Schüttelkuchen -Mandarin Orange Cream Cake Recipe

Every month GermanShop24 sends me a box full of German Foods and Products to review and share with you. This month, they included the ingredients and a Mandarin Orange Cream Cake Recipe called a Schüttelkuchen. Schüttelkuchen actually translates as “Shake Cake” … and I needed a little help figuring out the method, because it is so different from anything I’ve made before. And it seemed to be too easy to actually work.

The recipe says…. use a cake base… add the rest of the ingredients to a bowl, then cover it and SHAKE.

What? How is that even possible?

I had nothing to lose (except a little clean up time)…

It worked… it actually worked. And my 17 year old proclaimed that the resulting cake was the “BOMB” (that’s “really yummy” in teenager speak)

Just a few ingredients, a little shaking, and you can make an absolutely delicious cake that’s pretty enough to share with company, without even turning on the oven!

What is a Schüttelkuchen?

Schüttelkuchen seems to be a newish trend in German Baking. It’s “time saving” and doesn’t require as much clean up since you aren’t breaking out the mixer. The idea goes like this… all ingredients go into a bowl with a sealed lid, you shake it for a few minutes, and pour it into the baking form or over a pre-baked Torte. It is important that the bowl you use is large enough to have some ‘air space’ above the ingredients, so that they get a good mix (and incorporate some air). Most of the recipes use extra liquids to capture up the dry ingredients. You also find Schüttelkuchen recipes for things like carrot cake and muffins. Instead of beating the butter into the sugar, you melt it, and shake all of the ingredients together.

This particular Schüttelkuchen uses whipped cream and Paradise Cream powder (a pudding mix), so it sets up fairly easily (and makes sense).

Trend or Genius, all I know is that THIS recipe really works well.

Mandarin Orange Cream Cake Recipe (Schüttelkuchen)

This recipe originally comes from the Dr Oetker website… I’ve translated it, and put the ingredients into measurements for the American kitchen.

I used grated chocolate to decorate, because I had the remains of a Dark Chocolate Ritter Sport bar hiding in the pantry.

According to my guy, who just ate the last piece, it’s even better the second day…. because the mandarins are colder.

Keep These Ingredients In Your Pantry

Serving last minute guests is never an issue when you have these ingredients in your pantry. (And Whipping Cream in the Refrigerator)

Kuchenmeister Biscuit CakedkdkdkdkdParadise Cream VanillaSahnesteifDole, Mandarin Oranges in Light Syrup, 15 Oz

Step by Step Instructions

Put the Cake Base on a Serving Plate

Drain one can of the Mandarins

Pick out some “pretty” ones to set aside

Dump all of the rest of the ingredients into a container with a lid
The all the rest of the mandarins, the liquid, the powders, the cream… (just not the nuts or chocolate)

It will look odd…

Shake a few minutes… check to make sure the dry stuff at the bottom is getting mixed in and shake another minute

Let it sit a moment, then start spooning it into the cake base

Seriously…SPOON IT, not dump it. You can pile it up high if you take the time to spoon it.

It will thicken up, so you can pile high

Decorate with the reserved Mandarins

Shave chocolate or chopped pistachios over the cake

Do this by scraping a potato peeler against the edge of the chocolate OVER the cake

(if you do it onto a plate, it melts when you pick it up)

Refrigerate for at LEAST an hour… Serve

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