GermanShop24 sometimes sends me products to test and highlight. This month, they sent a Mandarin Orange Cream Cake Recipe called a Schüttelkuchen along with all the ingredients. Schüttelkuchen translates to “Shake Cake.” The method for making it is so different from anything I’ve made before; it seemed to be too easy to actually work.
The recipe instructs you to set a cake base on a platter. Then, add most of the remaining ingredients to a bowl, cover it tightly, and shake.
It sets up as a creamy and flavorful cake.
What? How is that even possible?
I had nothing to lose except a little clean-up time).
It worked just as promised. And, my 17-year old proclaimed that the resulting cake was the “BOMB” (that’s “really yummy” in teenager speak)
With just a few ingredients, a little shaking, and no oven required, you can make a delicious cake that’s pretty enough to share with company.
What is a Schüttelkuchen?
Schüttelkuchen appears to be a relatively new 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 is simple: all ingredients are combined in a bowl with a sealed lid, shaken for a few minutes, and then poured into a baking form or over a pre-baked Torte. It is essential 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 recipes use extra liquids to bind the dry ingredients. You also find Schüttelkuchen recipes for things like carrot cake and muffins. Instead of beating the butter into the sugar, melt it and then shake all the ingredients together.
This particular Schüttelkuchen uses whipped cream and Paradise Cream powder (a pudding mix), so it sets up fairly easily.
Trend or Genius, all I know is that THIS recipe works well.
Don’t want to wait for the cake to arrive? You can even bake your own cake base- Torten Boden Recipe
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.
Everything you need to “bake” your cake
Mandarin Orange Cream Cake Recipe-Mandarin Schüttelkuchen
Ingredients
- 1 Pre-Baked Cake Base
- 30 oz. canned Mandarin Oranges I used two 15 oz cans. You can use other sizes.
- 1 2/3 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
- 2 packs Sahnesteif Whipped Cream Stabilizer
- 2 packs Dr Oetker Paradise Cream Vanilla flavor
- Pistachios or Grated Chocolate to decorate
Instructions
- Put the Cake Base on a Serving Platter (You can bake one, or just use the pre-baked one)
- Strain the cans of mandarins (save the liquid) pick out 12-16 "pretty" mandarin slices and and set them aside to use for decoration.
- Get out a larger bowl with a lid that seals tight. (I used a rectangular storage container with a lid)
- Put in the rest of the mandarins, all the mandarin liquid from the cans, the heavy cream, the Sahnesteif, and the Paradise Cream.
- Put on the lid (make sure it's really ON tight)
- Shake it.... for 1-2 minutes.
- Open, maybe give it a stir to make sure everything came off the bottom
- Seal and shake one more minute.
- Let it sit for a minute (it will stiffen up as it sits)
- Spoon the mixture into the cake base.
- You will be able to mound it because it gets stiffer (it's like magic)
- Decorate with the reserved mandarin slices (back to back, they look like butterflies)
- Sprinkle with chopped pistachios or grated chocolate.
- Refrigerate for an hour
- Cut and serve.
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 CakeGermanShop24Paradise Cream VanillaGermanShop24SahnesteifGermanShop24
Del Monte Mandarin Oranges in Extra Light Syrup, 8.25 oz Can (Pack of 12)
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
More Schüttelkuchen Recipes
Schüttelkuchen 2. Neue Rezepte und Ideen.Schüttelkuchen. Schüttel-, Becher- und Tassenkuchen.
