In certain cafés within Vienna, you can order a dessert tied directly to a documented event from 1832. The recipe has been continuously produced in the same city for nearly two centuries. That level ...

Photo by Jeffrey Saulton Becky Kidder, co-owner of Crazy Cake Cafe, puts the finishing touch on a cupcake at the Crazy Cake Cafe in Vienna. VIENNA — Having a bakery making cakes the way the customer ...

They take chocolate cake so seriously in Vienna that the city's two main producers once fought a nine-year legal battle about it. The dispute was known as the "cake war". The cake in question is the ...

Browsing in the gift shop of Vienna’s famed Cafe Sacher, I resist the cookbooks, magnets, robes, and teddy bears. But I can never resist buying an Original Sacher-Torte, a dense but delectable ...

h, Vienna! City of music and pastries! On my recent trip to the Austrian capital, I did my dead level best to try every pastry I came across (which was a lot), including two famous versions of ...