šakotis
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Šakotis ("tree cake") ( , ) is a national Lithuanian, local Polish (northeasternmost part of Poland) and local westernmost Belarusian traditional spit cake. It is a cake made of butter, egg whites and yolks, flour, sugar, and cream, cooked on a rotating spit in an oven or over an open fire.
Key facts
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- Šakotis 3799.jpg
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- 200px
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- Lithuanian šakotis
- Food.alternate_name
- Sękacz (Poland)Bankukha (Belarus)Raguolis (Lithuania)
- Food.region
- Lithuania, Poland, Belarus
- Food.creator
- German Baumkuchen
- Food.type
- Cake
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Šakotis ("tree cake") ( , ) is a national Lithuanian, local Polish (northeasternmost part of Poland) and local westernmost Belarusian traditional spit cake. It is a cake made of butter, egg whites and yolks, flour, sugar, and cream, cooked on a rotating spit in an oven or over an open fire.
==History== The cake became popular in the 19th century in the former territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1791). Its origins are related to the baumkuchen in German cuisine. The first recipe in Lithuania and the whole region was published in Vilnius by Jan Szyttler in 1830 (the culinary book "Kucharz dobrze usposobiony...").
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