Etymology

Baumkuchen

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Today it means: A kind of layer cake, traditionally baked on a spit, in which the layers resemble concentric tree rings. Full definition →

German Baumkuchen
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  1. German · borrowed fromBaumkuchen
  2. English todayBaumkuchen

From German Baumkuchen (literally “tree cake”), because the concentric layers resemble tree rings.

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