Teletext Holidays Top 10 places to eat cake

If cake is your weakness, we have a fantastic guide to the best cakes across the world. Why not consider visiting Germany to try the infamous Black Forest gateau or Denmark for a delicious Danish pastry? If cheesecake is more your thing, New York would be your ideal location where you can buy a slice to take away!

Vienna, Austria
The Austrian capital is known for its exquisite cakes and pastries. The place to hunt down these mouth-wateringly good dainties is at the coffee house - look for the upmarket Café Konditorei with their typical rococo style and elegance.
One of Vienna's most famous cakes is the Sacher torte, a chocolate apricot cake.

Paris, France
The most elegant establishments have fabulous displays of fruit or chocolate tarts; tiny, soft macaroons; millefeuilles (wafer-thin layers of flaky pastry sandwiched with vanilla cream); elegant madeleines and other confections.
The city's favourite tearooms include Dalloyau, Mariage Freres and Laduree (Rue Royale).

Copenhagen, Denmark
Denmark is home to the delicious Danish pastry. In Denmark, they're known as wienerbrod and you'll find them at bakeries on almost every street, especially in the capital, Copenhagen.
Rich in butter, Danishes have a variety of shapes and fillings including fresh and dried fruit, almond paste, nuts and cream cheese.

New York, United States
New York has plenty of tearooms and cafes serving cheesecake and in areas like Little Italy there are cheesecake shops where you can buy a slice to take away.
Other classic American cakes include Devil's Food, a rich chocolate cake with soft chocolate frosting (its opposite is Angel's Food cake), and Brownies.

Find out more about New York via our NewYork Holiday Guide

The Black Forest, Germany
Black Forest gateau, or Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, comes from Swabia in Germany's Black Forest region. Layers of kirsch-laced chocolate cake, cherries and whipped cream make up this calorific treat decorated with cherries and chocolate curls.
Germans are big eaters and are all too ready to stop for coffee and cake (kaffee und kuchen).

Madeira
Madeira cake has a close texture and plain taste, given a slight kick by the addition of lemon rind, and is often topped with sugar and citrus peel. It was traditionally eaten with the famous fortified wine from the island of Madeira.
Madeira cake has perhaps moved over to make way for the local speciality, Bolo de Mel. This spicy cake made with molasses is similar to gingerbread.

Australia
Australia has some good traditions and lamingtons are one of them. These little squares or oblongs of sponge cake, covered in chocolate and rolled in grated coconut, are a classic Aussie treat.
Lamingtons can be served on their own or as a dessert with vanilla ice cream. Melbourne is a fine city in which to indulge your passion for them. Also try Aussie classics like pumpkin scones and pavlova.

Bath, England
The rich, sweet Bath bun is almost a meal in itself. Studded with candied peel and currants or raisins and topped with sparkling lumps of sugar, the bun is served at tearooms all around the magnificent Georgian city.
The Bath bun was thought up by 18th-century physician Dr Oliver - the man also responsible for the much plainer biscuit, the Bath Oliver.

Greece
Honey is used extensively in Greek cakes, notably baklava (layers of fine filo pastry filled with honey and nuts) and kataifi (a pastry that looks a bit like shredded wheat filled with chopped nuts and soaked with honey).
The best places to try them are at a zaharoplasteia (patisserie) or a galaktopoleia (milk shop).

Find out more about Greece via our Greece Holiday Guide

Scotland
The Scot have a few good traditional cake recipes. Two of them originated in Dundee. The classic fruitcake is made with candied orange and lemon peel, almonds and spices.
The Scottish Marmalade Cake was first made in 1797 by Janet Keiller to use up a load of oranges snapped up cheap from a Spanish ship blown into port during a storm.

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