Best Singapore Food | Singapore Food Reviews: Wheat Baumkuchen

Best Singapore Food | Singapore Food Reviews: Wheat Baumkuchen

When I visited Hokkaido in May, I was in a bakery shop in Otaru that sells this chilled layer cake called baumkuchen (バウムクーヘン). I still remembered that I lingered around the shop for a very long time, waiting for the staff to try me eat more of the tasty cake over and over again. Back in Singapore, once in a while I still miss the baumkuchen I had in Japan. So when Derrick brought us to Wheat Baumkuchen for the layered cakes, I got really excited! Traditionally, baumkuchen is made on a spit by brushing on even layers of batter and then rotating the spit around a heat source. Each layer is allowed to brown before a new layer of batter is poured. When the cake is removed and sliced, each layer is divided from the next by a golden line, resembling the growth rings on a crosscut tree. A typical Baumkuchen is made up of 15 to 20 layers of batter. Wheat Baumkuchen offers differe...

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