Moorkop

The term Moor's head is used for various small pastries. The term " Moor's head " ( head of a Moor ) is a translation of the French tête de Nègre and is first recorded in 1892 in Leipzig. It is a pastry made of Othello - mass ( sponge cake ), filled and coated with chocolate or couverture. In some areas of the German-speaking world is known so that the chocolate kiss.

Genesis

The Moor's head in this form is considered as an invention Leipzig baker end of the 19th century. Already since 1878 the regularly published in Leipzig Universal Encyclopedia of Cookery knew marshmallows and also called them Indians Doughnuts. Accordingly sugar were beaten with egg yolks to thick foam and the solid snow from protein and wheat or potato flour mixed added. Small round heap of this mass were quickly baked on paper, two composed by up underlined jam and dipped in a chocolate glaze.

In 1899, Adolf Cnyrim held in his book The Bakeries of modern times laid his recipe. The pastry is made of a sponge cake, also called Moor's head or Othello mass. It consists of sugar, egg yolks, flour and egg whites. The mass is hemispherical trained on greased and floured sheets or special Mohrenkopf sheets and then baked ..

The prototype consists of two halves, which is assembled with jam and coated with dark chocolate. This is supposedly the patch hairstyle African peoples are modeled comparatively can serve as a form the image in the Corsican crest.

Variants

In Austria, the southern Baden- Württemberg and Switzerland is called a marshmallow biscuit in form of a three-quarter ball filled with whipped cream or custard and coated with chocolate. Today the pastry in Germany is usually also vanilla or nougat cream, rarely filled with custard with whipped cream and coated with chocolate. Variants are also common, which are covered with colorful frosting. At carnival time the marshmallows are very colorfully decorated. The earlier traditional name in Austria for such baked goods was " Negro Head". By this term is, however, increasingly strayed in the 1980s and 90s.