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Cake "Agnes Bernauer" (Agnes-Bernauer-Torte)

Category: Confectionery

Kitchen: german

Cake "Agnes Bernauer" (Agnes-Bernauer-Torte)

Ingredients
Cakes:
Almond	200 g
Sugar	210 g
Flour	50 g
Egg whites	6 pcs
Vanillin
Cinnamon	1/2 coffee spoon
Cream:
Pudding	1 pack
Milk	500 ml
Butter	200 g
Instant coffee	2-3 tsp
Sugar	50 g (as required
Decor:
Almond flakes	60 g
Powdered sugar

Cooking method

A legendary cake that has a very interesting history.
Cakes:
Various recipes for making this cake, as a rule, suggest making 5-7 cakes with a diameter of 26 cm from 10 proteins. I was faced with the fact that the dough with whipped proteins must be baked immediately - otherwise the proteins will shrink. I decided to make a small cake and to save time I chose such a cake diameter so that I could bake 2 cakes at the same time. So, I cook 4 cakes with a diameter of 17 cm from six proteins - beat 3 proteins and bake 2 cakes, then beat 3 proteins again and bake 2 more cakes.
1. Pour boiling water over the almonds for a few minutes, peel them and dry them. Fry over low heat, chop until coarse.
2. Mix almonds with sifted flour, sugar (130 g), cinnamon and vanilla.
3. Beat the proteins (3 pcs) until stiff peaks, add sugar (50 g) and continue to beat until smooth.
4. Gently mix whites with HALF of the nut mixture.
5. On parchment paper, draw a circle of the required diameter - in my case, 2 circles - and lay out the cakes with a spatula (I tried to spread it with a pastry bag - the effect is the same, only longer and the structure of the whipped protein is more deformed).
6. Bake for 40 minutes at 130⁰C. This is my personal experience with my oven. Other sources suggest baking at 170⁰10 minutes on one side, then turn the crust over and bake for 10 minutes on the other side.
I did not grease the parchment (according to the meringue principle) and the cake stuck quite a bit. I didn't like the idea of turning it over, especially since the crust is fragile.
7. Cool the finished cakes on a wire rack.
8. In the same way, prepare 2 more cakes from 3 proteins, 50 g of sugar and the remaining nut mixture.
Cream:
1. Mix dry pudding and coffee, gradually add cold milk and boil until thickened for 3-5 minutes (see the instructions for making pudding on the package). Add sugar if desired.
2. Add softened butter to the cooled cream. Refrigerate until thick. I used dry custard instead of pudding (I got 2.5 packs - that's how much is needed for 500 ml of milk). Therefore, at the end, another 8 g of dissolved gelatin was added to the cooled cream.
Assembly:
1. Smear the cakes with cream. There is enough cream to make the sides as well (I increased the amount of cream from the original recipe, 50 grams remained).
2. Fry almond flakes, decorate the cake with them. Also sprinkle with icing sugar before serving.
The cake should be soaked - it is better to leave it overnight. Ready-made cakes without cream are brittle and crunchy. After soaking with cream, the cake becomes very soft, but making a perfect cut is difficult due to the large pieces of nuts. It seemed to me that its taste would be similar to "Kiev cake", but they had little in common. The cakes of this cake are practically not felt. The aromas of roasted almonds, cinnamon and coffee clearly echo.

The dish is designed for

cake with a diameter of 17 cm

Time for preparing:

3 hours

Cooking program:

stove, oven

Note

Agnes Bernauer
Agnes Bernauer is perhaps the most famous and legendary resident of Straubing.

The year of birth of Agnes Bernauer is 1410, the place is Augsburg.Traditionally, Agnes is called the daughter of a bathhouse attendant (the owner of a bathhouse?) Named Kaspar Bernauer, whose existence is generally not confirmed by known documents ... The young girl liked Albrecht III, the son of the Bavarian Duke Ernst, when he arrived in Augsburg for the February knightly tournament in 1428. The young man in love took her to Munich and took care of a worthy place for her beloved at the court of the Duke of Bavaria. There are references and indirect evidence in favor of the version of the secret marriage of Agnes and Albrecht, the only heir to the Bavarian throne.
The ruler of Bavaria, Duke Ernst, judged that the choice of his son was dangerous for the Wittelsbach dynasty. The children from this marriage would no longer be nobility.
Albrecht in 1435 stayed in Straubing as deputy of the duke, his residence was the Ducal castle, Agnes accompanies him as usual. In October, Albrecht leaves for a hunt at the invitation of his relative, the head of the Duchy of Bavaria-Landshut, while his father, Duke Ernst, orders the capture of his beloved son and conducts a hasty witchcraft process, one of the first in Germany. At the trial, Agnes is accused of bewitching, that is, bewitching Albrecht.
The accusation of witchcraft in the 15th century was no laughing matter! Naturally, there were both "material evidence" and "witnesses". In those years, there were two ways of executing "witches" - burning at the stake or drowning. Out of "mercy," Agnes was sentenced to death by drowning as a less painful form of death. This was called the "water test". The right hand was tied to the left leg, and the left to the right. And they threw it into a pond. If a woman drowned, then she was declared innocent (after all, water, as an element of purity, will not accept an "unclean person"). If not, it meant that the defendant was a witch.
Legend has it that the accused had a choice. She could break the marriage bond and remain alive as a reward. One way or another, in 1435 Agnes was executed. They executed her for a long time and ineptly. With a large crowd of people, she was thrown from the bridge into the water. Since the executioner did not tied his hands well, the victim managed to free himself and tried to swim away. Then she was drowned a second time by wrapping her long hair around an iron bar.

When Albrecht III learned of what had happened, he rashly began to gather troops. But pity for his subjects, who could have died in an internecine struggle, forced him to refuse revenge.
Under pressure from Emperor Sigismund, Albrecht made peace with his parent, and a year later he was comforted in a new marriage with Anna von Braunschweig and gave birth to 10 children. Already in 1436, Duke Ernst ordered in honor of his first unfortunate daughter-in-law to build a chapel in the city cemetery of Straubing (then at St. Peterskirche), which was named Agnes, Agnes-Bernauer-Kapelle, and to celebrate the "eternal" Mass in Karmelitenkirche.
The burial place of Agnes is still unknown: at her will, she could be buried in the Karmelitenkloster monastery, because the Carmelite Church in Straubing was considered the church of the ducal court and Agnes generously donated to her, but the subsequent restructuring there did not allow finding her grave. There is a version that the remains were transferred to Agnes-Bernauer-Kapelle at the cemetery near St. Peterskirche, in any case its tombstone was embedded in the wall of the chapel (to preserve it from abrasion), but no burial was found behind the slab. The relief of a slab of pink marble depicts Agnes in life size: her head is resting on a pillow, a rosary in her hands, and at her feet are two dogs escorting to another world (according to another interpretation, the dogs represent the loyalty of the spouses Agnes and Albrecht). The date of death is engraved on the plate: October 12, 1436 (wrongly - instead of 1435). Since the beginning of the 19th century, the chapel has become one of the main attractions of Straubing and is sure to be visited by tourists. Unfortunately, recently it has been closed for free access due to the increased incidence of vandalism.
The fate of Agnes has always attracted the attention of artists and poets due to its romantic plot and tragic ending.Since the 17th century, sentimental history has been embodied in numerous works in poetry and prose, staged on the stage and even in a feature film ("The Judgment of God" is a French film with Louis de Funes). In Straubing, every four years in the courtyard of the Ducal Castle, performances are held on the theme of the tragic fate of Agnes Bernauer Festspiele.

From the history of cake creation
The inventors and discoverers of the Agnes Bernauer cake are the pastry chefs of the popular and traditional Straubing Café Krönner in the heart of the city by the City Tower. The building of the cafe, the earliest written records of which date back to the 13th century, was bought by the Krönner family in 1910 and for over a century it has been a cozy and familiar meeting place for Straubing gourmets.

Naturally, the Krönner firm emphasizes in every possible way its priority and copyright for the traditional Straubing delicacy, but perhaps not everything is simple with a legal justification: another city confectionery, Schmidt Cafe, pleases visitors with Agnes Bernauer cakes.

The differences in the products of the two competitors are not only gustatory, but also external: for "Kronner" it is exactly the cake in the relatively impressive sizes we are used to, cut and served (sold) in portions. In Café Schmidt, Agnes Bernauer is Törtchen, small round and tall cakes.
In general, according to some reports, about 20 confectioners throughout Germany produce cakes with the name "Agnes Bernauer" and even sell them online frozen. With all the variety to choose from, the original Agnes-Bernauer -Torte can only be tasted in the Krönner Straubing shop!

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