After our hearty lunch yesterday (Chinese, if anyone’s interested), my brother and I were pondering where to go for dessert. I made a suggestion, but the place turned out to be closed. Just as my face reached its maximum disappointment crumple, bro remembered a café in a neighboring village, called “Die Tortenfee”, which would translate as “The (Cream) Cake Fairy”. As caff names go, this was highly promising!
We got there, it was open (HURRAAAH!), and we stood, mesmerised, in front of the display. For an eternity. Drooling. Deliberating. Almost having an argument. Until the lady behind the counter (she must have been the Cake Fairy herself!) told us that instead of choosing one slice each, we could choose a selection of three half-slices. The “half slices” turned out to be very generous, so we effectively ended up with six slices of cake between the two of us.
That’s the most brilliant cake-related idea I have ever heard!
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I know!!! Someone should patent it everyone cottons on to this and I’ll be forced to eat six cakes every day!
Hang on… this may be my new vision of paradise, actually.
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khe khe, I’ve learned my lesson here, and as I can indulge myself with a generous slice of home made apple pie, for once I can enjoy your photos sans drooling all over my keyboard 😀 The only side effect to this is that while my mind tells while looking at those yummy cake pieces that they should taste of chocolate, rhubarb, etc. my taste buds tell it they’re all apple pie flavored 😉
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Whatever floats your boat 🙂
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Dear sweet baby jesus. I want to be in Germany NOW!
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Today wasn’t bad either… but I’ve not gone through the photos yet 😉
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I’m hungry already 😉
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These all sound divine! Spanish pastries should take a page from this book!
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Yes, they should… it’s like a cake desert, that country, sigh.
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you didn’t get the poppyseed? I would have gotten your brother’s choices…well, but rhubarb…
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We both had the poppyseed 🙂
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.
It’s a shame this post doesn’t feature scratch & sniff. Of course, if it did, I might be apt to luck my screen.
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You’d have licked it through by now… 😉
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I wish I could lick the screen and taste it from here! Yum!
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I bet you do! I could eat them all over again today… sigh.
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Three bits of cake each? Sounds like my kind of café!
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You’ll have to include it in your one-trip-a-month schedule 🙂
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I only have this month and next month left of the 12 trips 😉
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But that’ll be followed by 12 more months, each demanding a trip, surely?!
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Haha, maaaybe. But once the challenge is over I probably won’t insist on a trip every single month any more.
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Jan will be delighted. The rest of us, not so much….
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LOL, well the way WordPress is going soon I won’t be able to post ever again anyway!
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Why do they always have to mess around with things?!? Causes nothing but discontent and frustration at our end 😦
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Heaven for you! The rhubarb crumble sounds good, I would have eaten that when I was eating cake…..
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What a brilliant idea! Decisiveness and cake menus don’t usually go hand in hand!
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And especially not when I’m involved… 😉
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Your heaven must surely be something like this… 🙂
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IT IS!!!!
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AND I had cake for breakfast this morning 🙂
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Well, aren’t you a very naughty girl…..
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What about 6 one-sixth size slices? At a resort Austin and I used to go to, that’s basically what they did at their buffet, except it was more like 1/8 size. That way you could try everything, and then just get lots of plates of your favorites. I think the quality at Cake Fairly Lady’s is higher though.
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Yes, they do that at hotel buffets all over the world now, those tiny pastries/slices, so you can try everything and there is less waste. I wholeheartedly approve 🙂
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I think I have a tooth ache now.
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I’ll cure that in a couple of days… I’ll be doing a post with SAUSAGES!
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I LOVE SAUSAGES!
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Oh, I know…
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Man, that’s a lot of cake. I’d have managed about 2 bites of each. The chocolate looks amazing – so moist and rich.
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The chocolate WAS amazing! On the whole, I find German cakes are a lot less sweet than US cakes, for example, so I can eat a whole lot more 😉
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Ravishing cakes in a lovely setting. Now that is the civilized way to live 🙂 And you’ve answered my question about the sweetness. Cakes here are far too sweet.
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No doubt YOURS are perfect, though 🙂
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I don’t think so. Bakers have to be very precise, and I’m more of an intuitive cook. With pasta you can throw in this and that, and it works out great. With a cake, you have to stick to the recipe. I should use European recipes more, but I don’t have a kitchen scale. We measure by volume here, not weight, which is definitely wrong for baking…
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Ah yes, you have the cups thing going on…
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Yum, yum, yum!
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What a lovely looking place – although have always disliked coffee served in glass. The Rhubarb crumble, cheese apple and poppy seed thing is especially appealing.
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MY coffee came in a mug 🙂
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You certainly have good cake karma!
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Make no mistake: they don’t just come to me, I chase them 😉
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Liebe S.B., deine Arbeit gefällt mir sehr, sehr gut! Die Texte, der Humor, die Sprache, dein Auge und die Erfassung optischer Momente, ganz, ganz toll! Natürlich teile ich deine Liebe für FOOD! Du darfst stolz auf dich sein, vielleicht machen wir einmal etwas zusammen.
Alles gute dein MG
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Hallo! Danke, danke, schön dass es Dir gefällt 🙂 Seppi ist jetzt berühmt!
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Those were 1/2 slices?!!! Cake Fairy indeed!!!
I should probably be grateful that this cafe is very, very far away. I would be tempted – so very often.
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I will be dreaming of it. It’s set a new standard, I can tell you 😉
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Those cakes are amazing – I have a soft spot for fruit tarts! And the decor is fun – I suppose you have to set yourself apart, but I know my mom would absolutely die.
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