Hedgehog slice

Cold dog is a sweet dish. Other designations are as Lucullus, cold splendor, Kekstorte, Cold cake, cold snout, Black Peter, Cold hedgehog, Wandsbeker bacon or cellar cake.

Description

The dessert is made in cocoa - coconut fat cream piled butter biscuits and is manufactured, by successively designed the biscuit layers in a box shape and then coated each with cocoa cream.

The history of this " cake without baking " can be traced back to the early 20th century; the Bahlsen company gave out a recipe for a " chocolate cake from Leibniz biscuit" in the 1920s. Today, the cake but mainly associated with the cuisine of the German economic miracle.

In Italy, a similar recipe Salame di cioccolato under the name ( chocolate salami) or Salame Turco ( Turkish salami) is known. In Denmark it is called Kiksekage ( Kekskuchen ), in Norway Delfiakake ( Delfiakuchen ) for a brand name of coconut fat. In the UK there is the chocolate biscuit cake, which usually has a circular shape and is made from crumbled Tea Biscuits.

Two-tone Kalter Hund

Christmas Version: Cold Dog with speculoos

Designations

The name 'Cold dog derives on the one hand from the mine carts in mining from whose box shape is reminiscent of a baking pan, and on the other hand by cooling in the refrigerator; the variant Cold snout recalls that the surface is reminiscent of the wet nose of a dog. Cold hedgehog is a variant in which the surface by plugged into slivered almonds ( or pins ) is decorated. In contrast, Kekstorte and Cold pie rather euphemisms for this comparatively simple cake.

The term cellar cake was because it was made ​​up in the 1960s the cake to cool overnight in the basement.

Synonymous with the term Black Keksbass is used. This is used primarily due to the compact black appearance of this cake in rural areas.

Lucullus is probably derived from the Roman gourmet Lucullus.