German Chocolate Biscuit Cake: How to make ‘Kalter Hund’
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- This German cake is an absolute classic. Known as "Kalter Hund" or "Kalte Schnauze" - which literally means "cold dog" or "cold snout" - can be prepared without an oven. It is particularly popular for children's birthday parties. The Italian version is called 'chocolate salami' and in the UK it goes by the name of 'hedgehog slice' or simply 'chocolate biscuit cake' and is very popular with some royals. We show you how to make this cake and where it got its strange name from.
CHAPTER
00:00 Intro
00:39 The Baker
01:05 The Ingredients
01:44 The cocoa paste'
02:17 Layering the cake
03:35 The history of Kalter Hund
04:11 Varieties
05:00 500 calories per slice?
CREDITS
Report: Anja Koch
Camera: Neven Hillebrands
Edit: Neven Hillebrands
Supervising editor: Ruben Kalus
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Do you have similar no-bake cakes in your country? 🥮
Here in our country, we have "Ref" cakes. Desserts layers with cream, condensed milk and graham crackers, sometimes topped with fruits. Then chilled in the fridge. Try a recipe for Mango Float 🥭
Malaysia we call it Kek Batik, Batik Cake
Yeap. We have ”salam de biscuiți”, biscuit salami, and we have the coconut balls made with biscuits and cocoa, rum and on top coconut. But we do not add eggs. I wonder if not cooked, is safe to add eggs?
@@alexam.9033 The eggs should definitely be fresh. But there are also versions without eggs 🙂
Well biscuits are products of Bakery or Baking. 😂
My Filipino friends do this with biscuits, mango and cream. And my Indian mom does this with Marie biscuits and chocolate. Cool how different places have similar ideas
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Ooooh I know that Filipino recipe that has graham crackers, cream and mango called a Mango Float! Looks delicious.
Sounds so delicious 😋 I love mango and cream
Does you mom add eggs or not?
Ooooooh how do you do the mango version? It’s mango season here in SEA and I’d love to try it!
"You should only eat as much as is good for you." My self control is rolling on the floor laughing 😂
Here in Sri Lanka it's called Biscuit Pudding. But we don't use raw eggs instead add icing sugar to the chocolate mixture. Some versions have rose water in it too.
Sounds yummy. There are also German recipes without fresh eggs.
I was hoping that someone had a version with out the raw eggs. I will look up the Sri Lankan version.
In Malaysia it's called Kek Batik. My Malaysian college classmate used to make it and bring it to the class. It was delicious!
Yup n sometimes using Milo n condense milk😅😅
The eastern-european version:
* 200g thin biscuits
* 80ml cold milk or cold coffee or licor
* 100g butter + 100g nougat-chocolate spread + 1 tablespoon sugar + 1 tablespoon cocoa-powder
Break the biscuits into half-inch bits. Evenly soak in the liquid.
Prepare the cream.
With a large spoon, very carefully mix the soaked biscuits and the chocolate-cream in a very large bowl. This will take some time. Be patient.
Lay out foil, about 70cm x 30cm. Scoop the butter-chocolate-mix onto the foil in a log-shape, wrap it into the foil. Then roll it, shape it and massage out the air-bubbles until you have a log of your desired length and diameter. Let it rest in the fridge for 1 day, better yet 2 days.
Thank you for sharing the recipe!
In Malaysia we call it cake batik and we use condensed milk, milo and plain sweet biscuits called biskut Marie.
It is a crime to have this video without the recipe :D
Haha, sorry for that. His batches are bigger than the ones you'd prepare at home. But here's a recipe in English: www.recipesfromeurope.com/kalter-hund/ If you search for "Kalter Hund" online, you'll find numerous varieties.
@@DWFood Awesome, thanks so much 🥰
Get a 2 type biscuits 1 with cacao , 1 normal ( you can make it with 1 type but this is better), make puding . Puding biscuits puding biscuits puding , you can roll up after it , you can make rectangular or yours can mash biscuits and mix with it then freeze it in refrigerator ez af
Bru, some people even call this a lazy cake, you could even make that by only looking at it.
And in Australia, it is chocolate ripple cake. Chocolate ripple biscuits, encased in whipped cream and left to set in the fridge.
My German grandma used to make this for all the kids in the family for our birthdays, it was always our special birthday request. I almost forgot about it... I'll have to ask her to make it for me again the next time I see her!!
you can give a nice surprise for your grandma by making it for her 🥺
When i was a child (in Germany), my grandma often prepared this for us. Just delicious.
We called Mosaic Cake in Türkiye, it's very practical to make and unexpectedly delicious. Always takes me back to my childhood.
I love Kalter Hund. It`s the cake I get every year for my birthday.
They make it in Greece too but it's closer to the Italian version, Greeks call it kormo or mosaic.
Interesting, thx for sharing with us!
Ye in Turkey we know it as Mozaik pasta or Mosaic cake
"The good news is that you can decide yourself: Do I eat a whole slice or a half?"
We all know what the "decision" would be once you taste the first bite. It's more like do I eat one or two. There is no place for halves here 😂
Instructions unclear, whole loaf gone 😂
We have this in malaysia for so long, we call it kek batik. Literally the easiest where anyone without any baking skills can make this
It was introduced in Malaysia by the British, and to the British by Italians. It is a well known dessert that has its slight variations all over Europe, it also exists in South America as it was brought there by the Italians.
As an german i only know the super simple version of this and that is just pudding,the powder that you can buy to make yourself pudding with milk and sugar and the biscuits that's it.
As a german myself I never heard of using pudding...
Germany 🇩🇪 just does desserts so great!
In Hispanic countries you have something not too far away but also has pastry cream and it’s called tarta de la abuela
I love the name. I'm gonna search the recipe just for that.
In Malaysia we called it "Kek Batik". it look similar yet the ingredient is different
It's similar to the "icebox cake" we have in North America, though I suppose there are only so many ways you can spice up a no-bake layered cake with biscuits. The German variety looks absolutely delicious, especially the one with bits of sea salt. Yummy!
what is your recipe for icebox cake? im from the southern us and ive only really heard about icebox pie, which is sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice and cool whip blended frozen in a graham cracker crust. curious to know what other ‘icebox’ desserts are out there
@@elot5146 The one I know of is cookies (thin ones like Graham crackers, though stuff like Oreos w/ cream removed can also work) layered with sweetened whipped cream from a piping bag. Moisture from the cream softens the cookie and turns it more cake-like. Of course this can be dressed up in all kinds of ways, with different flavourings, mix-ins, and toppings
I love a no bake treat, they are quick, easy, and delicious.
This is one of my favourites as well. However, I used to always get it with dark chocolate and low sugar. This had the benefit that it wasn't too sugary and caloric, but it also prevent one from having too much of an appetite to get more than two pieces. I can have up to five slices of most other cakes (and then suffer the consequences of over-eating and too much sugar) but with hedgehog slices, it restricts my intake on its own.
It's here in South Africa too. I don't know what it's called; I just call it yummy!
Cool! And you don't need an oven for it? ☺
Looks like a KitKat chocolate here in SA .. Raw eggs are also in homemade Mayonnaise.
Offical name of this cake in Turkiye is Mosaic Cake, its also known as mom made cake or poor man’s cake. Interesting to know that its a worldwide favorite with many versions.
These things are *great!* Here in Poland I can see we have the Italian verison, well at least that's what I'm used to seeing. It's called 'chocolate block', or 'łom' (not sure about the etymology).
Nice :)
It's called Kek Batik in Malaysia. My fav cake but due to calories in it i only have it once a month 😋
Mosaic cake from Turkey 🇹🇷🤗
You hardly find them in bakeries, cause it's not honourful for bakeries to buy supermarket buiscuits. It's more a housewife recipe.
yeah, lets not disparage wives now, the wife cooking at home with all the love and care has as much merit and passion as the professional chef doing what he knows best, perhaps you should reconsider your thinking.
@@cannabico6621 No, It's not dishonorable to have different levels of honour. And I didn't say "housewifes only cook this way" but "when it's made, it's by housewifes".
So it's the housewife with the wider range.
It's more I have different pretension to different cooks.
A housewife buying salad dressing in a bottle is OK, for a chef in a restaurant it's not.
Is this attitude dishonouring housewifes ?
No, it's exactly fullfilling your request.
So all you could want additionally is, I shouldn't mention it ?
The observeration, the level of cooking from professionals to housewifes is different is true and neutral, isn't it ?
It's no tabu or inpolite to talk about it.
If I do international compares, german housewifes are much better than Americans, cause that's about the only recipe you need processed products for, beside the bisquit for Tiramisu.
In American recipes you have much more of these "starting with cake crumble" or "no bake-cake". In Germany this is a real exception.
My word, that is heaven on earth. 💕
In Switzerland and parts of Southern Germany, it's known as Scheiterbeige, a pile of logs.
He doesn’t use aluminum foil. This would never work. He uses a plastic foil (Frischhaltefolie)
Yes, you're right. It's clingfilm. Sorry for the mistake.
The Frischhaltefolie makes my brain not work 😂
@@raymondsantos3185 directly translated: frisch = fresh, halte = hold , folie = foil. I guess you can figure it out now. 🤗
If you tried to sell that in North America, people would lose their minds over the raw eggs.
People are used to meringue on pies, that's raw egg.
@@abdizzll Meringue is baked in the oven it is not raw.
You could use pasteurized eggs. I see he used fresh eggs though!
@@susannepreuss4358 something like lemon meringue pie, the meringue is not cooked, just browned slightly on the surface.
@@abdizzllbut meringue gets cooked with the hot syrup that it’s mixed with tho
I always made this for my daughters birthday ❤
It's called "Radio kaka" in Sweden as the layers mimic the cover of the speaker of an old radio from the 1930-40s
In Norway we call this delfiakake, and it's typically made for Christmas. Some make the layers with biscuits, while some make the layers with marzipan.
Love this cake! You can also find a version of this all over Southeast Asia. The funny thing is, in Malaysia they call it _kek batik_ and they think it is a traditional Malaysian cake! 😂
Oh I read "baltik", and thought you named it after the baltic sea xD
Same here in Indonesian. We also called it Kue Batik.
@@julianosvonskingrad7009 a cold and shallow cake, then 😁
@@galmzero88 mpe mikir kue tradisional asli Indonesia nggak sih di kita? 😝
Isn't it to warm for such a cake ? I mean the significant name is "cold". Melting point is 24 degrees. And it got raw eggs in it.
Easily one of my favorite desserts.
Popular here in Brazil too, at least in the south where there are a lot of germans
At my age, a slice like that would be an entire meal. (:
It is probably a whole meal for everyone 😅
Same here!
I'll take 3 slices then
I amazed! We have a similar thing in South east asia too! I also have a friend from Lithuania that habe this cake too!
It’s made with chocolate buttercream in North Africa. In Tunisia it seems to be called Courant d’Air. Just as in Germany, it used to be a common homemade birthday cake for kids there.
Meine Oma (Jahrgang 1900) bevorzugte Kalten Hund mit Schneegestöber: Es wurde noch Puderzucker darüber gestreut.
„MEINE“ Oma heiratete 1911 (im Alter von 18 Jahren) und liebte es einfach.
In Malaysia we call it Kek Batik, using local favorite malt chocolate drink Milo powder and Biskut Tiger similar to digestive biscuits
Excellent video, i love this kind of cakes. For me, I dip the cookies in the coffee, it's so so delicious
Here in Europe, raw eggs are safe to eat. I do laugh at north Americans getting hysterical over this 😅
They are here too, people are just afraid of everything.
They're not safer in Europe. Get over yourself.
In Europe you can even eat raw meat appetizers in restaurants for example beef tartare beef carpaccio
Why Americans avoid raw eggs? Food borne illnesses
Are you interested in getting salmonella? Then go ahead.
If not, then always cook the eggs before eating.
To me it looks like a creative use of leftovers or improvised cake that turned out to be well improvised.
Oh delicious!
oh my favorite! 😍
In Malaysia it is Known as kek batik
Ooh this looks a lot like Kek Batik in Malaysia. It’s Marie biscuits layered in chocolate sauce.
I'm 39 years old now and grew up in the Ruhr area, now living in Hamburg. I've neither seen this cake in any cafe or bakery, nor did anyone I ever knew ate this or talked about it. It feels like a relic of postwar Germany to me 😅
It’s readily available in cafés in Berlin! I’ve also had it in Spain, made and sold by a German guy :)
Yeah ı had it as a child as Mosaic Cake in Turkey❤
Very interesting.
😊
Delicious recipe
Endlich sind sie wieder da.😊❤Kalte Schnauzen ( Ostpfälisch , Magdeburger Dialekt )als leckeren Kuchen ohne Backen. Den kann man Ile essen.
Yum!!! 😊
We call it Mosaic Cake in Turkey and we make the same way with Italians !🍫
Thanks for sharing
As an Italian American, I am biased about Italian food, but having been to both parts of Europe, I must say that the Germanic countries are the absolute monarchs of chocolate and desserts!
Here in Sri Lanka we make this with Mari biscuits dipped in coffee.
🍫🎂 Dive into the world of German desserts wGet ready to indulge in chocolatey goodness. 🍰
We make chocolate salami without eggs and almonds in Turkey. It is also very tasty. 😊
I use plain Digestives in my Chocolate Biscuit cake 👍🏻🇬🇧
Very similar to our ‘broken biscuits cake’. Also somewhat similar to tiffin and ‘Rocky Road’.
In malaysia i think it is similar to “kek batik”
In Sweden this is known as a Radio cake "radiokaka" it was marketed as a silent desert you could eat while listening to radio, and it kind a looked lika the speaker of a oldtime radio
Wow
Was 2017 that far.
Damn I think I’m growing old.😂😂😂
had the same thought lol
This is what I watch at 1:30 a.m. 😂😂😂
Nice to now about chocolate biscuit in German food and there culture..
Damn looks so good.
In Argentina 🇦🇷 they call it chocotorta and are very proud of it
In argentina it's called turrón quaker, plain crakers and and mixtura of cocoa powder with milk and oats.
In Norway we call this Delfiakake, Delfia being the brand name of the coconut fat.
Yeah all the Eastern European grandmas make this
i think they call it ice box cake. its all dangerous . delectable and easy to make and o so pleasurable. i will just watch videos about it.
It’s called Bisquitte Cake (Büsküvili Pasta) in Turkey oto. But if it contains almonds, nuts, etc. It’s called Mozaique Cake.
"He lines a loaf pan with aluminum foil..." That's the most transparent aluminum foil I've ever seen.
We have this in my country as snack and uts cheap it called "better" biscuit
Mmm, salam de biscuiți 😋😍
In Sweden we call it "radio cake"
It so good ond Denmark it call
Kiksekage (biscuit cake)
As a Turkish, we called as "Mozaik Pasta" (Mosaic Cake) in Turkiye🇹🇷😀
at the end, the craftsman calls it "hedgehog"...we're just all over the map here.
In The Netherlands we call it Arretjescake
Exactly! It’s heaven. But what country originated it from? I thought it was a typical Dutch desert.
@@MovieSoundsGermany. Dutch company Calvé simply copycatted the campaign from the German firm Bahlsen.
In Malaysia we call kek batik
This cake is Famous in jordan 🇯🇴 and other arabic countries and its my favorite too 🥰
In Norway it’s called Delfiakake, because of the brand name of coconut fat is Delfia.
Coconut oil is very important for the typical taste.👍👍🇩🇪
Yep. It's essential. Never use butter or oil. And a bit of rum is a must ....
How does a biscuit becomes a biscuit, do you need to bake it?
❤ ich liebe
I like how everywhere but America thinks of biscuit as "biscuit"
That german pronunciation was flawless!!
in turkey we have this too but we call it "mosaic"
Here in the Netherlands we call it "Arretjes cake"
Kalter Hund is perfect for Birthday-parties!
It keeps well for several days and you can send everyone home with a slice or two!
We call it 'batik cake' here
Meron samen niyan mango graham 😁
In Malaysia we called this batik cake