Prinzregententorte

Prinzregententorte is a famous, popular mainly in Bavaria cake, which traditionally consists of eight very thin Bisquitböden and chocolate butter cream. Outside it is covered with a chocolate glaze. The cake specialty has a similar meaning as the Sachertorte in Vienna for Munich.

• 2.1 presence

Origin

The namesake of the cake is Prince Regent Luitpold, who was from 1886 Prince Regent of Bavaria, and in whose honor it was named. The question of who has created the cake for the first time, is still controversial. The Court Confectioner Heinrich Georg Erbshäuser was probably the author. Johann Rottenhöfer, which is called repeatedly died, even before that, in 1872. Anton Seidl The Baker created his pastry until two years after Georg Heinrich Erbshäuser.

Anton Seidl

Anton Seidl took over the bakery in 1869 of his father. He tried in 1888, modeled on the Dobos cake, prepare a chocolate cake with nine floors, each floor was for one of the children of Louis I. According to the family history of Seidl's the cake has very spread quickly and was also offered in other confectioneries. It is said to have given a written consent of the Prince Regent, to be able to call the chocolate cream pie " Prinzregententorte ", but this has gone lost. In old ads and in the Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the pie is not mentioned.

Heinrich Georg Erbshäuser

Heinrich Georg Erbshäuser founded in 1875, a pastry shop. In 1886 created Heinrich Georg Erbshäuser, on the occasion of the 65th birthday of the Prince Regent Luitpold, successor of King Ludwig II, a pie. It consisted of eight thin Bisquitböden that should symbolize the then eight Bavarian administrative districts were covered together with a chocolate butter cream and a special fondant chocolate icing. Heinrich Georg Erbshäuser was appointed for his services in 1890 royal Bavarian court supplier. The Bavarian Palatinate was the term of office of the Prince Regent.

Preparation

Presence

The historical preparation is still followed today, in modern recipes also batter for the floors is partly used, the number of which is not strictly defined. There should always be at least six. Frequently, the Prince Regent cake consists of seven layers and thus forms still the number of districts from government.

Swell

• Irene Krauss: Chronicle ravishingly beautiful baking works. Hugo Matthaes printing and publishing house, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-87516-292-7
• Barbara Kagerer, Yves Hebinger, Christian Schneider: Sweet Munich cafes, pastry shops, restaurants, and more. Umschau book publishing, Neustadt / Wine Route, ISBN 978-3-86528-385-6