Layer cake (Part I)

Recently I am hooked on watching the Great British Baking Show (or The Great British Bake Off) on Netflix. Me, watching a baking show, oh dear.... yes... oh dear is right. I CANNOT stop. I have to remind myself that I have to go to work the next day. And luckily I can, although I still feel sleep deprived the next day.

But good things also come out of that of course, I get ideas of what other desserts I want to try to make. And one of them is this German layer cake called Schichttorte. The first season's participants of the show made this cake as one of their challenges in the semi-final. It actually reminds me of this Indonesian layer cake called Spekkoek (kue lapis legit) that my aunt used to make. Now, let's not mistaken these type of layer cake with the typical birthday cakes which only has 3 or 4 layers. No no no, I'm talking about tons of layers. So many layers that each layers are added and baked after the previous layer cooked, so many layers that the Indonesian also call Spekkoek (kue lapis legit) the Thousand layer cake. Yup, that many (maybe not in thousands but definitely more than 4).

See for yourself...

So that got me thinking, how many other countries have their own version of Spekkoek (kue lapis legit)? Turns out, there are quiet a few other countries that have some version of their own layer cake. The Hungarians have Dobos Torte, the French have Mille-Feuille (Napoleon), even within Germany, they have a variation of Schichttorte called Baumkuchen. So the list goes on and on and on, and the more I search on layer cakes of the world, the more I want to try to make ALL OF THEM. And so just like watching the Great British Baking Show, I have to remind myself not to get crazy here (and I can hear my sister saying: "Who is going to eat all these cakes?").

So, to satisfy my craving to bake one of these cakes, I have decided to make Schichttorte in-honor of my new favorite baking show. Unlike the participants in the show, I will have a very specific instructions on how to make this cake. So yeah, I better not mess this up. I will let you know how that goes, good or bad. And if it doesn't turns out well, my sincere apologies to Paul Hollywood and my family (who usually have to eat what I bake).