Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, bienenstich. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This Bienenstich recipe is my quick version of my Mutti's traditional German Bee Sting Cake with its sweet, chewy, and nutty topping and creamy filling. For some reason, though, it didn't find it's way into my oven. So, I decided to create a recipe that was quick and easy.
Bienenstich is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Bienenstich is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook bienenstich using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Bienenstich:
- Take Base
- Prepare 200 grams Flour
- Prepare 15 grams Fresh yeast
- Get 1/2 tbsp Sugar
- Get 20 grams Sugar
- Make ready 65 ml Warm milk
- Prepare 60 grams Soft butter
- Get 1 pinch Salt
- Make ready 1 Egg
- Prepare Topping
- Get 50 grams Butter
- Get 100 grams Flaked almonds
- Prepare 2 tbsp Milk
- Make ready 1 tbsp Honey
- Make ready 75 grams Sugar
- Prepare Filling
- Get 400 ml Custard
- Prepare 2 1/2 Gelatine leaf
- Prepare 350 ml Double Cream
There are different versions of Bee Sting Cake existing. Bee Sting Cake can be made in a round or rectangular shape. The original Bee Sting recipe was made in a rectangular shape. Bienenstich is the German word for bee sting.
Steps to make Bienenstich:
- place flour in large mixing bowl. Make a well in the middle of the floor. Put yeast, a table spoon of sugar and a couple of tablespoons in the well.
- Mix the well a little and cover with a little floor. Then cover bowl and leave to prove for 15 minutes
- Add the rest of the base ingredients and mix with dough hooks until the dough is mixed and pulls away from the bowl on the edges. cover and leave for 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile preheat oven to 180°F centigrade. 190 for a non fan oven.
- Put topping ingredients apart from almonds in a thick bottomed pot and bring to a boil.
- once boiled remove from heat and mix in almonds.
- Roll out dough and place in a cake dish approximately 30cm in diameter. then place almond mix on top and bake for 35 minutes.
- soak gelatine leaves in cold water for 5 minutes
- heat custard then add gelatine after squeezing any excess water. Remove from heat and chill the custard stiring occasionally.
- whip double cream.
- fold custard into the cream.
- Cut the base in half. put the filling in the middle.
There are multiple legends on how this delicious honey-almond dessert was named. Some claim a German baker created this cake recipe and bees were instantly attracted to it, which resulted in the baker being stung. Another story says that during a long-ago battle, German villagers defended themselves. I pondered about what to make and finally settled on making a traditional cake called "Bienenstich" or "Bee Sting Cake". My father was military, and my mother was born and raised in Bavaria.
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