Baumkuchen

Today, I ate a slice of Baumkuchen that is my junior's souvenir.

Baumkuchen is a cake that originated in Germany, balm means a tree, and kuchen means a cake.

Also, Baumkuchen has two etymologies.

One is that it had been baked while entwining soft doughs and a stick of oak trees.

The other is that a cross-section of this cake looks like tree rings.

Baumkuchen is very famous as a German cake in Japan, and we often use Baumkuchen as a gift of wedding etc.

However, I heard Baumkuchen is not very famous in Germany.

Someday, I'd like to eat Baumkuchen that are sold in Dusseldorf, Germany.

今日は、後輩がおみやげにくれたバームクーヘンを食べました。

バームクーヘンはドイツ発祥のケーキで、バームは木を、クーヘンはお菓子を意味します。

また、この名前には2つの語源説があります。

一つは、柔らかく練った生地を樫の木の棒に絡ませて焼いたから、というものです。

もう一つは、このお菓子の切り口が木の年輪のように見えるから、というものです。

バウムクーヘンは日本ではドイツの菓子としてとてもメジャーであり、よく結婚式などの贈り物などとして使われますが、本場のドイツではあまり有名ではないようです。

一度、ドイツのデュッセルドルフで売られているバームクーヘンを食べてみたいです。

• Today, I ate a slice of Baumkuchen that is my junior's souvenir.
• Today, I ate a slice of Baumkuchen that is my junior gave as a gift 's souvenir.

  This clarifies the sentence a bit. (The Japanese version helped a lot here.)

• Baumkuchen is a cake that originated in Germany, balm means a tree, and kuchen means a cake.
• Baumkuchen is a cake that originated in Germany, balm baum means a tree, and kuchen means a cake.

• Also, Baumkuchen has two etymologies.
• This sentence is perfect! No correction needed!

• One is that it had been baked while entwining soft doughs and a stick of oak trees.
• One is that it had been baked while entwining soft doughs and onto a stick of pole from an oak trees.

  "Sticks" from trees are considered to be rather small--thin and not very long. I've seen the traditional method of making Baumkuchen and the poles were rather large.

• The other is that a cross-section of this cake looks like tree rings.
• This sentence is perfect! No correction needed!

• Baumkuchen is very famous as a German cake in Japan, and we often use Baumkuchen as a gift of wedding etc.
• Baumkuchen is very famous as a German cake in Japan, and we often use Baumkuchen as a gift of wedding gift etc.

• However, I heard Baumkuchen is not very famous in Germany.
• This sentence is perfect! No correction needed!

• Someday, I'd like to eat Baumkuchen that are sold in Dusseldorf, Germany.
• This sentence is perfect! No correction needed!

Another well written entry!
I tried Baumkuchen for the first time last month. It was made in Japan and I bought it at a supermarket that specializes in Asian foods. It was very good. :)

• Baumkuchen is a cake that originated in Germany, balm means a tree, and kuchen means a cake.
• Baumkuchen is a cake that originated in Germany, Baum means "tree", and Kuchen means "cake".

• Baumkuchen is very famous as a German cake in Japan, and we often use Baumkuchen as a gift of wedding etc.
• Baumkuchen is very famous as a German cake in Japan, and we often use Baumkuchen as a wedding gift etc.

Yummy!