Bake, bake a cake: lyrics and notes
This song is not only the perfect accompaniment for baking during the Christmas season. The melody and text were written before 1840 and were initially known in Saxony and Thuringia.
Here you will find the lyrics and the sheet music for the children’s song “Backe, bakekuchen”.
Bake bake cake
Bake, bake cakes,
the baker called!
Anyone who wants to bake a good cake
must have seven things:
eggs and lard,
sugar and salt,
milk and flour, and
saffron makes the cake gooey.
Push, push into the oven, no!
The spice saffron, which is extracted from the pistils of a species of crocus, has a bitter-sweet pungent taste and gives an intense orange-yellow color (gehl = old German for yellow, still used dialectally in southern Germany).