75 years of cake glaze: the crowning glory for every fruit cake

All beginnings were colorful

In the 1950s, Dr. Oetker cake glaze was available in three colors: yellow, red and green - to match the bright colors of delicious fruit tarts. Later, clear cake glaze was also launched on the market, which was and is even more versatile.

Cake glaze: Knowledge and recipes from the Dr. Oetker test kitchen

What is cake glaze anyway? It is an immediately gelling, firm icing made from starch
and the gelling agent carrageenan and can be used for cakes and tarts of all kinds. Cake glaze therefore contains no gelatine. One packet is prepared with 250 milliliters of liquid, does not form lumps and can be used immediately.

Jens Behrend, master confectioner and baking project manager in the Dr. Oetker test
kitchen, has a tip for a special cake glaze:

Enjoy a fruity treat: Strawberry season with cake glaze

"The upcoming strawberry season invites you to serve your loved ones delicious
strawberry cakes with cake icing. My favorite is the Erdbeerkuchen vom Blech or the classic round Erdbeerkuchen. More modern is this delicious sommerliche Erdbeer-Torten mit Punkten. And the glazing on the Philadelphia®-Zitronen-Torte is a beautifully shiny mirror with lemon juice and a little baking and food coloring."

A smile thanks to smiling fruit tarts 

In the 1970s, Dr. Oetker launched a fruit tart promotion to coincide with the peak season:
laughing fruit tarts. Together with vanilla sugar, cream stiffener and Dr. Oetker cake bases, our cake icings formed a perfect set for the fruity cakes. From the many colors at the beginning, there is still the already sweetened cake glaze fix with fine strawberry flavor and unsweetened cake glaze in clear, red or with fine strawberry flavor.

From simple to cheerful

Not only the colors of the product, but also its packaging have changed over the last 75
years. Initially with a simple diamond-shaped design, from the 1960s onwards the packaging featured a cake that made people want to bake it. This is how, for example, the laughing strawberry cake from our commercial at the time came about. Then as now: “Baking yourself means giving love!”