Double biscuit
A double biscuit consists of two mostly round biscuits or lids with a layer of cream in different fillings such as chocolate, nut, fruit or butter cream . Double biscuits got their current popularity through the mostly industrial mass production. In Germany in 2008 almost every fifth biscuit sold was a double biscuit, which corresponds to more than 50,000 tons.
Products
Prince role
The most famous double biscuit in Germany is the Prinzen Rolle , which has been made here since 1955 . It was invented around 1870 by the Belgian master baker Edouard de Beukelaer, made in a small biscuit factory and was originally called Le petit prince fourrée (“the little filled prince”). In 1955, his son founded a biscuit factory in Kempen on the Lower Rhine in Germany . Prinzenrolle was a brand name of the Griesson - de Beukelaer company . The brand has belonged to the Kraft Foods Group (now Mondelēz International ) since June 2011 , but is still produced in Kempen. Around 35 million packs are sold in Germany every year.
Cookies that are very similar to the Prinzenrolle are now also being offered by other manufacturers and under other brands, including Bahlsen (“Hit”), Milka (“Choco Pause”) and various commercial brands, some of them also in organic quality and with spelled flour .
Other products
In addition to the double biscuits described in the actual sense, there are numerous other sweets that consist of two biscuits or other baked goods and a filling; which includes:
- Oreos , chocolate chip cookies with white cream filling from Nabisco
- Whoopie pies with lids made from soft cake batter
- Macarons with lids made from a meringue- like mixture with various fillings, made famous by the French company Ladurée
- Leibniz PiCK UP! , a rectangular double biscuit with a firm chocolate filling from Bahlsen
- Hazelnut biscuits made from crumbly biscuits with a light cream filling
Manufacturing
The double biscuit, like the butter biscuit, is made from hard biscuit dough. Double or sandwich biscuits are available in different shapes, round or oval, with nougat or cocoa cream and other fillings. When the cookies are cut out and baked and leave the conveyor oven, they first run through a cooling section so that they reach room temperature. Then they get on a conveyor belt under a magazine, from which the filling compound is automatically dosed onto the biscuits. However, only every second biscuit or, depending on the system, every second row of biscuits receives this “filling blob”. The belt continues to run and reaches the "lid station". Here, the unfilled neighboring biscuit is automatically placed as a lid on every biscuit with a filling dab. Finally it goes to the packaging machine.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sandwich biscuits. In: Öko-Test , March 27, 2009.
- ^ History → 1870. In: Griesson - de Beukelaer , accessed on January 2, 2013.
- ^ History → 1955. In: Griesson - de Beukelaer, accessed on January 2, 2013.
- ↑ Press release: Lukas Podolski and Griesson - de Beukelaer sign an extensive advertising contract. ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Griesson - de Beukelaer , January 22, 2007, ( PDF file, 2 pages, 62 kB).
