Torte

A cake ( torta from Italian, from Late Latin torta " round bread ", " bread pastry ") is a fine bakery goods. It consists of one or more horizontal layers previously baked pie bottom, of / is / are filled or occupied by the jaws with cream and / or fruit. Then, the cake can be covered or with glaze, cream or even a glaze and / or further ausverziert. Sometimes the French expression Tarte is used in recipes for the cake, but also referred to baked goods that meet the definition of a cake.

Modern cakes

Most cakes are based on sponge cake or pastry; classic cakes usually combine a thin shortcrust pastry ( to stabilize the cake bottom ) with layers of biscuit. The filling often consists of creams based on butter (butter cream cake ), whipped cream ( cream pie ) or cottage cheese (such as cheese cream cake, cassata ), the candied depending on the recipe with ingredients like vanilla, cocoa, coffee, ground nuts and fresh or fruits and spirits are flavored. Also marzipan and jams are used as filling use.

Cakes are often coated - with the cream, which is also used for filling, with the glaze or chocolate. Also, they are often decorated with cream or whipped cream from the pastry bag with to leaves, flowers and designs from molded sugar, marzipan, or chocolate mass and small fruits.

Consuming, partly designed with motifs cakes are made ​​on special occasions such as weddings or birthdays individually to order.

Easy are fruit cakes, which usually consist of a single layer of dough to be punished with fresh or steamed fruits and covered with glaze. A popular in Germany fruit cake is the strawberry cake.

Production

Traditional cakes are made ​​in a round shape (usually with a diameter of 20 to 30 centimeters ). For certain pie preparations as well as in commercial production and rectangular shapes are used - the individual pieces are then usually referred to as cream cakes or similar. The Italian popular dome shapes (hemispherical shapes ) can now be found in Germany and Austria. In addition, various forms of fantasy have in recent years established (star shape, etc. ), but they are mainly found in home preparation.

For the production of cakes and other pastries there is a separate profession, the pastry chef ( Swiss confectioner ). In upscale restaurants the pastry chef is in charge of the preparation.

Since the preparation of tarts is complex and often requires more knowledge than a simple cake, cakes are often served on special festive occasions, such as wedding cake.

Technically confectioners include also various sweets / desserts such as the Italian Zuccotto, Cassata, variations of tiramisu or trifle and the French petit fours to the cake preparations.

History

In this village is conquered is to be read in 1793: " Pie in the kitchens, a Baked, which prepares commonly made ​​of a dough butter in a separate pan, and after that is baked in an oven. It has filled them and unfilled. "

The term " cake " originally referred to but not sweet pastry goods, but a filled pie, which was mostly hearty. The same meaning had torta the underlying Italian word. In this sense, the term was used in the 19th century. The Vienna appetite lexicon from 1894 mentions a then popular Marine cake in the shape of a sailing ship after old show courts, which was filled with dumplings from pike sauce, mushrooms, oysters and crayfish tails " and lobster tails swinging in the rope. "

As the oldest sweet almond tarts cake are ( filled with almond paste ) and the Linzer Torte. The first known recipes for cream cakes appeared in 1651 at La Varenne. Most known today cream, chocolate and cream pies emerged only in the 19th and 20th centuries. The preparation of whipped cream with a whisk before the invention of the electric hand mixer was very time consuming. Canache was invented around 1850 in Paris, butter cream is used by German confectioners since the end of the 19th century.

The pie throwing is a part of classical comedy, more recently, a form of social protest.

Known cakes

  • Sachertorte
  • Saint- Honoré cake
  • Black forest gateau
  • Tiramisu
  • Vasina torta
  • Zuccotto
  • Zug cherry
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