The picture is the Punschkrapferl, a traditional Austrian cake....it's containing chocolate nougat, apricot jam and it's soaked in rum and covered with punch icing (Punschglasur), it's lovely, well ALL our cakes of course are sublime.
You made me think of Lebkuchens (sp?), damn you, now I have to go find some and they are in short supply this time of year!
Lebkuchen, yes.
However, what you need is Zwetschgenkuchen/Zwetschkendatschi....it's a plum streusel cake, the people of Augsburg, Bayern first invented it and of course, like ALL cakes from Bayern, it's exceptionally fabulous.
It's also known as Pflaumenkuchen, Quetschekuche and Prummetaat. In Bayern and Upper Austria and Salzburg it's known as Zwetschkendatschi.
Here's a photograph of a slice of it:
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Thanks, that brings back some memories, my mom is from Bavaria so I saw exactly that often. Goooood stuff!
We have
incredible castles of course, but Bayern has the
ultimate, it's almost unreal, exceptionally other-worldly.
Good old half-crazy König Ludwig II for this, amongst others, but the most enchanting on all levels.
Schloss Neuschwanstein in the Winter (it overlooks the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen):
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Here's a photograph of Schloss Neuschwanstein that was taken in 1900 (Neuschwanstein in English basically translates as New Swanstone):
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This picture below is Burg Hohenwerfen in the Salzach Valley, Austria, it was built by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg in 1075, it's Centuries older than the Schloss Neuschwanstein.
This is the castle that was featured in the film "Where Eagles Dare", which is why I'm posting a picture of it....yes it ALWAYS looks THIS eerie:
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