Močiute's Lithuanian Apple Cake Recipe - Great Eight Friends (2024)

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What Lithuanian cake is baked on a rotating spit? ›

Šakotis is the Lithuanian traditional spit cake, It is a cake made with a loose dough of butter, eggs, flour, sugar, and cream, poured on the spit, forming "stalactites" when dropping from the spit.

The exact origins of the French apple cake, or “Gâteau aux Pommes,” are tough to trace, but the dessert is deeply rooted in French culinary traditions, where baking with seasonal fruits is common. Chef John's take features diced Honeycrisp apples (skin on) and dark rum for a richer flavor.

Šakotis is one of the most important desserts in Lithuanian celebrations, especially at weddings or other special occasions such as Easter or Christmas. It was the sweet chosen to represent Lithuania in the Café Europe initiative of the Austrian presidency of the European Union, on Europe Day 2006.

It's a treat that appears at every traditional Lithuanian wedding, as well as at the Lithuanian dining table during festive events like Christmas Eve and Easter. The horns form as batter simultaneausly drips and bakes on the Raguolis as it revolves horizontally in a special oven.

The Egyptians gave us the world's oldest known cake–and also the world's oldest Tupperware as it happens. During the reign of Pepi II from BCE 2251 to 2157, bakers mixed up a wheat dough for flatbread and filled it with honey and milk. The dough was poured into two pre-heated copper molds that fit tightly together.

One of the latest cake trends in vintage cakes or Marie Antoinette cakes. Think a pastel aesthetic with lashings of buttercream swirls and frills. Unashamedly feminine and almost too pretty to cut, these stunning cakes are delightful as they are tasty.

Unlike pies, cakes have sweetness built into the definition. Instead of fruit, meat, or pudding, cakes are defined by ingredients like flour, sugar, eggs, and baking powder or soda. Cakes also lack the pastry crust topping common to various types of pie.

The spit cake is THE Pyrenean cake. It is quite long and painstaking to make, which makes it even more exceptional. It is baked around a cone-shaped mould and on a spit, which explains its unusual shape with lots of little spikes (which everyone secretly wants to pick and eat).

Baumkuchen is a traditional German cake. It is baked on a stick, layer by layer, while turning. Baking on a spit over open fire is an ancient method of cooking bread. We know that the Greeks did it, and the Romans spread this technology in their empire.

Lithuanian Wedding Cakes Are Known as Tree Cakes. A Lithuanian Tree Cake, known as Raguolis or Sakotis, that serves as a wedding cake, is made.by pouring layers of batter on a rotating spit.

What is a Krokan cake? ›

It is a multi-tiered pastry made from almond flour, constructed of thin pieces baked in decorative patterns. The parts are then joined using melted caramelized sugar, assembled into a tower, and decorated with crisscross patterns and marzipan roses. Example of a krokan.