I used to work in a famous “ Confiserie - Conditorei - Patisserie ” in Basel Switzerland....they were famous for their chocolates, pastries and cakes...even having boasted of sending parcels regularly to the queen of England!
Himbeer Sahne (Rasperry Cream ) - Café Am Markt - Calw
Are You a Cake-Snob Too?
During the year that I worked there, I came to appreciate good patisserie and to be able to distinguish between quality and “schluck”... Well, even though that was a long time ago, I'm afraid I had become a bit of a cake -snob....flinging around my judgmental critiques faster that you can lick the chocolate off of an electric mixer beater. Even though I've always boasted of the "Swiss Top-Notch" quality in the baking field, I have now come to realize and have had to admit, that the Germans do, in fact, take the cake in this culinary artistry ...( pun intended ! )
Here are some of the delicacies that we were privileged to sample during our recent Black-Forest Steemcation:
Our Decadent 5 Day-Cake-A-Thon:
Black Forest (very boozy!!) - Café Am Markt - Calw
Apple Streussel - Lamm Hotel - Baiersbronn
Apple Studel - Lindau
Bienenstich (Bee Sting) - Café Staufen - Staufen
Badischer Apple Cake - Café Grether - Badenweiler
Tiramisù Cake - Conditorei Capri - Baden Baden
Plum Streussel - Conditorei Capri - Baden Baden
Nougat Caramel - Conditorei Capri - Baden Baden
Rasberry Cake - Café Am Markt - Calw
Our Cake-A-Thon experience was heavenly to say the least.....I would highly recommend such an naughty adventure.
This beautiful art-form/ food-science/ culinary creation ...call it what you may, involves a lot of imagination, hard work and precision, but somehow the Germans manage to make it all seem like a piece of cake....( pun intended!)
Guten Appetite from @lellabird60
Your photos make it VERY HARD for me to stay off the sugar!
Me too...feel like going back for an " encore"
cake a thon huh
I love that apple pie the most specially with freshly made whipped cream
yum!
well.. we can have cake and eat it, too :)
literally and figuratively ey?
Cheers!
I'm planning a cake-a-thon part 2 soon..😋
hmm.. you're pretty petite so I guess no biggie :)
enjoy it!
Those cakes looks juicy, moist, and I'm sure they're delicious, but I have so many fillings now I'm afraid of going near anything this sweet. Well.....maybe I'll make an exception for that Tiramisù Cake.
Lella, you have a new follower. Great pics.
Yeah...I had the same problem (with my teeth..)...but some things are too hard to resist...Thanks for following
For some reason, JUST what I needed! AND I just got a cake from my gramma for no reason, which I am eating right now, so...PERFECT! Very nice pictures :)
Cake "for no reason" is the best cake and the tastiest!
It looks tasty and fresh, i really like this
In my opinon has many ingredients that can exploit in my mouth
You can never go wrong with an apple strudel!
Die Bilder sind ja schon Folter so gut sehen die aus... ich brauch morgen unbedingt ein Kuchen!!!
Danke!...yeah, you can have your wonderful German cake any time you want!!...(I'm jealous!)
yeeessssss ... but the problem with that is, I get thicker and thicker ... this has not a good end ... :D
sweet
Oh yeah, indeed!
Yup!!! Germany here I come baby!!! :p
Thank you for sharing these yummie pictures. I'm so drooling here right now :p
I'm still drooling!!
slurp. ;)
Indeed!
Looks terribly yummy!
Oh it was...so many cakes to sample...so little time!
I like your photo
Thanks....Most of the nicer shots were my son's...
In my country, Romania, the first cake is called Foret Noire and the second is apple tart with shredded dough
I think that's what Streussel means....
Ufff, looks tastyyyyy)
WAS tasty !!
Hmmm, I kind of hungry right now. I'm thinking where I can find a good piece of cake :D! Nice and funny!
Go north young man...always straight north....( and you will end up in Germany!)
Don't Really know which one to leave and which 1 to choose
if i ever get the chance will not leave any of those ;)
That was my problem too!....so much cake...so little time...(sigh)
Oh my gosh, I should not look at this while being hungry... I want them all!
WOW... did you eat all of these? Mmmh... I think I'm ready for a new recipe, haha.
Ciaooooooo
Yummy! I prefer Apfelstrudel - much fruit, less sugar ....
Wow what beautiful food!!
Following you for more
I would almost kill for bienenstich! You can't get it anywhere here; at least not a good piece. And, to make the plum cakes my mother made, you need the right plums. Sadly, even those are getting harder to find anywhere except in seasonal markets. Thanks for highlighting German cakes. Too bad I found this article too late to make a worthwhile upvote or resteem it.
Yeah...Bienenstich...to taste it is to love it, eh?...