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Great recipe for Gâteau à la broche (Spike cake). Spike cake comes form South of France, in Pyrenees mountains. Perfect for a big party with a lot of guests, you can eat it with vanilla custard 😍😍.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have gâteau à la broche (spike cake) using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Gâteau à la broche (Spike cake):

1. Prepare 20 eggs
2. Make ready 750 g butter (let it outside the fridge to soften it)
3. Make ready 600 g sugar
4. Get 37,5 g vanilla sugar (5 small bags)
5. Get 750 g flour
6. Prepare 1 small glass rum
7. Take 1 small glass Pernod (aniseed-flavored alcohol)
8. Prepare Zest of lemon
9. Prepare Liquid vanilla flavoring
10. Take Liquid lemon flavoring
11. Make ready Cone-shaped baking pan (wooden)

A dessert cooked over a wood fire - While thetree cake (gâteau à la broche)is one of the great culinary specialities of Aveyron, it actually comes from… France - Gâteau à la broche; Luxembourg - Baamkuch has become a traditional dish served mostly on special occasions, such as weddings, christenings, etc. Yet, the cake is available all year around in certain supermarkets. Poland - Sękacz; Lithuania - Šakotis or Raguolis (Bankuchenas as known in western Lithuania, itself word is loanword from German Baumkuchen) is a similar cake. The Confrérie du gâteau à la broche organises the Fête du gâteau à la broche (Spit cake festival) every year in July in Arreau (Hautes-Pyrénées region).

Instructions to make Gâteau à la broche (Spike cake):

1. 🔸Separate yolks (in a very big pot) and egg whites (in 2 different medium pots because it is easier for whisking up egg whites later)
2. 🔸Add 600g sugar + vanilla sugar in the pot containing yolks. Mix it until the mixture blanches (with a spoon).
3. 🔸While mixing, add the Pernod, zest of lemon (1/2 lemon is enough) and the rum. You can also add the lemon and vanilla flavors as much as you want, depending on your personal taste.
4. 🔸Add the sieved flour and keep on mixing to incorporate it properly.
5. 🔸Gradually mix the butter with the mixture.
6. 🔸Whisk up the egg whites with a little bit of salt. Add some sugar to fix them. Once done, add into the main mixture and mix SLOWLY. Let it rest at least 1h.
7. 🔸Prepare the can-bin : cover it with greaseproof and tighten it with rope. Below, the homemade system to collect the mixture which can fall and in the background, the fire is gonna cook the cake.
8. 🔸Tricky part of the recipe: Pour out some mixture on the cone while someone else is spinning the cone. Spin fast to make spikes and slowly to cook the cake… Collect the falling mixture and pour out again on the cake. It takes time and do not forget to spin on the other side too
9. 🔸Cake is gonna become thicker because of the layers.
10. 🔸Once there's no mixture left, take it away from the fire, remove the cone and Tadaaaaam !
11. 🔸Enjoy your meal with vanilla custard or alone ! 🍽

A traditional dry, spongy cake which is well worth tasting. Contrary to received opinion, the wood fire does not really impart any flavours to the spit cake. Perfect for a big party with a lot of guests, you can eat it with vanilla custard 😍😍. Sig's Traditional Baumkuchen (Tree Cake) This is another of Germany's traditional Christmas bakes. It has many layers and is griddled in the oven.

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