Recipe: Perfect Bienenstich

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Bienenstich. Oma's Bienenstich Recipe (Bee Sting Cake) By Oma Gerhild Fulson My Bienenstich recipe is an easy version of the traditional "German Bee Sting Cake". Sweet, chewy, nutty top and creamy filling. Ingredients: eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, milk, butter, honey, whipping cream, almonds, vanilla, vanilla pudding powder, Dissolve cornstarch in a little milk.

Great with a cup of tea!

If you're a fan of honey, almonds, custard, and brioche, you'll want to give the bienenstich a try!

All ingredients can be found in American supermarkets, which makes this a German cake that is easy to put together.

You can cook Bienenstich using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bienenstich

1. It’s of Base.

2. It’s of Flour.

3. Prepare of Fresh yeast.

4. Prepare of Sugar.

5. Prepare of Sugar.

6. Prepare of Warm milk.

7. Prepare of Soft butter.

8. You need of Salt.

9. You need of Egg.

10. It’s of Topping.

11. It’s of Butter.

12. Prepare of Flaked almonds.

13. It’s of Milk.

14. You need of Honey.

15. You need of Sugar.

16. It’s of Filling.

17. You need of Custard.

18. You need of Gelatine leaf.

19. Prepare of Double Cream.

Bienenstich Kuchen - or Bee Sting Cake - is a traditional German dessert comprised of two thin layers of yeast cake with a creamy filling, and a crunchy, buttery, honey-and-almond topping.

The yeast cake balances out the sweetness of the filling and topping.

I pondered about what to make and finally settled on making a traditional cake called "Bienenstich" or "Bee Sting Cake".

My father was military, and my mother was born and raised in Bavaria.

Bienenstich step by step

1. place flour in large mixing bowl. Make a well in the middle of the floor. Put yeast, a table spoon of sugar and a couple of tablespoons in the well..

2. Mix the well a little and cover with a little floor. Then cover bowl and leave to prove for 15 minutes.

3. Add the rest of the base ingredients and mix with dough hooks until the dough is mixed and pulls away from the bowl on the edges. cover and leave for 30 minutes..

4. Meanwhile preheat oven to 180°F centigrade. 190 for a non fan oven..

5. Put topping ingredients apart from almonds in a thick bottomed pot and bring to a boil..

6. once boiled remove from heat and mix in almonds..

7. Roll out dough and place in a cake dish approximately 30cm in diameter. then place almond mix on top and bake for 35 minutes..

8. soak gelatine leaves in cold water for 5 minutes.

9. heat custard then add gelatine after squeezing any excess water. Remove from heat and chill the custard stiring occasionally..

10. whip double cream..

11. fold custard into the cream..

12. Cut the base in half. put the filling in the middle..

They married and we lived in Hawaii and California.

As a kid, our family was stationed in Germany for a few years.

Bienenstich is the German word for bee sting.

There are multiple legends on how this delicious honey-almond dessert was named.

Some claim a German baker created this cake recipe and bees were instantly attracted to it, which resulted in the baker being stung.