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Šakotis ("tree cake" [1]) (Polish: sękacz [ˈsɛŋkat͡ʂ] ⓘ, [2] Belarusian: банкуха, romanized: bankukha [3] [4] [5]) is a Lithuanian, Polish and Belarusian traditional spit cake. It is a cake made of butter, egg whites and yolks, flour, sugar, and cream, cooked on a rotating spit in an oven or over an open fire.
Kürtőskalács is made of a relatively hard and dry yeast-dough. A "twine" of dough is wrapped around the length of the spit, and then the spit with the strip of dough on it is rolled in sugar. Before or during baking, it's brushed with melted butter. The cake is ready when its surface has an even, brownish–red color.
A spit cake is a European-styled cake made with layers of dough or batter deposited, one at a time, onto a tapered cylindrical rotating spit. The dough is baked by an open fire or a special oven, rotisserie-style. Generally, spit cakes are associated with celebrations such as weddings and Christmas.
Baumkuchen (German pronunciation: [ˈbaʊ̯mˌkuːxn̩] ⓘ) is a kind of spit cake from German cuisine. It is also a popular dessert in Japan. The characteristic rings that appear in its slices resemble tree rings, and give the cake its German name, Baumkuchen, which literally translates to "tree cake" or "log cake". [1]
A chocolate babka made with a dough similar to challah, and topped with streusel. It consists of either an enriched or laminated dough; which are similar to those used for challah, and croissants respectively, that has been rolled out and spread with a variety of sweet fillings such as chocolate, cinnamon sugar, apples, sweet cheese, Nutella, mohn, or raisins, which is then braided either as ...
Battenberg [1] or Battenburg [2] cake is a light sponge cake with variously coloured sections held together with jam and covered in marzipan. In cross section , the cake has a distinctive pink and yellow check pattern .
Served oval-shaped as a braided wreath made from cinnamon-infused brioche dough, king cakes are baked and topped with colorful icing in the Mardi Gras colors of gold, green and purple ...
A Euro or Continental pillow – a large square pillow – is a decorative pillow that sits back against the headboard. These are often placed behind the standard size pillow shams as a backdrop, or on top of standard pillows as a coordinated set with a duvet cover. European sham (or Euro sham or Continental sham)