Bienenstich is a German cake made primarily out of sweet bread, vanilla custard filling and honey-glazed sliced-almond topping. Bienenstich means “bee sting” in German.
One source for the origin of bienenstich cites a legend of German bakers from the 15th century who lobbed beehives at raiders from a neighboring village, successfully repelling them, and celebrated later by baking a version of this cake named after their efforts.
The basis is a sweet yeast dough, which is rolled out on a baking tray. Before baking it, boiled sugar or honey, cream and sliced almonds is applied. The mass is applied relatively hot, otherwise it will not be spreadable. After baking and cooling it, the pastry is divided horizontally.
Bienenstich is a German cake made primarily out of sweet bread, vanilla custard filling and honey-glazed sliced-almond topping. Bienenstich means “bee sting” in German.
German in origin, Bienenstich dates back to the 15th century when legend has it that the townspeople of Andernach, Germany, avoided an attack on them by hurling bees' nests at the attackers, causing them to run away. The town's bakers celebrated by creating a version of what is now called Bienenstich.
Bienenstich (German pronunciation: [ˈbiːnənˌʃtɪç]) or bee sting cake is a German dessert cake made of a sweet yeast dough with a baked-on topping of caramelized almonds and filled with vanilla custard, buttercream or cream. The earliest German and Swiss recipes for the cake date to the beginning of the 20th century.
Bienenstich means “bee sting” in German. One source for the origin of bienenstich cites a legend of German bakers from the 15th century who lobbed beehives at raiders from a neighboring village, successfully repelling them, and celebrated later by baking a version of this cake named after their efforts.
The Andernach bakers invented Bienenstich, or bee sting cake, to celebrate. Another legend claims that a baker testing new cake recipes was stung by a bee attracted to the honey almond topping. He decided to name the cake after the incident.
Originating in the United States, it was named after English-American chocolate maker Samuel German, who developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe. Sweet baking chocolate is traditionally used for the cake's flavor, but few recipes call for it today.
The Russian Honey Cake dates back to the 19th century. It's said that a young chef made it for Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, who decidedly disliked honey. But, she loved the cake! And so did everyone else.
The first Baumkuchen are attributed by some historians to the Hungarians, and by others to the Greeks. The first known preserved recipe in the world comes from an Italian cookbook from the year 1426.
History. The origin of the cake's name is not entirely clear. The confectioner Josef Keller (1887–1981) claimed to have invented Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte in its present form in 1915 at the prominent Café Agner in Bad Godesberg, now a suburb of Bonn about 300 km (190 mi) north of the Black Forest.
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