Alongside petit fours, éclairs and fruit tarts that look (almost) Gentrified city of leafy avenues, belle-époque villas and delightfully The Romans discovered the therapeutic benefits of its waters. The grande dame of Germany's spa towns, Baden-Baden “I only ever bake a couple of cakes atĪ time and use top quality Kirschwasser,”Īdds flavour to the shortcrust pastry base, too." The Sheik of Dubai and the BBC’s Hairy Bikers have made the pilgrimageįor the prized Black Forest gateau at Café Schäfer, baked by Claus Schäfer, the heir to Josef Keller’s originalġ915 Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte recipe. The world's biggest cuckoo clock, Triberg is a kitsch, quaint, storybook Taste of the real deal, try the following spots:įamous as the home of Germany's highest waterfall and Sourness of the cherries perfectly offsetting the sweetness of the cream. Get it right and the dessert is light and spongy, the Get it wrong and theĬake is gooey and boozy. (cherry schnapps) and a dusting of chocolate shavings. Lashings of whipped cream, a dash of Kirschwasser The gateau’s core ingredients - layers of moist sponge and sour cherries, No matter what the size, all are in agreement as to He made the cake small enough to fit in a picnic basket, just big Of baker Johannes Ruf who runs the Holzoffenbaeckerei in St Peter. Other locals have embraced the new - and highlyĬontroversial - Black Forest gateau that can be found in a tin, the brainchild With a brisk three-hour hike through woods of fir and pine, or sing the praises
Hilltop cafes, where you have to earn your Kuchen Serves Kaffee und Kuchen (coffee and cake) at 3pm sharp.Īsk the locals where to find the best Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (known as Blackįorest gateau in England) and they will probably rattle off the names of a few traditional Half-timbered towns with a rustic, fairy-tale-like prettiness. Scenic roads dipĪnd rise through the region, past farmhouses huddling on hillsides and Wooded hills, high pastures and valleys than one big forest.
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When the landscape appears monochromatic, and it is more a series of thickly It is definitely more green than black, unless seen on a snowy day Karlsruhe almost to the Swiss border, the Black Forest is something of a Stretching some 200km east of the Rhine, from Related article: A bit of history in every sweet bite.Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, a classic chocolate, whipped cream and cherry cake, is staging a comeback in the Black Forest, a wedge of southwest Germany where the dessert was invented in a humble confectioner's kitchen almost a century ago.
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