Summary

Ingredients

For the dough:

• 200 g inerbread hearts, filled (edelherb)
• 250 g butter or mararine
• 250 grams sugar
• 1 point vanilla sugar
• 4 medium egg (s)
• 500 g flour (wheat flour)
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 0.5 teaspoon ½ cinnamon, ground
• 3 pinches clove (s), ground
• 1 small Glass applesauce
• 200 g apricot jam, for apricotin
• 100 ml orange juice, for soaking

For the cast:

• 150 g couverture, semi-dark

For decoration:

• Sweets (jelly oranges)
• 20 g hazelnuts, roasted, shaved

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Instructions

1. Finely chop the gingerbread hearts for the batter. Mix butter or margarine with a hand mixer with a whisk on the highest setting until smooth. Gradually stir in the sugar and vanillin sugar, stir until a bond is formed. Gradually stir in the eggs (each egg about 1/2 minute).
2. Mix the flour with baking soda, cinnamon and cloves, sieve and stir in portions on a medium heat. Stir in applesauce and chopped gingerbread hearts. Fill the dough into a springform pan with a tube base (diameter 26 cm, greased) and smooth it out. Put the tin on the wire rack in the oven.
3. Top / bottom heat: around 180 ° C
4. Hot air: about 160 ° C
5. Gas: level 2 - 3
6. Baking time: approx. 50 min
7. After baking, let the cake stand in the pan for 10 minutes.
8. To apricot, strain the jam through a sieve and heat it in a saucepan. Turn the cake out onto a wire rack, prick it tightly with a kebab skewer, soak it immediately with orange juice and spread it thickly with the hot jam. Let the cake cool down.
9. For the topping, roughly chop the couverture and stir in a small saucepan in a water bath over low heat to a smooth mass.
10. If you like, cover half of the jelly oranges with glaze and place on baking paper. Cover the cake with the rest of the topping; Sprinkle immediately with hazelnuts and garnish with the jelly oranges. Let the casting solidify.
11. Tip: The spice cake wreath will be nice and juicy if you let it steep for 1 - 2 days. If you like, garnish the wreath with filled gingerbread hearts instead of jelly oranges.