Fairytale recipe: Do you already know the Frau Holle cake?
Created: 06/22/2022, 08:36
By: Maria Wendel
Everyone knows Frau Holle from the fairy tale - like here in the film with Marianne Sägebrecht from 2008. But do you also know the cake of the same name?
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Frau Holle not only shakes out the beds, this delicious sheet cake is also named after her.
Read here why and how you can easily bake it.
When Mother Hulda shakes out her beds, the down falls to earth as snowflakes.
Every child knows that.
But she didn't bake a cake in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, did she?
No, the cake recipe for Frau Holle cake
simply owes its name to
its heavenly appearance, especially the top layer of cream and white chocolate shavings, reminiscent of snow.
What this cake also has to offer: a fluffy biscuit base and a fruity layer of strawberry puree.
Sounds good?
Then the motto is: bake quickly!
It's easy to do, because it
's a sheet cake recipe
.
Frau Holle cake: You need these ingredients for the sheet cake
Servings: | for 1 tray (16 pieces) |
Preparation time: | 55 minutes |
Baking time: | 20 minutes |
Difficulty level: | easy |
For the biscuit base:
4 eggs
150 grams of sugar
100 grams of vegetable oil
200 grams of mineral water
300 grams of flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 pinch of salt
For covering:
750 grams of strawberries
2 packets of vanilla sugar
8 sheets of gelatine or 1 heaped teaspoon of agar-agar
500 grams of whipped cream
2 packets of whipped cream
150 g white chocolate or grated chocolate
strawberry season
In summer you can prepare the delicious cake with fresh strawberries, then it tastes even better.
Outside of the strawberry season (which runs from May to September), it is better to use frozen berries or other seasonal fruit such as cherries, apples or plums.
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How to bake Frau Holle cake: simple sheet cake recipe
Preheat the oven to 180 °C top/bottom heat or 160 °C fan.
Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper or an alternative.
For the sponge cake
, put the eggs and the sugar in a bowl and beat both with the hand mixer until fluffy.
Stir in the oil and mineral water.
Separately, mix the flour with the baking powder and pinch of salt and fold the dry ingredients into the others.
Then spread the batter on the prepared baking sheet and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.
Then let it cool down.
For the topping
, first wash the strawberries, cut them into small pieces and puree them with 1 sachet of vanilla sugar.
If using
gelatin
, soak it in cold water first, then squeeze and dissolve in a saucepan over low heat while stirring.
Add 4 tablespoons of the strawberry puree to the gelatine, stir until smooth and add this gelatine mixture to the remaining strawberry puree.
If you prefer to use
agar-agar
(advertising link) as a vegan alternative, simply stir this into the strawberry puree.
Spread the strawberry puree on the cooled biscuit base and let it cool down as well.
Whip the cream with the whipped cream stiffener and drizzle in the remaining vanilla sugar.
Spread the cream on the strawberry puree.
Grate the white chocolate with a potato peeler and spread it over the cream layer.
And that was the delicious
recipe for Frau Holle cake
.
It is best to keep the sheet cake cool until serving, then all you have to do is cut it into pieces and enjoy.
Enjoy your meal!
Want more fairytale cakes?
Also try our recipe for Little Red Riding Hood Cake!
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