken. Stollen is a traditional german christmas cake also known as weihnachtsstollen weihnachten means christmas or christstollen. If you don t have access to this product it is easy to make a glaze which helps hold the fruit on the cake and seals in the fruit so that it stays fresher longer.