Though Germany is not as well known for a slow paced lifestyle as France or Italy may be, when it comes to food, it still leaves much more time to sit and enjoy than the US, which I really like. When you eat in a restaurant, you're never rushed to leave. In fact, it's common to just sit and talk after a meal, maybe order another drink, and stay for as long as you'd like to. There's never the feeling of, "I've finished my meal, so let's go."
Kaffee and Kuchen time is another time to just sit and take a pause in the day. Bakeries, which seem to be every 100 feet, all have cake, as do actual cafes, which are also quite common.
Here are some cakes of interest:
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| My birthday cake! Vanilla rhubarb, surprisingly delicious! |
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| Eierschecke, traditional to Dresden |
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| Pflaumenkuchen, plum cake |
Along with my rhubarb vanilla cake, the other highlight this year has been a layer cream cake with a dark chocolate glaze and a marzipan layer.
The nice thing is they don't really have much icing like US cakes, so they're never too sweet!
2 comments:
Elena, I am a bit jealous of your daily Kaffee und Kuchen. I loved the dense, moist, fruity cakes when I was in Berlin last summer -- I could eat a piece at every meal!
Well, the cake part certainly doesn't happen daily! I wish! But I think anywhere you are you can still have take the time to sit and enjoy a cup of tea and a little treat. Are there some good Ukrainian desserts?
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